
England · Constituency
Houghton and Sunderland South
Represented by Bridget Phillipson (Labour)
Photograph shows England, not Houghton and Sunderland South — we don’t hold pictures of individual seats.
Your member of parliament
Bridget Phillipson
LabourContact them, and see their voting record, on Parliament’s site
2024 general election
How the seat voted
Labour finished ahead of Reform UK by 7,169 votes.
Majority
7,169
17.9% of votes cast.
Turnout
51.0%
40,032 of 78,448 on the register.
Candidates
5
40,032 valid votes counted.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridget PhillipsonElected | Labour | 18,837 | 47.1% |
| Sam Wood-Brass | Reform UK | 11,668 | 29.1% |
| Chris Burnicle | Conservative | 5,514 | 13.8% |
| Paul Edgeworth | Liberal Democrat | 2,290 | 5.7% |
| Richard Bradley | Green Party | 1,723 | 4.3% |
Safe. A comfortable margin. That describes the 2024 general election result only — arithmetic on the published count, not a forecast.
Coming soon
Local news for Houghton and Sunderland South
We’re working on pulling local reporting into each seat page, from across the spectrum and sourced the same way as everything else here. It isn’t built yet, and we’d rather say so than fill the space.
Nearby in the list