RESEARCH PAPER 01/38 General Election results, 29 MARCH 2001 1 May 1997

This paper summarises the results of the 1997 General Election. It is a re-issue of Research Paper 97/49 but contains validated voting figures and also additional tables showing results by constituency.

Full results of by-elections in this Parliament are available in Research Paper 01/36 By-elections since the 1997 General Election while more summarised results of General Elections since 1945 and other elections in the UK since 1997 are available in Research Paper 01/37 UK Election Statistics: 1945-2000.

Bryn Morgan

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ISSN 1368-8456 CONTENTS

I Introduction 5

II Tables 6

Table 1a - Summary of voting in the United Kingdom 6 Table 1b - Summary of voting in England 7 Table 1c - Summary of voting in Wales 8 Table 1d - Summary of voting in Scotland 9 Table 1e - Summary of voting in Northern Ireland 10 Table 2 - Votes cast for major parties by region 11 Table 3 - Change in votes cast for major parties by region: 1992-97 11 Table 4 - Share of votes cast for major parties by region 12 Table 5 - Change in share of votes cast for major parties by region 12 Table 6 - Seats won by region 13 Table 7 - Change in seats won by region: 1992-1997 13 Table 8 - Change in seats relative to notional 1992 General Election results 14 Table 9 - Turnout by country: 1974-97 15 Table 10 - Highest and lowest turnouts 15 Table 11a - Largest and smallest absolute majorities, by party 16 Table 11b - Largest and smallest percentage majorities, by party 17 Table 12 - Highest and lowest shares of the vote, by party 18 Table 13 - Highest and lowest changes in shares of the vote, by party: 1992-97 19 Table 14 - Candidates finishing in first, second, third, fourth and fifth places 20 Table 15 - Seats won by county: England 21 Table 16 - Votes by county: England 22 Table 17 - Share of vote by county: England 23 Table 18 - Summary of result by constituency 24 Table 19 - Votes by party and constituency 38 Table 20 - Share of vote by party and constituency 52 Table 21 - Change in share of vote by party and constituency 66 Table 22 - Conservative seats by marginality 80 Table 23 - Labour seats by marginality 84 Table 24 - Liberal Democrat seats by marginality 93 RESEARCH PAPER 01/38

I Introduction

This paper looks at the results of the 1997 General Election. It contains summary results by country, region and county. The paper is a re-issue of a previous paper, 97/49, and now contains validated results that are consistent with those produced in Britain Votes 6, Rallings & Thrasher, 1997. The paper also includes additional tables showing results at constituency level, along with lists of seats by marginality.

The 1997 election was notable in many ways. Labour’s 13.5 million votes have only been exceeded in 1951 and the party’s share of 43.2% was its highest since 1966. The 418 seats won were the party’s most ever, and compare with 393 won in 1945. The Conservatives’ 9.6 million votes was the party’s lowest total since 1929 and their share of 30.7% the lowest since 1832. Their 165 seats were the party’s fewest since 1906. The Liberal Democrats’ 5.2 million votes were fewer than in 1992, as was the party’s share of the vote, but 46 seats represents the party’s most since 1929, when it won 561.

Turnout at the election was relatively low, at 71.5%; this is the lowest national level of turnout since 1935.

The boundaries of many seats were redrawn before the 1997 election and any comparisons with 1992 shown in subsequent tables use the notional results for 1992 based on the new boundaries, taken from work by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher of the University of Plymouth.2

A record number of women were elected in 1997. In all, 120 women MPs were returned, double the number in 1992. Of these, 101 were Labour, 13 Conservative, three Liberal Democrat, two SNP and one was the Speaker.

Table 1a to 1e look at the summary results by country while Tables 2 to 7 show results by region. Table 8 shows changes in the number of seats won compared with 1992, while Tables 9 and 10 look at turnout. Tables 11a and 11b show the highest and lowest majorities by party, Table 12 shows the highest and lowest shares of the vote by party while Table 13 looks at changes in share. The number of candidates finishing in first, second, third, fourth and fifth place by party is given in Table 14. Tables 15 to 17 look at the results by county and Tables 18 to 24 look at constituency results, including lists by marginality.

Tables 18 and 22-24 show the names of the Members elected at the 1997 General Election; 16 of these have changed.

1 This is the Liberal Party total.

2 In the Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, published by BBC, ITN, PA News and Sky.

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Table 1a

Summary of voting in the United Kingdom

MPs Lost Party Votes % share Candidates elected deposits

Labour 13,518,167 43.2 639 418 Conservative (a) 9,600,943 30.7 648 165 8 Liberal Democrat 5,242,947 16.8 639 46 13 Referendum 811,849 2.6 547 505 Scottish National 621,550 2.0 72 6 Ulster Unionist 258,349 0.8 16 10 1 SDLP 190,814 0.6 1833 Plaid Cymru 161,030 0.5 40 4 15 Sinn Fein 126,921 0.4 1724 Democratic Unionist 107,348 0.3 92 UK Independence Party 105,722 0.3 193 192 Independent (b) 76,521 0.2 153 1 152 Green 63,991 0.2 95 95 Alliance 62,972 0.2 17 6 Socialist Labour Party 52,109 0.2 64 61 Liberal Party 45,166 0.1 55 53 British National Party (c) 35,832 0.1 57 54 Independent Labour 30,828 0.1 17 13 Natural Law Party 30,604 0.1 197 197 Speaker 23,969 0.1 11 Prolife Alliance 19,332 0.1 56 56 Independent Conservative 18,888 0.1 13 11 UK Unionist 12,817 0.0 11 Socialist 11,265 0.0 24 23 Progressive Unionists 10,928 0.0 3 National Democrats 10,829 0.0 21 20 Scottish Socialist Alliance 9,740 0.0 16 15 Monster Raving Loony Party 7,757 0.0 24 24 Rainbow Dream Ticket 4,104 0.0 31 31 Workers Party 2,766 0.0 88 National Front 2,716 0.0 66 Legalise Cannabis 2,085 0.0 44 Mebyon Kernow 1,906 0.0 44 Workers Revolutionary Party 1,178 0.0 99 Christian Democrat 694 0.0 33 Independent Green 593 0.0 11 Communist 516 0.0 33 Humanist 288 0.0 22 Independent Liberal Democrat 250 0.0 11

Total 31,286,284 100.0 3,724 659 1,593

(a) Includes eight candidates in Northern Ireland (b) Includes one candidate in Northern Ireland (c) Includes eighteen candidates in Northern Ireland

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Table 1b

Summary of voting in England

MPs Lost Party Votes % share Candidates elected deposits

Labour 11,347,882 43.5 527 328 Conservative 8,780,881 33.7 528 165 Liberal Democrat 4,677,565 18.0 527 34 Referendum 746,624 2.9 445 403 UK Independence Party 103,521 0.4 182 181 Independent 69,464 0.3 135 1 134 Green 60,013 0.2 85 85 Liberal Party 44,516 0.2 53 51 Socialist Labour Party 44,114 0.2 56 55 British National Party 35,181 0.1 54 51 Natural Law Party 25,958 0.1 160 160 Independent Labour 24,447 0.1 11 8 Speaker 23,969 0.1 11 Independent Conservative 18,667 0.1 12 10 Prolife Alliance 13,890 0.1 46 46 National Democrats 10,748 0.0 20 19 Socialist 10,317 0.0 20 19 Monster Raving Loony Party 7,553 0.0 23 23 Rainbow Dream Ticket 4,104 0.0 31 31 National Front 2,716 0.0 66 Mebyon Kernow 1,906 0.0 44 Legalise Cannabis 1,665 0.0 33 Workers Revolutionary Party 1,098 0.0 88 Christian Democrat 694 0.0 33 Independent Green 593 0.0 11 Communist 338 0.0 22 Humanist 288 0.0 22

Total 26,058,712 100.0 2,945 529 1,305

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Table 1c

Summary of voting in Wales

MPs Lost Party Votes % share Candidates elected deposits

Labour 886,935 54.7 40 34 Conservative 317,145 19.6 40 1 Liberal Democrat 200,020 12.3 4022 Plaid Cymru 161,030 9.9 40 4 15 Referendum 38,245 2.4 35 35 Socialist Labour Party 6,203 0.4 53 Independent Labour 4,633 0.3 21 Green 1,718 0.1 44 Independent 1,046 0.1 33 Socialist 633 0.0 22 UK Independence Party 616 0.0 22 Natural Law Party 516 0.0 55 Legalise Cannabis 420 0.0 11 Prolife Alliance 270 0.0 11 Independent Liberal Democrat 250 0.0 11 Monster Raving Loony Party 204 0.0 11 Communist 178 0.0 11

Total 1,620,062 100.0 223 40 78

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Table 1d

Summary of voting in Scotland

MPs Lost Party Votes % share Candidates elected deposits

Labour 1,283,350 45.6 72 56 Scottish National 621,550 22.1 72 6 Conservative 493,059 17.5 72 Liberal Democrat 365,362 13.0 72 10 11 Referendum 26,980 1.0 67 67 Scottish Socialist Alliance 9,740 0.3 16 15 Prolife Alliance 5,172 0.2 99 Natural Law Party 1,922 0.1 14 14 Socialist Labour Party 1,792 0.1 33 Green 1,721 0.1 55 UK Independence Party 1,585 0.1 99 Independent Labour 1,456 0.1 33 Independent 1,142 0.0 88 British National Party 651 0.0 33 Liberal Party 650 0.0 22 Socialist 315 0.0 22 Independent Conservative 221 0.0 11 Workers Revolutionary Party 80 0.0 11

Total 2,816,748 100.0 431 72 153

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Table 1e

Summary of voting in Northern Ireland

MPs Lost Party Votes % share Candidates elected deposits

Ulster Unionist 258,349 32.7 16 10 1 SDLP 190,814 24.1 1833 Sinn Fein 126,921 16.1 1724 Democratic Unionist 107,348 13.6 92 Alliance 62,972 8.0 17 6 UK Unionist 12,817 1.6 11 Progressive Unionists 10,928 1.4 3 Conservative 9,858 1.2 87 Independent 4,869 0.6 77 Workers Party 2,766 0.3 88 Natural Law Party 2,208 0.3 18 18 Green 539 0.1 11 Independent Labour 292 0.0 11 National Democrats 81 0.0 11

Total 790,762 100.0 125 18 57

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Table 2

Votes cast for major parties by region 1992 Results

Conservative Labour Liberal PC/SNP Other Total Democrat

England 8,780,881 11,347,882 4,677,565 1,252,384 26,058,712 12,796,772 North East 266,294 862,262 169,270 48,764 1,346,590 461,767 North West 1,000,556 1,941,884 524,177 158,888 3,625,505 1,537,844 Yorkshire & The Humber 720,771 1,339,170 412,216 106,016 2,578,173 1,084,242 East Midlands 800,958 1,097,639 311,264 84,889 2,294,750 1,149,514 West Midlands 953,465 1,326,822 388,807 156,731 2,825,825 1,390,246 East 1,164,777 1,137,637 504,416 140,337 2,947,167 1,636,990 London 1,036,082 1,643,329 485,511 156,126 3,321,048 1,630,569 South East 1,817,343 1,264,778 1,012,418 247,069 4,341,608 2,517,270 South West 1,020,635 734,361 869,486 153,564 2,778,046 1,388,330 Wales 317,145 886,935 200,020 161,030 54,932 1,620,062 499,677 Scotland 493,059 1,283,350 365,362 621,550 53,427 2,816,748 751,950 Great Britain 9,591,085 13,518,167 5,242,947 782,580 1,360,743 30,495,522 14,048,399

Table 3

Change in votes cast for major parties by region: 1992-97

Conservative Labour Liberal PC/SNP Other Total Democrat

England -4,015,891 +1,795,972 -749,327 +879,452 -2,089,794 North East -195,473 +60,951 -62,880 +42,362 -155,040 North West -537,288 +168,460 -107,077 +100,237 -375,668 Yorkshire & The Humber -363,471 +71,655 -69,044 +80,776 -280,084 East Midlands -348,556 +175,240 -65,346 +66,852 -171,810 West Midlands -436,781 +123,473 -77,419 +111,607 -279,120 East -472,213 +313,894 -113,690 +101,834 -170,175 London -594,487 +310,873 -86,921 +95,379 -275,156 South East -699,927 +398,982 -119,481 +179,040 -241,386 South West -367,695 +172,444 -47,469 +101,365 -141,355 Wales -182,532 +21,272 -17,437 +6,083 +43,899 -128,715 Scotland -258,891 +140,439 -18,494 -8,014 +30,010 -114,950 Great Britain -4,457,314 +1,957,683 -785,258 -1,931 +953,361 -2,333,459

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Table 4

Share of votes cast for major parties by region

Conservative Labour Liberal PC/SNP Other Total Democrat

England 33.7% 43.5% 18.0% 4.8% 100.0% 45.5% North East 19.8% 64.0% 12.6% 3.6% 100.0% 30.8% North West 27.6% 53.6% 14.5% 4.4% 100.0% 38.4% Yorkshire & The Humber 28.0% 51.9% 16.0% 4.1% 100.0% 37.9% East Midlands 34.9% 47.8% 13.6% 3.7% 100.0% 46.6% West Midlands 33.7% 47.0% 13.8% 5.5% 100.0% 44.8% East 39.5% 38.6% 17.1% 4.8% 100.0% 52.5% London 31.2% 49.5% 14.6% 4.7% 100.0% 45.3% South East 41.9% 29.1% 23.3% 5.7% 100.0% 54.9% South West 36.7% 26.4% 31.3% 5.5% 100.0% 47.6% Wales 19.6% 54.7% 12.3% 9.9% 3.4% 100.0% 28.6% Scotland 17.5% 45.6% 13.0% 22.1% 1.9% 100.0% 25.6% Great Britain 31.5% 44.3% 17.2% 2.6% 4.5% 100.0% 42.8%

Table 5

Change in share of vote by region: 1992-97

Conservative Labour Liberal PC/SNP Other Democrat

England -11.8% +9.6% -1.3% +3.5% North East -11.0% +10.7% -2.9% +3.2% North West -10.8% +9.2% -1.3% +2.9% Yorkshire & The Humber -10.0% +7.6% -0.8% +3.2% East Midlands -11.7% +10.4% -1.7% +3.0% West Midlands -11.0% +8.2% -1.3% +4.1% East -13.0% +12.2% -2.7% +3.5% London -14.1% +12.4% -1.3% +3.0% South East -13.1% +10.2% -1.4% +4.2% South West -10.8% +7.2% -0.1% +3.7% Wales -9.0% +5.2% -0.1% +1.1% +2.8% Scotland -8.1% +6.6% -0.1% +0.6% +1.1% Great Britain -11.3% +9.1% -1.2% +0.2% +3.2%

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Table 6

Seats won by region

Conservative Labour Liberal PC/SNP Other Total Democrat

England 165 328 34 2 529 North East 1 28 1 30 North West 9 64 2 1 76 Yorkshire & The Humber 7 47 2 56 East Midlands 14 30 44 West Midlands 14 43 1 1 59 East 33 22 1 56 London 11 57 6 74 South East 54 22 7 83 South West 22 15 14 51 Wales 3424 40 Scotland 56 10 6 72 Great Britain 165 418 46 10 2 641

Table 7

Change in seats won by region: 1992-97(a)

Conservative Labour Liberal PC/SNP Other Democrat

England -159 +132 +25 +2 North East -3 +3 North West -18 +16 +1 +1 Yorkshire & The Humber -15 +13 +2 East Midlands -15 +15 West Midlands -17 +15 +1 +1 East -19 +18 +1 London -30 +25 +5 South East -25 +18 +7 South West -17 +9 +8 Wales -8 +7 +1 Scotland -11+6+2+3 Great Britain -178 +145 +28 +3 +2

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Table 8

Change in seats relative to notional 1992 General Election results

Party gaining Party losing Labour Liberal SNP Other Sinn UUP UKUP Total Democrat Fein

Conservative 144 30 3 1 178 Labour 1 2 Liberal Democrat 2 2 DUP 1 1 1 SDLP 1 1 UPUP 1

Total 1463032211184

Party Seats Gains Losses Net change

Con 165 178 -178 Lab 418 146 1 +145 LDem 46 30 2 +28 SNP 6 3 +3 PC 4 - UU 10 1 +1 SDLP 3 1 -1 DUP 2 2 -2 SF 2 2 +2 UKUP 1 1 +1 UPUP 1 -1 Other 2 2 +2

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Table 9

Turnout(a) by country: 1974-97

1974 1974 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 Feb Oct

England 79.0% 72.6% 75.9% 72.5% 75.4% 78.0% 71.4% Wales 80.0% 76.6% 79.4% 76.1% 78.9% 79.7% 73.5% Scotland 79.0% 74.8% 76.8% 72.7% 75.1% 75.5% 71.3% Northern Ireland 69.9% 67.7% 67.7% 72.9% 67.0% 69.8% 67.3% United Kingdom 78.8% 72.8% 76.0% 72.7% 75.3% 77.7% 71.4% (a) Valid votes as a percentage of the electorate

British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987, F. Craig, Parliamentary Research Services, 1989 British Parliamentary Election Results: 1983-1997, Rallings and Thrasher, Parliamentary Research Services, 1999

Table 10

Highest and lowest turnouts (per cent)

Highest Lowest

ENGLAND 1 Wirral South 81.1% 1 Liverpool, Riverside 51.6% 2 North West Leicestershire 80.0% 2 Manchester Central 51.7% 3 Northavon 79.1% 3 Hackney North & Stoke Newington 52.0% 4 Twickenham 79.0% 4 Sheffield Central 53.0% 5 Richmond Park 79.0% 5 Birmingham, Ladywood 54.2% 6 Wansdyke 79.0% 6 Leeds Central 54.2% 7 Mid Bedfordshire 78.9% 7 Cities of London & Westminster 54.2% 8 High Peak 78.9% 8 West Bromwich West 54.4% 9 Dover 78.9% 9 Hackney South & Shoreditch 54.5% 10 Stroud 78.8% 10 Kensington & Chelsea 54.7%

WALES 1 Brecon & Radnorshire 82.2% 1 Swansea East 67.4% 2 Monmouth 80.5% 2 Swansea West 67.6% 3 Cardiff North 80.2% 3 Cardiff South & Penarth 68.3% 4 Vale of Glamorgan 80.0% 4 Cardiff West 69.2% 5 Carmarthen East & Dinefwr 78.6% 5 Cynon Valley 69.2%

SCOTLAND 1 Stirling 81.8% 1 Glasgow Shettleston 55.7% 2 Ayr 80.0% 2 Glasgow Kelvin 56.1% 3 Galloway & Upper Nithsdale 79.7% 3 Glasgow Maryhill 56.4% 4 Dumfries 78.9% 4 Glasgow Springburn 58.9% 5 Strathkelvin & Bearsden 78.8% 5 Glasgow Baillieston 62.2%

NORTHERN IRELAND 1 Mid Ulster 86.1% 1 South Antrim 57.9% 2 West Tyrone 79.6% 2 North Down 58.0% 3 Newry & Armagh 75.4% 3 East Antrim 58.3% 4 Fermanagh & South Tyrone 74.8% 4 Strangford 59.5% 5 Belfast West 74.3% 5 Lagan Valley 62.2%

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Table 11a

Largest and smallest absolute majorities, by party

Name Constituency Majority Votes Per cent Conservative Largest 1st John Major Huntingdon 18,140 31.8% 2nd Nick Hawkins Surrey Heath 16,287 29.8% 3rd Peter Ainsworth East Surrey 15,093 27.6% 4th Norman Fowler Sutton Coldfield 14,885 28.4% 5th Francis Maude Horsham 14,862 26.0%

Smallest 1st Ian Bruce South Dorset 77 0.2% 2nd David Madel South West Bedfordshire 132 0.2% 3rd Peter Atkinson Hexham 222 0.5% 4th Michael Fabricant Lichfield 238 0.5% 5th Patrick Nicholls Teignbridge 281 0.4%

Labour Largest 1st Eddie O’Hara Knowsley South 30,708 64.5% 2nd John Cummings Easington 30,012 71.6% 3rd Joe Benton Bootle 28,421 74.4% 4th Llew Smith Blaenau Gwent 28,035 70.7% 5th Dennis Skinner Bolsover 27,149 57.3%

Smallest 1st Paul Stinchcombe Wellingborough 187 0.3% 2nd Philip Sawford Kettering 189 0.3% 3rd Brian White North East Milton Keynes 240 0.5% 4th Andrew King Rugby & Kenilworth 495 0.8% 5th Eileen Gordon Romford 649 1.5%

Liberal Democrat Largest 1st Paul Tyler North Cornwall 13,847 23.7% 2nd Matthew Taylor Truro & St Austell 12,501 22.0% 3rd Andrew Stunell Hazel Grove 11,814 23.9%

Smallest 1st Mark Oaten Winchester (a) 20.0% 2nd Adrian Sanders Torbay 12 0.0% 3rd Edward Davey Kingston & Surbiton 56 0.1%

Plaid Cymru Largest Dafydd Wigley Caernarfon 7,449 21.6% Smallest Ieuan Wyn Jones Ynys-Mon 2,481 6.2%

Scottish National Party Largest Alex Salmond Banff & Buchan 12,845 32.0% Smallest Roseanna Cunningham Perth 3,141 7.1%

Majorities in Northern Ireland Largest Jeffrey Donaldson Lagan Valley 16,925 38.2% Smallest William Thompson West Tyrone 1,161 2.5%

(a) This result was challenged and a writ for a re-run was issued. This re-run resulted in a Liberal Democrat majority of 21,556

Full lists of majorities by Party can be found in Tables 22 to 24

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Table 11b

Largest and smallest percentage majorities, by party

Name Constituency Majority Per cent Votes Conservative Largest 1st John Major Huntingdon 31.8% 18,140 2nd Nick Hawkins Surrey Heath 29.8% 16,287 3rd Norman Fowler Sutton Coldfield 28.4% 14,885 4th James Arbuthnot North East Hampshire 28.2% 14,398 5th Dominic Grieve Beaconsfield 27.9% 13,987

Smallest 1st Ian Bruce South Dorset 0.2% 77 2nd David Madel South West Bedfordshire 0.2% 132 3rd Patrick Nicholls Teignbridge 0.4% 281 4th Peter Atkinson Hexham 0.5% 222 5th Michael Fabricant Lichfield 0.5% 238

Labour Largest 1st Joe Benton Bootle 74.4% 28,421 2nd John Cummings Easington 71.6% 30,012 3rd Llew Smith Blaenau Gwent 70.7% 28,035 4th Ted Rowlands Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney 69.2% 27,086 5th Peter Kilfoyle Liverpool, Walton 67.2% 27,038

Smallest 1st Philip Sawford Kettering 0.3% 189 2nd Paul Stinchcombe Wellingborough 0.3% 187 3rd Brian White North East Milton Keynes 0.5% 240 4th Andrew King Rugby & Kenilworth 0.8% 495 5th Tony Clark Northampton South 1.3% 744

Liberal Democrat Largest 1st James Wallace Orkney & Shetland 33.7% 6,968 2nd Menzies Campbell North East Fife 24.8% 10,356 3rd Andrew Stunell Hazel Grove 23.9% 11,814

Smallest 1st Mark Oaten Winchester (a) 0.0% 2 2nd Adrian Sanders Torbay 0.0% 12 3rd Edward Davey Kingston & Surbiton 0.1% 56

Plaid Cymru Largest Elfyn Llwyd Meirionnydd Nant Conwy 27.7% 6,805 Smallest Ieuan Wyn Jones Ynys-Mon 6.2% 2,481

Scottish National Party Largest Alex Salmond Banff & Buchan 32.0% 12,845 Smallest Roseanna Cunningham Perth 7.1% 3,141

Majorities in Northern Ireland Largest Clifford Forsythe South Antrim 41.3% 16,611 Smallest William Thompson West Tyrone 2.5% 1,161

(a) This result was challenged and a writ for a re-run was issued. This re-run resulted in a Liberal Democrat majority of 21,556

Full lists of majorities by Party can be found in Tables 22 to 24

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Table 12

Highest and lowest shares of the vote, by party

Highest Lowest

CONSERVATIVE (GB only) 1 Huntingdon 55.3% 1 Rhondda 3.8% 2 Kensington & Chelsea 53.6% 2 Glasgow Shettleston 5.5% 3 Arundel & South Downs 53.1% 3 Glasgow Maryhill 5.9% 4 Sutton Coldfield 52.2% 4 Glasgow Springburn 6.0% 5 Surrey Heath 51.6% 5 Glasgow Pollok 6.0% 6 North East Hampshire 50.9% 6 Liverpool, Walton 6.3% 7 Horsham 50.8% 7 Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney 6.4% 8 New Forest West 50.6% 8 Blaenau Gwent 6.6% 9 Chesham & Amersham 50.4% 9 Western Isles 6.6% 10 Ruislip - Northwood 50.2% 10 Cynon Valley 6.8%

LABOUR 1 Bootle 82.9% 1 Newbury 5.5% 2 Easington 80.2% 2 Christchurch 6.9% 3 Blaenau Gwent 79.5% 3 Harrogate & Knaresborough 8.7% 4 Liverpool, Walton 78.4% 4 West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine 9.1% 5 Knowsley South 77.1% 5 North Cornwall 9.4% 6 Barnsley Central 77.0% 6 South West Surrey 9.4% 7 Tyne Bridge 76.8% 7 North Devon 9.8% 8 Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney 76.7% 8 Cheltenham 10.1% 9 Houghton & Washington East 76.4% 9 North Dorset 10.2% 10 Pontefract & Castleford 75.7% 10 North East Fife 10.3%

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT 1 Hazel Grove 54.5% 1 Western Isles 3.1% 2 North Cornwall 53.2% 2 Glasgow Pollok 3.5% 3 Newbury 52.9% 3 Cumbernauld & Kilsyth 3.8% 4 Orkney & Shetland 52.0% 4 Glasgow Baillieston 3.8% 5 Harrogate & Knaresborough 51.5% 5 Ynys-Mon 3.8% 6 Sheffield, Hallam 51.3% 6 Glasgow Shettleston 4.0% 7 North East Fife 51.2% 7 Kilmarnock & Loudoun 4.0% 8 North Devon 50.8% 8 Dundee East 4.1% 9 Cheltenham 49.5% 9 Airdrie & Shotts 4.2% 10 Yeovil 48.7% 10 Glasgow Springburn 4.3%

PLAID CYMRU 1 Caernarfon 51.0% 1 Monmouth 1.1% 2 Meirionnydd Nant Conwy 50.7% 2 Brecon & Radnorshire 1.5% 3 Ceredigion 41.6% 3 Newport West 1.6% 4 Ynys-Mon 39.5% 4 Alyn & Deeside 1.8% 5 Carmarthen East & Dinefwr 34.6% 5 Newport East 1.9%

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY 1 Banff & Buchan 55.8% 1 Edinburgh West 8.8% 2 Angus 48.3% 2 Aberdeen South 9.8% 3 North Tayside 44.8% 3 North East Fife 10.9% 4 Galloway & Upper Nithsdale 43.9% 4 Roxburgh & Berwickshire 11.3% 5 Moray 41.6% 5 Dumfries 12.1%

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Table 13

Highest and lowest changes in shares of the vote, by party: 1992-97

Highest Lowest

CONSERVATIVE (GB only) 1 Bethnal Green & Bow +4.7% 1 West Bromwich West -37.6% 2 Greenwich & Woolwich +0.3% 2 Tatton -24.7% 3 Bradford West -0.8% 3 Gordon -21.9% 4 Linlithgow -1.2% 4 Woking -20.7% 5 Liverpool, Riverside -1.3% 5 Lewisham West -19.0% 6 Liverpool, Wavertree -1.7% 6 Dulwich & West Norwood -18.6% 7 Western Isles -1.8% 7 Hastings & Rye -18.4% 8 Glasgow Pollok -2.1% 8 Dagenham -18.3% 9 Glasgow Baillieston -2.1% 9 Newbury -18.1% 10 Blyth Valley -2.3% 10 Wallasey -18.0%

LABOUR 1 Liverpool, Wavertree +23.1% 1 West Bromwich West -50.6% 2 Crosby +22.4% 2 Tatton -19.0% 3 Brent North +20.4% 3 Bradford West -11.7% 4 North East Cambridgeshire +20.2% 4 Bethnal Green & Bow -7.2% 5 Hove +20.1% 5 Christchurch -5.2% 6 Stockton South +19.7% 6 Sheffield, Hallam -4.9% 7 Wimbledon +19.5% 7 Harrogate & Knaresborough -4.8% 8 Morecambe & Lunesdale +19.4% 8 Cardiff South & Penarth -2.2% 9 Erith & Thamesmead +19.1% 9 Orkney & Shetland -1.6% 10 Pudsey +19.0% 10 St Ives -0.8%

LIBERAL DEMOCRAT 1 Sheffield, Hallam +20.6% 1 Greenwich & Woolwich -22.6% 2 Christchurch +19.2% 2 Tatton -18.1% 3 Harrogate & Knaresborough +18.2% 3 North East Cambridgeshire -14.6% 4 Newbury +15.8% 4 Bethnal Green & Bow -13.8% 5 Gordon +15.4% 5 Erith & Thamesmead -13.4% 6 Edinburgh West +13.3% 6 Wyre Forest -13.3% 7 Hazel Grove +11.4% 7 Liverpool, Wavertree -13.2% 8 Kingston & Surbiton +10.7% 8 Pudsey -12.4% 9 South East Cornwall +9.0% 9 West Bromwich West -11.8% 10 Sutton & Cheam +8.5% 10 Blyth Valley -11.1%

PLAID CYMRU 1 Ceredigion +10.7% 1 Caernarfon -8.0% 2 Clwyd West +8.9% 2 Neath -3.2% 3 Meirionnydd Nant Conwy +6.8% 3 Pontypridd -2.6% 4 Carmarthen East & Dinefwr +5.6% 4 Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire -2.4% 5 Llanelli +3.2% 5 Preseli Pembrokeshire -2.3%

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY 1 Angus +9.1% 1 Glasgow Pollok -7.1% 2 Ochil +8.3% 2 Dundee East -5.5% 3 Galloway & Upper Nithsdale +7.5% 3 Falkirk East -4.4% 4 Glasgow Govan +7.4% 4 Western Isles -3.8% 5 Airdrie & Shotts +6.3% 5 Edinburgh West -3.7%

None of the major parties stood in West Bromwich West in 1997; this was The Speaker’s seat. Neither Labour nor the Liberal Democrats stood in Tatton.

