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England · Constituency

Rochester and Strood

Represented by Lauren Edwards (Labour)

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Your member of parliament

Lauren Edwards

Labour

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

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Labour finished ahead of Conservative by 2,930 votes.

Majority

2,930

6.9% of votes cast.

Turnout

57.4%

42,598 of 74,257 on the register.

Candidates

42,598 valid votes counted.

Official figure

2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Lauren EdwardsElected	Labour	15,403	36.2%
Kelly Tolhurst	Conservative	12,473	29.3%
Daniel Dabin	Reform UK	9,966	23.4%
Cat Jamieson	Green Party	2,427	5.7%
Graham Colley	Liberal Democrat	1,894	4.4%
John Innes	Workers Party of Britain	245	0.6%
Peter Burch	Heritage Party	190	0.4%

Competitive. Close enough that a modest swing would change hands. That describes the 2024 general election result only — arithmetic on the published count, not a forecast.

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