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Halliwell, in the Bolton North East constituency

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Bolton North East

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Your member of parliament

Kirith Entwistle

Labour

Labour won Bolton North East at the 2024 general election with a majority of 6,653 votes, or 15.3 points. A swing of 7.7 points to Conservative would take it. That makes it safer than 346 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 304.

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How safe is this seat?

Safe

Knife-edgeMedian seatFortress

A majority of 15.3 points, which is larger than 346 of the 650 seats with a published margin.

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Labour finished ahead of Conservative by 6,653 votes.

Majority

6,653

15.3% of votes cast.

Turnout

54.2%

-5.5 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.

Candidates

8

43,359 valid votes counted.

Official figure
2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
CandidatePartyVotesSharevs UK
Kirith EntwistleElectedLabour16,16637.3%+3.6
Adele WarrenConservative9,51321.9%-1.8
Trevor JonesReform UK9,42821.7%+7.5
Hanif AlliGreen Party4,68310.8%+4.4
Rebecca ForrestLiberal Democrat1,5073.5%-8.7
Syeda KazmiWorkers Party of Britain1,4633.4%+2.6
Kevin AllsopIndependent3450.8%-1.2
John PartingtonIndependent2540.6%-1.5

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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