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Candidates finishing in first, second, third, fourth and fifth places

First Second Third Fourth Fifth Total place or Candidates lower England 2345 12 Labour 328 94 105 527 Conservative 165 338 24 1 528 Liberal Democrat 34 95 397 1 527 Other 2 2 3 509 847 1,363 Total 529 529 529 511 847 2,945

Wales 35 36 37 38 45 Labour 34 4 2 40 Conservative 25 12 3 40 Liberal Democrat 2 7 22 9 40 Plaid Cymru 4 4 4 18 10 40 Other 105363 Total 4040404063223

Scotland 24 25 26 27 34 Labour 56 4 8 4 72 Conservative 233811 72 Liberal Democrat 10 1 8 52 1 72 Scottish National Party 6 44 17 5 72 Other 1 142 143 Total 72727272143431

Great Britain Labour 418 102 115 4 639 Conservative 165 386 74 15 640 Liberal Democrat 46 103 427 62 1 639 Plaid Cymru 4 4 4 18 10 40 Scottish National Party 6 44 17 5 72 Other 2 2 4 519 1,042 1,569 Total 641 641 641 623 1,053 3,599

Northern Ireland 13 14 15 16 23 Alliance 2 4 8 3 17 Democratic Unionist 2 3 3 1 9 Progressive Unionist 1 1 1 3 SDLP 3642318 Sinn Fein 2252617 UK Unionist 1 1 Ulster Unionist 10 5 1 16 Other 4 40 44 Total 18 18 18 18 53 125

The other candidates finishing in first place were the Speaker (West Bromwich West) and Martin Bell (Ind - Tatton) The other candidates finishing in second place were R. Sylvester (Ind Lab - West Bromwich West) and S. Radford (Liberal - Liverpool, West Derby)

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Seats won by county(a): England

Con Lab LibDem Other Total

Avon 1 6 3 10 Bedfordshire 3 3 6 Berkshire 431 8 Buckinghamshire 5 2 7 Cambridgeshire 5 2 7 Cheshire 3 7 1 11 Cleveland 6 6 Cornwall 1 4 5 Cumbria 2 4 6 Derbyshire 1 9 10 Devon 533 11 Dorset 8 8 Durham 7 7 East Sussex 3 4 1 8 Essex 10 6 1 17 Gloucestershire 2 3 1 6 Greater Manchester 2 25 1 28 Hampshire 113317 Hereford & Worcester 4 3 1 8 Hertfordshire 6 5 11 Humberside 3 7 10 Isle of Wight 1 1 Kent 9 8 17 Lancashire 2 13 15 Leicestershire 5 5 10 Lincolnshire 6 1 7 London 11 57 6 74 Merseyside 15 1 16 Norfolk 4 4 8 North Yorkshire 4 3 1 8 Northamptonshire 1 5 6 Northumberland121 4 Nottinghamshire 1 10 11 Oxfordshire 411 6 Shropshire 2 3 5 Somerset 2 3 5 South Yorkshire 14 1 15 Staffordshire 3 9 12 Suffolk 5 2 7 Surrey 11 11 Tyne & Wear 13 13 Warwickshire 1 4 5 West Midlands 4 24 1 29 West Sussex 7 1 8 West Yorkshire 23 23 Wiltshire 4 2 6

England 165328342529

(a) County areas introduced in 1974 local government reorganisation

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Votes won by county(a): England

Con Lab LibDem Other Total

Avon 181,606 202,778 146,270 24,751 555,405 Bedfordshire 115,838 131,978 38,514 13,898 300,228 Berkshire 174,727 117,950 101,621 19,388 413,686 Buckinghamshire 158,884 111,289 76,993 16,497 363,663 Cambridgeshire 156,154 128,183 66,411 20,714 371,462 Cheshire 188,251 262,654 69,182 44,268 564,355 Cleveland 72,990 180,732 28,402 7,564 289,688 Cornwall 85,077 47,913 123,124 24,093 280,207 Cumbria 94,679 129,483 46,630 11,558 282,350 Derbyshire 161,396 293,561 75,862 17,041 547,860 Devon 224,418 157,756 190,781 36,974 609,929 Dorset 164,650 73,821 134,049 21,047 393,567 Durham 57,441 223,242 31,566 13,608 325,857 East Sussex 158,427 117,400 96,606 29,769 402,202 Essex 353,987 320,231 160,082 44,186 878,486 Gloucestershire 127,593 109,689 72,971 12,765 323,018 Greater Manchester 310,687 724,905 206,469 44,461 1,286,522 Hampshire 369,193 253,445 226,992 45,825 895,455 Hereford & Worcester 166,848 132,591 89,060 18,449 406,948 Hertfordshire 234,340 229,011 92,346 21,518 577,215 Humberside 137,105 227,041 71,426 15,070 450,642 Isle of Wight 24,868 9,646 31,274 7,371 73,159 Kent 346,885 317,762 145,941 45,994 856,582 Lancashire 265,819 382,476 98,744 30,443 777,482 Leicestershire 185,787 221,422 76,500 21,667 505,376 Lincolnshire 147,196 128,147 60,923 10,880 347,146 London 1,036,082 1,643,329 485,511 156,126 3,321,048 Merseyside 141,120 442,366 103,152 28,158 714,796 Norfolk 165,055 179,504 81,817 23,123 449,499 North Yorkshire 168,210 138,038 96,941 17,578 420,767 Northamptonshire 136,488 152,090 37,550 11,628 337,756 Northumberland 39,722 85,289 43,708 6,409 175,128 Nottinghamshire 170,091 302,419 60,429 23,673 556,612 Oxfordshire 126,100 105,081 81,872 18,459 331,512 Shropshire 87,561 93,463 48,229 6,274 235,527 Somerset 103,503 49,409 115,155 15,402 283,469 South Yorkshire 105,209 392,835 104,842 27,986 630,872 Staffordshire 197,643 301,258 63,030 24,746 586,677 Suffolk 139,403 148,730 65,246 16,898 370,277 Surrey 271,690 130,916 144,132 40,996 587,734 Tyne & Wear 96,141 372,999 65,594 21,183 555,917 Warwickshire 112,619 127,606 40,503 10,419 291,147 West Midlands 388,794 671,904 147,985 96,843 1,305,526 West Sussex 186,569 101,289 106,987 22,770 417,615 West Yorkshire 310,247 581,256 139,007 45,382 1,075,892 Wiltshire 133,788 92,995 87,136 18,532 332,451

England 8,780,881 11,347,882 4,677,565 1,252,384 26,058,712

(a) County areas introduced in 1974 local government reorganisation

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Share of vote by county(a): England

Con Lab LibDem Other Total

Avon 32.7% 36.5% 26.3% 4.5% 100.0% Bedfordshire 38.6% 44.0% 12.8% 4.6% 100.0% Berkshire 42.2% 28.5% 24.6% 4.7% 100.0% Buckinghamshire 43.7% 30.6% 21.2% 4.5% 100.0% Cambridgeshire 42.0% 34.5% 17.9% 5.6% 100.0% Cheshire 33.4% 46.5% 12.3% 7.8% 100.0% Cleveland 25.2% 62.4% 9.8% 2.6% 100.0% Cornwall 30.4% 17.1% 43.9% 8.6% 100.0% Cumbria 33.5% 45.9% 16.5% 4.1% 100.0% Derbyshire 29.5% 53.6% 13.8% 3.1% 100.0% Devon 36.8% 25.9% 31.3% 6.1% 100.0% Dorset 41.8% 18.8% 34.1% 5.3% 100.0% Durham 17.6% 68.5% 9.7% 4.2% 100.0% East Sussex 39.4% 29.2% 24.0% 7.4% 100.0% Essex 40.3% 36.5% 18.2% 5.0% 100.0% Gloucestershire 39.5% 34.0% 22.6% 4.0% 100.0% Greater Manchester 24.1% 56.3% 16.0% 3.5% 100.0% Hampshire 41.2% 28.3% 25.3% 5.1% 100.0% Hereford & Worcester 41.0% 32.6% 21.9% 4.5% 100.0% Hertfordshire 40.6% 39.7% 16.0% 3.7% 100.0% Humberside 30.4% 50.4% 15.8% 3.3% 100.0% Isle of Wight 34.0% 13.2% 42.7% 10.1% 100.0% Kent 40.5% 37.1% 17.0% 5.4% 100.0% Lancashire 34.2% 49.2% 12.7% 3.9% 100.0% Leicestershire 36.8% 43.8% 15.1% 4.3% 100.0% Lincolnshire 42.4% 36.9% 17.5% 3.1% 100.0% London 31.2% 49.5% 14.6% 4.7% 100.0% Merseyside 19.7% 61.9% 14.4% 3.9% 100.0% Norfolk 36.7% 39.9% 18.2% 5.1% 100.0% North Yorkshire 40.0% 32.8% 23.0% 4.2% 100.0% Northamptonshire 40.4% 45.0% 11.1% 3.4% 100.0% Northumberland 22.7% 48.7% 25.0% 3.7% 100.0% Nottinghamshire 30.6% 54.3% 10.9% 4.3% 100.0% Oxfordshire 38.0% 31.7% 24.7% 5.6% 100.0% Shropshire 37.2% 39.7% 20.5% 2.7% 100.0% Somerset 36.5% 17.4% 40.6% 5.4% 100.0% South Yorkshire 16.7% 62.3% 16.6% 4.4% 100.0% Staffordshire 33.7% 51.3% 10.7% 4.2% 100.0% Suffolk 37.6% 40.2% 17.6% 4.6% 100.0% Surrey 46.2% 22.3% 24.5% 7.0% 100.0% Tyne & Wear 17.3% 67.1% 11.8% 3.8% 100.0% Warwickshire 38.7% 43.8% 13.9% 3.6% 100.0% West Midlands 29.8% 51.5% 11.3% 7.4% 100.0% West Sussex 44.7% 24.3% 25.6% 5.5% 100.0% West Yorkshire 28.8% 54.0% 12.9% 4.2% 100.0% Wiltshire 40.2% 28.0% 26.2% 5.6% 100.0%

England 33.7% 43.5% 18.0% 4.8% 100.0%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent

England Aldershot Gerald Howarth Con hold 6,621 12.2% 70.8% Aldridge - Brownhills Richard Shepherd Con hold 2,526 5.4% 74.3% Altrincham & Sale West Graham Brady Con hold 1,505 2.9% 73.3% Amber Valley Judy Mallaber Lab gain from Con 11,613 21.2% 76.0% Arundel & South Downs Howard Flight Con hold 14,035 27.3% 75.5% Ashfield Geoff Hoon Lab hold 22,728 44.9% 70.0% Ashford Damian Green Con hold 5,355 9.7% 74.2% Ashton under Lyne Robert Sheldon Lab hold 22,965 48.6% 65.4% Aylesbury David Lidington Con hold 8,419 14.6% 72.8% Banbury Tony Baldry Con hold 4,737 8.1% 75.1% Barking Margaret Hodge Lab hold 15,896 48.2% 61.7% Barnsley Central Eric Illsley Lab hold 24,501 67.2% 59.7% Barnsley East & Mexborough Jeff Ennis Lab hold 26,763 61.8% 63.6% Barnsley West & Penistone Michael Clapham Lab hold 17,267 40.9% 65.0% Barrow & Furness John Hutton Lab hold 14,497 30.1% 72.0% Basildon Angela Smith Lab gain from Con 13,280 25.0% 72.0% Basingstoke Andrew Hunter Con hold 2,397 4.2% 74.1% Bassetlaw Joe Ashton Lab hold 17,348 36.1% 70.5% Bath Don Foster LDem hold 9,319 17.3% 76.1% Batley & Spen Mike Wood Lab gain from Con 6,141 13.1% 73.2% Battersea Martin Linton Lab gain from Con 5,360 11.3% 70.9% Beaconsfield Dominic Grieve Con hold 13,987 27.9% 72.8% Beckenham Piers Merchant Con hold 4,953 9.1% 74.3% Bedford Patrick Hall Lab gain from Con 8,300 17.0% 73.5% Berwick-upon-Tweed Alan Beith LDem hold 8,042 19.2% 73.5% Bethnal Green & Bow Oona King Lab hold 11,285 25.3% 60.3% Beverley & Holderness James Cran Con hold 1,211 2.3% 72.9% Bexhill & Battle Charles Wardle Con hold 11,100 22.7% 74.5% Bexleyheath & Crayford Nigel Beard Lab gain from Con 3,415 7.1% 76.1% Billericay Teresa Gorman Con hold 1,356 2.4% 72.6% Birkenhead Frank Field Lab hold 21,843 55.5% 65.9% Birmingham, Edgbaston Gisela Stuart Lab gain from Con 4,842 10.0% 68.9% Birmingham, Erdington Robin Corbett Lab hold 12,657 31.3% 60.8% Birmingham, Hall Green Stephen McCabe Lab gain from Con 8,420 20.1% 71.1% Birmingham, Hodge Hill Terry Davis Lab hold 14,200 41.6% 60.9% Birmingham, Ladywood Clare Short Lab hold 23,082 60.8% 54.2% Birmingham, Northfield Richard Burden Lab hold 11,443 29.5% 68.3% Birmingham, Perry Barr Jeff Rooker Lab hold 18,957 41.3% 64.5% Birmingham, Selly Oak Lynne Jones Lab hold 14,088 27.9% 70.1% Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath Roger Godsiff Lab hold 19,526 46.8% 57.0% Birmingham, Yardley Estelle Morris Lab hold 5,315 14.1% 71.1% Bishop Auckland Derek Foster Lab hold 21,064 45.7% 68.4% Blaby Andrew Robathan Con hold 6,474 12.1% 76.0% Blackburn Jack Straw Lab hold 14,451 30.4% 64.9% Blackpool North & Fleetwood Joan Humble Lab gain from Con 8,946 16.6% 71.6% Blackpool South Gordon Marsden Lab gain from Con 11,616 22.6% 67.7% Blaydon John McWilliam Lab hold 16,605 36.2% 71.0%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Blyth Valley Ronnie Campbell Lab hold 17,736 41.7% 68.8% Bognor Regis & Littlehampton Nicolas Gibb Con hold 7,321 15.8% 69.6% Bolsover Dennis Skinner Lab hold 27,149 57.3% 71.2% Bolton North East David Crausby Lab hold 12,669 25.7% 72.4% Bolton South East Brian Iddon Lab hold 21,311 49.2% 65.1% Bolton West Ruth Kelly Lab gain from Con 7,072 14.4% 77.3% Bootle Joe Benton Lab hold 28,421 74.4% 66.7% Boston & Skegness Richard Body Con hold 647 1.4% 68.9% Bosworth David Tredinnick Con hold 1,027 2.0% 76.4% Bournemouth East David Atkinson Con hold 4,342 10.0% 70.2% Bournemouth West John Butterfill Con hold 5,710 13.9% 66.2% Bracknell Andrew Mackay Con hold 10,387 17.6% 74.5% Bradford North Terry Rooney Lab hold 12,770 30.5% 63.3% Bradford South Gerry Sutcliffe Lab hold 12,936 28.7% 65.9% Bradford West Marsha Singh Lab hold 3,877 8.5% 63.3% Braintree Alan Hurst Lab gain from Con 1,451 2.6% 76.1% Brent East Ken Livingstone Lab hold 15,882 45.0% 65.9% Brent North Barry Gardiner Lab gain from Con 4,019 10.5% 70.5% Brent South Paul Boateng Lab hold 19,691 57.1% 64.5% Brentford & Isleworth Ann Keen Lab gain from Con 14,424 25.7% 69.5% Brentwood & Ongar Eric Pickles Con hold 9,690 19.1% 76.6% Bridgwater Tom King Con hold 1,796 3.3% 74.4% Brigg & Goole Ian Cawsey Lab gain from Con 6,389 13.7% 73.0% Brighton, Kemptown Desmond Turner Lab gain from Con 3,534 7.7% 70.6% Brighton, Pavilion David Lepper Lab gain from Con 13,181 26.9% 73.4% Bristol East Jean Corston Lab hold 16,159 33.5% 69.7% Bristol North West Douglas Naysmith Lab hold 11,382 20.6% 75.5% Bristol South Dawn Primarolo Lab hold 19,328 38.8% 68.8% Bristol West Valerie Davey Lab gain from Con 1,493 2.4% 73.5% Bromley & Chislehurst Eric Forth Con hold 11,118 21.1% 74.1% Bromsgrove Julie Kirkbride Con hold 4,845 9.3% 77.1% Broxbourne Marion Roe Con hold 6,653 14.2% 70.3% Broxtowe Nick Palmer Lab gain from Con 5,575 9.6% 78.3% Buckingham John Bercow Con hold 12,386 25.1% 78.5% Burnley Peter Pike Lab hold 17,062 37.7% 66.9% Burton Janet Dean Lab gain from Con 6,330 11.6% 75.0% Bury North David Chaytor Lab gain from Con 7,866 14.3% 77.8% Bury South Ivan Lewis Lab gain from Con 12,381 24.6% 75.4% Bury St Edmunds David Ruffley Con hold 368 0.7% 75.0% Calder Valley Christine McCafferty Lab gain from Con 6,255 11.1% 75.4% Camberwell & Peckham Harriet Harman Lab hold 16,451 58.0% 55.3% Cambridge Anne Campbell Lab hold 14,137 27.5% 71.5% Cannock Chase Tony Wright Lab hold 14,478 27.6% 74.0% Canterbury Julian Brazier Con hold 3,964 7.3% 72.5% Carlisle Eric Martlew Lab hold 12,390 28.4% 72.8% Carshalton & Wallington Thomas Brake LDem gain from Con 2,267 4.7% 73.3% Castle Point Christine Butler Lab gain from Con 1,143 2.4% 72.1% Central Suffolk & North Ipswich Michael Lord Con hold 3,538 6.7% 75.0% Charnwood Stephen Dorrell Con hold 5,900 10.5% 76.9% Chatham & Aylesford Jonathon Shaw Lab gain from Con 2,790 5.7% 70.6%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Cheadle Stephen Day Con hold 3,189 6.1% 77.3% Cheltenham Nigel Jones LDem hold 6,645 13.2% 74.0% Chesham & Amersham Cheryl Gillan Con hold 13,859 26.6% 74.5% Chester, City of Christine Russell Lab gain from Con 10,553 18.8% 78.4% Chesterfield Tony Benn Lab hold 5,775 11.2% 70.9% Chichester Andrew Tyrie Con hold 9,734 17.5% 74.6% Chingford & Woodford Green Iain Duncan-Smith Con hold 5,714 12.9% 70.7% Chipping Barnet Sydney Chapman Con hold 1,035 2.1% 71.7% Chorley Lindsay Hoyle Lab gain from Con 9,870 17.1% 77.3% Christchurch Christopher Chope Con hold 2,165 3.9% 78.5% Cities of London & Westminster Peter Brooke Con hold 4,881 12.2% 54.2% Cleethorpes Shona McIsaac Lab gain from Con 9,176 18.2% 73.4% Colchester Robert Russell LDem gain from Con 1,581 3.0% 69.6% Colne Valley Kali Mountford Lab gain from Con 4,840 8.6% 76.9% Congleton Ann Winterton Con hold 6,130 11.5% 77.6% Copeland Jack Cunningham Lab hold 11,996 29.0% 76.3% Corby Phil Hope Lab gain from Con 11,860 22.0% 77.7% Cotswold Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Con hold 11,965 23.4% 75.6% Coventry North East Bob Ainsworth Lab hold 22,569 46.9% 64.8% Coventry North West Geoffrey Robinson Lab hold 16,601 30.6% 70.7% Coventry South Jim Cunningham Lab gain from Con 10,953 21.9% 68.7% Crawley Laura Moffatt Lab gain from Con 11,707 23.2% 72.9% Crewe & Nantwich Gwyneth Dunwoody Lab hold 15,798 31.2% 73.9% Crosby Claire Curtis-Thomas Lab gain from Con 7,182 16.3% 77.2% Croydon Central Geraint Davies Lab gain from Con 3,897 7.0% 69.6% Croydon North Malcolm Wicks Lab gain from Con 18,398 35.0% 68.2% Croydon South Richard Ottaway Con hold 11,930 22.0% 73.5% Dagenham Judith Church Lab hold 17,054 47.2% 62.1% Darlington Alan Milburn Lab hold 16,025 33.3% 73.9% Dartford Howard Stoate Lab gain from Con 4,328 8.3% 74.6% Daventry Tim Boswell Con hold 7,378 11.9% 76.5% Denton & Reddish Andrew Bennett Lab hold 20,311 44.1% 66.9% Derby North Robert Laxton Lab gain from Con 10,615 18.9% 74.0% Derby South Margaret Beckett Lab hold 16,106 31.1% 68.0% Devizes Michael Ancram Con hold 9,782 16.3% 74.7% Dewsbury Ann Taylor Lab hold 8,323 19.3% 70.0% Don Valley Caroline Flint Lab hold 14,659 33.7% 66.4% Doncaster Central Rosie Winterton Lab hold 17,856 41.1% 63.9% Doncaster North Kevin Hughes Lab hold 21,937 55.0% 63.3% Dover Gwyn Prosser Lab gain from Con 11,739 21.7% 78.9% Dudley North Ross Cranston Lab hold 9,457 19.8% 69.4% Dudley South Ian Pearson Lab hold 13,027 27.2% 71.7% Dulwich & West Norwood Tessa Jowell Lab hold 16,769 36.8% 65.0% Durham, City of Gerry Steinberg Lab hold 22,504 45.8% 70.8% Ealing North Stephen Pound Lab gain from Con 9,160 16.4% 71.3% Ealing Southall Piara Khabra Lab hold 21,423 39.2% 66.9% Ealing, Acton & Shepherd’s Bush Clive Soley Lab hold 15,650 32.6% 66.7% Easington John Cummings Lab hold 30,012 71.6% 67.0% East Devon Peter Emery Con hold 7,494 14.3% 76.0% East Ham Stephen Timms Lab hold 19,358 48.5% 60.3%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent East Hampshire Michael Mates Con hold 11,590 19.9% 75.6% East Surrey Peter Ainsworth Con hold 15,093 27.6% 74.6% East Worthing & Shoreham Tim Loughton Con hold 5,098 9.9% 72.9% East Yorkshire John Townend Con hold 3,337 6.8% 70.5% Eastbourne Nigel Waterson Con hold 1,994 3.8% 72.8% Eastleigh David Chidgey LDem gain from Con 754 1.4% 76.6% Eccles Ian Stewart Lab hold 21,916 48.0% 65.6% Eddisbury Alastair Goodlad Con hold 1,185 2.4% 75.6% Edmonton Andy Love Lab gain from Con 13,472 30.0% 70.3% Ellesmere Port & Neston Andrew Miller Lab hold 16,035 30.5% 77.8% Elmet Colin Burgon Lab gain from Con 8,779 16.2% 76.8% Eltham Clive Efford Lab gain from Con 10,182 23.4% 75.7% Enfield North Joan Ryan Lab gain from Con 6,822 14.3% 70.4% Enfield, Southgate Stephen Twigg Lab gain from Con 1,433 3.1% 70.6% Epping Forest Eleanor Laing Con hold 5,252 9.9% 72.9% Epsom & Ewell Archie Hamilton Con hold 11,525 21.3% 74.0% Erewash Elizabeth Blackman Lab gain from Con 9,135 15.1% 78.0% Erith & Thamesmead John Austin Lab hold 17,424 41.9% 65.6% Esher & Walton Ian Taylor Con hold 14,528 27.1% 74.3% Exeter Ben Bradshaw Lab gain from Con 11,705 18.9% 77.9% Falmouth & Camborne Candy Atherton Lab gain from Con 2,688 5.0% 75.1% Fareham Peter Lloyd Con hold 10,358 19.9% 75.9% Faversham & Mid Kent Andrew Rowe Con hold 4,173 8.4% 73.9% Feltham & Heston Alan Keen Lab hold 15,273 32.8% 64.9% Finchley & Golders Green Rudolph Vis Lab gain from Con 3,189 6.3% 69.5% Folkestone & Hythe Michael Howard Con hold 6,332 12.2% 72.7% Forest of Dean Diana Organ Lab hold 6,343 12.6% 78.7% Fylde Michael Jack Con hold 8,963 17.2% 72.9% Gainsborough Edward Leigh Con hold 6,826 14.3% 74.6% Gateshead East & Washington West Joyce Quin Lab hold 24,950 57.9% 67.2% Gedling Vernon Coaker Lab gain from Con 3,802 7.3% 75.7% Gillingham Paul Clark Lab gain from Con 1,980 3.9% 72.0% Gloucester Tess Kingham Lab gain from Con 8,259 14.3% 73.4% Gosport Peter Viggers Con hold 6,258 12.9% 70.3% Grantham & Stamford Quentin Davies Con hold 2,692 5.1% 73.3% Gravesham Chris Pond Lab gain from Con 5,779 10.9% 76.9% Great Grimsby Austin Mitchell Lab hold 16,244 37.7% 66.1% Great Yarmouth Tony Wright Lab gain from Con 8,668 17.7% 71.3% Greenwich & Woolwich Nick Raynsford Lab hold 18,128 44.9% 65.9% Guildford Nick St Aubyn Con hold 4,791 8.4% 74.6% Hackney North & Stoke Newington Diane Abbott Lab hold 15,627 48.3% 52.0% Hackney South & Shoreditch Brian Sedgemore Lab hold 14,990 44.4% 54.5% Halesowen & Rowley Regis Sylvia Heal Lab gain from Con 10,337 21.2% 73.3% Halifax Alice Mahon Lab hold 11,212 22.2% 70.5% Haltemprice & Howden David Davis Con hold 7,514 15.2% 75.4% Halton Derek Twigg Lab hold 23,650 53.2% 68.3% Hammersmith & Fulham Iain Coleman Lab gain from Con 3,842 7.1% 68.7% Hampstead & Highgate Glenda Jackson Lab hold 13,284 30.2% 67.9% Harborough Edward Garnier Con hold 6,524 12.3% 75.3% Harlow Bill Rammell Lab gain from Con 10,514 22.0% 74.3%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Harrogate & Knaresborough Phil Willis LDem gain from Con 6,236 13.1% 72.9% Harrow East Tony McNulty Lab gain from Con 9,734 17.1% 71.2% Harrow West Gareth Thomas Lab gain from Con 1,240 2.4% 72.8% Hartlepool Peter Mandelson Lab hold 17,508 39.4% 65.6% Harwich Ivan Henderson Lab gain from Con 1,216 2.3% 70.5% Hastings & Rye Michael Foster Lab gain from Con 2,560 5.2% 69.7% Havant David Willetts Con hold 3,729 7.7% 70.4% Hayes & Harlington John McDonnell Lab gain from Con 14,291 34.8% 72.4% Hazel Grove Andrew Stunell LDem gain from Con 11,814 23.9% 77.3% Hemel Hempstead Tony McWalter Lab gain from Con 3,636 6.6% 76.6% Hemsworth Jon Trickett Lab hold 23,992 52.8% 67.9% Hendon Andrew Dismore Lab gain from Con 6,155 12.3% 65.6% Henley Michael Heseltine Con hold 11,167 21.7% 77.6% Hereford Paul Keetch LDem gain from Con 6,648 12.7% 75.2% Hertford & Stortford Bowen Wells Con hold 6,885 12.6% 75.5% Hertsmere James Clappison Con hold 3,075 6.1% 73.9% Hexham Peter Atkinson Con hold 222 0.5% 77.5% Heywood & Middleton Jim Dobbin Lab hold 17,542 34.7% 68.4% High Peak Tom Levitt Lab gain from Con 8,791 15.4% 78.9% Hitchin & Harpenden Peter Lilley Con hold 6,671 12.7% 78.0% Holborn & St Pancras Frank Dobson Lab hold 17,903 47.1% 60.3% Hornchurch John Cryer Lab gain from Con 5,680 12.9% 72.8% Hornsey & Wood Green Barbara Roche Lab hold 20,499 39.8% 69.1% Horsham Francis Maude Con hold 14,862 26.0% 75.3% Houghton & Washington East Fraser Kemp Lab hold 26,555 63.5% 62.1% Hove Ivor Caplin Lab gain from Con 3,959 8.2% 69.6% Huddersfield Barry Sheerman Lab hold 15,848 35.6% 67.7% Huntingdon John Major Con hold 18,140 31.8% 74.9% Hyndburn Greg Pope Lab hold 11,448 23.7% 72.1% Ilford North Linda Perham Lab gain from Con 3,224 6.6% 72.7% Ilford South Mike Gapes Lab gain from Con 14,200 28.4% 70.2% Ipswich Jamie Cann Lab hold 10,436 21.6% 72.2% Isle of Wight Peter Brand LDem gain from Con 6,406 8.8% 72.0% Islington North Jeremy Corbyn Lab hold 19,955 55.6% 62.5% Islington South & Finsbury Chris Smith Lab hold 14,563 41.2% 63.7% Jarrow Stephen Hepburn Lab hold 21,933 49.9% 68.7% Keighley Ann Cryer Lab gain from Con 7,132 13.9% 76.6% Kensington & Chelsea Alan Clark Con hold 9,519 25.7% 54.7% Kettering Philip Sawford Lab gain from Con 189 0.3% 75.5% Kingston & Surbiton Edward Davey LDem gain from Con 56 0.1% 75.4% Kingston upon Hull East John Prescott Lab hold 23,318 57.6% 59.2% Kingston upon Hull North Kevin McNamara Lab hold 19,705 50.8% 57.0% Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle Alan Johnson Lab hold 15,525 40.5% 58.7% Kingswood Roger Berry Lab gain from Con 14,253 23.8% 77.6% Knowsley North & Sefton East George Howarth Lab hold 26,147 52.6% 70.1% Knowsley South Eddie O’Hara Lab hold 30,708 64.5% 67.5% Lancaster & Wyre Hilton Dawson Lab gain from Con 1,295 2.2% 74.8% Leeds Central Derek Fatchett Lab hold 20,689 55.9% 54.2% Leeds East George Mudie Lab hold 17,466 48.8% 62.8% Leeds North East Fabian Hamilton Lab gain from Con 6,959 15.3% 71.8%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Leeds North West Harold Best Lab gain from Con 3,844 7.8% 69.7% Leeds West John Battle Lab hold 19,771 49.2% 62.7% Leicester East Keith Vaz Lab hold 18,422 41.5% 69.1% Leicester South James Marshall Lab hold 16,493 34.3% 66.3% Leicester West Patricia Hewitt Lab hold 12,864 31.4% 63.1% Leigh Lawrence Cunliffe Lab hold 24,496 53.3% 65.7% Leominster Peter Temple-Morris Con hold 8,835 17.5% 76.6% Lewes Norman Baker LDem gain from Con 1,300 2.6% 76.4% Lewisham Deptford Joan Ruddock Lab hold 18,878 56.1% 57.9% Lewisham East Bridget Prentice Lab hold 12,127 32.4% 66.4% Lewisham West Jim Dowd Lab hold 14,317 38.1% 64.0% Leyton & Wanstead Harry Cohen Lab hold 15,186 38.6% 63.2% Lichfield Michael Fabricant Con hold 238 0.5% 77.4% Lincoln Gillian Merron Lab hold 11,130 23.9% 71.0% Liverpool, Garston Maria Eagle Lab hold 18,417 42.4% 65.0% Liverpool, Riverside Louise Ellman Lab hold 21,799 57.2% 51.6% Liverpool, Walton Peter Kilfoyle Lab hold 27,038 67.2% 59.5% Liverpool, Wavertree Jane Kennedy Lab hold 19,701 42.9% 62.7% Liverpool, West Derby Robert Wareing Lab hold 25,965 61.6% 61.3% Loughborough Andrew Reed Lab gain from Con 5,712 10.9% 75.9% Louth & Horncastle Peter Tapsell Con hold 6,900 13.8% 72.6% Ludlow Christopher Gill Con hold 5,909 12.8% 75.5% Luton North Kelvin Hopkins Lab gain from Con 9,626 20.3% 73.2% Luton South Margaret Moran Lab gain from Con 11,319 23.5% 70.4% Macclesfield Nicholas Winterton Con hold 8,654 16.0% 75.2% Maidenhead Theresa May Con hold 11,981 23.5% 75.6% Maidstone & The Weald Ann Widdecombe Con hold 9,603 17.9% 73.7% Makerfield Ian McCartney Lab hold 26,177 58.2% 66.8% Maldon & East Chelmsford John Whittingdale Con hold 10,039 19.9% 77.9% Manchester Central Tony Lloyd Lab hold 19,682 58.7% 51.7% Manchester, Blackley Graham Stringer Lab hold 19,588 54.8% 57.2% Manchester, Gorton Gerald Kaufman Lab hold 17,342 47.8% 55.6% Manchester, Withington Keith Bradley Lab hold 18,581 42.2% 65.8% Mansfield Alan Meale Lab hold 20,518 43.3% 70.7% Medway Robert Marshall-Andrews Lab gain from Con 5,354 12.0% 72.3% Meriden Caroline Spelman Con hold 582 1.1% 71.7% Mid Bedfordshire Jonathan Sayeed Con hold 7,090 13.5% 78.9% Mid Dorset & North Poole Christopher Fraser Con hold 681 1.3% 75.3% Mid Norfolk Keith Simpson Con hold 1,336 2.3% 76.3% Mid Sussex Nicholas Soames Con hold 6,854 12.8% 77.6% Mid Worcestershire Peter Luff Con hold 9,412 18.5% 74.3% Middlesbrough Stuart Bell Lab hold 25,018 54.3% 65.0% Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland Ashok Kumar Lab gain from Con 10,607 19.8% 76.0% Milton Keynes South West Phyllis Starkey Lab gain from Con 10,292 20.3% 71.4% Mitcham & Morden Siobhain McDonagh Lab gain from Con 13,741 28.7% 73.3% Mole Valley Paul Beresford Con hold 10,221 18.7% 78.4% Morecambe & Lunesdale Geraldine Smith Lab gain from Con 5,965 12.1% 72.3% Morley & Rothwell John Gunnell Lab hold 14,750 32.1% 67.1% New Forest East Julian Lewis Con hold 5,215 10.6% 74.6% New Forest West Desmond Swayne Con hold 11,332 22.8% 74.7%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Newark Fiona Jones Lab gain from Con 3,016 5.8% 74.4% Newbury David Rendel LDem gain from Con 8,517 15.1% 76.3% Newcastle upon Tyne Central Jim Cousins Lab hold 16,480 35.8% 65.9% Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend Nicholas Brown Lab hold 23,811 57.3% 65.7% Newcastle upon Tyne North Doug Henderson Lab hold 19,332 42.7% 69.2% Newcastle-under-Lyme Llin Golding Lab hold 17,206 35.0% 73.7% Normanton William O’Brien Lab hold 15,893 37.0% 68.3% North Cornwall Paul Tyler LDem hold 13,847 23.7% 73.0% North Devon Nick Harvey LDem hold 6,181 11.3% 77.7% North Dorset Robert Walter Con hold 2,746 5.2% 76.3% North Durham Giles Radice Lab hold 26,299 55.8% 69.2% North East Bedfordshire Nicholas Lyell Con hold 5,883 11.7% 77.2% North East Cambridgeshire Malcolm Moss Con hold 5,101 9.2% 72.6% North East Derbyshire Harry Barnes Lab hold 18,321 35.2% 72.5% North East Hampshire James Arbuthnot Con hold 14,398 28.2% 73.6% North East Hertfordshire Oliver Heald Con hold 3,088 5.9% 77.1% North East Milton Keynes Brian White Lab gain from Con 240 0.5% 72.8% North Essex Bernard Jenkin Con hold 5,476 10.7% 75.3% North Norfolk David Prior Con hold 1,293 2.2% 76.0% North Shropshire Owen Paterson Con hold 2,195 4.3% 72.6% North Southwark & Bermondsey Simon Hughes LDem hold 3,387 8.3% 60.4% North Swindon Michael Wills Lab hold 7,688 15.9% 73.7% North Thanet Roger Gale Con hold 2,766 5.7% 68.8% North Tyneside Stephen Byers Lab hold 26,643 59.0% 67.9% North Warwickshire Mike O’Brien Lab hold 14,767 27.2% 74.8% North West Cambridgeshire Brian Mawhinney Con hold 7,754 15.9% 74.2% North West Durham Hilary Armstrong Lab hold 24,754 53.4% 68.7% North West Hampshire George Young Con hold 11,551 21.1% 74.2% North West Leicestershire David Taylor Lab gain from Con 13,219 25.4% 80.0% North West Norfolk George Turner Lab gain from Con 1,339 2.3% 74.7% North Wiltshire James Gray Con hold 3,475 6.0% 74.9% Northampton North Sally Keeble Lab gain from Con 10,000 19.3% 70.1% Northampton South Tony Clark Lab gain from Con 744 1.3% 71.7% Northavon Steven Webb LDem gain from Con 2,137 3.4% 79.1% Norwich North Ian Gibson Lab gain from Con 9,470 17.2% 75.7% Norwich South Charles Clarke Lab hold 14,239 28.0% 72.6% Nottingham East John Heppell Lab hold 15,419 38.8% 60.5% Nottingham North Graham Allen Lab hold 18,801 45.4% 63.0% Nottingham South Alan Simpson Lab hold 13,364 27.5% 66.9% Nuneaton Bill Olner Lab hold 13,540 25.3% 74.4% Old Bexley & Sidcup Edward Heath Con hold 3,569 6.9% 75.5% Oldham East & Saddleworth Phil Woolas Lab gain from Con 3,389 6.3% 73.9% Oldham West & Royton Michael Meacher Lab hold 16,201 35.4% 66.1% Orpington John Horam Con hold 2,952 4.9% 76.3% Oxford East Andrew Smith Lab hold 16,665 34.8% 68.4% Oxford West & Abingdon Evan Harris LDem gain from Con 6,285 10.3% 78.0% Pendle Gordon Prentice Lab hold 10,824 23.0% 74.6% Penrith & The Border David Maclean Con hold 10,233 20.9% 73.6% Peterborough Helen Brinton Lab gain from Con 7,323 15.1% 72.8% Plymouth, Devonport David Jamieson Lab hold 19,067 36.7% 69.8%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Plymouth, Sutton Linda Gilroy Lab gain from Con 9,440 19.8% 67.4% Pontefract & Castleford Yvette Cooper Lab hold 25,725 62.1% 66.3% Poole Robert Syms Con hold 5,298 11.3% 71.0% Poplar & Canning Town Jim Fitzpatrick Lab hold 18,915 48.2% 57.7% Portsmouth North Syd Rapson Lab gain from Con 4,323 9.5% 70.1% Portsmouth South Mike Hancock LDem gain from Con 4,327 8.4% 63.8% Preston Audrey Wise Lab hold 18,680 38.9% 65.8% Pudsey Paul Truswell Lab gain from Con 6,207 11.8% 74.3% Putney Anthony Colman Lab gain from Con 2,976 6.8% 73.3% Rayleigh Michael Clark Con hold 10,684 20.8% 74.3% Reading East Jane Griffiths Lab gain from Con 3,795 7.6% 70.2% Reading West Martin Salter Lab gain from Con 2,997 6.2% 70.1% Redcar Marjorie Mowlam Lab hold 21,667 44.3% 71.0% Redditch Jacqui Smith Lab gain from Con 6,125 13.7% 73.4% Regent’s Park & Kensington North Karen Buck Lab hold 14,657 31.0% 68.4% Reigate Crispin Blunt Con hold 7,741 16.1% 74.4% Ribble Valley Nigel Evans Con hold 6,640 11.6% 78.5% Richmond William Hague Con hold 10,051 21.1% 73.4% Richmond Park Jenny Tonge LDem gain from Con 2,951 5.2% 79.0% Rochdale Lorna Fitzsimons Lab gain from LDem 4,545 9.5% 70.0% Rochford & Southend East Teddy Taylor Con hold 4,225 9.1% 63.7% Romford Eileen Gordon Lab gain from Con 649 1.5% 71.1% Romsey Michael Colvin Con hold 8,585 16.6% 76.4% Rossendale & Darwen Janet Anderson Lab hold 10,949 21.4% 73.0% Rother Valley Kevin Barron Lab hold 23,485 50.9% 67.2% Rotherham Denis MacShane Lab hold 21,469 57.0% 62.8% Rugby & Kenilworth Andrew King Lab gain from Con 495 0.8% 77.1% Ruislip - Northwood John Wilkinson Con hold 7,794 17.4% 74.2% Runnymede & Weybridge Philip Hammond Con hold 9,875 19.2% 71.5% Rushcliffe Kenneth Clarke Con hold 5,055 8.1% 78.8% Rutland & Melton Alan Duncan Con hold 8,836 16.8% 74.9% Ryedale John Greenway Con hold 5,058 10.4% 74.8% Saffron Walden Alan Haselhurst Con hold 10,573 18.5% 76.9% Salford Hazel Blears Lab hold 17,069 51.5% 56.3% Salisbury Robert Key Con hold 6,276 10.8% 73.6% Scarborough & Whitby Lawrie Quinn Lab gain from Con 5,124 9.4% 71.6% Scunthorpe Elliot Morley Lab hold 14,173 34.1% 68.8% Sedgefield Tony Blair Lab hold 25,143 53.4% 72.3% Selby John Grogan Lab gain from Con 3,836 6.8% 74.7% Sevenoaks Michael Fallon Con hold 10,461 20.9% 75.4% Sheffield Central Richard Caborn Lab hold 16,906 46.4% 53.0% Sheffield, Attercliffe Clive Betts Lab hold 21,818 49.2% 64.7% Sheffield, Brightside David Blunkett Lab hold 19,954 58.9% 57.5% Sheffield, Hallam Richard Allan LDem gain from Con 8,271 18.2% 72.4% Sheffield, Heeley Bill Michie Lab hold 17,078 39.5% 65.0% Sheffield, Hillsborough Helen Jackson Lab hold 16,451 31.0% 71.0% Sherwood Paddy Tipping Lab hold 16,812 29.7% 75.5% Shipley Christopher Leslie Lab gain from Con 2,996 5.7% 76.3% Shrewsbury & Atcham Paul Marsden Lab gain from Con 1,670 3.0% 75.2% Sittingbourne & Sheppey Derek Wyatt Lab gain from Con 1,929 4.2% 72.3%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Skipton & Ripon David Curry Con hold 11,620 21.4% 74.7% Sleaford & North Hykeham Douglas Hogg Con hold 5,123 9.6% 74.2% Slough Fiona Mactaggart Lab hold 13,071 27.4% 67.9% Solihull John M Taylor Con hold 11,397 19.3% 74.6% Somerton & Frome David Heath LDem gain from Con 130 0.2% 77.3% South Cambridgeshire Andrew Lansley Con hold 8,712 16.2% 76.1% South Derbyshire Mark Todd Lab gain from Con 13,967 23.3% 78.2% South Dorset Ian Bruce Con hold 77 0.2% 74.0% South East Cambridgeshire James Paice Con hold 9,349 16.5% 74.4% South East Cornwall Colin Breed LDem gain from Con 6,480 11.3% 75.7% South Holland & The Deepings John Hayes Con hold 7,991 15.9% 71.9% South Norfolk John MacGregor Con hold 7,378 11.9% 78.4% South Ribble David Borrow Lab gain from Con 5,084 9.2% 77.1% South Shields David Clark Lab hold 22,153 56.8% 62.5% South Staffordshire Patrick Cormack Con hold 7,821 15.3% 74.2% South Suffolk Tim Yeo Con hold 4,175 8.0% 77.2% South Swindon Julia Drown Lab gain from Con 5,645 11.0% 72.9% South Thanet Stephen Ladyman Lab gain from Con 2,878 6.4% 71.6% South West Bedfordshire David Madel Con hold 132 0.2% 75.8% South West Devon Gary Streeter Con hold 7,397 14.0% 76.2% South West Hertfordshire Richard Page Con hold 10,021 18.1% 76.7% South West Norfolk Gillian Shephard Con hold 2,464 4.2% 73.1% South West Surrey Virginia Bottomley Con hold 2,694 4.8% 77.5% Southampton, Itchen John Denham Lab hold 14,229 26.4% 70.0% Southampton, Test Alan Whitehead Lab hold 13,684 26.1% 71.8% Southend West David Amess Con hold 2,615 5.6% 69.9% Southport Ronnie Fearn LDem gain from Con 6,160 12.2% 72.1% Spelthorne David Wilshire Con hold 3,473 6.7% 73.6% St Albans Kerry Pollard Lab gain from Con 4,459 8.8% 77.5% St Helens North Dave Watts Lab hold 23,417 47.6% 68.9% St Helens South Gerry Bermingham Lab hold 23,739 53.6% 66.5% St Ives Andrew George LDem gain from Con 7,170 13.3% 75.2% Stafford David Kidney Lab gain from Con 4,314 8.3% 77.5% Staffordshire Moorlands Charlotte Atkins Lab hold 10,049 19.7% 77.8% Stalybridge & Hyde Tom Pendry Lab hold 14,806 34.4% 65.7% Stevenage Barbara Follett Lab gain from Con 11,582 22.5% 76.6% Stockport Ann Coffey Lab hold 18,912 40.5% 71.3% Stockton North Frank Cook Lab hold 21,357 48.0% 69.0% Stockton South Dari Taylor Lab gain from Con 11,585 22.2% 76.0% Stoke-on-Trent Central Mark Fisher Lab hold 19,924 49.5% 62.5% Stoke-on-Trent North Joan Walley Lab hold 17,392 45.0% 65.4% Stoke-on-Trent South George Stevenson Lab hold 18,303 39.6% 65.9% Stone Bill Cash Con hold 3,818 7.2% 78.3% Stourbridge Debra Shipley Lab gain from Con 5,645 11.4% 76.5% Stratford-on-Avon John Maples Con hold 14,106 22.7% 76.2% Streatham Keith Hill Lab hold 18,423 41.0% 60.2% Stretford & Urmston Beverley Hughes Lab hold 13,640 28.0% 69.7% Stroud David Drew Lab gain from Con 2,910 4.7% 78.8% Suffolk Coastal John Gummer Con hold 3,254 5.8% 75.8% Sunderland North Bill Etherington Lab hold 19,697 51.5% 59.1%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Sunderland South Chris Mullin Lab hold 19,638 49.2% 58.8% Surrey Heath Nick Hawkins Con hold 16,287 29.8% 74.1% Sutton & Cheam Paul Burstow LDem gain from Con 2,097 4.5% 75.0% Sutton Coldfield Norman Fowler Con hold 14,885 28.4% 72.9% Tamworth Brian Jenkins Lab gain from Con 7,496 15.0% 74.2% Tatton Martin Bell Ind gain from Con 11,077 22.7% 76.1% Taunton Jackie Ballard LDem gain from Con 2,443 4.0% 76.5% Teignbridge Patrick Nicholls Con hold 281 0.4% 76.7% Telford Bruce Grocott Lab hold 11,290 30.4% 65.6% Tewkesbury Lawrence Robertson Con hold 9,234 17.7% 76.2% Thurrock Andrew MacKinlay Lab hold 17,256 36.6% 65.8% Tiverton & Honiton Angela Browning Con hold 1,653 2.8% 77.6% Tonbridge & Malling John Stanley Con hold 10,230 20.8% 75.8% Tooting Tom Cox Lab hold 15,011 32.6% 69.3% Torbay Adrian Sanders LDem gain from Con 12 0.0% 73.8% Torridge & West Devon John Burnett LDem gain from Con 1,957 3.3% 77.9% Totnes Anthony Steen Con hold 877 1.6% 75.8% Tottenham Bernie Grant Lab hold 20,200 53.6% 56.9% Truro & St Austell Matthew Taylor LDem hold 12,501 22.0% 74.0% Tunbridge Wells Archie Norman Con hold 7,506 15.5% 74.1% Twickenham Vincent Cable LDem gain from Con 4,281 7.4% 79.0% Tyne Bridge David Clelland Lab hold 22,906 65.7% 57.1% Tynemouth Alan Campbell Lab gain from Con 11,273 22.0% 77.1% Upminster Keith Darvill Lab gain from Con 2,770 6.7% 72.8% Uxbridge Michael Shersby Con hold 724 1.7% 72.4% Vale of York Anne McIntosh Con hold 9,721 18.3% 76.0% Vauxhall Kate Hoey Lab hold 18,660 47.8% 55.5% Wakefield David Hinchcliffe Lab hold 14,604 28.9% 68.9% Wallasey Angela Eagle Lab hold 19,074 40.7% 73.8% Walsall North David Winnick Lab hold 12,588 29.1% 64.1% Walsall South Bruce George Lab hold 11,312 26.2% 67.3% Walthamstow Neil Gerrard Lab hold 17,149 42.8% 62.8% Wansbeck Dennis Murphy Lab hold 22,367 49.5% 71.6% Wansdyke Dan Norris Lab gain from Con 4,799 8.8% 79.0% Wantage Robert Jackson Con hold 6,089 10.9% 78.1% Warley John Spellar Lab hold 15,451 39.7% 65.0% Warrington North Helen Jones Lab hold 19,527 38.1% 70.4% Warrington South Helen Southworth Lab gain from Con 10,807 19.6% 76.0% Warwick & Leamington James Plaskitt Lab gain from Con 3,398 5.7% 75.1% Watford Claire Ward Lab gain from Con 5,792 10.5% 74.6% Waveney Robert Blizzard Lab gain from Con 12,093 21.5% 74.6% Wealden Geoffrey Johnson Smith Con hold 14,204 24.0% 73.7% Weaver Vale Mike Hall Lab hold 13,448 27.8% 73.0% Wellingborough Paul Stinchcombe Lab gain from Con 187 0.3% 74.8% Wells David Heathcoat-Amory Con hold 528 0.9% 77.8% Welwyn Hatfield Melanie Johnson Lab gain from Con 5,595 10.6% 78.6% Wentworth John Healey Lab hold 23,959 57.3% 65.3% West Bromwich East Peter Snape Lab hold 13,584 32.7% 65.4% West Bromwich West Betty Boothroyd Other gain from Lab 15,423 42.0% 54.4% West Chelmsford Simon Burns Con hold 6,691 11.4% 76.8%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent West Derbyshire Patrick McLoughlin Con hold 4,885 8.6% 78.2% West Dorset Oliver Letwin Con hold 1,840 3.4% 76.1% West Ham Tony Banks Lab hold 19,494 57.9% 58.5% West Lancashire Colin Pickthall Lab hold 17,119 31.3% 74.6% West Suffolk Richard Spring Con hold 1,867 3.8% 71.5% West Worcestershire Michael Spicer Con hold 3,846 7.8% 76.3% Westbury David Faber Con hold 6,088 10.7% 76.2% Westmorland & Lonsdale Tim Collins Con hold 4,521 8.9% 74.1% Weston-Super-Mare Brian Cotter LDem gain from Con 1,274 2.4% 73.6% Wigan Roger Stott Lab hold 22,643 51.7% 67.7% Wimbledon Roger Casale Lab gain from Con 2,990 6.2% 75.4% Winchester Mark Oaten LDem gain from Con 2 0.0% 78.3% Windsor Michael Trend Con hold 9,917 19.5% 73.5% Wirral South Ben Chapman Lab gain from Con 7,004 14.6% 81.1% Wirral West Stephen Hesford Lab gain from Con 2,738 5.8% 77.2% Witney Shaun Woodward Con hold 7,028 12.5% 76.7% Woking Humfrey Malins Con hold 5,678 11.2% 72.7% Wokingham John Redwood Con hold 9,365 18.7% 75.0% Wolverhampton North East Ken Purchase Lab hold 12,987 31.4% 67.1% Wolverhampton South East Dennis Turner Lab hold 15,182 43.6% 64.1% Wolverhampton South West Jenny Jones Lab gain from Con 5,118 10.5% 72.4% Woodspring Liam Fox Con hold 7,734 14.1% 78.4% Worcester Michael Foster Lab gain from Con 7,425 14.4% 74.6% Workington Dale Campbell-Savours Lab hold 19,656 39.8% 75.1% Worsley Terry Lewis Lab hold 17,741 37.9% 67.8% Worthing West Peter Bottomley Con hold 7,713 15.0% 71.8% Wrekin, The Peter Bradley Lab gain from Con 3,025 6.7% 75.2% Wycombe Ray Whitney Con hold 2,370 4.5% 71.1% Wyre Forest David Lock Lab gain from Con 6,946 12.6% 75.3% Wythenshawe & Sale East Paul Goggins Lab hold 15,019 33.0% 63.2% Yeovil Paddy Ashdown LDem hold 11,403 21.1% 72.7% York, City of Hugh Bayley Lab hold 20,523 35.2% 73.2%

