UK general elections2024 › Leeds South

Leeds South — 2024

Hilary Benn (Labour Party) was elected with 17,117 votes54.0% of 31,678 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 54.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +4.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 31,678

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare of votes Candidate votes ÷ valid votes in this constituency. Matches the share the returning officer publishes.Below quota Elected candidate's share of valid votes minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = won the seat below the quota; positive = cleared it.Elected
1Hilary Benn Labour Party 17,117+4.0 ptsElected
2Ed Carlisle Green Party 5,838
3Karen Cooksley Conservative Party 4,172
4Daniel Whetstone Social Democratic Party 1,874
5George Sykes Liberal Democrats 1,340
6Muhammad Azeem Workers Party of Britain 719
7Janet Bickerdike Christian Peoples Alliance 341
8Niko Omilana Independent 277

Electorate 75,953 · Turnout 41.7% · Majority 11,279 · Back to 2024 overview

Source data: House of Commons Library general election results 2024, retrieved 2026-05-18, generated 2026-05-19 (Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.