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Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
Covers Houghton Regis · Leighton Buzzard · Linslade
Photograph shows Houghton Regis, a town in this constituency, not the whole of Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard.
Your member of parliament
Alex Mayer
LabourLabour won Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard at the 2024 general election with a majority of 667 votes, or 1.4 points. A swing of 0.7 points to Conservative would take it. That makes it safer than 26 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 624.
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How safe is this seat?
Marginal
A majority of 1.4 points, which is larger than 26 of the 650 seats with a published margin.
2024 general election
How the seat voted
Labour finished ahead of Conservative by 667 votes.
Majority
667
1.4% of votes cast.
Turnout
60.0%
+0.3 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.
Candidates
6
46,045 valid votes counted.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | vs UK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex MayerElected | Labour | 14,976 | 32.5% | -1.2 |
| Andrew Selous | Conservative | 14,309 | 31.1% | +7.4 |
| Harry Palmer | Reform UK | 8,071 | 17.5% | +3.2 |
| Emma Holland-Lindsay | Liberal Democrat | 6,497 | 14.1% | +1.9 |
| Sukhinder Hundal | Green Party | 2,115 | 4.6% | -1.8 |
| Antonio Vitiello | English Democrats | 77 | 0.2% | +0.1 |
Marginal. Decided by under five points. 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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