Wales Aberavon John Morris Lab hold 21,571 60.0% 71.9% Alyn & Deeside Barry Jones Lab hold 16,403 39.1% 72.2% Blaenau Gwent Llew Smith Lab hold 28,035 70.7% 72.3% Brecon & Radnorshire Richard Livsey LDem gain from Con 5,097 11.9% 82.2% Bridgend Win Griffiths Lab hold 15,248 35.2% 72.3% Caernarfon Dafydd Wigley PC hold 7,449 21.6% 73.7% Caerphilly Ron Davies Lab hold 25,839 57.1% 70.1% Cardiff Central Jon Owen Jones Lab hold 7,923 18.8% 70.0% Cardiff North Julie Morgan Lab gain from Con 8,126 16.8% 80.2% Cardiff South & Penarth Alun Michael Lab hold 13,861 32.7% 68.3% Cardiff West Rhodri Morgan Lab hold 15,628 38.8% 69.2% Carmarthen East & Dinefwr Alan W Williams Lab hold 3,450 8.3% 78.6% Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire Nick Ainger Lab hold 9,621 22.6% 76.5% Ceredigion Cynog Dafis PC hold 6,961 17.3% 73.9% Clwyd South Martyn Jones Lab hold 13,810 35.1% 73.6% Clwyd West Gareth Thomas Lab gain from Con 1,848 4.6% 75.3%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Conwy Betty Williams Lab gain from Con 1,596 3.8% 75.4% Cynon Valley Ann Clwyd Lab hold 19,755 59.1% 69.2% Delyn David Hanson Lab hold 12,693 31.2% 75.9% Gower Martin Caton Lab hold 13,007 30.0% 75.1% Islwyn Don Touhig Lab hold 23,931 65.7% 72.0% Llanelli Denzil Davies Lab hold 16,039 38.9% 70.7% Meirionnydd Nant Conwy Elfyn Llwyd PC hold 6,805 27.7% 76.0% Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney Ted Rowlands Lab hold 27,086 69.2% 69.3% Monmouth Huw Edwards Lab gain from Con 4,178 8.5% 80.5% Montgomeryshire Lembit Opik LDem hold 6,303 19.7% 74.7% Neath Peter Hain Lab hold 26,741 64.8% 74.3% Newport East Alan Howarth Lab hold 13,523 36.3% 73.5% Newport West Paul Flynn Lab hold 14,537 36.2% 74.6% Ogmore Ray Powell Lab hold 24,447 64.2% 72.9% Pontypridd Kim Howells Lab hold 23,129 50.4% 71.4% Preseli Pembrokeshire Jackie Lawrence Lab gain from Con 8,736 20.6% 78.3% Rhondda Allan Rogers Lab hold 24,931 61.1% 71.5% Swansea East Donald Anderson Lab hold 25,569 66.1% 67.4% Swansea West Alan Williams Lab hold 14,459 35.7% 67.6% Torfaen Paul Murphy Lab hold 24,536 56.7% 71.7% Vale of Clwyd Chris Ruane Lab gain from Con 8,955 22.9% 74.6% Vale of Glamorgan John Smith Lab gain from Con 10,532 19.5% 80.0% Wrexham John Marek Lab hold 11,762 32.3% 71.8% Ynys-Mon Ieuan Wyn Jones PC hold 2,481 6.2% 74.9%

Scotland Aberdeen Central Frank Doran Lab hold 10,801 30.3% 65.5% Aberdeen North Malcolm Savidge Lab hold 10,010 26.1% 70.7% Aberdeen South Anne Begg Lab gain from Con 3,365 7.6% 72.8% Airdrie & Shotts Helen Liddell Lab hold 15,412 37.4% 71.4% Angus Andrew Welsh SNP hold 10,189 23.7% 72.1% Argyll & Bute Ray Michie LDem hold 6,081 17.0% 72.9% Ayr Sandra Osborne Lab hold 6,543 14.6% 80.0% Banff & Buchan Alex Salmond SNP hold 12,845 32.0% 68.7% Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross Robert Maclennan LDem hold 2,259 7.7% 70.0% Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley George Foulkes Lab hold 21,062 42.8% 75.0% Central Fife Henry McLeish Lab hold 13,713 33.6% 69.8% Clydebank & Milngavie Tony Worthington Lab hold 13,320 34.1% 75.0% Clydesdale Jimmy Hood Lab hold 13,809 30.4% 71.6% Coatbridge & Chryston Tom Clarke Lab hold 19,292 51.3% 72.3% Cumbernauld & Kilsyth Rosemary McKenna Lab hold 11,128 30.9% 75.0% Cunninghame North Brian Wilson Lab hold 11,039 26.8% 74.1% Cunninghame South Brian Donohoe Lab hold 14,869 42.0% 71.5% Dumbarton John McFall Lab hold 10,883 26.4% 73.4% Dumfries Russell Brown Lab gain from Con 9,643 19.5% 78.9% Dundee East John McAllion Lab hold 9,961 24.6% 69.3% Dundee West Ernie Ross Lab hold 11,859 30.6% 67.6% Dunfermline East Gordon Brown Lab hold 18,751 51.3% 70.2% Dunfermline West Rachel Squire Lab hold 12,354 33.9% 69.3% East Kilbride Adam Ingram Lab hold 17,384 35.6% 74.8%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent East Lothian John Home Robertson Lab hold 14,221 32.7% 75.5% Eastwood Jim Murphy Lab gain from Con 3,236 6.2% 78.3% Edinburgh Central Alistair Darling Lab hold 11,070 25.9% 67.1% Edinburgh East & Musselburgh Gavin Strang Lab hold 14,530 34.5% 70.6% Edinburgh North & Leith Malcolm Chisholm Lab hold 10,978 26.8% 66.5% Edinburgh Pentlands Lynda Clark Lab gain from Con 4,862 10.6% 76.7% Edinburgh South Nigel Griffiths Lab hold 11,452 25.5% 71.8% Edinburgh West Donald Gorrie LDem gain from Con 7,253 15.2% 77.9% Falkirk East Michael Connarty Lab hold 13,385 32.2% 73.2% Falkirk West Dennis Canavan Lab hold 13,783 35.9% 72.6% Galloway & Upper Nithsdale Alasdair Morgan SNP gain from Con 5,624 13.4% 79.7% Glasgow Anniesland Donald Dewar Lab hold 15,154 44.7% 63.8% Glasgow Baillieston James Wray Lab hold 14,840 46.6% 62.2% Glasgow Cathcart John Maxton Lab hold 12,965 38.8% 67.6% Glasgow Govan Mohammad Sarwar Lab hold 2,914 9.0% 64.5% Glasgow Kelvin George Galloway Lab hold 9,665 29.6% 56.1% Glasgow Maryhill Maria Fyfe Lab hold 14,264 48.0% 56.4% Glasgow Pollok Ian Davidson Lab hold 13,791 42.0% 66.5% Glasgow Rutherglen Thomas McAvoy Lab hold 15,007 42.2% 70.1% Glasgow Shettleston David Marshall Lab hold 15,868 59.2% 55.7% Glasgow Springburn Michael Martin Lab hold 17,326 54.9% 58.9% Gordon Malcolm Bruce LDem gain from Con 6,997 16.6% 71.9% Greenock & Inverclyde Norman Godman Lab hold 13,040 37.6% 70.8% Hamilton North & Bellshill John Reid Lab hold 17,067 44.9% 70.9% Hamilton South George Robertson Lab hold 15,878 48.0% 71.1% Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber David Stewart Lab gain from LDem 2,339 4.9% 72.7% Kilmarnock & Loudoun Desmond Browne Lab hold 7,256 15.3% 77.1% Kirkcaldy Lewis Moonie Lab hold 10,710 30.6% 66.9% Linlithgow Tam Dalyell Lab hold 10,838 27.3% 73.8% Livingston Robin Cook Lab hold 11,747 27.4% 71.0% Midlothian Eric Clarke Lab hold 9,870 28.0% 74.1% Moray Margaret Ewing SNP hold 5,566 14.0% 68.2% Motherwell & Wishaw Frank Roy Lab hold 12,791 34.9% 70.1% North East Fife Menzies Campbell LDem hold 10,356 24.8% 71.2% North Tayside John Swinney SNP gain from Con 4,160 9.1% 74.3% Ochil Martin O’Neill Lab hold 4,652 10.6% 77.4% Orkney & Shetland James Wallace LDem hold 6,968 33.7% 63.9% Paisley North Irene Adams Lab hold 12,814 37.5% 68.6% Paisley South Gordon McMaster Lab hold 12,750 34.1% 69.1% Perth Roseanna Cunningham SNP gain from Con 3,141 7.1% 73.9% Ross, Skye & Inverness West Charles Kennedy LDem hold 4,019 10.1% 71.6% Roxburgh & Berwickshire Archy Kirkwood LDem hold 7,906 22.6% 73.9% Stirling Anne McGuire Lab gain from Con 6,411 14.9% 81.8% Strathkelvin & Bearsden Sam Galbraith Lab hold 16,292 32.8% 78.8% Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale Michael Moore LDem hold 1,489 3.8% 76.3% West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine Robert Smith LDem gain from Con 2,662 6.2% 73.1% West Renfrewshire Thomas Graham Lab hold 7,979 20.1% 76.0% Western Isles Calum Macdonald Lab hold 3,576 22.2% 70.1%

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Summary of result by constituency Winning candidate Result Majority Turnout Votes Per cent Northern Ireland Belfast East Peter Robinson DUP hold 6,754 17.3% 63.2% Belfast North Cecil Walker UUP hold 13,024 31.4% 64.2% Belfast South Martin Smyth UUP hold 4,600 11.7% 62.2% Belfast West Gerry Adams SF gain from SDLP 7,909 17.2% 74.3% East Antrim Roy Beggs UUP hold 6,389 18.6% 58.3% East Londonderry William Ross UUP hold 3,794 10.0% 64.8% Fermanagh & South Tyrone Ken Maginnis UUP hold 13,688 28.3% 74.8% Foyle John Hume SDLP hold 13,664 28.6% 70.7% Lagan Valley Jeffrey Donaldson UUP hold 16,925 38.2% 62.2% Mid Ulster Martin McGuinness SF gain from DUP 1,883 3.7% 86.1% Newry & Armagh Seamus Mallon SDLP hold 4,889 9.2% 75.4% North Antrim Ian Paisley DUP hold 10,574 22.9% 63.8% North Down Robert McCartney UKUP gain from UPUP 1,449 4.0% 58.0% South Antrim Clifford Forsythe UUP hold 16,611 41.3% 57.9% South Down Eddie McGrady SDLP hold 9,933 20.1% 70.8% Strangford John Taylor UUP hold 5,852 14.1% 59.5% Upper Bann David Trimble UUP hold 9,252 19.4% 67.9% West Tyrone William Thompson UUP gain from DUP 1,161 2.5% 79.6%

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Table 19

Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

England Aldershot 23,119 13,057 16,498 1,477 54,151 Aldridge - Brownhills 21,856 19,330 5,184 46,370 Altrincham & Sale West 22,348 20,843 6,535 2,056 51,782 Amber Valley 18,330 29,943 4,219 2,283 54,775 Arundel & South Downs 27,251 9,376 13,216 1,494 51,337 Ashfield 10,251 32,979 4,882 2,491 50,603 Ashford 22,899 17,544 10,901 3,950 55,294 Ashton under Lyne 8,954 31,919 4,603 1,804 47,280 Aylesbury 25,426 12,759 17,007 2,362 57,554 Banbury 25,076 20,339 9,761 3,270 58,446 Barking 5,802 21,698 3,128 2,336 32,964 Barnsley Central 3,589 28,090 3,481 1,325 36,485 Barnsley East & Mexborough 4,936 31,699 4,489 2,211 43,335 Barnsley West & Penistone 7,750 25,017 7,613 1,828 42,208 Barrow & Furness 13,133 27,630 4,264 3,203 48,230 Basildon 16,366 29,646 4,608 2,462 53,082 Basingstoke 24,751 22,354 9,714 310 57,129 Bassetlaw 11,950 29,298 4,915 1,838 48,001 Bath 16,850 8,828 26,169 2,142 53,989 Batley & Spen 17,072 23,213 4,133 2,547 46,965 Battersea 18,687 24,047 3,482 1,181 47,397 Beaconsfield 24,709 10,063 10,722 4,707 50,201 Beckenham 23,084 18,131 9,858 3,277 54,350 Bedford 16,474 24,774 6,044 1,652 48,944 Berwick-upon-Tweed 10,056 10,965 19,007 1,775 41,803 Bethnal Green & Bow 9,412 20,697 5,361 9,212 44,682 Beverley & Holderness 21,629 20,418 9,689 806 52,542 Bexhill & Battle 23,570 8,866 12,470 4,088 48,994 Bexleyheath & Crayford 18,527 21,942 5,391 2,363 48,223 Billericay 22,033 20,677 8,763 3,947 55,420 Birkenhead 5,982 27,825 3,548 1,968 39,323 Birmingham, Edgbaston 18,712 23,554 4,691 1,508 48,465 Birmingham, Erdington 11,107 23,764 4,112 1,424 40,407 Birmingham, Hall Green 13,952 22,372 4,034 1,461 41,819 Birmingham, Hodge Hill 8,198 22,398 2,891 660 34,147 Birmingham, Ladywood 5,052 28,134 3,020 1,771 37,977 Birmingham, Northfield 10,873 22,316 4,078 1,580 38,847 Birmingham, Perry Barr 9,964 28,921 4,523 2,479 45,887 Birmingham, Selly Oak 14,033 28,121 6,121 2,275 50,550 Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath 7,315 26,841 3,889 3,720 41,765 Birmingham, Yardley 6,736 17,778 12,463 810 37,787 Bishop Auckland 9,295 30,359 4,293 2,104 46,051 Blaby 24,564 18,090 8,001 2,938 53,593 Blackburn 11,690 26,141 4,990 4,674 47,495 Blackpool North & Fleetwood 19,105 28,051 4,600 1,992 53,748 Blackpool South 17,666 29,282 4,392 51,340 Blaydon 6,048 27,535 10,930 1,412 45,925 Blyth Valley 5,666 27,276 9,540 42,482

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Table 19

Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Bognor Regis & Littlehampton 20,537 13,216 11,153 1,537 46,443 Bolsover 7,924 35,073 4,417 47,414 Bolton North East 14,952 27,621 4,862 1,772 49,207 Bolton South East 8,545 29,856 3,805 1,143 43,349 Bolton West 17,270 24,342 5,309 2,239 49,160 Bootle 3,247 31,668 2,191 1,117 38,223 Boston & Skegness 19,750 19,103 7,721 46,574 Bosworth 21,189 20,162 9,281 1,521 52,153 Bournemouth East 17,997 9,181 13,655 2,599 43,432 Bournemouth West 17,115 10,093 11,405 2,459 41,072 Bracknell 27,983 17,596 9,122 4,390 59,091 Bradford North 10,723 23,493 6,083 1,596 41,895 Bradford South 12,622 25,558 5,093 1,785 45,058 Bradford West 15,055 18,932 6,737 4,844 45,568 Braintree 22,278 23,729 6,418 3,151 55,576 Brent East 7,866 23,748 2,751 907 35,272 Brent North 15,324 19,343 3,104 403 38,174 Brent South 5,489 25,180 2,670 1,159 34,498 Brentford & Isleworth 17,825 32,249 4,613 1,448 56,135 Brentwood & Ongar 23,031 11,231 13,341 3,123 50,726 Bridgwater 20,174 13,519 18,378 2,551 54,622 Brigg & Goole 17,104 23,493 4,692 1,513 46,802 Brighton, Kemptown 17,945 21,479 4,478 2,230 46,132 Brighton, Pavilion 13,556 26,737 4,644 4,014 48,951 Bristol East 11,259 27,418 7,121 2,403 48,201 Bristol North West 16,193 27,575 7,263 4,214 55,245 Bristol South 10,562 29,890 6,691 2,716 49,859 Bristol West 20,575 22,068 17,551 2,447 62,641 Bromley & Chislehurst 24,428 13,310 12,530 2,470 52,738 Bromsgrove 24,620 19,775 6,200 1,662 52,257 Broxbourne 22,952 16,299 5,310 2,415 46,976 Broxtowe 21,768 27,343 6,934 2,092 58,137 Buckingham 24,594 12,208 12,175 421 49,398 Burnley 9,148 26,210 7,877 2,010 45,245 Burton 21,480 27,810 4,617 604 54,511 Bury North 20,657 28,523 4,536 1,337 55,053 Bury South 16,277 28,658 4,227 1,216 50,378 Bury St Edmunds 21,290 20,922 10,102 3,211 55,525 Calder Valley 19,795 26,050 8,322 2,299 56,466 Camberwell & Peckham 3,283 19,734 3,198 2,159 28,374 Cambridge 13,299 27,436 8,287 2,317 51,339 Cannock Chase 14,227 28,705 4,537 4,897 52,366 Canterbury 20,913 16,949 12,854 3,393 54,109 Carlisle 12,641 25,031 4,576 1,359 43,607 Carshalton & Wallington 16,223 11,565 18,490 2,145 48,423 Castle Point 19,462 20,605 4,477 4,001 48,545 Central Suffolk & North Ipswich 22,493 18,955 10,886 489 52,823 Charnwood 26,110 20,210 7,224 2,629 56,173 Chatham & Aylesford 18,401 21,191 7,389 2,180 49,161 Cheadle 22,944 8,253 19,755 1,511 52,463

