Keir Starmer has held onto his seat in Holborn and St Pancras, but with a massively reduced vote share and an even bigger fall in vote total because of a 7.9% drop in turnout.
Starmer polled 18,884 votes, 48.9% of the total – down from 64.5% in 2019. But the 2019 vote total for Labour was 36,641, meaning Starmer received only a fraction over half as many votes in 2024. Still, none of the ‘mainstream’ media talking heads are pointing out these facts, instead portraying it as a triumph – as they are doing with Labour’s overall performance, despite the party achieving, according to the exit polls, a smaller share of the vote than Corbyn in 2017.
Independent Andrew Feinstein came second with 7,312 votes after a short campaign and the Greens came third.
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