Castle Combe is a small Cotswold village in Wiltshire, England. It is renowned for its attractiveness and for fine buildings including the medieval church. More recently it was the setting for the movie War Horse .

England · Constituency

Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley

Represented by Yvette Cooper (Labour)

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Your member of parliament

Yvette Cooper

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 6,630 votes.

Majority

6,630

18.4% of votes cast.

Turnout

48.2%

35,957 of 74,618 on the register.

Candidates

35,957 valid votes counted.

Official figure

2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Yvette CooperElected	Labour	17,089	47.5%
John Thomas	Reform UK	10,459	29.1%
Laura Weldon	Conservative	5,406	15.0%
Olli Watkins	Green Party	1,651	4.6%
Jamie Needle	Liberal Democrat	1,213	3.4%
Trevor Lake	Social Democratic Party	139	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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