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Table 19

Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Cheltenham 18,232 5,100 24,877 2,094 50,303 Chesham & Amersham 26,298 10,240 12,439 3,220 52,197 Chester, City of 19,253 29,806 5,353 1,845 56,257 Chesterfield 4,752 26,105 20,330 202 51,389 Chichester 25,895 9,605 16,161 4,118 55,779 Chingford & Woodford Green 21,109 15,395 6,885 1,059 44,448 Chipping Barnet 21,317 20,282 6,121 1,845 49,565 Chorley 20,737 30,607 4,900 1,462 57,706 Christchurch 26,095 3,884 23,930 2,290 56,199 Cities of London & Westminster 18,981 14,100 4,933 2,141 40,155 Cleethorpes 16,882 26,058 5,746 1,787 50,473 Colchester 16,305 15,891 17,886 1,924 52,006 Colne Valley 18,445 23,285 12,755 1,926 56,411 Congleton 22,012 14,713 15,882 811 53,418 Copeland 12,081 24,077 3,814 1,425 41,397 Corby 18,028 29,888 4,045 1,996 53,957 Cotswold 23,698 11,608 11,733 4,082 51,121 Coventry North East 9,287 31,856 3,866 3,076 48,085 Coventry North West 14,300 30,901 5,690 3,431 54,322 Coventry South 14,558 25,511 4,617 5,438 50,124 Crawley 16,043 27,750 4,141 2,483 50,417 Crewe & Nantwich 13,662 29,460 5,940 1,543 50,605 Crosby 15,367 22,549 5,080 1,145 44,141 Croydon Central 21,535 25,432 6,061 2,771 55,799 Croydon North 14,274 32,672 4,066 1,551 52,563 Croydon South 25,649 13,719 11,441 3,390 54,199 Dagenham 6,705 23,759 2,704 2,995 36,163 Darlington 13,633 29,658 3,483 1,399 48,173 Dartford 20,950 25,278 4,872 939 52,039 Daventry 28,615 21,237 9,233 2,665 61,750 Denton & Reddish 9,826 30,137 6,121 46,084 Derby North 19,229 29,844 5,059 2,011 56,143 Derby South 13,048 29,154 7,438 2,179 51,819 Devizes 25,710 14,551 15,928 3,847 60,036 Dewsbury 12,963 21,286 4,422 4,404 43,075 Don Valley 10,717 25,376 4,238 3,226 43,557 Doncaster Central 9,105 26,961 4,091 3,283 43,440 Doncaster North 5,906 27,843 3,369 2,770 39,888 Dover 17,796 29,535 4,302 2,567 54,200 Dudley North 15,014 24,471 3,939 4,384 47,808 Dudley South 14,097 27,124 5,214 1,467 47,902 Dulwich & West Norwood 11,038 27,807 4,916 1,854 45,615 Durham, City of 8,598 31,102 7,499 1,936 49,135 Ealing North 20,744 29,904 3,887 1,191 55,726 Ealing Southall 11,368 32,791 5,687 4,796 54,642 Ealing, Acton & Shepherd’s Bush 12,402 28,052 5,163 2,444 48,061 Easington 3,588 33,600 3,025 1,682 41,895 East Devon 22,797 9,292 15,303 5,153 52,545 East Ham 6,421 25,779 2,599 5,090 39,889 East Hampshire 27,927 9,945 16,337 3,919 58,128

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Table 19

Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

East Surrey 27,389 11,573 12,296 3,398 54,656 East Worthing & Shoreham 20,864 12,335 15,766 2,604 51,569 East Yorkshire 20,904 17,567 9,070 1,430 48,971 Eastbourne 22,183 6,576 20,189 3,719 52,667 Eastleigh 18,699 14,883 19,453 2,459 55,494 Eccles 8,552 30,468 4,905 1,765 45,690 Eddisbury 21,027 19,842 6,540 2,041 49,450 Edmonton 13,557 27,029 2,847 1,405 44,838 Ellesmere Port & Neston 15,275 31,310 4,673 1,305 52,563 Elmet 19,569 28,348 4,691 1,487 54,095 Eltham 13,528 23,710 3,701 2,489 43,428 Enfield North 17,326 24,148 4,264 1,931 47,669 Enfield, Southgate 19,137 20,570 4,966 1,860 46,533 Epping Forest 24,117 18,865 7,074 2,951 53,007 Epsom & Ewell 24,717 13,192 12,380 3,892 54,181 Erewash 22,061 31,196 5,181 1,900 60,338 Erith & Thamesmead 8,388 25,812 5,001 2,386 41,587 Esher & Walton 26,747 12,219 10,937 3,764 53,667 Exeter 17,693 29,398 11,148 3,625 61,864 Falmouth & Camborne 15,463 18,151 13,512 6,506 53,632 Fareham 24,436 14,078 10,234 3,429 52,177 Faversham & Mid Kent 22,016 17,843 6,138 3,609 49,606 Feltham & Heston 12,563 27,836 4,264 1,958 46,621 Finchley & Golders Green 19,991 23,180 5,670 1,465 50,306 Folkestone & Hythe 20,313 12,939 13,981 4,817 52,050 Forest of Dean 17,860 24,203 6,165 1,956 50,184 Fylde 25,443 16,480 7,609 2,535 52,067 Gainsborough 20,593 13,767 13,436 47,796 Gateshead East & Washington West 6,097 31,047 4,622 1,315 43,081 Gedling 20,588 24,390 5,180 2,006 52,164 Gillingham 18,207 20,187 9,649 2,640 50,683 Gloucester 20,684 28,943 6,069 2,218 57,914 Gosport 21,085 14,827 9,479 2,964 48,355 Grantham & Stamford 22,672 19,980 6,612 3,706 52,970 Gravesham 20,681 26,460 4,128 1,984 53,253 Great Grimsby 9,521 25,765 7,810 43,096 Great Yarmouth 17,416 26,084 5,381 48,881 Greenwich & Woolwich 7,502 25,630 5,049 2,222 40,403 Guildford 24,230 9,945 19,439 3,344 56,958 Hackney North & Stoke Newington 5,483 21,110 3,306 2,483 32,382 Hackney South & Shoreditch 4,494 20,048 5,058 4,162 33,762 Halesowen & Rowley Regis 16,029 26,366 4,169 2,197 48,761 Halifax 16,253 27,465 6,059 779 50,556 Haltemprice & Howden 21,809 11,701 14,295 1,745 49,550 Halton 7,847 31,497 3,263 1,832 44,439 Hammersmith & Fulham 21,420 25,262 4,728 2,616 54,026 Hampstead & Highgate 11,991 25,275 5,481 1,284 44,031 Harborough 22,170 13,332 15,646 1,859 53,007 Harlow 15,347 25,861 4,523 2,081 47,812 Harrogate & Knaresborough 18,322 4,151 24,558 614 47,645

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Table 19

Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Harrow East 20,189 29,923 4,697 2,172 56,981 Harrow West 20,571 21,811 8,127 1,997 52,506 Hartlepool 9,489 26,997 6,248 1,718 44,452 Harwich 19,524 20,740 7,037 6,213 53,514 Hastings & Rye 14,307 16,867 13,717 4,178 49,069 Havant 19,204 15,475 10,806 2,837 48,322 Hayes & Harlington 11,167 25,458 3,049 1,417 41,091 Hazel Grove 15,069 5,882 26,883 1,506 49,340 Hemel Hempstead 21,539 25,175 6,789 1,589 55,092 Hemsworth 8,096 32,088 4,033 1,260 45,477 Hendon 18,528 24,683 5,427 1,398 50,036 Henley 23,908 11,700 12,741 3,194 51,543 Hereford 18,550 6,596 25,198 2,209 52,553 Hertford & Stortford 24,027 17,142 9,679 3,723 54,571 Hertsmere 22,305 19,230 6,466 2,347 50,348 Hexham 17,701 17,479 7,959 2,532 45,671 Heywood & Middleton 11,637 29,179 7,908 1,826 50,550 High Peak 20,261 29,052 6,420 1,420 57,153 Hitchin & Harpenden 24,038 17,367 10,515 507 52,427 Holborn & St Pancras 6,804 24,707 4,758 1,736 38,005 Hornchurch 16,386 22,066 3,446 2,043 43,941 Hornsey & Wood Green 11,293 31,792 5,794 2,608 51,487 Horsham 29,015 10,691 14,153 3,306 57,165 Houghton & Washington East 5,391 31,946 3,209 1,277 41,823 Hove 17,499 21,458 4,645 4,519 48,121 Huddersfield 9,323 25,171 7,642 2,418 44,554 Huntingdon 31,501 13,361 8,390 3,711 56,963 Hyndburn 15,383 26,831 4,141 1,917 48,272 Ilford North 19,911 23,135 5,049 755 48,850 Ilford South 15,073 29,273 3,152 2,521 50,019 Ipswich 15,048 25,484 5,881 1,952 48,365 Isle of Wight 24,868 9,646 31,274 7,371 73,159 Islington North 4,631 24,834 4,879 1,516 35,860 Islington South & Finsbury 4,587 22,079 7,516 1,134 35,316 Jarrow 6,564 28,497 4,865 4,016 43,942 Keighley 18,907 26,039 5,064 1,470 51,480 Kensington & Chelsea 19,887 10,368 5,668 1,165 37,088 Kettering 24,461 24,650 6,098 1,748 56,957 Kingston & Surbiton 20,355 12,811 20,411 2,088 55,665 Kingston upon Hull East 5,552 28,870 3,965 2,099 40,486 Kingston upon Hull North 5,837 25,542 5,667 1,748 38,794 Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle 6,933 22,520 6,995 1,906 38,354 Kingswood 17,928 32,181 7,672 2,106 59,887 Knowsley North & Sefton East 8,600 34,747 5,499 857 49,703 Knowsley South 5,987 36,695 3,954 954 47,590 Lancaster & Wyre 23,878 25,173 6,802 3,009 58,862 Leeds Central 5,077 25,766 4,164 2,002 37,009 Leeds East 6,685 24,151 3,689 1,267 35,792 Leeds North East 15,409 22,368 6,318 1,414 45,509 Leeds North West 15,850 19,694 11,689 2,143 49,376

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Table 19

Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Leeds West 7,048 26,819 3,622 2,731 40,220 Leicester East 10,661 29,083 3,105 1,553 44,402 Leicester South 11,421 27,914 6,654 2,125 48,114 Leicester West 9,716 22,580 5,795 2,823 40,914 Leigh 7,156 31,652 5,163 1,949 45,920 Leominster 22,888 8,831 14,053 4,781 50,553 Lewes 19,950 5,232 21,250 2,737 49,169 Lewisham Deptford 4,949 23,827 3,004 1,864 33,644 Lewisham East 9,694 21,821 4,178 1,715 37,408 Lewisham West 8,956 23,273 3,672 1,663 37,564 Leyton & Wanstead 8,736 23,922 5,920 744 39,322 Lichfield 20,853 20,615 5,473 1,652 48,593 Lincoln 14,433 25,563 5,048 1,504 46,548 Liverpool, Garston 6,819 26,667 8,250 1,746 43,482 Liverpool, Riverside 3,635 26,858 5,059 2,583 38,135 Liverpool, Walton 2,551 31,516 4,478 1,662 40,207 Liverpool, Wavertree 4,944 29,592 9,891 1,491 45,918 Liverpool, West Derby 3,656 30,002 3,805 4,694 42,157 Loughborough 19,736 25,448 6,190 991 52,365 Louth & Horncastle 21,699 14,799 12,207 1,248 49,953 Ludlow 19,633 11,745 13,724 1,183 46,285 Luton North 16,234 25,860 4,299 939 47,332 Luton South 15,109 26,428 4,610 2,037 48,184 Macclesfield 26,888 18,234 9,075 54,197 Maidenhead 25,344 9,205 13,363 2,977 50,889 Maidstone & The Weald 23,657 14,054 11,986 3,911 53,608 Makerfield 6,942 33,119 3,743 1,210 45,014 Maldon & East Chelmsford 24,524 14,485 9,758 1,620 50,387 Manchester Central 3,964 23,803 4,121 1,649 33,537 Manchester, Blackley 5,454 25,042 3,937 1,323 35,756 Manchester, Gorton 4,249 23,704 6,362 1,996 36,311 Manchester, Withington 8,522 27,103 6,000 2,402 44,027 Mansfield 10,038 30,556 5,244 1,588 47,426 Medway 16,504 21,858 4,555 1,825 44,742 Meriden 22,997 22,415 7,098 2,208 54,718 Mid Bedfordshire 24,176 17,086 8,823 2,431 52,516 Mid Dorset & North Poole 20,632 8,014 19,951 2,136 50,733 Mid Norfolk 22,739 21,403 8,617 4,698 57,457 Mid Sussex 23,231 9,969 16,377 3,886 53,463 Mid Worcestershire 24,092 14,680 9,458 2,589 50,819 Middlesbrough 7,907 32,925 3,934 1,331 46,097 Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland 18,712 29,319 4,004 1,552 53,587 Milton Keynes South West 17,006 27,298 6,065 389 50,758 Mitcham & Morden 14,243 27,984 3,632 2,087 47,946 Mole Valley 26,178 8,057 15,957 4,332 54,524 Morecambe & Lunesdale 18,096 24,061 5,614 1,478 49,249 Morley & Rothwell 12,086 26,836 5,087 1,888 45,897 New Forest East 21,053 12,161 15,838 49,052 New Forest West 25,149 7,092 13,817 3,692 49,750 Newark 20,480 23,496 5,960 2,035 51,971

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Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Newbury 21,370 3,107 29,887 2,112 56,476 Newcastle upon Tyne Central 10,792 27,272 6,911 1,113 46,088 Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend 5,796 29,607 4,415 1,771 41,589 Newcastle upon Tyne North 8,793 28,125 6,578 1,733 45,229 Newcastle-under-Lyme 10,537 27,743 6,858 3,991 49,129 Normanton 10,153 26,046 5,347 1,458 43,004 North Cornwall 17,253 5,523 31,100 4,619 58,495 North Devon 21,643 5,347 27,824 54,814 North Dorset 23,294 5,380 20,548 3,365 52,587 North Durham 6,843 33,142 5,225 1,958 47,168 North East Bedfordshire 22,311 16,428 7,179 4,470 50,388 North East Cambridgeshire 23,855 18,754 9,070 3,746 55,425 North East Derbyshire 13,104 31,425 7,450 51,979 North East Hampshire 26,017 8,203 11,619 5,272 51,111 North East Hertfordshire 21,712 18,624 9,493 2,166 51,995 North East Milton Keynes 19,961 20,201 8,907 2,167 51,236 North Essex 22,480 17,004 10,028 1,697 51,209 North Norfolk 21,456 14,736 20,163 2,458 58,813 North Shropshire 20,730 18,535 10,489 1,764 51,518 North Southwark & Bermondsey 2,835 16,444 19,831 1,683 40,793 North Swindon 16,341 24,029 6,237 1,663 48,270 North Thanet 21,586 18,820 5,576 2,973 48,955 North Tyneside 6,167 32,810 4,762 1,382 45,121 North Warwickshire 16,902 31,669 4,040 1,628 54,239 North West Cambridgeshire 23,488 15,734 7,388 2,208 48,818 North West Durham 7,101 31,855 4,991 2,372 46,319 North West Hampshire 24,730 12,900 13,179 3,858 54,667 North West Leicestershire 16,113 29,332 4,492 2,088 52,025 North West Norfolk 23,911 25,250 5,513 2,923 57,597 North Wiltshire 25,390 8,261 21,915 2,447 58,013 Northampton North 17,247 27,247 6,579 625 51,698 Northampton South 23,470 24,214 6,316 3,105 57,105 Northavon 24,363 9,767 26,500 1,900 62,530 Norwich North 17,876 27,346 6,951 2,884 55,057 Norwich South 12,028 26,267 9,457 3,049 50,801 Nottingham East 9,336 24,755 4,008 1,645 39,744 Nottingham North 8,402 27,203 3,301 2,495 41,401 Nottingham South 13,461 26,825 6,265 1,969 48,520 Nuneaton 16,540 30,080 4,732 2,161 53,513 Old Bexley & Sidcup 21,608 18,039 8,284 3,460 51,391 Oldham East & Saddleworth 10,666 22,546 19,157 1,732 54,101 Oldham West & Royton 10,693 26,894 5,434 2,717 45,738 Orpington 24,417 10,753 21,465 3,527 60,162 Oxford East 10,540 27,205 7,038 3,094 47,877 Oxford West & Abingdon 19,983 12,361 26,268 2,584 61,196 Pendle 14,235 25,059 5,460 2,281 47,035 Penrith & The Border 23,300 10,576 13,067 2,018 48,961 Peterborough 17,042 24,365 5,170 1,850 48,427 Plymouth, Devonport 12,562 31,629 5,570 2,202 51,963 Plymouth, Sutton 14,441 23,881 6,613 2,717 47,652

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Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Pontefract & Castleford 5,614 31,339 3,042 1,401 41,396 Poole 19,726 10,100 14,428 2,556 46,810 Poplar & Canning Town 5,892 24,807 4,072 4,497 39,268 Portsmouth North 17,016 21,339 4,788 2,127 45,270 Portsmouth South 16,094 13,086 20,421 2,094 51,695 Preston 10,540 29,220 7,045 1,269 48,074 Pudsey 19,163 25,370 7,375 823 52,731 Putney 17,108 20,084 4,739 2,064 43,995 Rayleigh 25,516 14,832 10,137 829 51,314 Reading East 17,666 21,461 9,307 1,786 50,220 Reading West 18,844 21,841 6,153 1,551 48,389 Redcar 11,308 32,975 4,679 48,962 Redditch 16,155 22,280 4,935 1,378 44,748 Regent’s Park & Kensington North 13,710 28,367 4,041 1,226 47,344 Reigate 21,123 13,382 9,615 4,054 48,174 Ribble Valley 26,702 9,013 20,062 1,444 57,221 Richmond 23,326 13,275 8,773 2,367 47,741 Richmond Park 22,442 7,172 25,393 1,846 56,853 Rochdale 4,237 23,758 19,213 874 48,082 Rochford & Southend East 22,683 18,458 4,387 1,007 46,535 Romford 17,538 18,187 3,341 3,053 42,119 Romsey 23,834 9,623 15,249 3,115 51,821 Rossendale & Darwen 16,521 27,470 5,435 1,782 51,208 Rother Valley 7,699 31,184 5,342 1,932 46,157 Rotherham 5,383 26,852 3,919 1,496 37,650 Rugby & Kenilworth 25,861 26,356 8,737 251 61,205 Ruislip - Northwood 22,526 14,732 7,279 296 44,833 Runnymede & Weybridge 25,051 15,176 8,397 2,937 51,561 Rushcliffe 27,558 22,503 8,851 3,200 62,112 Rutland & Melton 24,107 15,271 10,112 3,140 52,630 Ryedale 21,351 8,762 16,293 2,377 48,783 Saffron Walden 25,871 12,275 15,298 3,606 57,050 Salford 5,779 22,848 3,407 1,088 33,122 Salisbury 25,012 10,242 18,736 4,249 58,239 Scarborough & Whitby 19,667 24,791 7,672 2,191 54,321 Scunthorpe 10,934 25,107 3,497 2,036 41,574 Sedgefield 8,383 33,526 3,050 2,157 47,116 Selby 22,002 25,838 6,778 1,698 56,316 Sevenoaks 22,776 12,315 12,086 2,972 50,149 Sheffield Central 4,341 23,179 6,273 2,626 36,419 Sheffield, Attercliffe 7,119 28,937 6,973 1,289 44,318 Sheffield, Brightside 2,850 24,901 4,947 1,167 33,865 Sheffield, Hallam 15,074 6,147 23,345 913 45,479 Sheffield, Heeley 6,767 26,274 9,196 1,029 43,266 Sheffield, Hillsborough 7,707 30,150 13,699 1,468 53,024 Sherwood 16,259 33,071 4,889 2,314 56,533 Shipley 19,966 22,962 7,984 1,960 52,872 Shrewsbury & Atcham 18,814 20,484 13,838 2,208 55,344 Sittingbourne & Sheppey 16,794 18,723 8,447 2,198 46,162 Skipton & Ripon 25,294 12,171 13,674 3,212 54,351

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Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Sleaford & North Hykeham 23,358 18,235 8,063 3,520 53,176 Slough 13,958 27,029 3,509 3,236 47,732 Solihull 26,299 14,334 14,902 3,371 58,906 Somerton & Frome 22,554 9,385 22,684 2,780 57,403 South Cambridgeshire 22,572 13,485 13,860 3,766 53,683 South Derbyshire 18,742 32,709 5,408 3,108 59,967 South Dorset 17,755 17,678 9,936 3,813 49,182 South East Cambridgeshire 24,397 15,048 14,246 3,116 56,807 South East Cornwall 20,564 7,358 27,044 2,466 57,432 South Holland & The Deepings 24,691 16,700 7,836 902 50,129 South Norfolk 24,935 16,188 17,557 3,417 62,097 South Ribble 20,772 25,856 5,879 2,724 55,231 South Shields 5,681 27,834 3,429 2,034 38,978 South Staffordshire 25,568 17,747 5,797 2,002 51,114 South Suffolk 19,402 15,227 14,395 2,951 51,975 South Swindon 18,298 23,943 7,371 1,550 51,162 South Thanet 17,899 20,777 5,263 1,049 44,988 South West Bedfordshire 21,534 21,402 7,559 2,369 52,864 South West Devon 22,659 15,262 12,542 2,318 52,781 South West Hertfordshire 25,462 15,441 12,381 2,127 55,411 South West Norfolk 24,694 22,230 8,178 3,694 58,796 South West Surrey 25,165 5,333 22,471 3,489 56,458 Southampton, Itchen 15,269 29,498 6,289 2,782 53,838 Southampton, Test 14,712 28,396 7,171 2,162 52,441 Southend West 18,029 10,600 15,414 2,471 46,514 Southport 18,186 6,129 24,346 1,939 50,600 Spelthorne 23,306 19,833 6,821 1,957 51,917 St Albans 16,879 21,338 10,692 1,896 50,805 St Helens North 8,536 31,953 6,270 2,472 49,231 St Helens South 6,628 30,367 5,919 1,344 44,258 St Ives 16,796 8,184 23,966 4,955 53,901 Stafford 20,292 24,606 5,480 1,394 51,772 Staffordshire Moorlands 16,637 26,686 6,191 1,603 51,117 Stalybridge & Hyde 10,557 25,363 5,169 1,992 43,081 Stevenage 16,858 28,440 4,588 1,500 51,386 Stockport 10,426 29,338 4,951 1,954 46,669 Stockton North 8,369 29,726 4,816 1,563 44,474 Stockton South 17,205 28,790 4,721 1,400 52,116 Stoke-on-Trent Central 6,738 26,662 4,809 2,036 40,245 Stoke-on-Trent North 7,798 25,190 4,141 1,537 38,666 Stoke-on-Trent South 10,342 28,645 4,710 2,539 46,236 Stone 24,859 21,041 6,392 782 53,074 Stourbridge 17,807 23,452 7,123 1,319 49,701 Stratford-on-Avon 29,967 12,754 15,861 3,517 62,099 Streatham 9,758 28,181 6,082 864 44,885 Stretford & Urmston 14,840 28,480 3,978 1,397 48,695 Stroud 23,260 26,170 9,502 2,415 61,347 Suffolk Coastal 21,696 18,442 12,036 4,082 56,256 Sunderland North 6,370 26,067 3,973 1,803 38,213 Sunderland South 7,536 27,174 4,606 609 39,925

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Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Surrey Heath 28,231 11,511 11,944 3,038 54,724 Sutton & Cheam 17,822 7,280 19,919 2,071 47,092 Sutton Coldfield 27,373 12,488 10,139 2,401 52,401 Tamworth 18,312 25,808 4,025 1,709 49,854 Tatton 18,277 30,515 48,792 Taunton 23,621 8,248 26,064 3,078 61,011 Teignbridge 24,679 11,311 24,398 2,557 62,945 Telford 10,166 21,456 4,371 1,119 37,112 Tewkesbury 23,859 13,665 14,625 52,149 Thurrock 12,640 29,896 3,843 833 47,212 Tiverton & Honiton 24,438 7,598 22,785 4,308 59,129 Tonbridge & Malling 23,640 13,410 9,467 2,712 49,229 Tooting 12,505 27,516 4,320 1,764 46,105 Torbay 21,082 7,923 21,094 3,223 53,322 Torridge & West Devon 22,787 7,319 24,744 4,295 59,145 Totnes 19,637 8,796 18,760 6,576 53,769 Tottenham 5,921 26,121 4,064 1,598 37,704 Truro & St Austell 15,001 8,697 27,502 5,547 56,747 Tunbridge Wells 21,853 9,879 14,347 2,275 48,354 Twickenham 21,956 9,065 26,237 886 58,144 Tyne Bridge 3,861 26,767 2,785 1,437 34,850 Tynemouth 17,045 28,318 4,509 1,281 51,153 Upminster 16,315 19,085 3,919 2,000 41,319 Uxbridge 18,095 17,371 4,528 1,551 41,545 Vale of York 23,815 14,094 12,656 2,700 53,265 Vauxhall 5,942 24,920 6,260 1,944 39,066 Wakefield 14,373 28,977 5,656 1,480 50,486 Wallasey 11,190 30,264 3,899 1,490 46,843 Walsall North 11,929 24,517 4,050 2,806 43,302 Walsall South 13,712 25,024 2,698 1,811 43,245 Walthamstow 8,138 25,287 5,491 1,139 40,055 Wansbeck 6,299 29,569 7,202 2,102 45,172 Wansdyke 19,318 24,117 9,205 2,082 54,722 Wantage 22,311 16,222 14,862 2,654 56,049 Warley 9,362 24,813 3,777 941 38,893 Warrington North 12,300 31,827 5,308 1,816 51,251 Warrington South 17,914 28,721 7,199 1,248 55,082 Warwick & Leamington 23,349 26,747 7,133 2,862 60,091 Watford 19,227 25,019 9,272 1,718 55,236 Waveney 19,393 31,486 5,054 318 56,251 Wealden 29,417 10,185 15,213 4,284 59,099 Weaver Vale 13,796 27,244 5,949 1,312 48,301 Wellingborough 24,667 24,854 5,279 1,489 56,289 Wells 22,208 10,204 21,680 2,288 56,380 Welwyn Hatfield 19,341 24,936 7,161 1,530 52,968 Wentworth 6,266 30,225 3,867 1,423 41,781 West Bromwich East 10,126 23,710 6,179 1,472 41,487 West Bromwich West 36,696 36,696 West Chelmsford 23,781 15,436 17,090 2,270 58,577 West Derbyshire 23,945 19,060 9,940 3,938 56,883

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Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

West Dorset 22,036 9,491 20,196 1,829 53,552 West Ham 5,037 24,531 2,479 1,614 33,661 West Lancashire 15,903 33,022 3,938 1,866 54,729 West Suffolk 20,081 18,214 6,892 3,895 49,082 West Worcestershire 22,223 7,738 18,377 1,006 49,344 Westbury 23,037 11,969 16,949 4,776 56,731 Westmorland & Lonsdale 21,463 10,452 16,942 1,924 50,781 Weston-Super-Mare 20,133 9,557 21,407 2,280 53,377 Wigan 7,400 30,043 4,390 1,986 43,819 Wimbledon 17,684 20,674 8,014 1,972 48,344 Winchester 26,098 6,528 26,100 3,328 62,054 Windsor 24,476 9,287 14,559 2,459 50,781 Wirral South 17,495 24,499 5,018 1,083 48,095 Wirral West 18,297 21,035 5,945 1,613 46,890 Witney 24,282 17,254 11,202 3,663 56,401 Woking 19,553 10,695 13,875 6,791 50,914 Wokingham 25,086 8,424 15,721 877 50,108 Wolverhampton North East 11,547 24,534 2,214 3,108 41,403 Wolverhampton South East 7,020 22,202 3,292 2,316 34,830 Wolverhampton South West 19,539 24,657 4,012 713 48,921 Woodspring 24,425 11,377 16,691 2,461 54,954 Worcester 18,423 25,848 6,462 886 51,619 Workington 12,061 31,717 3,967 1,629 49,374 Worsley 11,342 29,083 6,356 46,781 Worthing West 23,733 8,347 16,020 3,342 51,442 Wrekin, The 18,218 21,243 5,807 45,268 Wycombe 20,890 18,520 9,678 3,231 52,319 Wyre Forest 19,897 26,843 4,377 3,938 55,055 Wythenshawe & Sale East 11,429 26,448 5,639 2,017 45,533 Yeovil 14,946 8,053 26,349 4,705 54,053 York, City of 14,433 34,956 6,537 2,419 58,345

Wales Aberavon 2,835 25,650 4,079 2,088 1,311 35,963 Alyn & Deeside 9,552 25,955 4,076 738 1,627 41,948 Blaenau Gwent 2,607 31,493 3,458 2,072 39,630 Brecon & Radnorshire 12,419 11,424 17,516 622 900 42,881 Bridgend 9,867 25,115 4,968 1,649 1,662 43,261 Caernarfon 4,230 10,167 1,686 17,616 811 34,510 Caerphilly 4,858 30,697 3,724 4,383 1,607 45,269 Cardiff Central 8,470 18,464 10,541 1,504 3,274 42,253 Cardiff North 16,334 24,460 5,294 1,201 1,199 48,488 Cardiff South & Penarth 8,786 22,647 3,964 1,356 5,667 42,420 Cardiff West 8,669 24,297 4,366 1,949 996 40,277 Carmarthen East & Dinefwr 5,022 17,907 3,150 14,457 1,196 41,732 Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire 11,335 20,956 3,516 5,402 1,432 42,641 Ceredigion 5,983 9,767 6,616 16,728 1,092 40,186 Clwyd South 9,091 22,901 3,684 2,500 1,207 39,383 Clwyd West 13,070 14,918 5,151 5,421 1,697 40,257 Conwy 10,085 14,561 12,965 2,844 1,105 41,560

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Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Cynon Valley 2,260 23,307 3,459 3,552 844 33,422 Delyn 10,607 23,300 4,160 1,558 1,117 40,742 Gower 10,306 23,313 5,624 2,226 1,867 43,336 Islwyn 2,864 26,995 3,064 2,272 1,209 36,404 Llanelli 5,003 23,851 3,788 7,812 757 41,211 Meirionnydd Nant Conwy 3,922 5,660 1,719 12,465 809 24,575 Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney 2,508 30,012 2,926 2,344 1,351 39,141 Monmouth 19,226 23,404 4,689 516 1,190 49,025 Montgomeryshire 8,344 6,109 14,647 1,608 1,217 31,925 Neath 3,583 30,324 2,597 3,344 1,395 41,243 Newport East 7,958 21,481 3,880 721 3,218 37,258 Newport West 9,794 24,331 3,907 648 1,522 40,202 Ogmore 3,716 28,163 3,510 2,679 38,068 Pontypridd 5,910 29,290 6,161 2,977 1,517 45,855 Preseli Pembrokeshire 11,741 20,477 5,527 2,683 1,975 42,403 Rhondda 1,551 30,381 2,307 5,450 1,118 40,807 Swansea East 3,582 29,151 3,440 1,308 1,193 38,674 Swansea West 8,289 22,748 5,872 2,675 885 40,469 Torfaen 5,327 29,863 5,249 1,042 1,764 43,245 Vale of Clwyd 11,662 20,617 3,425 2,301 1,127 39,132 Vale of Glamorgan 18,522 29,054 4,945 1,393 53,914 Wrexham 8,688 20,450 4,833 1,170 1,281 36,422 Ynys-Mon 8,569 13,275 1,537 15,756 793 39,930

Scotland Aberdeen Central 6,944 17,745 4,714 5,767 446 35,616 Aberdeen North 5,763 18,389 5,421 8,379 463 38,415 Aberdeen South 11,621 15,541 12,176 4,299 425 44,062 Airdrie & Shotts 3,660 25,460 1,719 10,048 294 41,181 Angus 10,603 6,733 4,065 20,792 883 43,076 Argyll & Bute 6,774 5,596 14,359 8,278 713 35,720 Ayr 15,136 21,679 2,116 5,625 200 44,756 Banff & Buchan 9,564 4,747 2,398 22,409 1,060 40,178 Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross 3,148 8,122 10,381 6,710 811 29,172 Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley 8,336 29,398 2,613 8,190 634 49,171 Central Fife 3,669 23,912 2,610 10,199 375 40,765 Clydebank & Milngavie 4,885 21,583 4,086 8,263 269 39,086 Clydesdale 7,396 23,859 3,796 10,050 311 45,412 Coatbridge & Chryston 3,216 25,694 2,048 6,402 249 37,609 Cumbernauld & Kilsyth 2,441 21,141 1,368 10,013 1,061 36,024 Cunninghame North 9,647 20,686 2,271 7,584 941 41,129 Cunninghame South 3,571 22,233 1,604 7,364 672 35,444 Dumbarton 7,283 20,470 3,144 9,587 780 41,264 Dumfries 13,885 23,528 5,487 5,977 650 49,527 Dundee East 6,397 20,718 1,677 10,757 979 40,528 Dundee West 5,105 20,875 2,972 9,016 839 38,807 Dunfermline East 3,656 24,441 2,164 5,690 632 36,583 Dunfermline West 4,606 19,338 4,963 6,984 543 36,434 East Kilbride 5,863 27,584 3,527 10,200 1,622 48,796 East Lothian 8,660 22,881 4,575 6,825 491 43,432

