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England · Constituency

Battersea

Represented by Marsha De Cordova (Labour)

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Your member of parliament

Marsha De Cordova

Labour

Labour won Battersea at the 2024 general election with a majority of 12,039 votes, or 25.6 points. A swing of 12.8 points to Conservative would take it. That makes it safer than 517 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 133.

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How safe is this seat?

Safe

Knife-edgeMedian seatFortress

A majority of 25.6 points, which is larger than 517 of the 650 seats with a published margin.

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Labour finished ahead of Conservative by 12,039 votes.

Majority

12,039

25.6% of votes cast.

Turnout

64.6%

+4.9 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.

Candidates

9

47,082 valid votes counted.

Official figure
2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
CandidatePartyVotesSharevs UK
Marsha De CordovaElectedLabour22,98348.8%+15.1
Tom PridhamConservative10,94423.2%-0.5
Francis ChubbLiberal Democrat4,82610.3%-2.0
Joe TaylorGreen Party4,2399.0%+2.6
Barry EdwardsReform UK2,8256.0%-8.3
Daniel SmithWorkers Party of Britain4991.1%+0.3
Georgina Burford-ConnoleRejoin EU4010.9%+0.8
Jake ThomasIndependent2160.5%-1.6
Ed DampierSocial Democratic Party1490.3%+0.2

Safe. A comfortable margin. The vs UK column is each party’s share here against its own national share, summed from all 650 results. That describes the 2024 general election only: arithmetic on the published count, not a forecast.

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Source

The sitting member and the full 2024 result come from the UK Parliament Members API. Vote shares, turnout percentage and the margin are worked out from those published counts, and the national comparisons are the same arithmetic across all 650 results. Photograph: Saffron Blaze / CC BY-SA 3.0.