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Watchet, in the Tiverton and Minehead constituency

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Tiverton and Minehead

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Photograph shows Watchet, a town in this constituency, not the whole of Tiverton and Minehead.

Your member of parliament

Rachel Gilmour

Liberal Democrat

Liberal Democrat won Tiverton and Minehead at the 2024 general election with a majority of 3,507 votes, or 7.4 points. A swing of 3.7 points to Conservative would take it. That makes it safer than 158 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 492.

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How safe is this seat?

Competitive

Knife-edgeMedian seatFortress

A majority of 7.4 points, which is larger than 158 of the 650 seats with a published margin.

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Liberal Democrat finished ahead of Conservative by 3,507 votes.

Majority

3,507

7.4% of votes cast.

Turnout

65.9%

+6.2 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.

Candidates

5

47,491 valid votes counted.

Official figure
2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
CandidatePartyVotesSharevs UK
Rachel GilmourElectedLiberal Democrat18,32638.6%+26.4
Ian Liddell-GraingerConservative14,81931.2%+7.5
Fred KeenReform UK7,78716.4%+2.1
Jonathan BarterLabour4,3259.1%-24.6
Laura BuchananGreen Party2,2344.7%-1.7

Competitive. Close enough that a modest swing would change hands. 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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