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Eastleigh

Covers Eastleigh · Allbrook · Chartwell Green · Hiltingbury

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Photograph shows Eastleigh. The constituency reaches beyond the town itself.

Your member of parliament

Liz Jarvis

Liberal Democrat

Liberal Democrat won Eastleigh at the 2024 general election with a majority of 1,546 votes, or 3.3 points. A swing of 1.6 points to Conservative would take it. That makes it safer than 75 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 575.

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How safe is this seat?

Marginal

Knife-edgeMedian seatFortress

A majority of 3.3 points, which is larger than 75 of the 650 seats with a published margin.

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Liberal Democrat finished ahead of Conservative by 1,546 votes.

Majority

1,546

3.3% of votes cast.

Turnout

66.3%

+6.6 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.

Candidates

6

46,420 valid votes counted.

Official figure
2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
CandidatePartyVotesSharevs UK
Liz JarvisElectedLiberal Democrat15,97034.4%+22.2
Sam JoynsonConservative14,42431.1%+7.4
Daniel ShearerLabour7,00515.1%-18.6
Clare FawcettReform UK6,15113.3%-1.0
Ben ParryGreen Party2,4035.2%-1.2
Russ KitchingIndependent4671.0%-1.0

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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