Islington South and Finsbury General Election 2024 results

Paul Gallagher & Cullen Willis

5 July 2024 at 3:54 am·2-min read

Labour has held the constituency of Islington South And Finsbury in the 2024 General Election. The elected candidate Emily Thornberry won by a majority of 15,455 votes.

Ms. Thornberry secured 22,946 votes in the poll, ahead of the Green party candidate Carne Ross in second place, who received 7,491 votes.

Residents in Islington South And Finsbury went to the polls on Thursday 4th July to choose the candidate who will serve as their MP in the next Parliament.

Counting of the General Election votes began after polls closed at 10pm on Thursday night, and the result in Islington South And Finsbury was published by the Press Association at 02:14 am on Friday

A total of 74,122 people were eligible to vote in Islington South And Finsbury, and of these 42,754 decided to complete a ballot paper, which meant the turnout in the constituency was 57.7 per cent.

The turnout figure in Islington South And Finsbury was down compared to the last general election in 2019, when 68.7 per cent of the electorate used their vote.

Here is the full result in Islington South And Finsbury:

Emily Thornberry (Labour) - 22,946 votes (53.7%).

Carne Ross (Green party) - 7,491 votes (17.5%).

Terry Stacy (Liberal Democrats) - 4,045 votes (9.5%).

Imogen Sinclair (Conservatives) - 3,584 votes (8.4%).

Max Nelson (Reform) - 3,388 votes (7.9%).

Andrew Parry (Independents) - 569 votes (1.3%).

Lesley Woodburn (PartyWomen) - 354 votes (0.8%).

Ethan Saunders (TUSC) - 215 votes (0.5%).

Jake Painter (Soc Dem) - 162 votes (0.4%).

Most UK constituencies have changed boundaries or names since the last General Election but analysis of previous results based on the 2024 boundaries for Islington South And Finsbury shows that Labour won 6,782 fewer votes than in 2019.

At the 2019 General Election Labour won 57 per cent of the votes cast, and in the 2024 election the party's vote share decreased to 53.7 per cent.

The Green party had a vote share of per cent in 2019 and this rose to a 17.5 per cent vote share in 2024.

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