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Tudhoe, in the Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor constituency

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Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor

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Your member of parliament

Alan Strickland

Labour

Labour won Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor at the 2024 general election with a majority of 8,839 votes, or 22.2 points. A swing of 11.1 points to Reform UK would take it. That makes it safer than 471 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 179.

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How safe is this seat?

Safe

Knife-edgeMedian seatFortress

A majority of 22.2 points, which is larger than 471 of the 650 seats with a published margin.

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Labour finished ahead of Reform UK by 8,839 votes.

Majority

8,839

22.2% of votes cast.

Turnout

55.2%

-4.5 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.

Candidates

7

39,846 valid votes counted.

Official figure
2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
CandidatePartyVotesSharevs UK
Alan StricklandElectedLabour18,39446.2%+12.5
John GrantReform UK9,55524.0%+9.7
Paul HowellConservative8,19520.6%-3.1
Jack HughesGreen Party1,7014.3%-2.1
Anne-Marie CurryLiberal Democrat1,4913.7%-8.5
Brian AgarTransform Party2640.7%+0.7
Minhajul SuhonWorkers Party of Britain2460.6%-0.1

Safe. A comfortable margin. 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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