Direct answer
Matt Bishop was elected.
Matt Bishop received 16,373 votes (34.05%). Mark Harper received 16,095 votes (33.47%).
- Winning party
- Labour
- Runner-up party
- Conservative
- Winning majority
- 278
- Turnout
- 66.01%
- Valid votes
- 48,091
- Electorate
- 72,857
Historical verified result · E14001240
Forest of Dean general election result, 2024.
Matt Bishop (Labour) won Forest of Dean in the 2024 UK general election by 278 votes over Mark Harper (Conservative).
Complete candidate result
All 6 candidates.
| Place | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt Bishop ↗Elected | Labour | 16,373 | 34.05% |
| 2 | Mark Harper ↗ | Conservative | 16,095 | 33.47% |
| 3 | Stan Goodin | Reform UK | 8,194 | 17.04% |
| 4 | Chris McFarling | Green Party | 4,735 | 9.85% |
| 5 | James Joyce | Liberal Democrat | 2,604 | 5.41% |
| 6 | Saiham Sikder | Socialist Labour Party | 90 | 0.19% |
Permanent constituency record
Forest of Dean, England
- Election.org ID
- eop-result-uk-2024-commons-e14001240
- Official constituency code
- E14001240
- Region
- South West
- Nation
- England
- Polling date
- 4 July 2024
- Result summary
- Lab gain from Con
- Invalid ballots
- 233
Coverage boundary
Election results are not a current roster.
These are historical 4 July 2024 results. They are not a current membership roster and do not identify candidates for a future election.
Candidate policies, biographies, current tenure, and political finance remain separate layers. Election.org does not manufacture those fields from a vote result.
Sources & notes
Source and freshness
- Publisher
- House of Commons Library
- Polling date
- 4 July 2024
- Verified
- 2026-08-25
- Constituency code
- E14001240
- Record
- Verified historical result
026cc74432050f5eba24adbf4c9e44617a1beca0cf15dbf8cd9a1f80137ee4d3