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Votes by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Eastwood 17,530 20,766 6,110 6,826 1,020 52,252 Edinburgh Central 9,055 20,125 5,605 6,750 1,200 42,735 Edinburgh East & Musselburgh 6,483 22,564 4,511 8,034 526 42,118 Edinburgh North & Leith 7,312 19,209 5,335 8,231 858 40,945 Edinburgh Pentlands 14,813 19,675 4,575 5,952 727 45,742 Edinburgh South 9,541 20,993 7,911 5,791 602 44,838 Edinburgh West 13,325 8,948 20,578 4,210 570 47,631 Falkirk East 5,813 23,344 2,153 9,959 325 41,594 Falkirk West 4,639 22,772 1,970 8,989 38,370 Galloway & Upper Nithsdale 12,825 6,861 2,700 18,449 1,183 42,018 Glasgow Anniesland 3,881 20,951 2,453 5,797 797 33,879 Glasgow Baillieston 2,468 20,925 1,217 6,085 1,158 31,853 Glasgow Cathcart 4,248 19,158 2,302 6,193 1,489 33,390 Glasgow Govan 2,839 14,216 1,918 11,302 1,970 32,245 Glasgow Kelvin 3,539 16,643 4,629 6,978 865 32,654 Glasgow Maryhill 1,747 19,301 2,119 5,037 1,517 29,721 Glasgow Pollok 1,979 19,653 1,137 5,862 4,171 32,802 Glasgow Rutherglen 3,288 20,430 5,167 5,423 1,213 35,521 Glasgow Shettleston 1,484 19,616 1,061 3,748 904 26,813 Glasgow Springburn 1,893 22,534 1,349 5,208 593 31,577 Gordon 11,002 4,350 17,999 8,435 459 42,245 Greenock & Inverclyde 3,976 19,480 4,791 6,440 34,687 Hamilton North & Bellshill 3,944 24,322 1,924 7,255 554 37,999 Hamilton South 2,858 21,709 1,693 5,831 1,000 33,091 Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber 8,355 16,187 8,364 13,848 1,014 47,768 Kilmarnock & Loudoun 5,125 23,621 1,891 16,365 407 47,409 Kirkcaldy 4,779 18,730 3,031 8,020 413 34,973 Linlithgow 4,964 21,469 2,331 10,631 259 39,654 Livingston 4,028 23,510 2,876 11,763 657 42,834 Midlothian 3,842 18,861 3,235 8,991 320 35,249 Moray 10,963 7,886 3,548 16,529 840 39,766 Motherwell & Wishaw 4,024 21,020 2,331 8,229 1,015 36,619 North East Fife 11,076 4,301 21,432 4,545 485 41,839 North Tayside 16,287 5,141 3,716 20,447 45,591 Ochil 6,383 19,707 2,262 15,055 379 43,786 Orkney & Shetland 2,527 3,775 10,743 2,624 996 20,665 Paisley North 3,267 20,295 2,365 7,481 727 34,135 Paisley South 3,237 21,482 3,500 8,732 400 37,351 Perth 13,068 11,036 3,583 16,209 655 44,551 Ross, Skye & Inverness West 4,368 11,453 15,472 7,821 841 39,955 Roxburgh & Berwickshire 8,337 5,226 16,243 3,959 1,166 34,931 Stirling 13,971 20,382 2,675 5,752 178 42,958 Strathkelvin & Bearsden 9,986 26,278 4,843 8,111 494 49,712 Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale 8,623 10,689 12,178 6,671 840 39,001 West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine 15,080 3,923 17,742 5,649 808 43,202 West Renfrewshire 7,387 18,525 3,045 10,546 283 39,786 Western Isles 1,071 8,955 495 5,379 206 16,106

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Votes by party and constituency Alliance DUP SDLP SF UKUP UU Others Total Northern Ireland Belfast East 9,288 16,640 629 810 9,886 1,776 39,029 Belfast North 2,221 8,454 8,375 21,478 924 41,452 Belfast South 5,112 9,601 2,019 14,201 8,551 39,484 Belfast West 17,753 25,662 1,556 914 45,885 East Antrim 6,929 6,682 1,576 543 13,318 5,299 34,347 East Londonderry 2,427 9,764 8,273 3,463 13,558 617 38,102 Fermanagh & South Tyrone 977 11,060 11,174 24,862 217 48,290 Foyle 817 10,290 25,109 11,445 154 47,815 Lagan Valley 7,635 6,005 3,436 1,110 24,560 1,564 44,310 Mid Ulster 460 18,411 11,205 20,294 299 50,669 Newry & Armagh 1,015 22,904 11,218 18,015 123 53,275 North Antrim 2,845 21,495 7,333 2,896 10,921 696 46,186 North Down 7,554 1,602 12,817 11,368 3,215 36,556 South Antrim 4,668 6,497 2,229 23,108 3,693 40,195 South Down 1,711 26,181 5,127 16,248 219 49,486 Strangford 5,467 12,579 2,775 503 18,431 1,864 41,619 Upper Bann 3,017 5,482 11,584 5,773 20,836 1,095 47,787 West Tyrone 829 14,842 14,280 16,003 321 46,275

Tatton was won by Martin Bell standing as an Independent with 29,354 votes West Bromwich West was won by The Speaker with 23,969 votes

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

England Aldershot 42.7% 24.1% 30.5% 2.7% 100.0% Aldridge - Brownhills 47.1% 41.7% 11.2% 0.0% 100.0% Altrincham & Sale West 43.2% 40.3% 12.6% 4.0% 100.0% Amber Valley 33.5% 54.7% 7.7% 4.2% 100.0% Arundel & South Downs 53.1% 18.3% 25.7% 2.9% 100.0% Ashfield 20.3% 65.2% 9.6% 4.9% 100.0% Ashford 41.4% 31.7% 19.7% 7.1% 100.0% Ashton under Lyne 18.9% 67.5% 9.7% 3.8% 100.0% Aylesbury 44.2% 22.2% 29.5% 4.1% 100.0% Banbury 42.9% 34.8% 16.7% 5.6% 100.0% Barking 17.6% 65.8% 9.5% 7.1% 100.0% Barnsley Central 9.8% 77.0% 9.5% 3.6% 100.0% Barnsley East & Mexborough 11.4% 73.1% 10.4% 5.1% 100.0% Barnsley West & Penistone 18.4% 59.3% 18.0% 4.3% 100.0% Barrow & Furness 27.2% 57.3% 8.8% 6.6% 100.0% Basildon 30.8% 55.8% 8.7% 4.6% 100.0% Basingstoke 43.3% 39.1% 17.0% 0.5% 100.0% Bassetlaw 24.9% 61.0% 10.2% 3.8% 100.0% Bath 31.2% 16.4% 48.5% 4.0% 100.0% Batley & Spen 36.4% 49.4% 8.8% 5.4% 100.0% Battersea 39.4% 50.7% 7.3% 2.5% 100.0% Beaconsfield 49.2% 20.0% 21.4% 9.4% 100.0% Beckenham 42.5% 33.4% 18.1% 6.0% 100.0% Bedford 33.7% 50.6% 12.3% 3.4% 100.0% Berwick-upon-Tweed 24.1% 26.2% 45.5% 4.2% 100.0% Bethnal Green & Bow 21.1% 46.3% 12.0% 20.6% 100.0% Beverley & Holderness 41.2% 38.9% 18.4% 1.5% 100.0% Bexhill & Battle 48.1% 18.1% 25.5% 8.3% 100.0% Bexleyheath & Crayford 38.4% 45.5% 11.2% 4.9% 100.0% Billericay 39.8% 37.3% 15.8% 7.1% 100.0% Birkenhead 15.2% 70.8% 9.0% 5.0% 100.0% Birmingham, Edgbaston 38.6% 48.6% 9.7% 3.1% 100.0% Birmingham, Erdington 27.5% 58.8% 10.2% 3.5% 100.0% Birmingham, Hall Green 33.4% 53.5% 9.6% 3.5% 100.0% Birmingham, Hodge Hill 24.0% 65.6% 8.5% 1.9% 100.0% Birmingham, Ladywood 13.3% 74.1% 8.0% 4.7% 100.0% Birmingham, Northfield 28.0% 57.4% 10.5% 4.1% 100.0% Birmingham, Perry Barr 21.7% 63.0% 9.9% 5.4% 100.0% Birmingham, Selly Oak 27.8% 55.6% 12.1% 4.5% 100.0% Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath 17.5% 64.3% 9.3% 8.9% 100.0% Birmingham, Yardley 17.8% 47.0% 33.0% 2.1% 100.0% Bishop Auckland 20.2% 65.9% 9.3% 4.6% 100.0% Blaby 45.8% 33.8% 14.9% 5.5% 100.0% Blackburn 24.6% 55.0% 10.5% 9.8% 100.0% Blackpool North & Fleetwood 35.5% 52.2% 8.6% 3.7% 100.0% Blackpool South 34.4% 57.0% 8.6% 0.0% 100.0% Blaydon 13.2% 60.0% 23.8% 3.1% 100.0% Blyth Valley 13.3% 64.2% 22.5% 0.0% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Bognor Regis & Littlehampton 44.2% 28.5% 24.0% 3.3% 100.0% Bolsover 16.7% 74.0% 9.3% 0.0% 100.0% Bolton North East 30.4% 56.1% 9.9% 3.6% 100.0% Bolton South East 19.7% 68.9% 8.8% 2.6% 100.0% Bolton West 35.1% 49.5% 10.8% 4.6% 100.0% Bootle 8.5% 82.9% 5.7% 2.9% 100.0% Boston & Skegness 42.4% 41.0% 16.6% 0.0% 100.0% Bosworth 40.6% 38.7% 17.8% 2.9% 100.0% Bournemouth East 41.4% 21.1% 31.4% 6.0% 100.0% Bournemouth West 41.7% 24.6% 27.8% 6.0% 100.0% Bracknell 47.4% 29.8% 15.4% 7.4% 100.0% Bradford North 25.6% 56.1% 14.5% 3.8% 100.0% Bradford South 28.0% 56.7% 11.3% 4.0% 100.0% Bradford West 33.0% 41.5% 14.8% 10.6% 100.0% Braintree 40.1% 42.7% 11.5% 5.7% 100.0% Brent East 22.3% 67.3% 7.8% 2.6% 100.0% Brent North 40.1% 50.7% 8.1% 1.1% 100.0% Brent South 15.9% 73.0% 7.7% 3.4% 100.0% Brentford & Isleworth 31.8% 57.4% 8.2% 2.6% 100.0% Brentwood & Ongar 45.4% 22.1% 26.3% 6.2% 100.0% Bridgwater 36.9% 24.8% 33.6% 4.7% 100.0% Brigg & Goole 36.5% 50.2% 10.0% 3.2% 100.0% Brighton, Kemptown 38.9% 46.6% 9.7% 4.8% 100.0% Brighton, Pavilion 27.7% 54.6% 9.5% 8.2% 100.0% Bristol East 23.4% 56.9% 14.8% 5.0% 100.0% Bristol North West 29.3% 49.9% 13.1% 7.6% 100.0% Bristol South 21.2% 59.9% 13.4% 5.4% 100.0% Bristol West 32.8% 35.2% 28.0% 3.9% 100.0% Bromley & Chislehurst 46.3% 25.2% 23.8% 4.7% 100.0% Bromsgrove 47.1% 37.8% 11.9% 3.2% 100.0% Broxbourne 48.9% 34.7% 11.3% 5.1% 100.0% Broxtowe 37.4% 47.0% 11.9% 3.6% 100.0% Buckingham 49.8% 24.7% 24.6% 0.9% 100.0% Burnley 20.2% 57.9% 17.4% 4.4% 100.0% Burton 39.4% 51.0% 8.5% 1.1% 100.0% Bury North 37.5% 51.8% 8.2% 2.4% 100.0% Bury South 32.3% 56.9% 8.4% 2.4% 100.0% Bury St Edmunds 38.3% 37.7% 18.2% 5.8% 100.0% Calder Valley 35.1% 46.1% 14.7% 4.1% 100.0% Camberwell & Peckham 11.6% 69.5% 11.3% 7.6% 100.0% Cambridge 25.9% 53.4% 16.1% 4.5% 100.0% Cannock Chase 27.2% 54.8% 8.7% 9.4% 100.0% Canterbury 38.6% 31.3% 23.8% 6.3% 100.0% Carlisle 29.0% 57.4% 10.5% 3.1% 100.0% Carshalton & Wallington 33.5% 23.9% 38.2% 4.4% 100.0% Castle Point 40.1% 42.4% 9.2% 8.2% 100.0% Central Suffolk & North Ipswich 42.6% 35.9% 20.6% 0.9% 100.0% Charnwood 46.5% 36.0% 12.9% 4.7% 100.0% Chatham & Aylesford 37.4% 43.1% 15.0% 4.4% 100.0% Cheadle 43.7% 15.7% 37.7% 2.9% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Cheltenham 36.2% 10.1% 49.5% 4.2% 100.0% Chesham & Amersham 50.4% 19.6% 23.8% 6.2% 100.0% Chester, City of 34.2% 53.0% 9.5% 3.3% 100.0% Chesterfield 9.2% 50.8% 39.6% 0.4% 100.0% Chichester 46.4% 17.2% 29.0% 7.4% 100.0% Chingford & Woodford Green 47.5% 34.6% 15.5% 2.4% 100.0% Chipping Barnet 43.0% 40.9% 12.3% 3.7% 100.0% Chorley 35.9% 53.0% 8.5% 2.5% 100.0% Christchurch 46.4% 6.9% 42.6% 4.1% 100.0% Cities of London & Westminster 47.3% 35.1% 12.3% 5.3% 100.0% Cleethorpes 33.4% 51.6% 11.4% 3.5% 100.0% Colchester 31.4% 30.6% 34.4% 3.7% 100.0% Colne Valley 32.7% 41.3% 22.6% 3.4% 100.0% Congleton 41.2% 27.5% 29.7% 1.5% 100.0% Copeland 29.2% 58.2% 9.2% 3.4% 100.0% Corby 33.4% 55.4% 7.5% 3.7% 100.0% Cotswold 46.4% 22.7% 23.0% 8.0% 100.0% Coventry North East 19.3% 66.2% 8.0% 6.4% 100.0% Coventry North West 26.3% 56.9% 10.5% 6.3% 100.0% Coventry South 29.0% 50.9% 9.2% 10.8% 100.0% Crawley 31.8% 55.0% 8.2% 4.9% 100.0% Crewe & Nantwich 27.0% 58.2% 11.7% 3.0% 100.0% Crosby 34.8% 51.1% 11.5% 2.6% 100.0% Croydon Central 38.6% 45.6% 10.9% 5.0% 100.0% Croydon North 27.2% 62.2% 7.7% 3.0% 100.0% Croydon South 47.3% 25.3% 21.1% 6.3% 100.0% Dagenham 18.5% 65.7% 7.5% 8.3% 100.0% Darlington 28.3% 61.6% 7.2% 2.9% 100.0% Dartford 40.3% 48.6% 9.4% 1.8% 100.0% Daventry 46.3% 34.4% 15.0% 4.3% 100.0% Denton & Reddish 21.3% 65.4% 13.3% 0.0% 100.0% Derby North 34.3% 53.2% 9.0% 3.6% 100.0% Derby South 25.2% 56.3% 14.4% 4.2% 100.0% Devizes 42.8% 24.2% 26.5% 6.4% 100.0% Dewsbury 30.1% 49.4% 10.3% 10.2% 100.0% Don Valley 24.6% 58.3% 9.7% 7.4% 100.0% Doncaster Central 21.0% 62.1% 9.4% 7.6% 100.0% Doncaster North 14.8% 69.8% 8.4% 6.9% 100.0% Dover 32.8% 54.5% 7.9% 4.7% 100.0% Dudley North 31.4% 51.2% 8.2% 9.2% 100.0% Dudley South 29.4% 56.6% 10.9% 3.1% 100.0% Dulwich & West Norwood 24.2% 61.0% 10.8% 4.1% 100.0% Durham, City of 17.5% 63.3% 15.3% 3.9% 100.0% Ealing North 37.2% 53.7% 7.0% 2.1% 100.0% Ealing Southall 20.8% 60.0% 10.4% 8.8% 100.0% Ealing, Acton & Shepherd’s Bush 25.8% 58.4% 10.7% 5.1% 100.0% Easington 8.6% 80.2% 7.2% 4.0% 100.0% East Devon 43.4% 17.7% 29.1% 9.8% 100.0% East Ham 16.1% 64.6% 6.5% 12.8% 100.0% East Hampshire 48.0% 17.1% 28.1% 6.7% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

East Surrey 50.1% 21.2% 22.5% 6.2% 100.0% East Worthing & Shoreham 40.5% 23.9% 30.6% 5.0% 100.0% East Yorkshire 42.7% 35.9% 18.5% 2.9% 100.0% Eastbourne 42.1% 12.5% 38.3% 7.1% 100.0% Eastleigh 33.7% 26.8% 35.1% 4.4% 100.0% Eccles 18.7% 66.7% 10.7% 3.9% 100.0% Eddisbury 42.5% 40.1% 13.2% 4.1% 100.0% Edmonton 30.2% 60.3% 6.3% 3.1% 100.0% Ellesmere Port & Neston 29.1% 59.6% 8.9% 2.5% 100.0% Elmet 36.2% 52.4% 8.7% 2.7% 100.0% Eltham 31.2% 54.6% 8.5% 5.7% 100.0% Enfield North 36.3% 50.7% 8.9% 4.1% 100.0% Enfield, Southgate 41.1% 44.2% 10.7% 4.0% 100.0% Epping Forest 45.5% 35.6% 13.3% 5.6% 100.0% Epsom & Ewell 45.6% 24.3% 22.8% 7.2% 100.0% Erewash 36.6% 51.7% 8.6% 3.1% 100.0% Erith & Thamesmead 20.2% 62.1% 12.0% 5.7% 100.0% Esher & Walton 49.8% 22.8% 20.4% 7.0% 100.0% Exeter 28.6% 47.5% 18.0% 5.9% 100.0% Falmouth & Camborne 28.8% 33.8% 25.2% 12.1% 100.0% Fareham 46.8% 27.0% 19.6% 6.6% 100.0% Faversham & Mid Kent 44.4% 36.0% 12.4% 7.3% 100.0% Feltham & Heston 26.9% 59.7% 9.1% 4.2% 100.0% Finchley & Golders Green 39.7% 46.1% 11.3% 2.9% 100.0% Folkestone & Hythe 39.0% 24.9% 26.9% 9.3% 100.0% Forest of Dean 35.6% 48.2% 12.3% 3.9% 100.0% Fylde 48.9% 31.7% 14.6% 4.9% 100.0% Gainsborough 43.1% 28.8% 28.1% 0.0% 100.0% Gateshead East & Washington West 14.2% 72.1% 10.7% 3.1% 100.0% Gedling 39.5% 46.8% 9.9% 3.8% 100.0% Gillingham 35.9% 39.8% 19.0% 5.2% 100.0% Gloucester 35.7% 50.0% 10.5% 3.8% 100.0% Gosport 43.6% 30.7% 19.6% 6.1% 100.0% Grantham & Stamford 42.8% 37.7% 12.5% 7.0% 100.0% Gravesham 38.8% 49.7% 7.8% 3.7% 100.0% Great Grimsby 22.1% 59.8% 18.1% 0.0% 100.0% Great Yarmouth 35.6% 53.4% 11.0% 0.0% 100.0% Greenwich & Woolwich 18.6% 63.4% 12.5% 5.5% 100.0% Guildford 42.5% 17.5% 34.1% 5.9% 100.0% Hackney North & Stoke Newington 16.9% 65.2% 10.2% 7.7% 100.0% Hackney South & Shoreditch 13.3% 59.4% 15.0% 12.3% 100.0% Halesowen & Rowley Regis 32.9% 54.1% 8.5% 4.5% 100.0% Halifax 32.1% 54.3% 12.0% 1.5% 100.0% Haltemprice & Howden 44.0% 23.6% 28.8% 3.5% 100.0% Halton 17.7% 70.9% 7.3% 4.1% 100.0% Hammersmith & Fulham 39.6% 46.8% 8.8% 4.8% 100.0% Hampstead & Highgate 27.2% 57.4% 12.4% 2.9% 100.0% Harborough 41.8% 25.2% 29.5% 3.5% 100.0% Harlow 32.1% 54.1% 9.5% 4.4% 100.0% Harrogate & Knaresborough 38.5% 8.7% 51.5% 1.3% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Harrow East 35.4% 52.5% 8.2% 3.8% 100.0% Harrow West 39.2% 41.5% 15.5% 3.8% 100.0% Hartlepool 21.3% 60.7% 14.1% 3.9% 100.0% Harwich 36.5% 38.8% 13.1% 11.6% 100.0% Hastings & Rye 29.2% 34.4% 28.0% 8.5% 100.0% Havant 39.7% 32.0% 22.4% 5.9% 100.0% Hayes & Harlington 27.2% 62.0% 7.4% 3.4% 100.0% Hazel Grove 30.5% 11.9% 54.5% 3.1% 100.0% Hemel Hempstead 39.1% 45.7% 12.3% 2.9% 100.0% Hemsworth 17.8% 70.6% 8.9% 2.8% 100.0% Hendon 37.0% 49.3% 10.8% 2.8% 100.0% Henley 46.4% 22.7% 24.7% 6.2% 100.0% Hereford 35.3% 12.6% 47.9% 4.2% 100.0% Hertford & Stortford 44.0% 31.4% 17.7% 6.8% 100.0% Hertsmere 44.3% 38.2% 12.8% 4.7% 100.0% Hexham 38.8% 38.3% 17.4% 5.5% 100.0% Heywood & Middleton 23.0% 57.7% 15.6% 3.6% 100.0% High Peak 35.5% 50.8% 11.2% 2.5% 100.0% Hitchin & Harpenden 45.9% 33.1% 20.1% 1.0% 100.0% Holborn & St Pancras 17.9% 65.0% 12.5% 4.6% 100.0% Hornchurch 37.3% 50.2% 7.8% 4.6% 100.0% Hornsey & Wood Green 21.9% 61.7% 11.3% 5.1% 100.0% Horsham 50.8% 18.7% 24.8% 5.8% 100.0% Houghton & Washington East 12.9% 76.4% 7.7% 3.1% 100.0% Hove 36.4% 44.6% 9.7% 9.4% 100.0% Huddersfield 20.9% 56.5% 17.2% 5.4% 100.0% Huntingdon 55.3% 23.5% 14.7% 6.5% 100.0% Hyndburn 31.9% 55.6% 8.6% 4.0% 100.0% Ilford North 40.8% 47.4% 10.3% 1.5% 100.0% Ilford South 30.1% 58.5% 6.3% 5.0% 100.0% Ipswich 31.1% 52.7% 12.2% 4.0% 100.0% Isle of Wight 34.0% 13.2% 42.7% 10.1% 100.0% Islington North 12.9% 69.3% 13.6% 4.2% 100.0% Islington South & Finsbury 13.0% 62.5% 21.3% 3.2% 100.0% Jarrow 14.9% 64.9% 11.1% 9.1% 100.0% Keighley 36.7% 50.6% 9.8% 2.9% 100.0% Kensington & Chelsea 53.6% 28.0% 15.3% 3.1% 100.0% Kettering 42.9% 43.3% 10.7% 3.1% 100.0% Kingston & Surbiton 36.6% 23.0% 36.7% 3.8% 100.0% Kingston upon Hull East 13.7% 71.3% 9.8% 5.2% 100.0% Kingston upon Hull North 15.0% 65.8% 14.6% 4.5% 100.0% Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle 18.1% 58.7% 18.2% 5.0% 100.0% Kingswood 29.9% 53.7% 12.8% 3.5% 100.0% Knowsley North & Sefton East 17.3% 69.9% 11.1% 1.7% 100.0% Knowsley South 12.6% 77.1% 8.3% 2.0% 100.0% Lancaster & Wyre 40.6% 42.8% 11.6% 5.1% 100.0% Leeds Central 13.7% 69.6% 11.3% 5.4% 100.0% Leeds East 18.7% 67.5% 10.3% 3.5% 100.0% Leeds North East 33.9% 49.2% 13.9% 3.1% 100.0% Leeds North West 32.1% 39.9% 23.7% 4.3% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Leeds West 17.5% 66.7% 9.0% 6.8% 100.0% Leicester East 24.0% 65.5% 7.0% 3.5% 100.0% Leicester South 23.7% 58.0% 13.8% 4.4% 100.0% Leicester West 23.7% 55.2% 14.2% 6.9% 100.0% Leigh 15.6% 68.9% 11.2% 4.2% 100.0% Leominster 45.3% 17.5% 27.8% 9.5% 100.0% Lewes 40.6% 10.6% 43.2% 5.6% 100.0% Lewisham Deptford 14.7% 70.8% 8.9% 5.5% 100.0% Lewisham East 25.9% 58.3% 11.2% 4.6% 100.0% Lewisham West 23.8% 62.0% 9.8% 4.4% 100.0% Leyton & Wanstead 22.2% 60.8% 15.1% 1.9% 100.0% Lichfield 42.9% 42.4% 11.3% 3.4% 100.0% Lincoln 31.0% 54.9% 10.8% 3.2% 100.0% Liverpool, Garston 15.7% 61.3% 19.0% 4.0% 100.0% Liverpool, Riverside 9.5% 70.4% 13.3% 6.8% 100.0% Liverpool, Walton 6.3% 78.4% 11.1% 4.1% 100.0% Liverpool, Wavertree 10.8% 64.4% 21.5% 3.2% 100.0% Liverpool, West Derby 8.7% 71.2% 9.0% 11.1% 100.0% Loughborough 37.7% 48.6% 11.8% 1.9% 100.0% Louth & Horncastle 43.4% 29.6% 24.4% 2.5% 100.0% Ludlow 42.4% 25.4% 29.7% 2.6% 100.0% Luton North 34.3% 54.6% 9.1% 2.0% 100.0% Luton South 31.4% 54.8% 9.6% 4.2% 100.0% Macclesfield 49.6% 33.6% 16.7% 0.0% 100.0% Maidenhead 49.8% 18.1% 26.3% 5.8% 100.0% Maidstone & The Weald 44.1% 26.2% 22.4% 7.3% 100.0% Makerfield 15.4% 73.6% 8.3% 2.7% 100.0% Maldon & East Chelmsford 48.7% 28.7% 19.4% 3.2% 100.0% Manchester Central 11.8% 71.0% 12.3% 4.9% 100.0% Manchester, Blackley 15.3% 70.0% 11.0% 3.7% 100.0% Manchester, Gorton 11.7% 65.3% 17.5% 5.5% 100.0% Manchester, Withington 19.4% 61.6% 13.6% 5.5% 100.0% Mansfield 21.2% 64.4% 11.1% 3.3% 100.0% Medway 36.9% 48.9% 10.2% 4.1% 100.0% Meriden 42.0% 41.0% 13.0% 4.0% 100.0% Mid Bedfordshire 46.0% 32.5% 16.8% 4.6% 100.0% Mid Dorset & North Poole 40.7% 15.8% 39.3% 4.2% 100.0% Mid Norfolk 39.6% 37.3% 15.0% 8.2% 100.0% Mid Sussex 43.5% 18.6% 30.6% 7.3% 100.0% Mid Worcestershire 47.4% 28.9% 18.6% 5.1% 100.0% Middlesbrough 17.2% 71.4% 8.5% 2.9% 100.0% Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland 34.9% 54.7% 7.5% 2.9% 100.0% Milton Keynes South West 33.5% 53.8% 11.9% 0.8% 100.0% Mitcham & Morden 29.7% 58.4% 7.6% 4.4% 100.0% Mole Valley 48.0% 14.8% 29.3% 7.9% 100.0% Morecambe & Lunesdale 36.7% 48.9% 11.4% 3.0% 100.0% Morley & Rothwell 26.3% 58.5% 11.1% 4.1% 100.0% New Forest East 42.9% 24.8% 32.3% 0.0% 100.0% New Forest West 50.6% 14.3% 27.8% 7.4% 100.0% Newark 39.4% 45.2% 11.5% 3.9% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Newbury 37.8% 5.5% 52.9% 3.7% 100.0% Newcastle upon Tyne Central 23.4% 59.2% 15.0% 2.4% 100.0% Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend 13.9% 71.2% 10.6% 4.3% 100.0% Newcastle upon Tyne North 19.4% 62.2% 14.5% 3.8% 100.0% Newcastle-under-Lyme 21.4% 56.5% 14.0% 8.1% 100.0% Normanton 23.6% 60.6% 12.4% 3.4% 100.0% North Cornwall 29.5% 9.4% 53.2% 7.9% 100.0% North Devon 39.5% 9.8% 50.8% 0.0% 100.0% North Dorset 44.3% 10.2% 39.1% 6.4% 100.0% North Durham 14.5% 70.3% 11.1% 4.2% 100.0% North East Bedfordshire 44.3% 32.6% 14.2% 8.9% 100.0% North East Cambridgeshire 43.0% 33.8% 16.4% 6.8% 100.0% North East Derbyshire 25.2% 60.5% 14.3% 0.0% 100.0% North East Hampshire 50.9% 16.0% 22.7% 10.3% 100.0% North East Hertfordshire 41.8% 35.8% 18.3% 4.2% 100.0% North East Milton Keynes 39.0% 39.4% 17.4% 4.2% 100.0% North Essex 43.9% 33.2% 19.6% 3.3% 100.0% North Norfolk 36.5% 25.1% 34.3% 4.2% 100.0% North Shropshire 40.2% 36.0% 20.4% 3.4% 100.0% North Southwark & Bermondsey 6.9% 40.3% 48.6% 4.1% 100.0% North Swindon 33.9% 49.8% 12.9% 3.4% 100.0% North Thanet 44.1% 38.4% 11.4% 6.1% 100.0% North Tyneside 13.7% 72.7% 10.6% 3.1% 100.0% North Warwickshire 31.2% 58.4% 7.4% 3.0% 100.0% North West Cambridgeshire 48.1% 32.2% 15.1% 4.5% 100.0% North West Durham 15.3% 68.8% 10.8% 5.1% 100.0% North West Hampshire 45.2% 23.6% 24.1% 7.1% 100.0% North West Leicestershire 31.0% 56.4% 8.6% 4.0% 100.0% North West Norfolk 41.5% 43.8% 9.6% 5.1% 100.0% North Wiltshire 43.8% 14.2% 37.8% 4.2% 100.0% Northampton North 33.4% 52.7% 12.7% 1.2% 100.0% Northampton South 41.1% 42.4% 11.1% 5.4% 100.0% Northavon 39.0% 15.6% 42.4% 3.0% 100.0% Norwich North 32.5% 49.7% 12.6% 5.2% 100.0% Norwich South 23.7% 51.7% 18.6% 6.0% 100.0% Nottingham East 23.5% 62.3% 10.1% 4.1% 100.0% Nottingham North 20.3% 65.7% 8.0% 6.0% 100.0% Nottingham South 27.7% 55.3% 12.9% 4.1% 100.0% Nuneaton 30.9% 56.2% 8.8% 4.0% 100.0% Old Bexley & Sidcup 42.0% 35.1% 16.1% 6.7% 100.0% Oldham East & Saddleworth 19.7% 41.7% 35.4% 3.2% 100.0% Oldham West & Royton 23.4% 58.8% 11.9% 5.9% 100.0% Orpington 40.6% 17.9% 35.7% 5.9% 100.0% Oxford East 22.0% 56.8% 14.7% 6.5% 100.0% Oxford West & Abingdon 32.7% 20.2% 42.9% 4.2% 100.0% Pendle 30.3% 53.3% 11.6% 4.8% 100.0% Penrith & The Border 47.6% 21.6% 26.7% 4.1% 100.0% Peterborough 35.2% 50.3% 10.7% 3.8% 100.0% Plymouth, Devonport 24.2% 60.9% 10.7% 4.2% 100.0% Plymouth, Sutton 30.3% 50.1% 13.9% 5.7% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Pontefract & Castleford 13.6% 75.7% 7.3% 3.4% 100.0% Poole 42.1% 21.6% 30.8% 5.5% 100.0% Poplar & Canning Town 15.0% 63.2% 10.4% 11.5% 100.0% Portsmouth North 37.6% 47.1% 10.6% 4.7% 100.0% Portsmouth South 31.1% 25.3% 39.5% 4.1% 100.0% Preston 21.9% 60.8% 14.7% 2.6% 100.0% Pudsey 36.3% 48.1% 14.0% 1.6% 100.0% Putney 38.9% 45.7% 10.8% 4.7% 100.0% Rayleigh 49.7% 28.9% 19.8% 1.6% 100.0% Reading East 35.2% 42.7% 18.5% 3.6% 100.0% Reading West 38.9% 45.1% 12.7% 3.2% 100.0% Redcar 23.1% 67.3% 9.6% 0.0% 100.0% Redditch 36.1% 49.8% 11.0% 3.1% 100.0% Regent’s Park & Kensington North 29.0% 59.9% 8.5% 2.6% 100.0% Reigate 43.8% 27.8% 20.0% 8.4% 100.0% Ribble Valley 46.7% 15.8% 35.1% 2.5% 100.0% Richmond 48.9% 27.8% 18.4% 5.0% 100.0% Richmond Park 39.5% 12.6% 44.7% 3.2% 100.0% Rochdale 8.8% 49.4% 40.0% 1.8% 100.0% Rochford & Southend East 48.7% 39.7% 9.4% 2.2% 100.0% Romford 41.6% 43.2% 7.9% 7.2% 100.0% Romsey 46.0% 18.6% 29.4% 6.0% 100.0% Rossendale & Darwen 32.3% 53.6% 10.6% 3.5% 100.0% Rother Valley 16.7% 67.6% 11.6% 4.2% 100.0% Rotherham 14.3% 71.3% 10.4% 4.0% 100.0% Rugby & Kenilworth 42.3% 43.1% 14.3% 0.4% 100.0% Ruislip - Northwood 50.2% 32.9% 16.2% 0.7% 100.0% Runnymede & Weybridge 48.6% 29.4% 16.3% 5.7% 100.0% Rushcliffe 44.4% 36.2% 14.3% 5.2% 100.0% Rutland & Melton 45.8% 29.0% 19.2% 6.0% 100.0% Ryedale 43.8% 18.0% 33.4% 4.9% 100.0% Saffron Walden 45.3% 21.5% 26.8% 6.3% 100.0% Salford 17.4% 69.0% 10.3% 3.3% 100.0% Salisbury 42.9% 17.6% 32.2% 7.3% 100.0% Scarborough & Whitby 36.2% 45.6% 14.1% 4.0% 100.0% Scunthorpe 26.3% 60.4% 8.4% 4.9% 100.0% Sedgefield 17.8% 71.2% 6.5% 4.6% 100.0% Selby 39.1% 45.9% 12.0% 3.0% 100.0% Sevenoaks 45.4% 24.6% 24.1% 5.9% 100.0% Sheffield Central 11.9% 63.6% 17.2% 7.2% 100.0% Sheffield, Attercliffe 16.1% 65.3% 15.7% 2.9% 100.0% Sheffield, Brightside 8.4% 73.5% 14.6% 3.4% 100.0% Sheffield, Hallam 33.1% 13.5% 51.3% 2.0% 100.0% Sheffield, Heeley 15.6% 60.7% 21.3% 2.4% 100.0% Sheffield, Hillsborough 14.5% 56.9% 25.8% 2.8% 100.0% Sherwood 28.8% 58.5% 8.6% 4.1% 100.0% Shipley 37.8% 43.4% 15.1% 3.7% 100.0% Shrewsbury & Atcham 34.0% 37.0% 25.0% 4.0% 100.0% Sittingbourne & Sheppey 36.4% 40.6% 18.3% 4.8% 100.0% Skipton & Ripon 46.5% 22.4% 25.2% 5.9% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Sleaford & North Hykeham 43.9% 34.3% 15.2% 6.6% 100.0% Slough 29.2% 56.6% 7.4% 6.8% 100.0% Solihull 44.6% 24.3% 25.3% 5.7% 100.0% Somerton & Frome 39.3% 16.3% 39.5% 4.8% 100.0% South Cambridgeshire 42.0% 25.1% 25.8% 7.0% 100.0% South Derbyshire 31.3% 54.5% 9.0% 5.2% 100.0% South Dorset 36.1% 35.9% 20.2% 7.8% 100.0% South East Cambridgeshire 42.9% 26.5% 25.1% 5.5% 100.0% South East Cornwall 35.8% 12.8% 47.1% 4.3% 100.0% South Holland & The Deepings 49.3% 33.3% 15.6% 1.8% 100.0% South Norfolk 40.2% 26.1% 28.3% 5.5% 100.0% South Ribble 37.6% 46.8% 10.6% 4.9% 100.0% South Shields 14.6% 71.4% 8.8% 5.2% 100.0% South Staffordshire 50.0% 34.7% 11.3% 3.9% 100.0% South Suffolk 37.3% 29.3% 27.7% 5.7% 100.0% South Swindon 35.8% 46.8% 14.4% 3.0% 100.0% South Thanet 39.8% 46.2% 11.7% 2.3% 100.0% South West Bedfordshire 40.7% 40.5% 14.3% 4.5% 100.0% South West Devon 42.9% 28.9% 23.8% 4.4% 100.0% South West Hertfordshire 46.0% 27.9% 22.3% 3.8% 100.0% South West Norfolk 42.0% 37.8% 13.9% 6.3% 100.0% South West Surrey 44.6% 9.4% 39.8% 6.2% 100.0% Southampton, Itchen 28.4% 54.8% 11.7% 5.2% 100.0% Southampton, Test 28.1% 54.1% 13.7% 4.1% 100.0% Southend West 38.8% 22.8% 33.1% 5.3% 100.0% Southport 35.9% 12.1% 48.1% 3.8% 100.0% Spelthorne 44.9% 38.2% 13.1% 3.8% 100.0% St Albans 33.2% 42.0% 21.0% 3.7% 100.0% St Helens North 17.3% 64.9% 12.7% 5.0% 100.0% St Helens South 15.0% 68.6% 13.4% 3.0% 100.0% St Ives 31.2% 15.2% 44.5% 9.2% 100.0% Stafford 39.2% 47.5% 10.6% 2.7% 100.0% Staffordshire Moorlands 32.5% 52.2% 12.1% 3.1% 100.0% Stalybridge & Hyde 24.5% 58.9% 12.0% 4.6% 100.0% Stevenage 32.8% 55.3% 8.9% 2.9% 100.0% Stockport 22.3% 62.9% 10.6% 4.2% 100.0% Stockton North 18.8% 66.8% 10.8% 3.5% 100.0% Stockton South 33.0% 55.2% 9.1% 2.7% 100.0% Stoke-on-Trent Central 16.7% 66.2% 11.9% 5.1% 100.0% Stoke-on-Trent North 20.2% 65.1% 10.7% 4.0% 100.0% Stoke-on-Trent South 22.4% 62.0% 10.2% 5.5% 100.0% Stone 46.8% 39.6% 12.0% 1.5% 100.0% Stourbridge 35.8% 47.2% 14.3% 2.7% 100.0% Stratford-on-Avon 48.3% 20.5% 25.5% 5.7% 100.0% Streatham 21.7% 62.8% 13.6% 1.9% 100.0% Stretford & Urmston 30.5% 58.5% 8.2% 2.9% 100.0% Stroud 37.9% 42.7% 15.5% 3.9% 100.0% Suffolk Coastal 38.6% 32.8% 21.4% 7.3% 100.0% Sunderland North 16.7% 68.2% 10.4% 4.7% 100.0% Sunderland South 18.9% 68.1% 11.5% 1.5% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Surrey Heath 51.6% 21.0% 21.8% 5.6% 100.0% Sutton & Cheam 37.8% 15.5% 42.3% 4.4% 100.0% Sutton Coldfield 52.2% 23.8% 19.3% 4.6% 100.0% Tamworth 36.7% 51.8% 8.1% 3.4% 100.0% Tatton 37.5% 0.0% 0.0% 62.5% 100.0% Taunton 38.7% 13.5% 42.7% 5.0% 100.0% Teignbridge 39.2% 18.0% 38.8% 4.1% 100.0% Telford 27.4% 57.8% 11.8% 3.0% 100.0% Tewkesbury 45.8% 26.2% 28.0% 0.0% 100.0% Thurrock 26.8% 63.3% 8.1% 1.8% 100.0% Tiverton & Honiton 41.3% 12.8% 38.5% 7.3% 100.0% Tonbridge & Malling 48.0% 27.2% 19.2% 5.5% 100.0% Tooting 27.1% 59.7% 9.4% 3.8% 100.0% Torbay 39.5% 14.9% 39.6% 6.0% 100.0% Torridge & West Devon 38.5% 12.4% 41.8% 7.3% 100.0% Totnes 36.5% 16.4% 34.9% 12.2% 100.0% Tottenham 15.7% 69.3% 10.8% 4.2% 100.0% Truro & St Austell 26.4% 15.3% 48.5% 9.8% 100.0% Tunbridge Wells 45.2% 20.4% 29.7% 4.7% 100.0% Twickenham 37.8% 15.6% 45.1% 1.5% 100.0% Tyne Bridge 11.1% 76.8% 8.0% 4.1% 100.0% Tynemouth 33.3% 55.4% 8.8% 2.5% 100.0% Upminster 39.5% 46.2% 9.5% 4.8% 100.0% Uxbridge 43.6% 41.8% 10.9% 3.7% 100.0% Vale of York 44.7% 26.5% 23.8% 5.1% 100.0% Vauxhall 15.2% 63.8% 16.0% 5.0% 100.0% Wakefield 28.5% 57.4% 11.2% 2.9% 100.0% Wallasey 23.9% 64.6% 8.3% 3.2% 100.0% Walsall North 27.5% 56.6% 9.4% 6.5% 100.0% Walsall South 31.7% 57.9% 6.2% 4.2% 100.0% Walthamstow 20.3% 63.1% 13.7% 2.8% 100.0% Wansbeck 13.9% 65.5% 15.9% 4.7% 100.0% Wansdyke 35.3% 44.1% 16.8% 3.8% 100.0% Wantage 39.8% 28.9% 26.5% 4.7% 100.0% Warley 24.1% 63.8% 9.7% 2.4% 100.0% Warrington North 24.0% 62.1% 10.4% 3.5% 100.0% Warrington South 32.5% 52.1% 13.1% 2.3% 100.0% Warwick & Leamington 38.9% 44.5% 11.9% 4.8% 100.0% Watford 34.8% 45.3% 16.8% 3.1% 100.0% Waveney 34.5% 56.0% 9.0% 0.6% 100.0% Wealden 49.8% 17.2% 25.7% 7.2% 100.0% Weaver Vale 28.6% 56.4% 12.3% 2.7% 100.0% Wellingborough 43.8% 44.2% 9.4% 2.6% 100.0% Wells 39.4% 18.1% 38.5% 4.1% 100.0% Welwyn Hatfield 36.5% 47.1% 13.5% 2.9% 100.0% Wentworth 15.0% 72.3% 9.3% 3.4% 100.0% West Bromwich East 24.4% 57.2% 14.9% 3.5% 100.0% West Bromwich West 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100.0% 100.0% West Chelmsford 40.6% 26.4% 29.2% 3.9% 100.0% West Derbyshire 42.1% 33.5% 17.5% 6.9% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

