Direct answer
Yvette Cooper was elected.
Yvette Cooper received 17,089 votes (47.53%). John Thomas received 10,459 votes (29.09%).
- Winning party
- Labour
- Runner-up party
- Reform UK
- Winning majority
- 6,630
- Turnout
- 48.19%
- Valid votes
- 35,957
- Electorate
- 74,618
Complete candidate result
All 6 candidates.
| Place | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
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| 1 | Yvette Cooper ↗Elected | Labour | 17,089 | 47.53% |
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| 2 | John Thomas | Reform UK | 10,459 | 29.09% |
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| 3 | Laura Weldon | Conservative | 5,406 | 15.03% |
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| 4 | Olli Watkins | Green Party | 1,651 | 4.59% |
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| 5 | Jamie Needle | Liberal Democrat | 1,213 | 3.37% |
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| 6 | Trevor Lake | Social Democratic Party | 139 | 0.39% |
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Permanent constituency record
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, England
- Election.org ID
- eop-result-uk-2024-commons-e14001428
- Official constituency code
- E14001428
- Region
- Yorkshire and The Humber
- Nation
- England
- Polling date
- 4 July 2024
- Result summary
- Lab hold
- Invalid ballots
- 123
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