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Maldon — UK General Election Results

Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30

Maldon was won by Conservative at the 2024 general election, with a majority of 6,906 votes over Reform UK. This page covers every general election in Maldon from 1832 to 2024.

This constituency elected more than one MP at once in some years. Before the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (and in a shrinking number of boroughs through 1948), most UK constituencies elected two or more MPs together by "multi-member plurality" (block vote): each elector could cast one vote per available seat, and the top vote-getters overall were all elected. In those elections below, "Elected" lists every MP returned, "Votes" is the count that secured the last seat, and "Majority" is the gap between that seat and the first candidate who missed out.

Full Election History, 1832–2024

Election Elected Votes Vote Share Runner-up Majority Turnout
1832 Thomas Barrett-Lennard (Whig); Quintin Dick (Conservative) 416 39.3% (top seat) Peter Luard Wright (Whig) 139 (12.2 pts) 79.7%
1835 Quintin Dick (Conservative); Thomas Barrett-Lennard (Whig) 407 36.6% (top seat) Henry Paulet St John Mildmay (Conservative) 51 (4.2 pts) 76.3%
1837 Quintin Dick (Conservative); John Round (Conservative) 407 34.4% (top seat) Thomas Barrett-Lennard (Whig) 12 (1.0 pts) 69.7%
1841 Quintin Dick (Conservative); John Round (Conservative) 446 35.5% (top seat) Thomas Neville Abdy (Whig) 33 (2.5 pts) 77.8%
1847 David Waddington (Conservative); Thomas Barrett-Lennard (Whig) 443 34.6% (top seat) Quintin Dick (Conservative) 16 (1.2 pts) 70.0%
1852 Charles du Cane (Conservative); Taverner John Miller (Conservative) 357 26.3% (top seat) Thomas Barrett-Lennard (Whig) 6 (0.4 pts) 83.3%
1857 Thomas Sutton Western (Whig); John Bramley-Moore (Conservative) 405 35.8% (top seat) George Montagu Warren Peacocke (Conservative) 45 (3.8 pts) 67.8%
1859 George Montagu Warren Peacocke (Conservative); Thomas Sutton Western (Liberal) 431 37.0% (top seat) Augustus William Henry Meyrick (Conservative) 4 (0.3 pts) 63.5%
1865 George Montagu Warren Peacocke (Conservative); Ralph Anstruther Earle (Conservative) 420 36.2% (top seat) Thomas Sutton Western (Liberal) 26 (2.0 pts) 74.2%
1868 Edward Hammond Bentall (Liberal) 657 56.6% George Montagu Warren Sandford (Conservative) 153 (13.2 pts) 83.1%
1874 George Montagu Warren Sandford (Conservative) 632 54.9% John Bennett (Liberal) 113 (9.8 pts) 75.6%
1880 George Courtauld (Liberal) 679 51.1% William Neville Abdy (Conservative) 28 (2.1 pts) 85.0%
1885 Arthur George Kitching (Liberal) 4,509 53.8% Charles Wing Gray (Conservative) 631 (7.5 pts) 85.0%
1886 Charles Wing Gray (Conservative) 4,143 52.9% Edward Broughton Barnard (Liberal) 457 (5.8 pts) 79.3%
1892 Cyril Joseph Settle Dodd (Liberal) 4,321 51.0% Charles Wing Gray (Conservative) 168 (2.0 pts) 83.4%
1895 Charles Hedley Strutt (Conservative) 4,618 53.5% Cyril Joseph Settle Dodd (Liberal) 612 (7.1 pts) 85.9%
1900 Charles Hedley Strutt (Conservative) 4,649 58.5% John McDonald Henderson (Liberal) 1,348 (17.0 pts) 79.4%
1906 Thomas Robert Bethell (Liberal) 4,773 50.8% Charles Hedley Strutt (Conservative) 149 (1.6 pts) 88.5%