West Dorset 41.1% 17.7% 37.7% 3.4% 100.0% West Ham 15.0% 72.9% 7.4% 4.8% 100.0% West Lancashire 29.1% 60.3% 7.2% 3.4% 100.0% West Suffolk 40.9% 37.1% 14.0% 7.9% 100.0% West Worcestershire 45.0% 15.7% 37.2% 2.0% 100.0% Westbury 40.6% 21.1% 29.9% 8.4% 100.0% Westmorland & Lonsdale 42.3% 20.6% 33.4% 3.8% 100.0% Weston-Super-Mare 37.7% 17.9% 40.1% 4.3% 100.0% Wigan 16.9% 68.6% 10.0% 4.5% 100.0% Wimbledon 36.6% 42.8% 16.6% 4.1% 100.0% Winchester 42.1% 10.5% 42.1% 5.4% 100.0% Windsor 48.2% 18.3% 28.7% 4.8% 100.0% Wirral South 36.4% 50.9% 10.4% 2.3% 100.0% Wirral West 39.0% 44.9% 12.7% 3.4% 100.0% Witney 43.1% 30.6% 19.9% 6.5% 100.0% Woking 38.4% 21.0% 27.3% 13.3% 100.0% Wokingham 50.1% 16.8% 31.4% 1.8% 100.0% Wolverhampton North East 27.9% 59.3% 5.3% 7.5% 100.0% Wolverhampton South East 20.2% 63.7% 9.5% 6.6% 100.0% Wolverhampton South West 39.9% 50.4% 8.2% 1.5% 100.0% Woodspring 44.4% 20.7% 30.4% 4.5% 100.0% Worcester 35.7% 50.1% 12.5% 1.7% 100.0% Workington 24.4% 64.2% 8.0% 3.3% 100.0% Worsley 24.2% 62.2% 13.6% 0.0% 100.0% Worthing West 46.1% 16.2% 31.1% 6.5% 100.0% Wrekin, The 40.2% 46.9% 12.8% 0.0% 100.0% Wycombe 39.9% 35.4% 18.5% 6.2% 100.0% Wyre Forest 36.1% 48.8% 8.0% 7.2% 100.0% Wythenshawe & Sale East 25.1% 58.1% 12.4% 4.4% 100.0% Yeovil 27.7% 14.9% 48.7% 8.7% 100.0% York, City of 24.7% 59.9% 11.2% 4.1% 100.0%

Wales Aberavon 7.9% 71.3% 11.3% 5.8% 3.6% 100.0% Alyn & Deeside 22.8% 61.9% 9.7% 1.8% 3.9% 100.0% Blaenau Gwent 6.6% 79.5% 8.7% 5.2% 0.0% 100.0% Brecon & Radnorshire 29.0% 26.6% 40.8% 1.5% 2.1% 100.0% Bridgend 22.8% 58.1% 11.5% 3.8% 3.8% 100.0% Caernarfon 12.3% 29.5% 4.9% 51.0% 2.4% 100.0% Caerphilly 10.7% 67.8% 8.2% 9.7% 3.5% 100.0% Cardiff Central 20.0% 43.7% 24.9% 3.6% 7.7% 100.0% Cardiff North 33.7% 50.4% 10.9% 2.5% 2.5% 100.0% Cardiff South & Penarth 20.7% 53.4% 9.3% 3.2% 13.4% 100.0% Cardiff West 21.5% 60.3% 10.8% 4.8% 2.5% 100.0% Carmarthen East & Dinefwr 12.0% 42.9% 7.5% 34.6% 2.9% 100.0% Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire 26.6% 49.1% 8.2% 12.7% 3.4% 100.0% Ceredigion 14.9% 24.3% 16.5% 41.6% 2.7% 100.0% Clwyd South 23.1% 58.1% 9.4% 6.3% 3.1% 100.0% Clwyd West 32.5% 37.1% 12.8% 13.5% 4.2% 100.0% Conwy 24.3% 35.0% 31.2% 6.8% 2.7% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Cynon Valley 6.8% 69.7% 10.3% 10.6% 2.5% 100.0% Delyn 26.0% 57.2% 10.2% 3.8% 2.7% 100.0% Gower 23.8% 53.8% 13.0% 5.1% 4.3% 100.0% Islwyn 7.9% 74.2% 8.4% 6.2% 3.3% 100.0% Llanelli 12.1% 57.9% 9.2% 19.0% 1.8% 100.0% Meirionnydd Nant Conwy 16.0% 23.0% 7.0% 50.7% 3.3% 100.0% Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney 6.4% 76.7% 7.5% 6.0% 3.5% 100.0% Monmouth 39.2% 47.7% 9.6% 1.1% 2.4% 100.0% Montgomeryshire 26.1% 19.1% 45.9% 5.0% 3.8% 100.0% Neath 8.7% 73.5% 6.3% 8.1% 3.4% 100.0% Newport East 21.4% 57.7% 10.4% 1.9% 8.6% 100.0% Newport West 24.4% 60.5% 9.7% 1.6% 3.8% 100.0% Ogmore 9.8% 74.0% 9.2% 7.0% 0.0% 100.0% Pontypridd 12.9% 63.9% 13.4% 6.5% 3.3% 100.0% Preseli Pembrokeshire 27.7% 48.3% 13.0% 6.3% 4.7% 100.0% Rhondda 3.8% 74.5% 5.7% 13.4% 2.7% 100.0% Swansea East 9.3% 75.4% 8.9% 3.4% 3.1% 100.0% Swansea West 20.5% 56.2% 14.5% 6.6% 2.2% 100.0% Torfaen 12.3% 69.1% 12.1% 2.4% 4.1% 100.0% Vale of Clwyd 29.8% 52.7% 8.8% 5.9% 2.9% 100.0% Vale of Glamorgan 34.4% 53.9% 9.2% 2.6% 0.0% 100.0% Wrexham 23.9% 56.1% 13.3% 3.2% 3.5% 100.0% Ynys-Mon 21.5% 33.2% 3.8% 39.5% 2.0% 100.0%

Scotland Aberdeen Central 19.5% 49.8% 13.2% 16.2% 1.3% 100.0% Aberdeen North 15.0% 47.9% 14.1% 21.8% 1.2% 100.0% Aberdeen South 26.4% 35.3% 27.6% 9.8% 1.0% 100.0% Airdrie & Shotts 8.9% 61.8% 4.2% 24.4% 0.7% 100.0% Angus 24.6% 15.6% 9.4% 48.3% 2.0% 100.0% Argyll & Bute 19.0% 15.7% 40.2% 23.2% 2.0% 100.0% Ayr 33.8% 48.4% 4.7% 12.6% 0.4% 100.0% Banff & Buchan 23.8% 11.8% 6.0% 55.8% 2.6% 100.0% Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross 10.8% 27.8% 35.6% 23.0% 2.8% 100.0% Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley 17.0% 59.8% 5.3% 16.7% 1.3% 100.0% Central Fife 9.0% 58.7% 6.4% 25.0% 0.9% 100.0% Clydebank & Milngavie 12.5% 55.2% 10.5% 21.1% 0.7% 100.0% Clydesdale 16.3% 52.5% 8.4% 22.1% 0.7% 100.0% Coatbridge & Chryston 8.6% 68.3% 5.4% 17.0% 0.7% 100.0% Cumbernauld & Kilsyth 6.8% 58.7% 3.8% 27.8% 2.9% 100.0% Cunninghame North 23.5% 50.3% 5.5% 18.4% 2.3% 100.0% Cunninghame South 10.1% 62.7% 4.5% 20.8% 1.9% 100.0% Dumbarton 17.6% 49.6% 7.6% 23.2% 1.9% 100.0% Dumfries 28.0% 47.5% 11.1% 12.1% 1.3% 100.0% Dundee East 15.8% 51.1% 4.1% 26.5% 2.4% 100.0% Dundee West 13.2% 53.8% 7.7% 23.2% 2.2% 100.0% Dunfermline East 10.0% 66.8% 5.9% 15.6% 1.7% 100.0% Dunfermline West 12.6% 53.1% 13.6% 19.2% 1.5% 100.0% East Kilbride 12.0% 56.5% 7.2% 20.9% 3.3% 100.0% East Lothian 19.9% 52.7% 10.5% 15.7% 1.1% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other Total

Eastwood 33.5% 39.7% 11.7% 13.1% 2.0% 100.0% Edinburgh Central 21.2% 47.1% 13.1% 15.8% 2.8% 100.0% Edinburgh East & Musselburgh 15.4% 53.6% 10.7% 19.1% 1.2% 100.0% Edinburgh North & Leith 17.9% 46.9% 13.0% 20.1% 2.1% 100.0% Edinburgh Pentlands 32.4% 43.0% 10.0% 13.0% 1.6% 100.0% Edinburgh South 21.3% 46.8% 17.6% 12.9% 1.3% 100.0% Edinburgh West 28.0% 18.8% 43.2% 8.8% 1.2% 100.0% Falkirk East 14.0% 56.1% 5.2% 23.9% 0.8% 100.0% Falkirk West 12.1% 59.3% 5.1% 23.4% 0.0% 100.0% Galloway & Upper Nithsdale 30.5% 16.3% 6.4% 43.9% 2.8% 100.0% Glasgow Anniesland 11.5% 61.8% 7.2% 17.1% 2.4% 100.0% Glasgow Baillieston 7.7% 65.7% 3.8% 19.1% 3.6% 100.0% Glasgow Cathcart 12.7% 57.4% 6.9% 18.5% 4.5% 100.0% Glasgow Govan 8.8% 44.1% 5.9% 35.1% 6.1% 100.0% Glasgow Kelvin 10.8% 51.0% 14.2% 21.4% 2.6% 100.0% Glasgow Maryhill 5.9% 64.9% 7.1% 16.9% 5.1% 100.0% Glasgow Pollok 6.0% 59.9% 3.5% 17.9% 12.7% 100.0% Glasgow Rutherglen 9.3% 57.5% 14.5% 15.3% 3.4% 100.0% Glasgow Shettleston 5.5% 73.2% 4.0% 14.0% 3.4% 100.0% Glasgow Springburn 6.0% 71.4% 4.3% 16.5% 1.9% 100.0% Gordon 26.0% 10.3% 42.6% 20.0% 1.1% 100.0% Greenock & Inverclyde 11.5% 56.2% 13.8% 18.6% 0.0% 100.0% Hamilton North & Bellshill 10.4% 64.0% 5.1% 19.1% 1.5% 100.0% Hamilton South 8.6% 65.6% 5.1% 17.6% 3.0% 100.0% Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber 17.5% 33.9% 17.5% 29.0% 2.1% 100.0% Kilmarnock & Loudoun 10.8% 49.8% 4.0% 34.5% 0.9% 100.0% Kirkcaldy 13.7% 53.6% 8.7% 22.9% 1.2% 100.0% Linlithgow 12.5% 54.1% 5.9% 26.8% 0.7% 100.0% Livingston 9.4% 54.9% 6.7% 27.5% 1.5% 100.0% Midlothian 10.9% 53.5% 9.2% 25.5% 0.9% 100.0% Moray 27.6% 19.8% 8.9% 41.6% 2.1% 100.0% Motherwell & Wishaw 11.0% 57.4% 6.4% 22.5% 2.8% 100.0% North East Fife 26.5% 10.3% 51.2% 10.9% 1.2% 100.0% North Tayside 35.7% 11.3% 8.2% 44.8% 0.0% 100.0% Ochil 14.6% 45.0% 5.2% 34.4% 0.9% 100.0% Orkney & Shetland 12.2% 18.3% 52.0% 12.7% 4.8% 100.0% Paisley North 9.6% 59.5% 6.9% 21.9% 2.1% 100.0% Paisley South 8.7% 57.5% 9.4% 23.4% 1.1% 100.0% Perth 29.3% 24.8% 8.0% 36.4% 1.5% 100.0% Ross, Skye & Inverness West 10.9% 28.7% 38.7% 19.6% 2.1% 100.0% Roxburgh & Berwickshire 23.9% 15.0% 46.5% 11.3% 3.3% 100.0% Stirling 32.5% 47.4% 6.2% 13.4% 0.4% 100.0% Strathkelvin & Bearsden 20.1% 52.9% 9.7% 16.3% 1.0% 100.0% Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale 22.1% 27.4% 31.2% 17.1% 2.2% 100.0% West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine 34.9% 9.1% 41.1% 13.1% 1.9% 100.0% West Renfrewshire 18.6% 46.6% 7.7% 26.5% 0.7% 100.0% Western Isles 6.6% 55.6% 3.1% 33.4% 1.3% 100.0%

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Share of the vote by party and constituency Alliance DUP SDLP SF UKUP UU Others Total Northern Ireland Belfast East 23.8% 42.6% 1.6% 2.1% 25.3% 4.6% 100.0% Belfast North 5.4% 20.4% 20.2% 51.8% 2.2% 100.0% Belfast South 12.9% 24.3% 5.1% 36.0% 21.7% 100.0% Belfast West 38.7% 55.9% 3.4% 2.0% 100.0% East Antrim 20.2% 19.5% 4.6% 1.6% 38.8% 15.4% 100.0% East Londonderry 6.4% 25.6% 21.7% 9.1% 35.6% 1.6% 100.0% Fermanagh & South Tyrone 2.0% 22.9% 23.1% 51.5% 0.4% 100.0% Foyle 1.7% 21.5% 52.5% 23.9% 0.3% 100.0% Lagan Valley 17.2% 13.6% 7.8% 2.5% 55.4% 3.5% 100.0% Mid Ulster 0.9% 36.3% 22.1% 40.1% 0.6% 100.0% Newry & Armagh 1.9% 43.0% 21.1% 33.8% 0.2% 100.0% North Antrim 6.2% 46.5% 15.9% 6.3% 23.6% 1.5% 100.0% North Down 20.7% 4.4% 35.1% 31.1% 8.8% 100.0% South Antrim 11.6% 16.2% 5.5% 57.5% 9.2% 100.0% South Down 3.5% 52.9% 10.4% 32.8% 0.4% 100.0% Strangford 13.1% 30.2% 6.7% 1.2% 44.3% 4.5% 100.0% Upper Bann 6.3% 11.5% 24.2% 12.1% 43.6% 2.3% 100.0% West Tyrone 1.8% 32.1% 30.9% 34.6% 0.7% 100.0%

Tatton was won by Martin Bell standing as an Independent with 60.2% of the vote West Bromwich West was won by The Speaker with 65.3% of the vote

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

England Aldershot -15.4% +10.3% +4.1% +1.1% Aldridge - Brownhills -7.2% +8.4% -1.2% Altrincham & Sale West -11.3% +13.8% -5.8% +3.3% Amber Valley -13.0% +10.3% -1.4% +4.2% Arundel & South Downs -9.7% +8.9% +0.6% +0.2% Ashfield -12.4% +10.3% -2.9% +4.9% Ashford -13.2% +11.7% -4.3% +5.8% Ashton under Lyne -9.8% +10.5% -2.2% +1.5% Aylesbury -13.1% +8.7% +1.8% +2.6% Banbury -11.9% +7.9% -1.1% +5.2% Barking -16.3% +13.6% -4.4% +7.1% Barnsley Central -8.7% +6.2% -1.2% +3.6% Barnsley East & Mexborough -6.0% +0.2% +0.6% +5.1% Barnsley West & Penistone -9.7% +1.0% +6.4% +2.3% Barrow & Furness -14.1% +9.5% -2.1% +6.6% Basildon -14.3% +15.1% -5.5% +4.6% Basingstoke -10.2% +14.0% -3.4% -0.5% Bassetlaw -10.1% +7.7% -1.4% +3.8% Bath -12.2% +8.2% +1.6% +2.5% Batley & Spen -8.3% +6.4% -2.5% +4.4% Battersea -11.0% +9.5% +0.3% +1.2% Beaconsfield -14.5% +6.4% +1.9% +6.2% Beckenham -17.7% +12.2% +1.4% +4.1% Bedford -11.8% +14.2% -4.1% +1.6% Berwick-upon-Tweed -8.7% +3.4% +1.1% +4.2% Bethnal Green & Bow +4.7% -7.2% -13.8% +16.3% Beverley & Holderness -13.3% +18.8% -6.9% +1.4% Bexhill & Battle -12.2% +8.7% -3.4% +6.8% Bexleyheath & Crayford -15.8% +14.2% -3.2% +4.7% Billericay -17.9% +17.3% -6.5% +7.1% Birkenhead -9.9% +7.1% -0.6% +3.4% Birmingham, Edgbaston -10.7% +9.3% -0.5% +1.8% Birmingham, Erdington -9.0% +5.5% -0.1% +3.5% Birmingham, Hall Green -12.7% +15.2% -6.0% +3.5% Birmingham, Hodge Hill -12.3% +12.0% -0.7% +1.0% Birmingham, Ladywood -7.1% +2.7% -0.2% +4.7% Birmingham, Northfield -14.5% +11.5% -1.1% +4.1% Birmingham, Perry Barr -15.6% +11.1% -0.9% +5.4% Birmingham, Selly Oak -14.5% +9.6% +1.8% +3.1% Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath -8.1% +1.2% +1.4% +5.5% Birmingham, Yardley -16.7% +12.2% +2.8% +1.7% Bishop Auckland -12.6% +18.3% -10.2% +4.6% Blaby -11.0% +12.0% -5.1% +4.1% Blackburn -12.9% +6.6% -1.0% +7.3% Blackpool North & Fleetwood -14.2% +14.6% -3.4% +3.1% Blackpool South -9.7% +13.6% -3.6% -0.4% Blaydon -13.5% +7.3% +3.1% +3.1% Blyth Valley -2.3% +14.3% -11.1% -1.0%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Bognor Regis & Littlehampton -12.6% +15.0% -2.7% +0.3% Bolsover -8.6% +9.5% -0.9% Bolton North East -11.7% +8.7% -0.2% +3.2% Bolton South East -9.0% +14.6% -1.8% -3.8% Bolton West -12.2% +10.4% -2.4% +4.2% Bootle -5.6% +6.3% -0.7% +0.0% Boston & Skegness -8.4% +12.8% -4.4% Bosworth -11.0% +12.3% -2.9% +1.6% Bournemouth East -14.0% +8.3% +0.4% +5.4% Bournemouth West -10.8% +5.1% +0.3% +5.4% Bracknell -13.0% +9.5% -3.9% +7.4% Bradford North -6.6% +8.2% -4.1% +2.5% Bradford South -10.4% +9.1% -2.4% +3.7% Bradford West -0.8% -11.7% +4.3% +8.2% Braintree -10.5% +15.3% -9.2% +4.4% Brent East -14.3% +14.5% -1.1% +0.8% Brent North -17.3% +20.4% -2.5% -0.6% Brent South -15.2% +15.4% -1.7% +1.6% Brentford & Isleworth -13.9% +14.7% -1.9% +1.1% Brentwood & Ongar -12.2% +11.2% -4.2% +5.2% Bridgwater -9.8% +3.0% +4.0% +2.8% Brigg & Goole -13.3% +14.5% -4.5% +3.2% Brighton, Kemptown -13.9% +14.0% -4.2% +4.1% Brighton, Pavilion -17.6% +14.4% -2.9% +6.0% Bristol East -14.2% +9.6% +0.0% +4.5% Bristol North West -9.5% +4.7% -1.7% +6.5% Bristol South -12.0% +12.7% -4.5% +3.9% Bristol West -12.3% +11.9% -1.2% +1.6% Bromley & Chislehurst -15.6% +8.0% +5.9% +1.7% Bromsgrove -6.9% +7.2% -1.9% +1.7% Broxbourne -13.4% +13.3% -4.7% +4.8% Broxtowe -13.5% +12.3% -1.8% +3.1% Buckingham -12.5% +8.7% +3.8% +0.1% Burnley -10.4% +4.9% +1.0% +4.4% Burton -8.8% +9.8% -2.1% +1.1% Bury North -12.1% +10.2% -0.3% +2.2% Bury South -13.7% +12.2% -0.6% +2.0% Bury St Edmunds -7.6% +11.7% -8.7% +4.6% Calder Valley -10.4% +8.7% -1.4% +3.1% Camberwell & Peckham -12.2% +9.2% -3.8% +6.9% Cambridge -12.6% +13.8% -3.7% +2.6% Cannock Chase -11.0% +5.8% -3.5% +8.7% Canterbury -11.8% +15.9% -8.8% +4.6% Carlisle -12.3% +12.1% -2.5% +2.6% Carshalton & Wallington -16.2% +6.2% +7.3% +2.8% Castle Point -15.5% +18.4% -9.9% +7.0% Central Suffolk & North Ipswich -13.2% +15.2% -1.3% -0.7% Charnwood -14.1% +14.4% -5.0% +4.7% Chatham & Aylesford -13.8% +16.4% -6.2% +3.7% Cheadle -13.9% +3.3% +8.1% +2.6%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Cheltenham -7.9% +3.4% +1.8% +2.6% Chesham & Amersham -13.0% +9.3% -0.7% +4.4% Chester, City of -10.5% +12.4% -4.1% +2.2% Chesterfield -7.7% +3.5% +3.8% +0.4% Chichester -12.9% +5.9% +2.4% +4.6% Chingford & Woodford Green -13.9% +13.7% +1.2% -0.9% Chipping Barnet -13.6% +14.7% -3.7% +2.6% Chorley -9.9% +11.4% -3.5% +1.9% Christchurch -17.3% -5.2% +19.2% +3.3% Cities of London & Westminster -12.0% +11.0% -1.8% +2.9% Cleethorpes -14.5% +15.7% -3.3% +2.1% Colchester -10.7% +6.5% +1.7% +2.5% Colne Valley -9.3% +11.5% -4.4% +2.2% Congleton -7.3% +8.4% -2.0% +0.8% Copeland -14.2% +9.5% +1.6% +3.1% Corby -11.1% +11.5% -2.7% +2.3% Cotswold -8.0% +11.8% -10.4% +6.6% Coventry North East -8.7% +16.6% -2.5% -5.4% Coventry North West -10.6% +5.6% -1.3% +6.3% Coventry South -10.8% +16.2% -0.0% -5.4% Crawley -12.1% +14.7% -6.3% +3.7% Crewe & Nantwich -11.9% +10.6% -0.8% +2.0% Crosby -13.9% +22.4% -8.5% +0.0% Croydon Central -16.9% +14.1% -2.1% +5.0% Croydon North -17.5% +17.8% -3.2% +3.0% Croydon South -14.3% +9.0% -0.5% +5.8% Dagenham -18.3% +14.0% -4.0% +8.3% Darlington -14.7% +13.5% -1.1% +2.3% Dartford -10.6% +12.4% -2.8% +1.0% Daventry -11.4% +10.5% -2.7% +3.6% Denton & Reddish -12.5% +12.4% +3.3% -3.2% Derby North -14.2% +12.3% -0.5% +2.4% Derby South -15.7% +8.0% +3.5% +4.2% Devizes -10.1% +12.2% -5.9% +3.8% Dewsbury -9.9% +2.1% +0.4% +7.4% Don Valley -12.2% +7.7% -1.4% +5.8% Doncaster Central -12.5% +7.7% -2.4% +7.2% Doncaster North -7.5% +5.4% -4.8% +6.9% Dover -11.3% +11.9% -2.9% +2.3% Dudley North -12.3% +5.7% -1.5% +8.1% Dudley South -12.5% +9.6% -0.2% +3.1% Dulwich & West Norwood -18.6% +14.6% +1.0% +3.0% Durham, City of -6.2% +10.0% -6.2% +2.3% Ealing North -14.2% +17.9% -3.8% +0.1% Ealing Southall -15.5% +14.7% +2.3% -1.5% Ealing, Acton & Shepherd’s Bush -13.6% +12.0% -1.3% +2.9% Easington -8.1% +7.5% -3.4% +4.0% East Devon -9.2% +5.5% +2.0% +1.6% East Ham -15.9% +10.7% -7.5% +12.8% East Hampshire -12.6% +7.7% +0.6% +4.3%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

