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England · Constituency

Washington and Gateshead South

Represented by Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Labour)

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Your member of parliament

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

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 6,913 votes.

Majority

6,913

18.7% of votes cast.

Turnout

52.2%

37,021 of 70,972 on the register.

Candidates

37,021 valid votes counted.

Official figure

2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Sharon HodgsonElected	Labour	17,682	47.8%
Paul Donaghy	Reform UK	10,769	29.1%
Shaun Parsons	Conservative	4,654	12.6%
Michal Chantkowski	Green Party	1,687	4.6%
Ciaran Morrissey	Liberal Democrat	1,602	4.3%
Sharon McLafferty	Independent	627	1.7%

Safe. A comfortable margin. That describes the 2024 general election result only — arithmetic on the published count, not a forecast.

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