UK general elections › 2024 › Midlothian
Midlothian — 2024
Kirsty McNeill (Labour Party) was elected with 21,480 votes— 48.6% of 44,165 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. 48.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 44,165
| 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 | Kirsty McNeill | Labour Party (Labour and Co-operative) | 21,480 | 48.6% | −1.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Owen Thompson | Scottish National Party | 13,313 | 30.1% | — | |
| 3 | Stefan Garbowski | Reform UK | 3,276 | 7.4% | — | |
| 4 | Keith Cockburn | Conservative Party | 3,248 | 7.4% | — | |
| 5 | Ross Laird | Liberal Democrats | 2,589 | 5.9% | — | |
| 6 | Daniel Fraser | Scottish Libertarian Party | 259 | 0.6% | — |
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.