East Surrey -10.9% +10.7% -4.4% +4.6% East Worthing & Shoreham -10.9% +10.6% -3.1% +3.4% East Yorkshire -7.9% +9.4% -4.3% +2.9% Eastbourne -10.9% +7.8% -2.9% +5.9% Eastleigh -17.2% +7.4% +5.4% +4.4% Eccles -12.4% +9.1% +1.1% +2.2% Eddisbury -10.2% +9.1% -1.6% +2.8% Edmonton -16.0% +15.2% -1.9% +2.7% Ellesmere Port & Neston -13.0% +11.7% -0.0% +1.3% Elmet -11.3% +10.5% -1.9% +2.7% Eltham -12.8% +14.5% -7.0% +5.3% Enfield North -16.6% +15.7% -2.1% +3.0% Enfield, Southgate -16.8% +18.0% -3.8% +2.6% Epping Forest -14.3% +13.0% -3.4% +4.6% Epsom & Ewell -15.4% +9.3% -0.4% +6.5% Erewash -10.6% +13.5% -5.0% +2.1% Erith & Thamesmead -11.4% +19.1% -13.4% +5.7% Esher & Walton -10.9% +5.4% -1.6% +7.0% Exeter -12.5% +11.3% -1.4% +2.7% Falmouth & Camborne -8.1% +4.7% -6.0% +9.4% Fareham -13.8% +12.1% -3.6% +5.3% Faversham & Mid Kent -14.8% +13.0% -4.7% +6.4% Feltham & Heston -15.9% +14.2% -2.4% +4.2% Finchley & Golders Green -15.0% +15.2% -1.5% +1.3% Folkestone & Hythe -13.3% +12.8% -8.5% +9.0% Forest of Dean -5.5% +5.8% -3.8% +3.5% Fylde -11.4% +13.1% -6.1% +4.4% Gainsborough -10.3% +7.9% +2.4% Gateshead East & Washington West -13.6% +14.1% -3.6% +3.1% Gedling -13.7% +12.3% -2.2% +3.5% Gillingham -16.0% +16.0% -4.4% +4.4% Gloucester -9.8% +13.2% -7.2% +3.8% Gosport -14.5% +17.1% -8.0% +5.5% Grantham & Stamford -15.1% +11.6% -3.6% +7.0% Gravesham -10.8% +9.3% -1.1% +2.6% Great Grimsby -14.1% +8.8% +5.4% Great Yarmouth -12.3% +15.4% -2.6% -0.5% Greenwich & Woolwich +0.3% +18.8% -22.6% +3.4% Guildford -12.8% +6.1% +1.3% +5.5% Hackney North & Stoke Newington -10.0% +7.4% -1.3% +4.0% Hackney South & Shoreditch -15.7% +6.0% +0.0% +9.6% Halesowen & Rowley Regis -11.9% +9.6% -1.4% +3.7% Halifax -10.5% +10.8% -0.8% +0.4% Haltemprice & Howden -15.3% +8.3% +3.7% +3.3% Halton -12.6% +11.3% -1.5% +2.9% Hammersmith & Fulham -12.0% +8.1% +0.5% +3.4% Hampstead & Highgate -13.5% +11.2% +1.4% +0.9% Harborough -10.9% +12.9% -4.9% +3.0% Harlow -13.9% +11.3% -1.8% +4.4% Harrogate & Knaresborough -13.3% -4.8% +18.2% -0.0%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Harrow East -17.5% +18.7% -2.6% +1.4% Harrow West -16.0% +19.0% -4.7% +1.7% Hartlepool -13.5% +8.9% +0.8% +3.9% Harwich -15.2% +14.1% -10.0% +11.2% Hastings & Rye -18.4% +18.6% -7.3% +7.0% Havant -13.1% +12.3% -3.7% +4.6% Hayes & Harlington -17.7% +17.2% -2.9% +3.4% Hazel Grove -14.3% +0.2% +11.4% +2.7% Hemel Hempstead -10.8% +13.2% -3.0% +0.6% Hemsworth -8.0% +6.8% -1.5% +2.8% Hendon -16.6% +15.8% -0.8% +1.6% Henley -13.6% +7.9% +0.8% +4.8% Hereford -11.7% +2.0% +6.6% +3.2% Hertford & Stortford -12.5% +14.6% -7.7% +5.7% Hertsmere -13.5% +16.4% -6.9% +4.0% Hexham -13.7% +14.1% -4.3% +3.9% Heywood & Middleton -8.6% +11.2% -4.3% +1.6% High Peak -10.5% +12.9% -3.6% +1.2% Hitchin & Harpenden -15.6% +15.3% +0.3% +0.1% Holborn & St Pancras -10.3% +10.8% -1.4% +0.9% Hornchurch -16.2% +15.7% -3.3% +3.7% Hornsey & Wood Green -17.2% +13.3% +1.3% +2.7% Horsham -11.5% +6.8% +2.0% +2.8% Houghton & Washington East -8.8% +9.4% -3.6% +3.1% Hove -12.6% +20.1% -9.7% +2.2% Huddersfield -13.0% +7.8% +1.2% +4.0% Huntingdon -4.7% +9.0% -6.6% +2.4% Hyndburn -11.3% +8.7% -1.0% +3.6% Ilford North -17.1% +17.5% -1.9% +1.5% Ilford South -16.8% +16.4% -4.1% +4.5% Ipswich -12.2% +8.8% +0.8% +2.6% Isle of Wight -13.9% +7.2% -2.9% +9.6% Islington North -10.8% +11.8% -1.5% +0.5% Islington South & Finsbury -11.7% +11.3% -1.9% +2.3% Jarrow -8.5% +2.4% -3.0% +9.1% Keighley -10.7% +9.7% -0.7% +1.7% Kensington & Chelsea -14.6% +11.3% +2.1% +1.1% Kettering -9.8% +11.4% -4.7% +3.1% Kingston & Surbiton -16.5% +3.4% +10.7% +2.4% Kingston upon Hull East -10.1% +8.4% -2.9% +4.5% Kingston upon Hull North -8.6% +9.9% -5.4% +4.0% Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle -12.2% +7.1% +0.8% +4.2% Kingswood -15.9% +13.1% -0.8% +3.5% Knowsley North & Sefton East -9.5% +15.5% -4.5% -1.5% Knowsley South -7.9% +7.6% -0.7% +1.1% Lancaster & Wyre -11.6% +9.7% -2.4% +4.2% Leeds Central -8.6% +5.9% -2.7% +5.4% Leeds East -9.6% +9.8% -3.7% +3.5% Leeds North East -11.5% +12.3% -2.8% +2.0% Leeds North West -10.9% +12.6% -4.2% +2.5%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Leeds West -8.6% +11.6% +0.1% -3.0% Leicester East -9.7% +9.2% -1.1% +1.6% Leicester South -10.9% +5.7% +2.1% +3.1% Leicester West -14.8% +8.4% +0.9% +5.5% Leigh -11.7% +9.6% -1.2% +3.2% Leominster -11.1% +5.2% -0.0% +5.9% Lewes -10.8% +2.4% +4.1% +4.3% Lewisham Deptford -12.9% +10.2% -2.8% +5.5% Lewisham East -16.9% +13.0% -0.2% +4.1% Lewisham West -19.0% +15.0% -0.1% +4.1% Leyton & Wanstead -8.7% +15.0% -5.4% -0.9% Lichfield -14.1% +5.8% +5.5% +2.8% Lincoln -13.2% +8.9% +2.0% +2.3% Liverpool, Garston -9.3% +10.2% -2.7% +1.8% Liverpool, Riverside -1.3% +2.0% -5.2% +4.5% Liverpool, Walton -6.2% +6.0% -0.9% +1.1% Liverpool, Wavertree -1.7% +23.1% -13.2% -8.2% Liverpool, West Derby -5.9% +6.6% -6.3% +5.6% Loughborough -9.1% +8.8% +0.6% -0.3% Louth & Horncastle -9.3% +16.0% -7.2% +0.5% Ludlow -9.2% +4.0% +4.1% +1.2% Luton North -16.9% +17.4% -1.1% +0.6% Luton South -12.9% +11.6% -1.6% +2.9% Macclesfield -6.4% +10.8% -4.0% -0.4% Maidenhead -11.8% +9.5% -3.6% +5.8% Maidstone & The Weald -11.9% +13.8% -7.9% +6.1% Makerfield -9.0% +10.2% -0.9% -0.4% Maldon & East Chelmsford -15.2% +16.0% -2.7% +1.9% Manchester Central -7.6% +1.8% +1.8% +4.0% Manchester, Blackley -10.8% +7.9% -0.0% +2.9% Manchester, Gorton -7.8% +2.9% +3.5% +1.3% Manchester, Withington -11.9% +8.9% -0.6% +3.6% Mansfield -11.9% +10.1% -1.5% +3.3% Medway -15.5% +14.3% +0.6% +0.6% Meriden -13.1% +10.1% -1.0% +4.0% Mid Bedfordshire -16.4% +12.7% +1.0% +2.6% Mid Dorset & North Poole -9.4% +3.9% +1.4% +4.2% Mid Norfolk -15.0% +11.2% -4.0% +7.8% Mid Sussex -15.5% +8.0% +2.4% +5.0% Mid Worcestershire -7.5% +11.3% -7.5% +3.8% Middlesbrough -12.8% +10.3% -0.4% +2.9% Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland -10.9% +11.4% -3.5% +2.9% Milton Keynes South West -13.1% +16.3% -2.6% -0.7% Mitcham & Morden -16.8% +15.3% -1.6% +3.1% Mole Valley -13.3% +5.4% +0.6% +7.3% Morecambe & Lunesdale -12.5% +19.4% -7.7% +0.7% Morley & Rothwell -10.6% +9.0% -1.9% +3.5% New Forest East -10.1% +12.1% -1.1% -0.8% New Forest West -10.2% +6.1% -2.8% +6.8% Newark -11.0% +9.4% -1.5% +3.1%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Newbury -18.1% -0.6% +15.8% +2.8% Newcastle upon Tyne Central -12.2% +7.5% +2.3% +2.4% Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend -8.6% +14.0% -8.0% +2.7% Newcastle upon Tyne North -12.4% +12.8% -4.2% +3.8% Newcastle-under-Lyme -8.1% +8.5% -8.0% +7.5% Normanton -12.0% +9.4% -0.9% +3.4% North Cornwall -14.8% +2.9% +5.8% +6.2% North Devon -6.2% +3.9% +3.7% -1.3% North Dorset -12.2% +4.2% +1.6% +6.4% North Durham -10.3% +10.4% -4.2% +4.2% North East Bedfordshire -15.0% +12.6% -4.3% +6.7% North East Cambridgeshire -10.5% +20.2% -14.6% +4.8% North East Derbyshire -13.0% +11.6% +1.4% North East Hampshire -13.1% +6.9% -2.4% +8.6% North East Hertfordshire -9.9% +14.5% -8.2% +3.5% North East Milton Keynes -12.6% +15.7% -5.6% +2.5% North Essex -13.8% +14.1% -2.6% +2.3% North Norfolk -11.7% +1.9% +6.9% +3.0% North Shropshire -10.6% +9.8% -2.6% +3.4% North Southwark & Bermondsey -5.0% +5.8% -2.8% +2.0% North Swindon -7.1% +7.1% -1.7% +1.7% North Thanet -13.1% +15.0% -6.3% +4.5% North Tyneside -12.3% +11.8% -2.5% +3.1% North Warwickshire -12.5% +12.3% -2.8% +3.0% North West Cambridgeshire -14.2% +6.3% +6.4% +1.5% North West Durham -12.0% +10.7% -3.9% +5.1% North West Hampshire -12.8% +11.0% -3.9% +5.7% North West Leicestershire -14.5% +12.5% -1.7% +3.6% North West Norfolk -10.6% +10.2% -4.2% +4.5% North Wiltshire -12.4% +4.1% +6.3% +2.1% Northampton North -12.4% +14.1% -2.5% +0.8% Northampton South -14.6% +12.2% -3.1% +5.4% Northavon -12.8% +3.5% +7.9% +1.4% Norwich North -11.7% +9.4% -2.0% +4.3% Norwich South -14.5% +5.7% +4.5% +4.2% Nottingham East -12.9% +9.7% +2.3% +0.9% Nottingham North -14.8% +10.0% -0.6% +5.5% Nottingham South -14.1% +7.6% +2.9% +3.6% Nuneaton -12.1% +10.5% -2.4% +4.0% Old Bexley & Sidcup -14.2% +14.0% -4.8% +5.1% Oldham East & Saddleworth -15.7% +11.5% +1.0% +3.2% Oldham West & Royton -14.7% +9.7% +0.4% +4.6% Orpington -14.7% +3.1% +7.4% +4.2% Oxford East -11.5% +6.6% +0.7% +4.2% Oxford West & Abingdon -13.6% +4.1% +7.1% +2.4% Pendle -10.0% +9.0% -3.4% +4.4% Penrith & The Border -11.1% +10.6% -2.3% +2.9% Peterborough -14.3% +12.5% +1.4% +0.4% Plymouth, Devonport -11.4% +13.8% -2.5% +0.1% Plymouth, Sutton -11.5% +10.4% -2.6% +3.7%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Pontefract & Castleford -7.4% +5.8% -1.8% +3.4% Poole -13.0% +9.9% +1.5% +1.6% Poplar & Canning Town -10.7% +11.9% -9.2% +8.0% Portsmouth North -13.1% +13.9% -4.5% +3.7% Portsmouth South -11.4% +10.7% -2.5% +3.2% Preston -10.4% +7.7% +0.8% +2.0% Pudsey -7.3% +19.0% -12.4% +0.7% Putney -13.3% +9.0% +1.2% +3.1% Rayleigh -11.4% +14.1% -2.2% -0.5% Reading East -13.9% +13.8% -1.9% +2.0% Reading West -13.4% +16.5% -5.1% +2.0% Redcar -10.9% +13.8% -2.9% Redditch -11.0% +9.4% -0.7% +2.3% Regent’s Park & Kensington North -12.1% +11.6% +0.6% -0.1% Reigate -13.7% +10.3% -4.1% +7.5% Ribble Valley -5.9% +7.0% -3.2% +2.1% Richmond -11.6% +16.3% -8.8% +4.1% Richmond Park -12.4% +3.8% +7.0% +1.5% Rochdale -14.4% +11.7% +2.0% +0.6% Rochford & Southend East -10.3% +12.2% -2.4% +0.5% Romford -16.5% +14.8% -4.5% +6.1% Romsey -17.2% +5.7% +6.3% +5.2% Rossendale & Darwen -11.2% +10.1% -1.2% +2.3% Rother Valley -10.2% +7.1% -1.1% +4.2% Rotherham -9.4% +7.4% -1.9% +4.0% Rugby & Kenilworth -10.2% +11.1% -1.0% +0.1% Ruislip - Northwood -12.6% +13.0% -0.4% +0.0% Runnymede & Weybridge -12.8% +13.5% -4.8% +4.1% Rushcliffe -10.0% +13.0% -5.7% +2.7% Rutland & Melton -15.6% +13.3% -1.6% +3.9% Ryedale -11.6% +3.3% +3.4% +4.9% Saffron Walden -11.2% +7.2% -1.8% +5.9% Salford -9.0% +9.9% -2.3% +1.5% Salisbury -9.1% +8.5% -5.0% +5.6% Scarborough & Whitby -13.6% +15.8% -4.8% +2.5% Scunthorpe -9.6% +6.1% +0.7% +2.8% Sedgefield -10.3% +8.9% -3.2% +4.6% Selby -12.1% +10.2% -1.0% +3.0% Sevenoaks -12.2% +8.4% -0.5% +4.3% Sheffield Central -6.8% +4.0% -1.7% +4.4% Sheffield, Attercliffe -10.3% +7.8% +1.1% +1.4% Sheffield, Brightside -8.4% +3.1% +2.1% +3.1% Sheffield, Hallam -16.5% -4.9% +20.6% +0.8% Sheffield, Heeley -10.3% +5.1% +2.9% +2.4% Sheffield, Hillsborough -5.0% +10.7% -8.5% +2.8% Sherwood -14.1% +11.0% -1.0% +4.1% Shipley -12.6% +15.0% -4.9% +2.5% Shrewsbury & Atcham -11.8% +11.0% -2.0% +2.8% Sittingbourne & Sheppey -12.4% +16.6% -8.5% +4.3% Skipton & Ripon -11.3% +7.6% -2.1% +5.9%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Sleaford & North Hykeham -14.5% +12.4% -1.5% +3.6% Slough -14.8% +12.5% +0.2% +2.1% Solihull -16.2% +7.6% +4.3% +4.3% Somerton & Frome -8.1% +5.9% -0.8% +2.9% South Cambridgeshire -16.5% +9.8% +1.0% +5.7% South Derbyshire -15.9% +10.5% +0.7% +4.7% South Dorset -14.8% +15.1% -6.4% +6.1% South East Cambridgeshire -14.5% +7.0% +3.9% +3.7% South East Cornwall -15.1% +3.6% +9.0% +2.6% South Holland & The Deepings -7.8% +9.2% -3.3% +1.8% South Norfolk -12.2% +7.7% +1.4% +3.2% South Ribble -12.2% +12.0% -4.1% +4.4% South Shields -12.1% +10.3% -3.5% +5.2% South Staffordshire -9.1% +8.9% -3.7% +3.9% South Suffolk -14.0% +7.5% +1.5% +5.1% South Swindon -13.2% +16.0% -4.3% +1.5% South Thanet -12.0% +18.0% -6.6% +0.5% South West Bedfordshire -15.5% +14.7% -2.3% +3.0% South West Devon -14.7% +13.1% -1.8% +3.5% South West Hertfordshire -13.3% +10.4% -0.2% +3.0% South West Norfolk -12.7% +10.8% -4.3% +6.3% South West Surrey -13.9% +3.0% +6.3% +4.6% Southampton, Itchen -13.8% +10.8% -2.2% +5.2% Southampton, Test -12.4% +8.7% +0.6% +3.1% Southend West -15.9% +10.5% +2.3% +3.2% Southport -11.1% +1.9% +6.6% +2.6% Spelthorne -13.7% +15.3% -3.4% +1.8% St Albans -12.4% +17.0% -6.9% +2.4% St Helens North -11.1% +7.0% -0.4% +4.5% St Helens South -9.5% +7.6% -0.5% +2.4% St Ives -11.8% -0.8% +4.4% +8.2% Stafford -8.9% +12.6% -5.9% +2.2% Staffordshire Moorlands -6.1% +11.3% -5.3% +0.1% Stalybridge & Hyde -11.4% +7.3% +3.0% +1.2% Stevenage -11.1% +16.8% -8.2% +2.5% Stockport -15.5% +14.8% -2.2% +2.9% Stockton North -14.1% +12.8% -1.1% +2.4% Stockton South -12.0% +19.7% -10.4% +2.7% Stoke-on-Trent Central -11.2% +8.2% -1.7% +4.6% Stoke-on-Trent North -13.5% +10.4% +0.2% +2.9% Stoke-on-Trent South -14.4% +12.2% -2.8% +4.9% Stone -9.2% +10.8% -1.5% -0.1% Stourbridge -13.0% +8.9% +2.5% +1.5% Stratford-on-Avon -10.5% +7.1% -0.1% +3.6% Streatham -16.7% +13.4% +3.6% -0.3% Stretford & Urmston -10.3% +9.5% -1.1% +1.8% Stroud -8.3% +13.3% -6.1% +1.2% Suffolk Coastal -13.9% +9.5% -1.3% +5.6% Sunderland North -11.1% +8.6% -0.6% +3.0% Sunderland South -10.4% +10.6% -0.3% +0.1%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Surrey Heath -12.1% +9.8% -1.3% +3.7% Sutton & Cheam -17.3% +5.5% +8.5% +3.2% Sutton Coldfield -12.9% +8.9% +0.0% +4.0% Tamworth -12.6% +12.6% -1.9% +1.9% Tatton -24.7% -19.0% -18.1% +61.9% Taunton -7.3% +0.8% +1.9% +4.6% Teignbridge -11.0% +5.0% +3.6% +2.4% Telford -5.9% +5.1% -0.6% +1.5% Tewkesbury -8.1% +16.1% -7.1% -0.9% Thurrock -16.9% +17.5% -1.4% +0.8% Tiverton & Honiton -9.9% +1.9% +6.8% +1.2% Tonbridge & Malling -12.8% +10.2% -1.5% +4.1% Tooting -13.0% +11.5% +2.0% -0.5% Torbay -10.3% +5.3% -0.2% +5.3% Torridge & West Devon -8.6% +2.9% +0.1% +5.6% Totnes -14.3% +4.3% -0.7% +10.7% Tottenham -14.1% +12.8% -0.6% +1.9% Truro & St Austell -11.8% +5.5% -2.0% +8.3% Tunbridge Wells -9.8% +5.7% +0.2% +3.9% Twickenham -11.8% +5.2% +5.8% +0.8% Tyne Bridge -11.0% +10.0% -3.1% +4.1% Tynemouth -15.3% +13.1% +0.7% +1.5% Upminster -14.7% +16.1% -6.3% +4.8% Uxbridge -12.8% +12.8% -1.6% +1.7% Vale of York -15.9% +15.4% -4.1% +4.6% Vauxhall -11.4% +7.7% +1.6% +2.1% Wakefield -12.0% +9.1% -0.1% +2.9% Wallasey -18.0% +15.7% +0.6% +1.7% Walsall North -11.8% +9.9% -3.3% +5.3% Walsall South -10.2% +9.7% -2.0% +2.5% Walthamstow -16.9% +18.8% -2.1% +0.1% Wansbeck -9.6% +5.7% +0.7% +3.2% Wansdyke -11.9% +16.8% -6.8% +1.9% Wantage -14.3% +9.6% +1.6% +3.2% Warley -10.2% +10.7% -1.7% +1.2% Warrington North -10.9% +8.9% -1.0% +2.9% Warrington South -13.2% +11.4% +0.1% +1.8% Warwick & Leamington -10.7% +13.3% -5.3% +2.7% Watford -13.3% +11.3% +0.0% +2.0% Waveney -12.5% +16.2% -3.8% +0.1% Wealden -12.0% +8.0% -1.3% +5.3% Weaver Vale -7.2% +7.7% -2.2% +1.7% Wellingborough -9.6% +10.3% -3.4% +2.6% Wells -10.2% +7.5% +0.4% +2.3% Welwyn Hatfield -11.0% +11.1% -2.5% +2.5% Wentworth -6.8% +3.8% -0.4% +3.4% West Bromwich East -13.5% +9.2% +1.6% +2.6% West Bromwich West -37.6% -50.6% -11.8% +100.0% West Chelmsford -14.2% +11.2% +0.2% +2.8% West Derbyshire -12.1% +11.2% -6.0% +6.9%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

West Dorset -9.7% +4.8% +1.5% +3.4% West Ham -15.0% +14.9% -2.2% +2.3% West Lancashire -13.3% +10.9% +0.2% +2.1% West Suffolk -12.9% +13.1% -7.3% +7.1% West Worcestershire -9.7% +1.9% +8.0% -0.1% Westbury -11.6% +10.5% -4.1% +5.2% Westmorland & Lonsdale -14.6% +5.5% +5.9% +3.3% Weston-Super-Mare -10.3% +6.5% +1.6% +2.3% Wigan -8.4% +7.9% -1.7% +2.2% Wimbledon -16.4% +19.5% -4.7% +1.6% Winchester -9.6% +3.0% +5.2% +1.5% Windsor -8.1% +5.9% -0.4% +2.6% Wirral South -14.5% +16.4% -2.6% +0.7% Wirral West -13.7% +13.9% -1.9% +1.7% Witney -14.8% +12.5% -2.7% +5.0% Woking -20.7% +7.6% +0.2% +12.9% Wokingham -11.7% +5.5% +5.7% +0.4% Wolverhampton North East -13.5% +10.3% -2.0% +5.3% Wolverhampton South East -11.6% +7.0% -0.0% +4.6% Wolverhampton South West -9.4% +10.5% -0.3% -0.9% Woodspring -8.9% +8.3% -1.3% +1.9% Worcester -9.8% +10.2% -0.6% +0.2% Workington -12.0% +10.0% +0.6% +1.4% Worsley -7.9% +8.4% +0.9% -1.4% Worthing West -15.6% +7.6% +3.6% +4.4% Wrekin, The -7.5% +15.0% -6.5% -1.0% Wycombe -13.3% +14.0% -4.5% +3.9% Wyre Forest -11.3% +17.5% -13.3% +7.2% Wythenshawe & Sale East -9.8% +8.6% -2.1% +3.3% Yeovil -9.3% +5.3% -2.9% +6.9% York, City of -14.5% +10.8% +0.6% +3.1%

Wales Aberavon -6.0% +4.2% -1.1% +1.0% +1.9% Alyn & Deeside -14.1% +11.0% -0.0% +0.6% +2.5% Blaenau Gwent -3.2% +0.5% +2.3% +0.4% Brecon & Radnorshire -7.1% +0.4% +5.1% +0.5% +1.2% Bridgend -12.9% +6.8% +1.2% +1.0% +3.8% Caernarfon -6.9% +13.9% -0.9% -8.0% +1.9% Caerphilly -7.4% +4.2% -0.3% +0.0% +3.5% Cardiff Central -13.9% +1.7% +3.6% +1.8% +6.7% Cardiff North -11.5% +11.5% -2.7% +0.6% +2.0% Cardiff South & Penarth -12.9% -2.2% +1.5% +1.6% +11.9% Cardiff West -11.4% +7.1% -0.1% +2.3% +2.1% Carmarthen East & Dinefwr -8.3% +1.4% -1.6% +5.6% +2.9% Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire -8.9% +10.6% -2.6% -2.4% +3.4% Ceredigion -9.1% +5.7% -10.0% +10.7% +2.7% Clwyd South -7.2% +8.4% -1.7% -1.6% +2.2% Clwyd West -16.0% +6.2% -2.9% +8.9% +3.9% Conwy -9.5% +9.3% -0.2% -0.5% +0.9%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Cynon Valley -6.1% +0.6% +3.3% -0.4% +2.5% Delyn -13.6% +10.3% -0.8% +1.3% +2.7% Gower -11.3% +3.7% +3.0% +1.6% +3.0% Islwyn -7.0% -0.2% +2.8% +2.4% +2.0% Llanelli -4.9% +3.4% -3.6% +3.2% +1.8% Meirionnydd Nant Conwy -10.5% +4.2% -1.9% +6.8% +1.5% Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney -4.7% +5.1% -3.8% -0.1% +3.5% Monmouth -8.0% +6.8% -1.4% +1.1% +1.6% Montgomeryshire -6.6% +6.7% -2.6% +0.3% +2.3% Neath -6.6% +5.5% +0.9% -3.2% +3.4% Newport East -10.0% +2.7% -1.5% +1.9% +6.9% Newport West -11.6% +7.4% +0.3% +1.6% +2.3% Ogmore -5.4% +2.2% +2.4% +0.7% Pontypridd -7.4% +3.1% +4.9% -2.6% +2.1% Preseli Pembrokeshire -11.8% +10.2% +0.7% -2.3% +3.2% Rhondda -4.0% -0.1% +0.4% +1.5% +2.2% Swansea East -7.9% +5.7% -0.6% -0.2% +3.1% Swansea West -10.9% +3.2% +4.0% +2.8% +0.9% Torfaen -8.0% +4.9% -0.9% -0.1% +4.1% Vale of Clwyd -13.9% +13.9% -3.7% +1.1% +2.6% Vale of Glamorgan -10.0% +9.6% -0.1% +0.5% Wrexham -8.6% +6.2% -1.7% +0.6% +3.5% Ynys-Mon -13.1% +9.7% -0.5% +2.3% +1.6%

Scotland Aberdeen Central -9.3% +6.7% +2.7% -1.4% +1.3% Aberdeen North -3.6% +12.8% -9.7% -0.7% +1.2% Aberdeen South -11.0% +11.4% +1.0% -2.3% +1.0% Airdrie & Shotts -6.0% -0.7% -0.3% +6.3% +0.7% Angus -13.5% +2.7% +0.6% +9.1% +1.0% Argyll & Bute -8.8% +2.1% +5.3% -0.6% +2.0% Ayr -4.6% +5.8% -2.7% +1.4% +0.2% Banff & Buchan -10.9% +3.2% +0.1% +4.9% +2.6% Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross -10.8% +12.2% -8.8% +4.6% +2.8% Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley -8.7% +5.7% +0.1% +1.6% +1.3% Central Fife -8.4% +7.9% -0.5% +0.1% +0.9% Clydebank & Milngavie -9.0% +5.0% +0.9% +2.7% +0.4% Clydesdale -7.1% +7.9% +0.1% -0.9% -0.0% Coatbridge & Chryston -7.0% +6.5% -0.5% +0.3% +0.7% Cumbernauld & Kilsyth -4.5% +4.7% -2.0% -1.2% +2.9% Cunninghame North -10.7% +9.3% -1.2% +0.2% +2.3% Cunninghame South -6.2% +9.8% -1.7% -3.4% +1.6% Dumbarton -12.1% +6.0% -0.1% +4.8% +1.5% Dumfries -15.1% +17.9% -0.6% -2.7% +0.5% Dundee East -2.7% +6.8% -0.2% -5.5% +1.6% Dundee West -5.7% +6.1% +0.2% -1.3% +0.7% Dunfermline East -6.3% +3.9% -0.2% +0.8% +1.7% Dunfermline West -10.4% +11.6% -2.0% -0.7% +1.5% East Kilbride -6.6% +9.2% -3.2% -2.7% +3.3% East Lothian -10.2% +7.2% -0.5% +2.4% +1.1%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Con Lab LibDem PC/SNP Other

Eastwood -13.1% +15.6% -4.7% +0.5% +1.7% Edinburgh Central -8.2% +8.6% -1.7% +0.6% +0.8% Edinburgh East & Musselburgh -8.6% +8.9% -0.8% +1.1% -0.6% Edinburgh North & Leith -7.0% +12.0% +1.3% -0.2% -6.1% Edinburgh Pentlands -7.8% +11.8% -2.7% -2.7% +1.3% Edinburgh South -10.9% +5.3% +4.5% +0.0% +1.1% Edinburgh West -10.2% +1.4% +13.3% -3.7% -0.8% Falkirk East -6.2% +12.0% -2.1% -4.4% +0.8% Falkirk West -6.8% +7.9% -1.0% -0.1% Galloway & Upper Nithsdale -11.5% +3.4% -2.2% +7.5% +2.8% Glasgow Anniesland -4.2% +8.8% -6.5% +0.1% +1.8% Glasgow Baillieston -2.1% +2.5% -0.5% -3.5% +3.6% Glasgow Cathcart -8.8% +8.0% -0.3% -0.5% +1.6% Glasgow Govan -10.9% +1.0% +0.4% +7.4% +2.1% Glasgow Kelvin -2.3% +4.1% -4.7% +2.1% +0.9% Glasgow Maryhill -3.8% +2.3% +0.5% -2.5% +3.4% Glasgow Pollok -2.1% +10.1% -0.9% -7.1% +0.1% Glasgow Rutherglen -9.9% +4.1% +2.9% -0.3% +3.2% Glasgow Shettleston -6.7% +7.7% -2.2% -2.2% +3.4% Glasgow Springburn -4.9% +6.4% -0.1% -3.4% +1.9% Gordon -21.9% +4.0% +15.4% +1.4% +1.1% Greenock & Inverclyde -9.6% +8.4% -0.1% +1.3% Hamilton North & Bellshill -4.8% +5.7% -1.7% -0.6% +1.5% Hamilton South -7.4% +8.7% -1.5% -2.7% +3.0% Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber -6.0% +10.7% -9.2% +3.9% +0.6% Kilmarnock & Loudoun -8.2% +5.0% -1.5% +3.8% +0.9% Kirkcaldy -8.4% +8.0% -1.0% +0.3% +1.2% Linlithgow -1.2% +4.9% -1.1% -3.3% +0.7% Livingston -8.7% +9.0% -2.4% +1.5% +0.5% Midlothian -6.7% +5.3% -0.8% +2.3% -0.2% Moray -10.0% +7.9% +3.0% -3.0% +2.1% Motherwell & Wishaw -4.6% +0.9% +0.3% +1.0% +2.4% North East Fife -12.0% +4.7% +4.8% +2.3% +0.3% North Tayside -10.6% +4.3% +0.3% +6.1% Ochil -9.4% +1.9% -1.7% +8.3% +0.9% Orkney & Shetland -9.8% -1.6% +5.6% +1.5% +4.3% Paisley North -6.1% +7.6% -0.8% -1.6% +0.9% Paisley South -6.7% +6.7% +0.5% -1.2% +0.7% Perth -11.1% +11.6% -3.9% +2.0% +1.5% Ross, Skye & Inverness West -10.9% +9.8% +0.0% +0.8% +0.3% Roxburgh & Berwickshire -10.3% +6.2% +0.0% +0.7% +3.3% Stirling -6.7% +8.8% -0.5% -1.1% -0.6% Strathkelvin & Bearsden -12.5% +6.8% +1.5% +3.4% +0.8% Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale -8.6% +11.0% -3.8% -0.1% +1.5% West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine -10.2% +2.3% +6.4% +0.6% +1.0% West Renfrewshire -9.2% +3.7% -0.8% +5.9% +0.4% Western Isles -1.8% +7.8% -0.4% -3.8% -1.8%

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Change in share of the vote by party and constituency Alliance DUP SDLP SF UKUP UU Others Northern Ireland Belfast East -3.5% -11.8% +1.6% +0.4% +25.3% -12.0% Belfast North -2.4% +2.1% +8.9% +0.1% -8.7% Belfast South -2.7% +10.1% +2.6% -16.7% +6.7% Belfast West -5.5% +13.9% -8.2% -0.2% East Antrim -5.0% -3.2% +4.6% +1.6% -4.8% +6.9% East Londonderry -1.0% +25.6% +1.8% +5.6% -29.3% -2.8% Fermanagh & South Tyrone +0.3% -0.0% +4.0% -0.9% -3.4% Foyle -0.3% -3.5% -1.5% +6.6% -1.3% Lagan Valley +5.4% +13.6% -1.3% +0.4% -11.5% -6.7% Mid Ulster -1.7% -4.7% -8.5% +15.9% -1.1% Newry & Armagh +0.0% -6.3% +8.5% -2.5% +0.2% North Antrim -1.4% -4.3% +1.6% +2.1% +5.6% -3.5% North Down +5.0% -8.4% +4.4% +35.1% +31.1% -67.2% South Antrim +0.7% +2.6% +2.5% -13.9% +8.1% South Down +1.0% -3.2% +6.8% -2.6% -2.0% Strangford -3.0% +10.4% +6.7% +1.2% -4.8% -10.5% Upper Bann +0.7% +11.5% +0.8% +6.0% -15.4% -3.6% West Tyrone -2.9% -38.8% +1.1% +10.9% +34.6% -4.9%

There was not a Labour or Liberal Democrat candidate in Tatton or West Bromwich West while there was no Conservative candidate in Tatton.

