Lucy Powell

The Rt Hon Lucy Powell is the Labour (Co-op) MP for Manchester Central, and has been an MP continually since 15 November 2012. She currently holds the Government post of Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons.

Last election result

Review the last election result for the constituency Manchester Central when Lucy Powell was elected.

2024 General Election

The 2024 General Election was held on 4 July 2024. A total of 10 candidates ran for election.

Summary

LAB
Labour Hold
Majority
13,797
Electorate
85,204
Turnout
46.6%

You can view more detailed information about this election result on the election result pages.

UK Parliamentary constituency boundaries have changed following a review in 2023. For the 2024 General Election, changes in vote share, majorities and turnout are calculated on the basis of 2019 notional results. Find out more about constituency boundary changes in this BBC explainer.*

*Estimates compiled by Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher on behalf of BBC News, ITV News, Sky News and the Press Association. Calculations for Scotland done by Professor David Denver, those for Northern Ireland by Nicholas Whyte.

Share of the vote

The graph below shows the share of the vote across all the candidates.

Breakdown

The table below shows the individual vote breakdown for each candidate.

Candidate/Party Votes Share Change
Lucy Powell
Labour
20,184 50.8% -14.6%
Ekua Bayunu
Green Party
6,387 16.1% 13.2%
David Brown
Reform UK
4,760 12.0% 7.5%
Chris Northwood
Liberal Democrat
3,051 7.7% 1.6%
Scott Smith
Conservative
2,823 7.1% -13.9%
Parham Hashemi
Workers Party of Britain
1,888 4.8% 4.8%
Sebastian Moore
Social Democratic Party
240 0.6% 0.6%
Sabeena Khan
Independent
202 0.5% 0.5%
Caitriona Rylance
Communist Future
131 0.3% 0.3%
Albati Kalonda
Independent
59 0.1% 0.1%