In full: the 2024 General Election results for Colchester

Daniel Rees

5 July 2024 at 0:41 am·1-min read

Count – the results were announced shortly after 2am on Friday <i>(Image: Newsquest)</i> — Count – the results were announced shortly after 2am on Friday *(Image: Newsquest)*

Here are the full results for the Colchester constituency in the 2024 General Election.

Colchester (Labour gain)

• Pam Cox (Labour) 18,804
• James Cracknell (Conservative) 10,554
• Martin Goss (Liberal Democrat) 6,393
• Terence Longstaff (Reform UK) 6,664
• James Rolfe (Climate Party) 74
• Sara Ruth (Green) 2,414

Colchester Constituency Statistics:

• Voter turnout down from 64.7 per cent in 2019 to 57.3 per cent
• Conservatives win lowest number of votes since 1923
• Liberal Democrats win lowest number of votes since 1966
• Labour vote up 1,310 from 2019 to hit highest number since Bob Russell in 1979
• Green vote up 57 per cent from 2019
• Reform UK finish third despite contesting seat for the first time

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