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Whipps Cross, in the Walthamstow constituency

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Walthamstow

Covers Whipps Cross

Stacey Harris / CC BY-SA 2.0

Photograph shows Whipps Cross, a settlement in this constituency, not the whole of Walthamstow.

Your member of parliament

Ms Stella Creasy

Labour (Co-op)

Labour won Walthamstow at the 2024 general election with a majority of 17,996 votes, or 39.4 points. A swing of 19.7 points to Green Party would take it. That makes it safer than 622 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 28.

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How safe is this seat?

Very safe

Knife-edgeMedian seatFortress

A majority of 39.4 points, which is larger than 622 of the 650 seats with a published margin.

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Labour finished ahead of Green Party by 17,996 votes.

Majority

17,996

39.4% of votes cast.

Turnout

61.3%

+1.6 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.

Candidates

10

45,668 valid votes counted.

Official figure
2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
CandidatePartyVotesSharevs UK
Stella CreasyElectedLabour27,17259.5%+25.8
Rosalind RowlandsGreen Party9,17620.1%+13.7
Sanjana KarnaniConservative2,3535.2%-18.6
Martin LonerganReform UK1,8364.0%-10.3
Rebecca TaylorLiberal Democrat1,7363.8%-8.4
Imran ArshadWorkers Party of Britain1,5353.4%+2.6
Mohammed AshfaqIndependent9142.0%-0.0
Nancy TaaffeTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition5611.2%+1.2
Dan EdelstynIndependent2880.6%-1.4
Ruth RawlinsIndependent970.2%-1.8

Very safe. Won by more than thirty points. 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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