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Conservative seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

South Dorset Ian Bruce 77 0.2% South West Bedfordshire David Madel 132 0.2% Teignbridge Patrick Nicholls 281 0.4% Hexham Peter Atkinson 222 0.5% Lichfield Michael Fabricant 238 0.5% Bury St Edmunds David Ruffley 368 0.7% Wells David Heathcoat-Amory 528 0.9% Meriden Caroline Spelman 582 1.1% Mid Dorset & North Poole Christopher Fraser 681 1.3% Boston & Skegness Richard Body 647 1.4% Totnes Anthony Steen 877 1.6% Uxbridge Michael Shersby 724 1.7% Bosworth David Tredinnick 1,027 2.0% Chipping Barnet Sydney Chapman 1,035 2.1% North Norfolk David Prior 1,293 2.2% Beverley & Holderness James Cran 1,211 2.3% Mid Norfolk Keith Simpson 1,336 2.3% Eddisbury Alastair Goodlad 1,185 2.4% Billericay Teresa Gorman 1,356 2.4% Tiverton & Honiton Angela Browning 1,653 2.8% Altrincham & Sale West Graham Brady 1,505 2.9% Bridgwater Tom King 1,796 3.3% West Dorset Oliver Letwin 1,840 3.4% Eastbourne Nigel Waterson 1,994 3.8% West Suffolk Richard Spring 1,867 3.8% Christchurch Christopher Chope 2,165 3.9% South West Norfolk Gillian Shephard 2,464 4.2% Basingstoke Andrew Hunter 2,397 4.2% North Shropshire Owen Paterson 2,195 4.3% Wycombe Ray Whitney 2,370 4.5% South West Surrey Virginia Bottomley 2,694 4.8% Orpington John Horam 2,952 4.9% Grantham & Stamford Quentin Davies 2,692 5.1% North Dorset Robert Walter 2,746 5.2% Aldridge - Brownhills Richard Shepherd 2,526 5.4% Southend West David Amess 2,615 5.6% North Thanet Roger Gale 2,766 5.7% Suffolk Coastal John Gummer 3,254 5.8% North East Hertfordshire Oliver Heald 3,088 5.9% North Wiltshire James Gray 3,475 6.0% Cheadle Stephen Day 3,189 6.1% Hertsmere James Clappison 3,075 6.1% Spelthorne David Wilshire 3,473 6.7% Central Suffolk & North Ipswich Michael Lord 3,538 6.7% East Yorkshire John Townend 3,337 6.8% Old Bexley & Sidcup Edward Heath 3,569 6.9%

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Conservative seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Stone Bill Cash 3,818 7.2% Canterbury Julian Brazier 3,964 7.3% Havant David Willetts 3,729 7.7% West Worcestershire Michael Spicer 3,846 7.8% South Suffolk Tim Yeo 4,175 8.0% Banbury Tony Baldry 4,737 8.1% Rushcliffe Kenneth Clarke 5,055 8.1% Guildford Nick St Aubyn 4,791 8.4% Faversham & Mid Kent Andrew Rowe 4,173 8.4% West Derbyshire Patrick McLoughlin 4,885 8.6% Westmorland & Lonsdale Tim Collins 4,521 8.9% Rochford & Southend East Teddy Taylor 4,225 9.1% Beckenham Piers Merchant 4,953 9.1% North East Cambridgeshire Malcolm Moss 5,101 9.2% Bromsgrove Julie Kirkbride 4,845 9.3% Sleaford & North Hykeham Douglas Hogg 5,123 9.6% Ashford Damian Green 5,355 9.7% East Worthing & Shoreham Tim Loughton 5,098 9.9% Epping Forest Eleanor Laing 5,252 9.9% Bournemouth East David Atkinson 4,342 10.0% Ryedale John Greenway 5,058 10.4% Charnwood Stephen Dorrell 5,900 10.5% New Forest East Julian Lewis 5,215 10.6% North Essex Bernard Jenkin 5,476 10.7% Westbury David Faber 6,088 10.7% Salisbury Robert Key 6,276 10.8% Wantage Robert Jackson 6,089 10.9% Woking Humfrey Malins 5,678 11.2% Poole Robert Syms 5,298 11.3% West Chelmsford Simon Burns 6,691 11.4% Congleton Ann Winterton 6,130 11.5% Ribble Valley Nigel Evans 6,640 11.6% North East Bedfordshire Nicholas Lyell 5,883 11.7% South Norfolk John MacGregor 7,378 11.9% Daventry Tim Boswell 7,378 11.9% Blaby Andrew Robathan 6,474 12.1% Cities of London & Westminster Peter Brooke 4,881 12.2% Folkestone & Hythe Michael Howard 6,332 12.2% Aldershot Gerald Howarth 6,621 12.2% Harborough Edward Garnier 6,524 12.3% Witney Shaun Woodward 7,028 12.5% Hertford & Stortford Bowen Wells 6,885 12.6% Hitchin & Harpenden Peter Lilley 6,671 12.7% Ludlow Christopher Gill 5,909 12.8% Mid Sussex Nicholas Soames 6,854 12.8% Chingford & Woodford Green Iain Duncan-Smith 5,714 12.9% Gosport Peter Viggers 6,258 12.9% Mid Bedfordshire Jonathan Sayeed 7,090 13.5%

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Conservative seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Louth & Horncastle Peter Tapsell 6,900 13.8% Bournemouth West John Butterfill 5,710 13.9% South West Devon Gary Streeter 7,397 14.0% Woodspring Liam Fox 7,734 14.1% Broxbourne Marion Roe 6,653 14.2% East Devon Peter Emery 7,494 14.3% Gainsborough Edward Leigh 6,826 14.3% Aylesbury David Lidington 8,419 14.6% Worthing West Peter Bottomley 7,713 15.0% Haltemprice & Howden David Davis 7,514 15.2% South Staffordshire Patrick Cormack 7,821 15.3% Tunbridge Wells Archie Norman 7,506 15.5% Bognor Regis & Littlehampton Nicolas Gibb 7,321 15.8% North West Cambridgeshire Brian Mawhinney 7,754 15.9% South Holland & The Deepings John Hayes 7,991 15.9% Macclesfield Nicholas Winterton 8,654 16.0% Reigate Crispin Blunt 7,741 16.1% South Cambridgeshire Andrew Lansley 8,712 16.2% Devizes Michael Ancram 9,782 16.3% South East Cambridgeshire James Paice 9,349 16.5% Romsey Michael Colvin 8,585 16.6% Rutland & Melton Alan Duncan 8,836 16.8% Fylde Michael Jack 8,963 17.2% Ruislip - Northwood John Wilkinson 7,794 17.4% Chichester Andrew Tyrie 9,734 17.5% Leominster Peter Temple-Morris 8,835 17.5% Bracknell Andrew Mackay 10,387 17.6% Tewkesbury Lawrence Robertson 9,234 17.7% Maidstone & The Weald Ann Widdecombe 9,603 17.9% South West Hertfordshire Richard Page 10,021 18.1% Vale of York Anne McIntosh 9,721 18.3% Mid Worcestershire Peter Luff 9,412 18.5% Saffron Walden Alan Haselhurst 10,573 18.5% Wokingham John Redwood 9,365 18.7% Mole Valley Paul Beresford 10,221 18.7% Brentwood & Ongar Eric Pickles 9,690 19.1% Runnymede & Weybridge Philip Hammond 9,875 19.2% Solihull John M Taylor 11,397 19.3% Windsor Michael Trend 9,917 19.5% Fareham Peter Lloyd 10,358 19.9% Maldon & East Chelmsford John Whittingdale 10,039 19.9% East Hampshire Michael Mates 11,590 19.9% Tonbridge & Malling John Stanley 10,230 20.8% Rayleigh Michael Clark 10,684 20.8% Sevenoaks Michael Fallon 10,461 20.9% Penrith & The Border David Maclean 10,233 20.9% Richmond William Hague 10,051 21.1% Bromley & Chislehurst Eric Forth 11,118 21.1%

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Conservative seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

North West Hampshire George Young 11,551 21.1% Epsom & Ewell Archie Hamilton 11,525 21.3% Skipton & Ripon David Curry 11,620 21.4% Henley Michael Heseltine 11,167 21.7% Croydon South Richard Ottaway 11,930 22.0% Bexhill & Battle Charles Wardle 11,100 22.7% Stratford-on-Avon John Maples 14,106 22.7% New Forest West Desmond Swayne 11,332 22.8% Cotswold Geoffrey Clifton-Brown 11,965 23.4% Maidenhead Theresa May 11,981 23.5% Wealden Geoffrey Johnson Smith 14,204 24.0% Buckingham John Bercow 12,386 25.1% Kensington & Chelsea Alan Clark 9,519 25.7% Horsham Francis Maude 14,862 26.0% Chesham & Amersham Cheryl Gillan 13,859 26.6% Esher & Walton Ian Taylor 14,528 27.1% Arundel & South Downs Howard Flight 14,035 27.3% East Surrey Peter Ainsworth 15,093 27.6% Beaconsfield Dominic Grieve 13,987 27.9% North East Hampshire James Arbuthnot 14,398 28.2% Sutton Coldfield Norman Fowler 14,885 28.4% Surrey Heath Nick Hawkins 16,287 29.8% Huntingdon John Major 18,140 31.8%

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Labour seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Kettering Philip Sawford 189 0.3% Wellingborough Paul Stinchcombe 187 0.3% North East Milton Keynes Brian White 240 0.5% Rugby & Kenilworth Andrew King 495 0.8% Northampton South Tony Clark 744 1.3% Romford Eileen Gordon 649 1.5% Lancaster & Wyre Hilton Dawson 1,295 2.2% Harwich Ivan Henderson 1,216 2.3% North West Norfolk George Turner 1,339 2.3% Castle Point Christine Butler 1,143 2.4% Harrow West Gareth Thomas 1,240 2.4% Bristol West Valerie Davey 1,493 2.4% Braintree Alan Hurst 1,451 2.6% Shrewsbury & Atcham Paul Marsden 1,670 3.0% Enfield, Southgate Stephen Twigg 1,433 3.1% Conwy Betty Williams 1,596 3.8% Gillingham Paul Clark 1,980 3.9% Sittingbourne & Sheppey Derek Wyatt 1,929 4.2% Clwyd West Gareth Thomas 1,848 4.6% Stroud David Drew 2,910 4.7% Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber David Stewart 2,339 4.9% Falmouth & Camborne Candy Atherton 2,688 5.0% Hastings & Rye Michael Foster 2,560 5.2% Warwick & Leamington James Plaskitt 3,398 5.7% Shipley Christopher Leslie 2,996 5.7% Chatham & Aylesford Jonathon Shaw 2,790 5.7% Newark Fiona Jones 3,016 5.8% Wirral West Stephen Hesford 2,738 5.8% Wimbledon Roger Casale 2,990 6.2% Eastwood Jim Murphy 3,236 6.2% Reading West Martin Salter 2,997 6.2% Oldham East & Saddleworth Phil Woolas 3,389 6.3% Finchley & Golders Green Rudolph Vis 3,189 6.3% South Thanet Stephen Ladyman 2,878 6.4% Ilford North Linda Perham 3,224 6.6% Hemel Hempstead Tony McWalter 3,636 6.6% Wrekin, The Peter Bradley 3,025 6.7% Upminster Keith Darvill 2,770 6.7% Putney Anthony Colman 2,976 6.8% Selby John Grogan 3,836 6.8% Croydon Central Geraint Davies 3,897 7.0% Bexleyheath & Crayford Nigel Beard 3,415 7.1% Hammersmith & Fulham Iain Coleman 3,842 7.1% Gedling Vernon Coaker 3,802 7.3% Reading East Jane Griffiths 3,795 7.6% Aberdeen South Anne Begg 3,365 7.6%

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Labour seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Brighton, Kemptown Desmond Turner 3,534 7.7% Leeds North West Harold Best 3,844 7.8% Hove Ivor Caplin 3,959 8.2% Carmarthen East & Dinefwr Alan W Williams 3,450 8.3% Dartford Howard Stoate 4,328 8.3% Stafford David Kidney 4,314 8.3% Bradford West Marsha Singh 3,877 8.5% Monmouth Huw Edwards 4,178 8.5% Colne Valley Kali Mountford 4,840 8.6% Wansdyke Dan Norris 4,799 8.8% St Albans Kerry Pollard 4,459 8.8% Glasgow Govan Mohammad Sarwar 2,914 9.0% South Ribble David Borrow 5,084 9.2% Scarborough & Whitby Lawrie Quinn 5,124 9.4% Rochdale Lorna Fitzsimons 4,545 9.5% Portsmouth North Syd Rapson 4,323 9.5% Broxtowe Nick Palmer 5,575 9.6% Birmingham, Edgbaston Gisela Stuart 4,842 10.0% Wolverhampton South West Jenny Jones 5,118 10.5% Watford Claire Ward 5,792 10.5% Brent North Barry Gardiner 4,019 10.5% Welwyn Hatfield Melanie Johnson 5,595 10.6% Ochil Martin O’Neill 4,652 10.6% Edinburgh Pentlands Lynda Clark 4,862 10.6% Gravesham Chris Pond 5,779 10.9% Loughborough Andrew Reed 5,712 10.9% South Swindon Julia Drown 5,645 11.0% Calder Valley Christine McCafferty 6,255 11.1% Chesterfield Tony Benn 5,775 11.2% Battersea Martin Linton 5,360 11.3% Stourbridge Debra Shipley 5,645 11.4% Burton Janet Dean 6,330 11.6% Pudsey Paul Truswell 6,207 11.8% Medway Robert Marshall-Andrews 5,354 12.0% Morecambe & Lunesdale Geraldine Smith 5,965 12.1% Hendon Andrew Dismore 6,155 12.3% Wyre Forest David Lock 6,946 12.6% Forest of Dean Diana Organ 6,343 12.6% Hornchurch John Cryer 5,680 12.9% Batley & Spen Mike Wood 6,141 13.1% Brigg & Goole Ian Cawsey 6,389 13.7% Redditch Jacqui Smith 6,125 13.7% Keighley Ann Cryer 7,132 13.9% Birmingham, Yardley Estelle Morris 5,315 14.1% Gloucester Tess Kingham 8,259 14.3% Bury North David Chaytor 7,866 14.3% Enfield North Joan Ryan 6,822 14.3% Worcester Michael Foster 7,425 14.4%

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Labour seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Bolton West Ruth Kelly 7,072 14.4% Wirral South Ben Chapman 7,004 14.6% Ayr Sandra Osborne 6,543 14.6% Stirling Anne McGuire 6,411 14.9% Tamworth Brian Jenkins 7,496 15.0% Peterborough Helen Brinton 7,323 15.1% Erewash Elizabeth Blackman 9,135 15.1% Leeds North East Fabian Hamilton 6,959 15.3% Kilmarnock & Loudoun Desmond Browne 7,256 15.3% High Peak Tom Levitt 8,791 15.4% North Swindon Michael Wills 7,688 15.9% Elmet Colin Burgon 8,779 16.2% Crosby Claire Curtis-Thomas 7,182 16.3% Ealing North Stephen Pound 9,160 16.4% Blackpool North & Fleetwood Joan Humble 8,946 16.6% Cardiff North Julie Morgan 8,126 16.8% Bedford Patrick Hall 8,300 17.0% Harrow East Tony McNulty 9,734 17.1% Chorley Lindsay Hoyle 9,870 17.1% Norwich North Ian Gibson 9,470 17.2% Great Yarmouth Tony Wright 8,668 17.7% Cleethorpes Shona McIsaac 9,176 18.2% Cardiff Central Jon Owen Jones 7,923 18.8% Chester, City of Christine Russell 10,553 18.8% Derby North Robert Laxton 10,615 18.9% Exeter Ben Bradshaw 11,705 18.9% Dewsbury Ann Taylor 8,323 19.3% Northampton North Sally Keeble 10,000 19.3% Dumfries Russell Brown 9,643 19.5% Vale of Glamorgan John Smith 10,532 19.5% Warrington South Helen Southworth 10,807 19.6% Staffordshire Moorlands Charlotte Atkins 10,049 19.7% Dudley North Ross Cranston 9,457 19.8% Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland Ashok Kumar 10,607 19.8% Plymouth, Sutton Linda Gilroy 9,440 19.8% West Renfrewshire Thomas Graham 7,979 20.1% Birmingham, Hall Green Stephen McCabe 8,420 20.1% Milton Keynes South West Phyllis Starkey 10,292 20.3% Luton North Kelvin Hopkins 9,626 20.3% Preseli Pembrokeshire Jackie Lawrence 8,736 20.6% Bristol North West Douglas Naysmith 11,382 20.6% Halesowen & Rowley Regis Sylvia Heal 10,337 21.2% Amber Valley Judy Mallaber 11,613 21.2% Rossendale & Darwen Janet Anderson 10,949 21.4% Waveney Robert Blizzard 12,093 21.5% Ipswich Jamie Cann 10,436 21.6% Dover Gwyn Prosser 11,739 21.7% Coventry South Jim Cunningham 10,953 21.9%

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Labour seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Corby Phil Hope 11,860 22.0% Harlow Bill Rammell 10,514 22.0% Tynemouth Alan Campbell 11,273 22.0% Halifax Alice Mahon 11,212 22.2% Western Isles Calum Macdonald 3,576 22.2% Stockton South Dari Taylor 11,585 22.2% Stevenage Barbara Follett 11,582 22.5% Carmarthen West & South Pembrokeshire Nick Ainger 9,621 22.6% Blackpool South Gordon Marsden 11,616 22.6% Vale of Clwyd Chris Ruane 8,955 22.9% Pendle Gordon Prentice 10,824 23.0% Crawley Laura Moffatt 11,707 23.2% South Derbyshire Mark Todd 13,967 23.3% Eltham Clive Efford 10,182 23.4% Luton South Margaret Moran 11,319 23.5% Hyndburn Greg Pope 11,448 23.7% Kingswood Roger Berry 14,253 23.8% Lincoln Gillian Merron 11,130 23.9% Bury South Ivan Lewis 12,381 24.6% Dundee East John McAllion 9,961 24.6% Basildon Angela Smith 13,280 25.0% Bethnal Green & Bow Oona King 11,285 25.3% Nuneaton Bill Olner 13,540 25.3% North West Leicestershire David Taylor 13,219 25.4% Edinburgh South Nigel Griffiths 11,452 25.5% Brentford & Isleworth Ann Keen 14,424 25.7% Bolton North East David Crausby 12,669 25.7% Edinburgh Central Alistair Darling 11,070 25.9% Aberdeen North Malcolm Savidge 10,010 26.1% Southampton, Test Alan Whitehead 13,684 26.1% Walsall South Bruce George 11,312 26.2% Dumbarton John McFall 10,883 26.4% Southampton, Itchen John Denham 14,229 26.4% Edinburgh North & Leith Malcolm Chisholm 10,978 26.8% Cunninghame North Brian Wilson 11,039 26.8% Brighton, Pavilion David Lepper 13,181 26.9% Dudley South Ian Pearson 13,027 27.2% North Warwickshire Mike O’Brien 14,767 27.2% Linlithgow Tam Dalyell 10,838 27.3% Slough Fiona Mactaggart 13,071 27.4% Livingston Robin Cook 11,747 27.4% Cambridge Anne Campbell 14,137 27.5% Nottingham South Alan Simpson 13,364 27.5% Cannock Chase Tony Wright 14,478 27.6% Weaver Vale Mike Hall 13,448 27.8% Birmingham, Selly Oak Lynne Jones 14,088 27.9% Midlothian Eric Clarke 9,870 28.0% Stretford & Urmston Beverley Hughes 13,640 28.0%

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Labour seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Norwich South Charles Clarke 14,239 28.0% Ilford South Mike Gapes 14,200 28.4% Carlisle Eric Martlew 12,390 28.4% Mitcham & Morden Siobhain McDonagh 13,741 28.7% Bradford South Gerry Sutcliffe 12,936 28.7% Wakefield David Hinchcliffe 14,604 28.9% Copeland Jack Cunningham 11,996 29.0% Walsall North David Winnick 12,588 29.1% Birmingham, Northfield Richard Burden 11,443 29.5% Glasgow Kelvin George Galloway 9,665 29.6% Sherwood Paddy Tipping 16,812 29.7% Gower Martin Caton 13,007 30.0% Edmonton Andy Love 13,472 30.0% Barrow & Furness John Hutton 14,497 30.1% Hampstead & Highgate Glenda Jackson 13,284 30.2% Aberdeen Central Frank Doran 10,801 30.3% Clydesdale Jimmy Hood 13,809 30.4% Telford Bruce Grocott 11,290 30.4% Blackburn Jack Straw 14,451 30.4% Bradford North Terry Rooney 12,770 30.5% Ellesmere Port & Neston Andrew Miller 16,035 30.5% Dundee West Ernie Ross 11,859 30.6% Coventry North West Geoffrey Robinson 16,601 30.6% Kirkcaldy Lewis Moonie 10,710 30.6% Cumbernauld & Kilsyth Rosemary McKenna 11,128 30.9% Regent’s Park & Kensington North Karen Buck 14,657 31.0% Sheffield, Hillsborough Helen Jackson 16,451 31.0% Derby South Margaret Beckett 16,106 31.1% Delyn David Hanson 12,693 31.2% Crewe & Nantwich Gwyneth Dunwoody 15,798 31.2% West Lancashire Colin Pickthall 17,119 31.3% Birmingham, Erdington Robin Corbett 12,657 31.3% Wolverhampton North East Ken Purchase 12,987 31.4% Leicester West Patricia Hewitt 12,864 31.4% Morley & Rothwell John Gunnell 14,750 32.1% Falkirk East Michael Connarty 13,385 32.2% Wrexham John Marek 11,762 32.3% Lewisham East Bridget Prentice 12,127 32.4% Tooting Tom Cox 15,011 32.6% Ealing, Acton & Shepherd’s Bush Clive Soley 15,650 32.6% Cardiff South & Penarth Alun Michael 13,861 32.7% West Bromwich East Peter Snape 13,584 32.7% East Lothian John Home Robertson 14,221 32.7% Feltham & Heston Alan Keen 15,273 32.8% Strathkelvin & Bearsden Sam Galbraith 16,292 32.8% Wythenshawe & Sale East Paul Goggins 15,019 33.0% Darlington Alan Milburn 16,025 33.3% Bristol East Jean Corston 16,159 33.5%

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Labour seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Central Fife Henry McLeish 13,713 33.6% Don Valley Caroline Flint 14,659 33.7% Dunfermline West Rachel Squire 12,354 33.9% Clydebank & Milngavie Tony Worthington 13,320 34.1% Scunthorpe Elliot Morley 14,173 34.1% Paisley South Gordon McMaster 12,750 34.1% Leicester South James Marshall 16,493 34.3% Stalybridge & Hyde Tom Pendry 14,806 34.4% Edinburgh East & Musselburgh Gavin Strang 14,530 34.5% Heywood & Middleton Jim Dobbin 17,542 34.7% Hayes & Harlington John McDonnell 14,291 34.8% Oxford East Andrew Smith 16,665 34.8% Motherwell & Wishaw Frank Roy 12,791 34.9% Croydon North Malcolm Wicks 18,398 35.0% Newcastle-under-Lyme Llin Golding 17,206 35.0% Clwyd South Martyn Jones 13,810 35.1% York, City of Hugh Bayley 20,523 35.2% Bridgend Win Griffiths 15,248 35.2% North East Derbyshire Harry Barnes 18,321 35.2% Oldham West & Royton Michael Meacher 16,201 35.4% Huddersfield Barry Sheerman 15,848 35.6% East Kilbride Adam Ingram 17,384 35.6% Swansea West Alan Williams 14,459 35.7% Newcastle upon Tyne Central Jim Cousins 16,480 35.8% Falkirk West Dennis Canavan 13,783 35.9% Bassetlaw Joe Ashton 17,348 36.1% Blaydon John McWilliam 16,605 36.2% Newport West Paul Flynn 14,537 36.2% Newport East Alan Howarth 13,523 36.3% Thurrock Andrew MacKinlay 17,256 36.6% Plymouth, Devonport David Jamieson 19,067 36.7% Dulwich & West Norwood Tessa Jowell 16,769 36.8% Normanton William O’Brien 15,893 37.0% Airdrie & Shotts Helen Liddell 15,412 37.4% Paisley North Irene Adams 12,814 37.5% Greenock & Inverclyde Norman Godman 13,040 37.6% Great Grimsby Austin Mitchell 16,244 37.7% Burnley Peter Pike 17,062 37.7% Worsley Terry Lewis 17,741 37.9% Warrington North Helen Jones 19,527 38.1% Lewisham West Jim Dowd 14,317 38.1% Leyton & Wanstead Harry Cohen 15,186 38.6% Bristol South Dawn Primarolo 19,328 38.8% Nottingham East John Heppell 15,419 38.8% Cardiff West Rhodri Morgan 15,628 38.8% Glasgow Cathcart John Maxton 12,965 38.8% Preston Audrey Wise 18,680 38.9% Llanelli Denzil Davies 16,039 38.9%

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Labour seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Alyn & Deeside Barry Jones 16,403 39.1% Ealing Southall Piara Khabra 21,423 39.2% Hartlepool Peter Mandelson 17,508 39.4% Sheffield, Heeley Bill Michie 17,078 39.5% Stoke-on-Trent South George Stevenson 18,303 39.6% Warley John Spellar 15,451 39.7% Workington Dale Campbell-Savours 19,656 39.8% Hornsey & Wood Green Barbara Roche 20,499 39.8% Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle Alan Johnson 15,525 40.5% Stockport Ann Coffey 18,912 40.5% Wallasey Angela Eagle 19,074 40.7% Barnsley West & Penistone Michael Clapham 17,267 40.9% Streatham Keith Hill 18,423 41.0% Doncaster Central Rosie Winterton 17,856 41.1% Islington South & Finsbury Chris Smith 14,563 41.2% Birmingham, Perry Barr Jeff Rooker 18,957 41.3% Leicester East Keith Vaz 18,422 41.5% Birmingham, Hodge Hill Terry Davis 14,200 41.6% Blyth Valley Ronnie Campbell 17,736 41.7% Erith & Thamesmead John Austin 17,424 41.9% Cunninghame South Brian Donohoe 14,869 42.0% Glasgow Pollok Ian Davidson 13,791 42.0% Manchester, Withington Keith Bradley 18,581 42.2% Glasgow Rutherglen Thomas McAvoy 15,007 42.2% Liverpool, Garston Maria Eagle 18,417 42.4% Newcastle upon Tyne North Doug Henderson 19,332 42.7% Walthamstow Neil Gerrard 17,149 42.8% Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley George Foulkes 21,062 42.8% Liverpool, Wavertree Jane Kennedy 19,701 42.9% Mansfield Alan Meale 20,518 43.3% Wolverhampton South East Dennis Turner 15,182 43.6% Denton & Reddish Andrew Bennett 20,311 44.1% Redcar Marjorie Mowlam 21,667 44.3% Hackney South & Shoreditch Brian Sedgemore 14,990 44.4% Glasgow Anniesland Donald Dewar 15,154 44.7% Greenwich & Woolwich Nick Raynsford 18,128 44.9% Ashfield Geoff Hoon 22,728 44.9% Hamilton North & Bellshill John Reid 17,067 44.9% Stoke-on-Trent North Joan Walley 17,392 45.0% Brent East Ken Livingstone 15,882 45.0% Nottingham North Graham Allen 18,801 45.4% Bishop Auckland Derek Foster 21,064 45.7% Durham, City of Gerry Steinberg 22,504 45.8% Sheffield Central Richard Caborn 16,906 46.4% Glasgow Baillieston James Wray 14,840 46.6% Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath Roger Godsiff 19,526 46.8% Coventry North East Bob Ainsworth 22,569 46.9% Holborn & St Pancras Frank Dobson 17,903 47.1%

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Labour seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Dagenham Judith Church 17,054 47.2% St Helens North Dave Watts 23,417 47.6% Manchester, Gorton Gerald Kaufman 17,342 47.8% Vauxhall Kate Hoey 18,660 47.8% Eccles Ian Stewart 21,916 48.0% Hamilton South George Robertson 15,878 48.0% Glasgow Maryhill Maria Fyfe 14,264 48.0% Stockton North Frank Cook 21,357 48.0% Poplar & Canning Town Jim Fitzpatrick 18,915 48.2% Barking Margaret Hodge 15,896 48.2% Hackney North & Stoke Newington Diane Abbott 15,627 48.3% East Ham Stephen Timms 19,358 48.5% Ashton under Lyne Robert Sheldon 22,965 48.6% Leeds East George Mudie 17,466 48.8% Leeds West John Battle 19,771 49.2% Bolton South East Brian Iddon 21,311 49.2% Sunderland South Chris Mullin 19,638 49.2% Sheffield, Attercliffe Clive Betts 21,818 49.2% Stoke-on-Trent Central Mark Fisher 19,924 49.5% Wansbeck Dennis Murphy 22,367 49.5% Jarrow Stephen Hepburn 21,933 49.9% Pontypridd Kim Howells 23,129 50.4% Kingston upon Hull North Kevin McNamara 19,705 50.8% Rother Valley Kevin Barron 23,485 50.9% Dunfermline East Gordon Brown 18,751 51.3% Coatbridge & Chryston Tom Clarke 19,292 51.3% Salford Hazel Blears 17,069 51.5% Sunderland North Bill Etherington 19,697 51.5% Wigan Roger Stott 22,643 51.7% Knowsley North & Sefton East George Howarth 26,147 52.6% Hemsworth Jon Trickett 23,992 52.8% Halton Derek Twigg 23,650 53.2% Leigh Lawrence Cunliffe 24,496 53.3% Sedgefield Tony Blair 25,143 53.4% North West Durham Hilary Armstrong 24,754 53.4% Tottenham Bernie Grant 20,200 53.6% St Helens South Gerry Bermingham 23,739 53.6% Middlesbrough Stuart Bell 25,018 54.3% Manchester, Blackley Graham Stringer 19,588 54.8% Glasgow Springburn Michael Martin 17,326 54.9% Doncaster North Kevin Hughes 21,937 55.0% Birkenhead Frank Field 21,843 55.5% Islington North Jeremy Corbyn 19,955 55.6% North Durham Giles Radice 26,299 55.8% Leeds Central Derek Fatchett 20,689 55.9% Lewisham Deptford Joan Ruddock 18,878 56.1% Torfaen Paul Murphy 24,536 56.7% South Shields David Clark 22,153 56.8%

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Labour seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Rotherham Denis MacShane 21,469 57.0% Brent South Paul Boateng 19,691 57.1% Caerphilly Ron Davies 25,839 57.1% Liverpool, Riverside Louise Ellman 21,799 57.2% Newcastle upon Tyne East & Wallsend Nicholas Brown 23,811 57.3% Bolsover Dennis Skinner 27,149 57.3% Wentworth John Healey 23,959 57.3% Kingston upon Hull East John Prescott 23,318 57.6% West Ham Tony Banks 19,494 57.9% Gateshead East & Washington West Joyce Quin 24,950 57.9% Camberwell & Peckham Harriet Harman 16,451 58.0% Makerfield Ian McCartney 26,177 58.2% Manchester Central Tony Lloyd 19,682 58.7% Sheffield, Brightside David Blunkett 19,954 58.9% North Tyneside Stephen Byers 26,643 59.0% Cynon Valley Ann Clwyd 19,755 59.1% Glasgow Shettleston David Marshall 15,868 59.2% Aberavon John Morris 21,571 60.0% Birmingham, Ladywood Clare Short 23,082 60.8% Rhondda Allan Rogers 24,931 61.1% Liverpool, West Derby Robert Wareing 25,965 61.6% Barnsley East & Mexborough Jeff Ennis 26,763 61.8% Pontefract & Castleford Yvette Cooper 25,725 62.1% Houghton & Washington East Fraser Kemp 26,555 63.5% Ogmore Ray Powell 24,447 64.2% Knowsley South Eddie O’Hara 30,708 64.5% Neath Peter Hain 26,741 64.8% Tyne Bridge David Clelland 22,906 65.7% Islwyn Don Touhig 23,931 65.7% Swansea East Donald Anderson 25,569 66.1% Barnsley Central Eric Illsley 24,501 67.2% Liverpool, Walton Peter Kilfoyle 27,038 67.2% Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney Ted Rowlands 27,086 69.2% Blaenau Gwent Llew Smith 28,035 70.7% Easington John Cummings 30,012 71.6% Bootle Joe Benton 28,421 74.4%

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Liberal Democrat seats by marginality Ranked by percentage majority Majority Constituency Winning candidate Votes Per cent

Winchester Mark Oaten 2 0.0% Torbay Adrian Sanders 12 0.0% Kingston & Surbiton Edward Davey 56 0.1% Somerton & Frome David Heath 130 0.2% Eastleigh David Chidgey 754 1.4% Weston-Super-Mare Brian Cotter 1,274 2.4% Lewes Norman Baker 1,300 2.6% Colchester Robert Russell 1,581 3.0% Torridge & West Devon John Burnett 1,957 3.3% Northavon Steven Webb 2,137 3.4% Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale Michael Moore 1,489 3.8% Taunton Jackie Ballard 2,443 4.0% Sutton & Cheam Paul Burstow 2,097 4.5% Carshalton & Wallington Thomas Brake 2,267 4.7% Richmond Park Jenny Tonge 2,951 5.2% West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine Robert Smith 2,662 6.2% Twickenham Vincent Cable 4,281 7.4% Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross Robert Maclennan 2,259 7.7% North Southwark & Bermondsey Simon Hughes 3,387 8.3% Portsmouth South Mike Hancock 4,327 8.4% Isle of Wight Peter Brand 6,406 8.8% Ross, Skye & Inverness West Charles Kennedy 4,019 10.1% Oxford West & Abingdon Evan Harris 6,285 10.3% North Devon Nick Harvey 6,181 11.3% South East Cornwall Colin Breed 6,480 11.3% Brecon & Radnorshire Richard Livsey 5,097 11.9% Southport Ronnie Fearn 6,160 12.2% Hereford Paul Keetch 6,648 12.7% Harrogate & Knaresborough Phil Willis 6,236 13.1% Cheltenham Nigel Jones 6,645 13.2% St Ives Andrew George 7,170 13.3% Newbury David Rendel 8,517 15.1% Edinburgh West Donald Gorrie 7,253 15.2% Gordon Malcolm Bruce 6,997 16.6% Argyll & Bute Ray Michie 6,081 17.0% Bath Don Foster 9,319 17.3% Sheffield, Hallam Richard Allan 8,271 18.2% Berwick-upon-Tweed Alan Beith 8,042 19.2% Montgomeryshire Lembit Opik 6,303 19.7% Yeovil Paddy Ashdown 11,403 21.1% Truro & St Austell Matthew Taylor 12,501 22.0% Roxburgh & Berwickshire Archy Kirkwood 7,906 22.6% North Cornwall Paul Tyler 13,847 23.7% Hazel Grove Andrew Stunell 11,814 23.9% North East Fife Menzies Campbell 10,356 24.8% Orkney & Shetland James Wallace 6,968 33.7%

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