Dec 1910 James Fortescue Flannery (Conservative) 5,386 53.4% James Willoughby Jardine (Liberal) 693 (6.9 pts) 87.5%
Jan 1910 James Fortescue Flannery (Conservative) 5,691 54.1% Thomas Robert Bethell (Liberal) 869 (8.3 pts) 91.3%
1918 James Fortescue Flannery (Unionist) 8,138 51.0% George Dallas (Labour) 1,823 (11.4 pts) 56.7%
1922 Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise (Unionist) 10,337 47.2% George Dallas (Labour) 4,252 (19.4 pts) 74.8%
1923 Valentine George Crittall (Labour) 10,329 50.1% Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise (Unionist) 49 (0.2 pts) 69.6%
1924 Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise (Unionist) 13,209 52.3% Valentine George Crittall (Labour) 3,886 (15.4 pts) 82.6%
1929 Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise (Unionist) 14,020 44.2% Herbert Evans (Labour) 2,796 (8.8 pts) 78.8%
1931 Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise (Conservative) 22,055 70.8% William Frederick Toynbee (Labour) 12,977 (41.7 pts) 74.7%
1935 Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise (Conservative) 17,072 53.3% William Frederick Toynbee (Labour) 7,808 (24.4 pts) 73.8%
1945 Thomas Edward Neil Driberg (Labour) 22,480 60.4% Aubrey Melford Steed Stevenson (Conservative) 7,727 (20.8 pts) 74.5%
1950 Thomas Edward Neil Driberg (Labour) 20,567 47.5% Aubrey Moody (Conservative) 1,724 (4.0 pts) 86.2%
1951 Thomas Edward Neil Driberg (Labour) 22,756 50.8% Aubrey Moody (Conservative) 704 (1.6 pts) 87.4%
1955 Alastair Brian Clarke Harrison (Conservative) 22,002 50.6% Lynton Scutts (Labour) 550 (1.3 pts) 83.5%
1959 Alastair Brian Clarke Harrison (Conservative) 21,772 48.2% S Gordon Richards (Labour) 2,240 (5.0 pts) 83.1%
1964 Alastair Brian Clarke Harrison (Conservative) 21,547 45.4% S Gordon Richards (Labour) 1,531 (3.2 pts) 83.3%
1966 Alastair Harrison (Conservative) 22,572 45.5% Bruce Douglas-Mann (Labour) 506 (1.0 pts) 83.3%
1970 Alastair Harrison (Conservative) 29,229 50.6% Stephen Haseler (Labour) 6,272 (10.9 pts) 79.8%
Feb 1974 John Wakeham (Conservative) 22,088 43.9% Roderick Beale (Liberal) 7,222 (14.3 pts) 82.1%
Oct 1974 John Wakeham (Conservative) 20,485 43.5% Anthony John Shaw (Labour) 6,387 (13.6 pts) 76.2%
1979 John Wakeham (Conservative) 29,585 57.8% Robert Oliver (Labour) 16,737 (32.7 pts) 77.9%
2010 John Whittingdale (Conservative) 28,661 59.8% Elfreda Tealby-Watson (Liberal Democrat) 19,407 (40.5 pts) 69.7%
2015 John Whittingdale (Conservative) 29,112 60.6% Beverley Acevedo (UKIP) 22,070 (45.9 pts) 69.8%
2017 John Whittingdale (Conservative) 34,111 67.9% Peter Edwards (Labour) 23,430 (46.7 pts) 70.4%
2019 John Whittingdale (Conservative) 36,304 72.0% Stephen Capper (Labour) 30,041 (59.6 pts) 69.9%
2024 John Whittingdale (Conservative) 19,374 38.9% Pamela Walford (Reform UK) 6,906 (13.9 pts) 63.9%

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1832 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Barrett-Lennard Whig 44839.3% Yes
Quintin Dick Conservative 41636.5% Yes
Peter Luard Wright Whig 27724.3% No

1835 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Quintin Dick Conservative 44136.6% Yes
Thomas Barrett-Lennard Whig 40733.8% Yes
Henry Paulet St John Mildmay Conservative 35629.6% No

