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Portswood, in the Southampton Test constituency

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Southampton Test

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Photograph shows Portswood, a suburb in this constituency, not the whole of Southampton Test.

Your member of parliament

Satvir Kaur

Labour

Labour won Southampton Test at the 2024 general election with a majority of 9,333 votes, or 26.1 points. A swing of 13.1 points to Conservative would take it. That makes it safer than 519 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 131.

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How safe is this seat?

Safe

Knife-edgeMedian seatFortress

A majority of 26.1 points, which is larger than 519 of the 650 seats with a published margin.

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Labour finished ahead of Conservative by 9,333 votes.

Majority

9,333

26.1% of votes cast.

Turnout

54.6%

-5.1 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.

Candidates

7

35,805 valid votes counted.

Official figure
2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
CandidatePartyVotesSharevs UK
Satvir KaurElectedLabour15,94544.5%+10.8
Ben Burcombe-FilerConservative6,61218.5%-5.2
John EdwardsReform UK5,26114.7%+0.4
Katherine BarbourGreen Party3,59410.0%+3.6
Thomas GravattLiberal Democrat3,2529.1%-3.1
Wajahat ShaukatWorkers Party of Britain7752.2%+1.4
Maggie FrickerTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition3661.0%+1.0

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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