Esther McVey ((The Conservative Party) has been re-elected as the MP for Tatton with 38% of the vote.
Ms McVey took the Tatton seat an overall majority of just 1,136, down from 17,387 in 2019, in what is historically a Tory stronghold
Result of the 4 July 2024 General Election: Tatton constituency
- Nigel Robert Hennerley, Green Party 2,571 votes, 4.95% share
- Ryan Bernard Jude, Labour Party, 18,820 votes, 36.26% share
- Esther Louise McVey, The Conservative Party, 19,956 votes, 38.44% share
- Jonathan Smith, Liberal Democrat, 4,614, 8.89% share
- Oliver George Speakman, Reform UK, 5,948 votes, 11.46% share
The turnout was 51,909 - 68.59%. Rejected Ballots: 198
2019 General Election Results: Tatton constituency
Conservative Majority 17,387 - 57.75%, Turnout 48,967 - 71.21%
- Nigel Robert Hennerley, Green Party 2,088 votes, 4.26% share
- Esther McVey, The Conservative Party. 28,277 votes, 57.75% share
- Jonathan Paul Smith, Liberal Democrat 7,712 votes, 15.75% share
- James Martin Owain Weinberg, Labour Party 10,890 votes, 22.24% share
2017 General Election Results: Tatton constituency
Conservative Majority 14,487 - 58.6%, Turnout 48,092 - 72.4%
- Esther McVey – Conservative Party 28,764 votes, 58.6% share
- Sam Rushworth – Labour Party 13,977 votes, 28.5% share
- Gareth Wilson – Liberal Democrat Party 4,431 votes, 9% share
- Nigel Hennerley – Green Party 1,024 votes, 2.1% share
- Quentin Abel – Independent 920 votes, 1.9% share
2015 General Election Results: Tatton constituency
- Stuart Hutton UK Independence Party 4,871 votes
- George Osborne Conservative 26,552 votes
- David Pinto-Duschinsky Labour 8,311 votes
- Tina Rothery Green Party 1,714 votes
- Gareth Wilson Liberal Democrat 3,850 votes
2010 General Election Results: Tatton constituency
- Sarah Flannery Independent 2243 votes
- Michael Gibson The True English (Poetry) Party 298 votes
- Richard Jackson Labour 7803 votes
- David Lomax Liberal Democrat 10,200 votes
- George Osborne Conservative 24,687 votes
Prior to the election Esther McVey said her priorities for Tatton are:
- To continue to fight against HS2. Labour and Andy Burnham want to reintroduce it, putting all our years of hard work at risk. The money saved from HS2 will be spent on local transport infrastructure, resurfacing roads, filling potholes, and repairing pavements. I want to see that money now spent wisely in Tatton and will lobby for that to happen.
- Ensure we keep our world class education system and not fall down the international league tables which is what's happening in Labour run Wales, and with the VAT the Labour Party plan to put on private schools and the havoc that would inflict on all schools including SEN ones, I want to be a strong voice against that.
- Support our local businesses - with inflation down to 2%, the U.K. moving up the global rankings, now 4th in the world for exports, and the U.K. having just over taken France for manufacturing - I want to continue supporting local and British businesses.
- Support our local farmers. I led the debate in the House of Commons on food security and farming and promoting British food.
- I want to protect our towns and villages from over-development. If re-elected I will keep holding councils to account over local planning issues. I regularly am contacted by constituents worried about planning applications, lack of planning enforcement or plans being passed without doctors, schools or road infrastructure to support them. It is vital that local residents' views should be listened to.
- See the completion of the new medial centre in Knutsford after all the hard work already done with the local GPs, the ICB and Cheshire East Council.
- Continue supporting our communities to get better broadband particularly in our rural villages.
- See Handforth Station completed next year. Having worked with Friends of Handforth Station and Handforth Parish Council, I lobbied government and secured funding for the much needed lift at Handforth station.
- I will continue to support local communities. I want to keep working with groups and residents as I believe in people power. We saw it very recently when the Labour-led Cheshire East Council wanted to close Knutsford Leisure Centre. I battled alongside local councillors and residents and the vital community asset was saved. I want to keep holding the councils to account and ensure no decisions are made that make no sense, are ill-conceived and negatively impact residents.
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She would have gone but for that.
The lesson of when we elected Independent Martin Bell and ousted Hamilton clearly hadn’t been learned.
As it stands, 61.6% of those who voted in Tatton voted against the Conservative candidate.
In the end LD vote in Tatton was much higher than in neighbouring constituencies & therefore directly impacted the result.
At one of the hustings events, my wife asked a question to the candidates about integrity and trust in politicians. Jonathan Smith mentioned he was for public service and would "behave transparently if elected". This clearly excluded behaving transparently during his campaigning up to voting day. The message he ultimately sends is "voter beware, the Lib Dems cannot be trusted in Tatton".
For that I cannot ever ever forgive her.
What is clear to me is that
1) Nearly a third of the electorate chose not to vote,
2) No candidate got a majority of the electorate voting for them
3) No candidate got a majority of those who chose to vote.
4) The majority of those who voted were unhappy with the outcome.
5) My vote was one of the 198 rejected.
6) We live in a first past-the-post-electoral democracy which has a habit of giving us a government with a majority of MPs based on a minority % share of the vote; whether that be Conservative or Labour.
Ye gods. Climate!!!!! Do your homework. It is nothing but a financial scam. Or if you are capable of more intensive research a capital transfer operation. You will be telling me CO2 at 440ppm is a concern. It’s not. At less than around 200ppm it certainly will be. We will be starving!
Just stop believing the BBC! And enjoy your tax increases. And more jib jabs!
Surely the renewed stench of WC Blair should be a warning.
Ye gods. Climate!!!!! Do your homework. It is nothing but a financial scam. Or if you are capable of more intensive research a capital transfer operation. You will be telling me CO2 at 440ppm is a concern. It’s not. At less than around 200ppm it certainly will be. We will be starving!
Just stop believing the BBC! And enjoy your tax increases. And more jib jabs!
Surely the renewed stench of WC Blair should be a warning.