1837 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Quintin Dick Conservative 42034.4% Yes
John Round Conservative 40733.3% Yes
Thomas Barrett-Lennard Whig 39532.3% No

1841 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Quintin Dick Conservative 47235.5% Yes
John Round Conservative 44633.5% Yes
Thomas Neville Abdy Whig 41331.0% No

1847 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
David Waddington Conservative 46134.6% Yes
Thomas Barrett-Lennard Whig 44333.3% Yes
Quintin Dick Conservative 42732.1% No

1852 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Charles du Cane Conservative 37026.3% Yes
Taverner John Miller Conservative 35725.4% Yes
Thomas Barrett-Lennard Whig 35124.9% No
Quintin Dick Independent Conservative 33023.4% No

1857 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Sutton Western Whig 42735.8% Yes
John Bramley-Moore Conservative 40534.0% Yes
George Montagu Warren Peacocke Conservative 36030.2% No

1859 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Montagu Warren Peacocke Conservative 50337.0% Yes
Thomas Sutton Western Liberal 43131.7% Yes
Augustus William Henry Meyrick Conservative 42731.4% No

1865 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Montagu Warren Peacocke Conservative 46136.2% Yes
Ralph Anstruther Earle Conservative 42032.9% Yes
Thomas Sutton Western Liberal 39430.9% No

1868

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Edward Hammond Bentall Liberal 65756.6% Yes
George Montagu Warren Sandford Conservative 50443.4% No

1874

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Montagu Warren Sandford Conservative 63254.9% Yes
John Bennett Liberal 51945.1% No

1880

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Courtauld Liberal 67951.1% Yes
William Neville Abdy Conservative 65148.9% No

1885

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Arthur George Kitching Liberal 4,50953.8% Yes
Charles Wing Gray Conservative 3,87846.2% No

1886

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Charles Wing Gray Conservative 4,14352.9% Yes
Edward Broughton Barnard Liberal 3,68647.1% No

1892

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Cyril Joseph Settle Dodd Liberal 4,32151.0% Yes
Charles Wing Gray Conservative 4,15349.0% No

1895

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Charles Hedley Strutt Conservative 4,61853.5% Yes
Cyril Joseph Settle Dodd Liberal 4,00646.5% No

1900

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Charles Hedley Strutt Conservative 4,64958.5% Yes
John McDonald Henderson Liberal 3,30141.5% No

1906

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Robert Bethell Liberal 4,77350.8% Yes
Charles Hedley Strutt Conservative 4,62449.2% No

Dec 1910

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
James Fortescue Flannery Conservative 5,38653.4% Yes
James Willoughby Jardine Liberal 4,69346.6% No

Jan 1910

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
James Fortescue Flannery Conservative 5,69154.1% Yes
Thomas Robert Bethell Liberal 4,82245.9% No

1918

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
James Fortescue Flannery Unionist 8,13851.0% Yes
George Dallas Labour 6,31539.6% No
Ernest William Tanner Liberal 1,4909.3% No

1922

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise Unionist 10,33747.2% Yes
George Dallas Labour 6,08527.8% No
James Parish Liberal 5,47025.0% No

1923

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Valentine George Crittall Labour 10,32950.1% Yes
Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise Unionist 10,28049.9% No

1924

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise Unionist 13,20952.3% Yes
Valentine George Crittall Labour 9,32336.9% No
Herbert Reginald Graham Brooks Liberal 2,72410.8% No

1929

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise Unionist 14,02044.2% Yes
Herbert Evans Labour 11,22435.4% No
Herbert May Liberal 6,47820.4% No

1931

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise Conservative 22,05570.8% Yes
William Frederick Toynbee Labour 9,07829.2% No

1935

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise Conservative 17,07253.3% Yes
William Frederick Toynbee Labour 9,26428.9% No
Hilda Mary Adela Buckmaster Liberal 5,68017.7% No

1945

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Edward Neil Driberg Labour 22,48060.4% Yes
Aubrey Melford Steed Stevenson Conservative 14,75339.6% No

