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East Barnet, in the Chipping Barnet constituency

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Chipping Barnet

Covers Whetstone · Cockfosters · East Barnet

Philafrenzy / CC BY-SA 4.0

Photograph shows East Barnet, a suburb in this constituency, not the whole of Chipping Barnet.

Your member of parliament

Dan Tomlinson

Labour

Labour won Chipping Barnet at the 2024 general election with a majority of 2,914 votes, or 5.7 points. A swing of 2.9 points to Conservative would take it. That makes it safer than 125 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 525.

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How safe is this seat?

Competitive

Knife-edgeMedian seatFortress

A majority of 5.7 points, which is larger than 125 of the 650 seats with a published margin.

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Labour finished ahead of Conservative by 2,914 votes.

Majority

2,914

5.7% of votes cast.

Turnout

65.2%

+5.5 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.

Candidates

7

50,859 valid votes counted.

Official figure
2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
CandidatePartyVotesSharevs UK
Dan TomlinsonElectedLabour21,58542.4%+8.7
Theresa VilliersConservative18,67136.7%+13.0
Hamish HaddowReform UK3,9867.8%-6.5
David FarbeyGreen Party3,4426.8%+0.4
Mark DurrantLiberal Democrat2,6145.1%-7.1
Richard HewisonRejoin EU3790.7%+0.7
Kay LauerIndependent1820.4%-1.7

Competitive. Close enough that a modest swing would change hands. 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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