UK general elections › 2024 › Leeds South
Leeds South — 2024
Hilary Benn (Labour Party) was elected with 17,117 votes— 54.0% 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
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hilary Benn | Labour Party | 17,117 | 54.0% | +4.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Ed Carlisle | Green Party | 5,838 | 18.4% | — | |
| 3 | Karen Cooksley | Conservative Party | 4,172 | 13.2% | — | |
| 4 | Daniel Whetstone | Social Democratic Party | 1,874 | 5.9% | — | |
| 5 | George Sykes | Liberal Democrats | 1,340 | 4.2% | — | |
| 6 | Muhammad Azeem | Workers Party of Britain | 719 | 2.3% | — | |
| 7 | Janet Bickerdike | Christian Peoples Alliance | 341 | 1.1% | — | |
| 8 | Niko Omilana | Independent | 277 | 0.9% | — |
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.