The 2024 General Election is just a couple of weeks away now, and households around Brighton and Hove will be considering who to vote for. Rishi Sunak will be hoping to maintain the current majority that the Conservative Party has in Parliament while Keir Starmer is looking to have Labour leading the Government for the first time since 2010. The last general election took place in 2019 and with the next one due on July 4, you might wonder how your area voted all those years ago.
We have put together a map showing how the entire UK voted, but let’s take a closer look at the seats around Brighton and Hove. How did Brighton and Hove vote in the 2019 General Election? Brighton and Hove are split up into three seats in Parliament, and here is the breakdown of which way they went in 2019. Brighton, Kemptown and Peacehaven Labour held the seat of Brighton, Kemptown and Peacehaven with a majority of 8,061 votes.
In total, five candidates ran to be MP for the area and the electoral turnout was 69.5%, with the breakdown as follows: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Labour) - 25,033 votes Joe Miller (Conservatives) - 16,972 votes Ben Thomas (Liberal Democrats) - 2,964 votes Alexandra Phillips (The Green Party) - 2,237 votes Graham Cushway (The Brexit Party) - 1,327 votes Brighton Pavilion The Green Party held the seat of Brighton Pavilion with a majority of 19,940 votes, retaining the party's only MP in Parliament. In total, seven candidates ran to be MP for the area and the electoral turnout was .
