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 17,11754.0%+4.0 ptsElected
2Ed Carlisle Green Party 5,83818.4%
3Karen Cooksley Conservative Party 4,17213.2%
4Daniel Whetstone Social Democratic Party 1,8745.9%
5George Sykes Liberal Democrats 1,3404.2%
6Muhammad Azeem Workers Party of Britain 7192.3%
7Janet Bickerdike Christian Peoples Alliance 3411.1%
8Niko Omilana Independent 2770.9%

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.