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Halesworth, in the Waveney Valley constituency

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Waveney Valley

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Photograph shows Halesworth, a town in this constituency, not the whole of Waveney Valley.

Your member of parliament

Adrian Ramsay

Green Party

Green Party won Waveney Valley at the 2024 general election with a majority of 5,594 votes, or 11.4 points. A swing of 5.7 points to Conservative would take it. That makes it safer than 258 of the 650 seats with a published margin, and less safe than the other 392.

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How safe is this seat?

Competitive

Knife-edgeMedian seatFortress

A majority of 11.4 points, which is larger than 258 of the 650 seats with a published margin.

2024 general election

How the seat voted

Green Party finished ahead of Conservative by 5,594 votes.

Majority

5,594

11.4% of votes cast.

Turnout

67.2%

+7.5 points on the UK figure of 59.7%.

Candidates

6

49,072 valid votes counted.

Official figure
2024 general election result, every candidate by votes received
CandidatePartyVotesSharevs UK
Adrian RamsayElectedGreen Party20,46741.7%+35.3
Richard RoutConservative14,87330.3%+6.6
Scott HugginsReform UK7,77915.9%+1.6
Gurpreet PaddaLabour4,6219.4%-24.3
John ShreeveLiberal Democrat1,2142.5%-9.7
Maya SeverynSocial Democratic Party1180.2%+0.1

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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