UK general elections › 2024 › Wells and Mendip Hills
Wells and Mendip Hills — 2024
Tessa Munt (Liberal Democrats) was elected with 23,622 votes— 46.9% of 50,368 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. 46.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −3.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,368
| 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 | Tessa Munt | Liberal Democrats | 23,622 | 46.9% | −3.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Meg Powell-Chandler | Conservative Party | 12,501 | 24.8% | — | |
| 3 | Helen Hims | Reform UK | 6,611 | 13.1% | — | |
| 4 | Joe Joseph | Labour Party (Labour and Co-operative) | 3,527 | 7.0% | — | |
| 5 | Peter Welsh | Green Party | 2,068 | 4.1% | — | |
| 6 | Abi McGuire | Independent | 1,849 | 3.7% | — | |
| 7 | Craig Clarke | Independent | 190 | 0.4% | — |
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.