The Labour Party made gains in Northamptonshire in the 2024 general election, with the party gaining five seats in the county.

Labour gained the Northampton South, Northampton North, Wellingborough and Rushden, Kettering and Corby and East Northamptonshire seats, with all 5 seats having been ones the Conservatives had won in 2019.

The Tories held on to continue to hold the constituencies of two Northamptonshire MP’s, with the party winning the respective elections in Daventry and South Northamptonshire.

All 5 of the seats Labour won had been targets before the election, with the party winning a majority in the House of Commons for the first time since 2005.

County town Northampton elected Labour MP’s, with Mike Reader named the new MP for Northampton South and Lucy Rigby elected Northampton North.

Reader’s seat was the first to be declared, with the Labour candidate winning 16,801 votes. He edged out the Tory candidate and previous MP Andrew Lewer, who had 12,819 votes. Lewer leaves Parliament after 7 years in the seat.

Reform UK’s Tony Owens came third on 8,210 votes, followed by Jill Hope of the Liberal Democrats on 3,193, Simon Sneddon of the Greens with 2,398, TUSC candidate Katie Simpson with 296 and Penelope Lucy Toillitt who picked up 98 votes for the Climate Party.

As for Northampton North, Rigby won 18,209 votes to pick up the seat. She took a seat previously held by Conservative candidate Michael Ellis, who opted not to stand for re-election.

The Tory candidate Dan Bennett picked up 9,195 votes as the runner-up, followed by Reform UK’s Antony Antoniou on 7,010, Green Party candidate Eishar Kaur Bassan on 2,558, Chris Leggett of the Lib Dems with 2,251, Worker’s Party candidate Khalid Razzaq with 1,531 and independent candidate Paul Clark with 1,059.

Wellingborough and Rushden will again be represented by Gen Kitchen, who had won the seat in a by-election earlier this year after long-standing former MP Peter Bone was forced to resign. Labour candidate Kitchen collected 17,754 votes to pick up the seat for a full term, edging out Tory candidate David Goss, who picked up 12,248 votes.

Reform were third as Ben Habib picked up 9,456 votes, followed by Green Party candidate Paul Mannion on 2,704, Christopher Townsend of the Lib Dems on 1,570 and Jeremy Brittin of the SDP with 273.

In Kettering, Labour’s Rosie Wrighting picked up 18,009 votes as the party won the seat for the first time since 2001. She beat Phillip Holobone, who had held the seat since the Conservatives won the seat off Labour in 2005, and who finished second with 14,189 votes.

Crispian Besley of Reform picked up 8,468 votes to finish third, with Emily Fedorowycz of the Greens in fourth on 7,004 votes. Sarah Ryan of the Lib Dems had 1,357 votes, then came independent candidate Jim Hakewill on 1,057, Matthew Murphy of the SDP with 85 and Jehad Soliman Aburamadan of the Alliance of Democracy and Freedom with 62.

Lee Barron was elected as the Labour MP for the district of Corby and East Northamptonshire, with Barron picking up 21,020 votes. He defeated former minister and Conservative MP Tom Pursglove, who had held the seat since 2015 and who finished on 14,689 votes.

Edward McDonald of Reform was third with 8,760 votes, followed by Lee Forster of the Greens with 2,507, Chris Lofts of the Lib Dems with 2,191 and independent candidate Karen Blott with 422 votes.

While Labour picked up five of Northamptonshire’s seven seats at the final count in Daventry on Thursday (04/07), the Conservatives retained two seats as they held on to the Daventry and South Northamptonshire seats.

Sarah Bool was named MP for the Conservatives for South Northamptonshire, succeeding former Minister and one-time Tory leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom, who elected not to run again.

The Tories secured 19,191 votes, enough for Bool to beat Labour candidate Rufia Ashraf, who scored 15,504.

Reform UK were third, with Paul Hogan securing 8,962 votes. Stewart Tolley of the Liberal Democrats picked up 4,989, Emmie Williamson of the Greens had 3,040, Ian McCord picked up 1,556 votes, Mick Stott of the Workers Party received 246 votes and independent candidate Stuart Robert picked up 209.

Meanwhile, in Daventry, Stuart Andrew was elected as the Conservative MP for the seat with 17,872 votes. He succeeds Chris Heaton-Harris, who also opted against running for re-election.

Marianne Kimani was the runner-up, with the Labour candidate picking up 14,680 votes. Scott Cameron of Reform UK was third with 10,636 votes, Jonathan Harris of the Liberal Democrats was fourth with 6,755, and Clare Slater of the Greens received 2,959.