Conservatives retain Broadland seat amid Labour landslide
At the general election on Thursday 4 July, Conservative Party candidate Jerome Mayhew (pictured) was re-elected Member of Parliament for the Broadland and Fakenham constituency with 33% of the total votes.
Mr Mayhew won the seat with a much-reduced majority of 719 votes over the nearest challenger, Labour’s Iain Simpson. In the last general election in 2019, he had a majority of more than 21,800 over the Labour candidate.
Broadland and Fakenham 2024 results
- Jerome Mayhew (Conservative) – 16,322 votes, (33.0%)
- Iain Simpson (Labour) – 15,603 (31.5%)
- Eric Masters (Reform UK) – 8,859 (17.9%)
- Leyla Hannbeck (Liberal Democrat) – 5,526 (11.2%)
- Jan Davis (Green) – 3,203 (2.5%)
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Turnout: 65%
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