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England · Constituency

Gateshead Central and Whickham

Represented by Mark Ferguson (Labour)

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Your member of parliament

Mark Ferguson

Labour

Contact them, and see their voting record, on Parliament’s site

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Labour finished ahead of Reform UK by 9,644 votes.

Majority

9,644

24.0% of votes cast.

Turnout

57.6%

40,217 of 69,827 on the register.

Candidates

40,217 valid votes counted.

Official figure

2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Mark FergusonElected	Labour	18,245	45.4%
Damian Heslop	Reform UK	8,601	21.4%
Ron Beadle	Liberal Democrat	4,987	12.4%
Nicholas Oliver	Conservative	4,628	11.5%
Rachel Cabral	Green Party	3,217	8.0%
Norman Hall	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	369	0.9%
Graham Steele	Save Us Now	170	0.4%

Safe. A comfortable margin. That describes the 2024 general election result only — arithmetic on the published count, not a forecast.

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Local news for Gateshead Central and Whickham

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