UK general elections › 2024 › Meriden and Solihull East
Meriden and Solihull East — 2024
Saqib Bhatti (Conservative Party) was elected with 16,792 votes— 38.1% of 44,035 valid votes. Under First Past the Post, a plurality is enough; a majority is not required.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 38.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −11.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 44,035
| 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 | Saqib Bhatti | Conservative Party | 16,792 | 38.1% | −11.9 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Sarah Alan | Labour Party | 12,208 | 27.7% | — | |
| 3 | Malcolm Sedgley | Reform UK | 8,753 | 19.9% | — | |
| 4 | Sunny Virk | Liberal Democrats | 3,353 | 7.6% | — | |
| 5 | Shesh Sheshabhatter | Green Party | 2,929 | 6.7% | — |
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.