UK general elections › 2024 › Orpington
Orpington — 2024
Gareth Bacon (Conservative Party) was elected with 17,504 votes— 38.0% of 46,073 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. 38.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −12.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,073
| 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 | Gareth Bacon | Conservative Party | 17,504 | 38.0% | −12.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Ju Owens | Labour Party | 12,386 | 26.9% | — | |
| 3 | Mark James | Reform UK | 8,896 | 19.3% | — | |
| 4 | Graeme Casey | Liberal Democrats | 4,728 | 10.3% | — | |
| 5 | Seamus McCauley | Green Party | 2,319 | 5.0% | — | |
| 6 | John Bright | Social Democratic Party | 240 | 0.5% | — |
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.