Electoral history of Kemi Badenoch

This is a summary of the electoral history of Kemi Badenoch, who has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Conservative Party since November 2024.

She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Essex since 2024, and previously for Saffron Walden from 2017 to 2024.^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tessa Jowell	22,461	46.6	−2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Mitchell	13,096	27.2	+6.1
	Conservative	Kemi Adegoke	10,684	22.2	+1.3
	Green	Shane Collins	1,266	2.6	−3.7
	UKIP	Elizabeth Jones	707	1.5	+0.7
Majority			9,365	19.4	−0.3
Turnout			48,214	66.2	+9.3
Registered electors			72,817
	Labour hold		Swing	-0.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kemi Badenoch	37,629	61.8	+4.6
	Labour	Jane Berney	12,663	20.8	+9.0
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Hibbs	8,528	14.0	+3.4
	UKIP	Lorna Howe	2,091	3.4	−10.4
Majority			24,966	41.0	−2.4
Turnout			60,911	73.1	+1.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kemi Badenoch	39,714	63.0	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Hibbs	12,120	19.2	+5.2
	Labour	Thomas Van De Bilt	8,305	13.2	−7.6
	Green	Coby Wing	2,947	4.7	New
Majority			27,594	43.8	+2.8
Turnout			63,086	72.5	−0.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kemi Badenoch	19,360	35.6	–26.1
	Labour	Issy Waite	16,750	30.8	+17.0
	Reform	Grant StClair-Armstrong^[a]	7,668	14.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Smita Rajesh	6,055	11.1	–8.6
	Green	Edward Gildea	2,846	5.2	+0.4
	Independent	Andrew Green	852	1.6	N/A
	Independent	Erik Bonino	699	1.3	N/A
	Independent	Niko Omilana	156	0.3	N/A
Majority			2,610	4.8	–37.2
Turnout			54,386	68.5	–4.0
Registered electors			79,824
	Conservative hold		Swing	–21.6

Candidate	MPs' 1st ballot: 13 July 2022^[7]^[8]		MPs' 2nd ballot: 14 July 2022^[9]^[8]			MPs' 3rd ballot: 18 July 2022^[10]^[8]			MPs' 4th ballot: 19 July 2022^[11]^[8]			MPs' 5th ballot: 20 July 2022^[12]^[8]			Members' vote 22 July to 2 September 2022^[13]^[14]^[15]
Candidate	Votes	%	Votes	±	%	Votes	±	%	Votes	±	%	Votes	±	%	Votes	%	% Votes cast
Liz Truss	50	14.0	64	+14	17.9	71	+7	19.8	86	+15	24.1	113	+27	31.6	81,326	47.2	57.4
Rishi Sunak	88	24.6	101	+13	28.2	115	+14	32.1	118	+3	33.1	137	+19	38.3	60,399	35.0	42.6
Penny Mordaunt	67	18.7	83	+16	23.2	82	−1	22.9	92	+10	25.8	105	+13	29.3	Eliminated
Kemi Badenoch	40	11.2	49	+9	13.7	58	+9	16.2	59	+1	16.5	Eliminated
Tom Tugendhat	37	10.3	32	−5	8.9	31	−1	8.7	Eliminated
Suella Braverman	32	8.9	27	−5	7.5	Eliminated
Nadhim Zahawi	25	7.0	Eliminated
Jeremy Hunt	18	5.0	Eliminated
Votes cast^[b]	357	99.7	356	−1	99.4	357	+1	99.7	355	−2	99.4	355	0	99.2	141,725	82.2	100
Spoilt ballots	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	+1	0.3	2	+1	0.6	654	0.4
Abstentions	1	0.3	2	+1	0.6	1	−1	0.3	1	0	0.3	1	0	0.3	30,058	17.4
Registered voters	358	100.0	358	0	100.0	358	0	100.0	357	−1	100.0	358	+1	100.0	172,437	100.0

2010 general election, Dulwich and West Norwood

Candidate	MPs' 1st ballot: 4 September 2024^[16]		MPs' 2nd ballot: 10 September 2024^[17]			MPs' 3rd ballot: 8 October 2024			MPs' 4th ballot: 9 October 2024			Members' vote: 10–31 October
Candidate	Votes	%^[c]	Votes	±	%^[c]	Votes	±	%^[c]	Votes	±	%^[c]	Votes	%
Kemi Badenoch	22	18.6	28	6	23.5	30	2	25.2	42	12	34.7	53,806	56.5
Robert Jenrick	28	23.7	33	5	27.7	31	2	26.1	41	10	33.9	41,388	43.5
James Cleverly	21	17.8	21		17.6	39	18	32.8	37	2	30.6	Eliminated
Tom Tugendhat	17	14.4	21	4	17.6	20	1	16.8	Eliminated
Mel Stride	16	13.6	16		13.4	Eliminated
Priti Patel	14	11.9	Eliminated
Votes cast	118	97.5	119	1	98.3	120	1	99.2	120		99.2	95,194	72.8
Abstentions	3	2.5	2	1	1.7	1	1	0.8	1		0.8
Registered voters	121	100.0	121	0	100.0	121	0	100.0	121	0	100.0	131,680	100.0

v t e Kemi Badenoch
Career	Member of the London Assembly (2015–2017) MP for Saffron Walden (2017–2024) MP for North West Essex (2024–present) 19th Leader of the Conservative Party (2024–present) Leader of the Opposition (2024–present)
Leadership	Shadow Cabinet Opposition frontbench 2025 shadow cabinet reshuffle
Party leadership elections	September 2022 2024
Electoral history of Kemi Badenoch