England · Constituency
Canterbury
Covers Whitstable · Tankerton · Wincheap
Photograph shows Whitstable, a town in this constituency, not the whole of Canterbury.
Your member of parliament
Rosie Duffield
IndependentLabour won Canterbury at the 2024 general election with a majority of 8,653 votes, or 18.3 points. A swing of 9.2 points to Conservative would take it. That makes it safer than 409 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 241.
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How safe is this seat?
Safe
A majority of 18.3 points, which is larger than 409 of the 650 seats with a published margin.
2024 general election
How the seat voted
Labour finished ahead of Conservative by 8,653 votes.
Majority
8,653
18.3% of votes cast.
Turnout
66.4%
+6.7 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.
Candidates
6
47,231 valid votes counted.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | vs UK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosie DuffieldElected | Labour | 19,531 | 41.4% | +7.7 |
| Louise Harvey-Quirke | Conservative | 10,878 | 23.0% | -0.7 |
| Bridget Porter | Reform UK | 6,805 | 14.4% | +0.1 |
| Henry Stanton | Green Party | 5,920 | 12.5% | +6.1 |
| Russ Timpson | Liberal Democrat | 3,812 | 8.1% | -4.1 |
| Luke Buchanan-Hodgman | Social Democratic Party | 285 | 0.6% | +0.5 |
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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