1950

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Edward Neil Driberg Labour 20,56747.5% Yes
Aubrey Moody Conservative 18,84343.5% No
William Drummond Abernethy Liberal 3,8598.9% No

1951

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Edward Neil Driberg Labour 22,75650.8% Yes
Aubrey Moody Conservative 22,05249.2% No

1955

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Alastair Brian Clarke Harrison Conservative 22,00250.6% Yes
Lynton Scutts Labour 21,45249.4% No

1959

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Alastair Brian Clarke Harrison Conservative 21,77248.2% Yes
S Gordon Richards Labour 19,53243.2% No
Leonard Charles Montague Walsh Liberal 3,8608.5% No

1964

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Alastair Brian Clarke Harrison Conservative 21,54745.4% Yes
S Gordon Richards Labour 20,01642.2% No
William H Jacks Liberal 5,92412.5% No

1966

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Alastair Harrison Conservative 22,57245.5% Yes
Bruce Douglas-Mann Labour 22,06644.4% No
William Jacks Liberal 5,01510.1% No

1970

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Alastair Harrison Conservative 29,22950.6% Yes
Stephen Haseler Labour 22,95739.7% No
Roderick Beale Liberal 5,5749.7% No

Feb 1974

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Wakeham Conservative 22,08843.9% Yes
Roderick Beale Liberal 14,86629.5% No
Vera Morris Labour 13,36826.6% No

Oct 1974

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Wakeham Conservative 20,48543.5% Yes
Anthony John Shaw Labour 14,09830.0% No
Roderick Beale Liberal 12,47326.5% No

1979

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Wakeham Conservative 29,58557.8% Yes
Robert Oliver Labour 12,84825.1% No
Michael John Walter Wright Liberal 8,73017.1% No

2010

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Whittingdale Conservative 28,66159.8% Yes
Elfreda Tealby-Watson Liberal Democrat 9,25419.3% No
Swatantra Nandanwar Labour 6,07012.7% No
Jesse Pryke UKIP 2,4465.1% No
Len Blain BNP 1,4643.1% No

2015

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Whittingdale Conservative 29,11260.6% Yes
Beverley Acevedo UKIP 7,04214.7% No
Peter Edwards Labour 5,69011.8% No
Ken Martin Independent 2,4245.0% No
Zoe O'Connell Liberal Democrat 2,1574.5% No
Robert Graves Green 1,5043.1% No
John Marett The Sustainable Population Party 1160.2% No

2017

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Whittingdale Conservative 34,11167.9% Yes
Peter Edwards Labour 10,68121.3% No
Zoe O'Connell Liberal Democrat 2,1814.3% No
Jesse Pryke UKIP 1,8993.8% No
Steven Betteridge Green 1,0732.1% No
Richard Perry BNP 2570.5% No

2019

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Whittingdale Conservative 36,30472.0% Yes
Stephen Capper Labour 6,26312.4% No
Colin Baldy Liberal Democrat 5,99011.9% No
Janet Band Green 1,8513.7% No

2024

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Whittingdale Conservative 19,37438.9% Yes
Pamela Walford Reform UK 12,46825.0% No
Onike Gollo Labour 9,81719.7% No
Simon Burwood Liberal Democrat 5,88211.8% No
Isobel Doubleday Green 2,3004.6% No

Margin Over Time

Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party.

1832: Whig margin 12.2 pts 1835: Conservative margin 4.2 pts 1837: Conservative margin 1.0 pts 1841: Conservative margin 2.5 pts 1847: Conservative margin 1.2 pts 1852: Conservative margin 0.4 pts 1857: Whig margin 3.8 pts 1859: Conservative margin 0.3 pts 1865: Conservative margin 2.0 pts 1868: Liberal margin 13.2 pts 1874: Conservative margin 9.8 pts 1880: Liberal margin 2.1 pts 1885: Liberal margin 7.5 pts 1886: Conservative margin 5.8 pts 1892: Liberal margin 2.0 pts 1895: Conservative margin 7.1 pts 1900: Conservative margin 17.0 pts 1906: Liberal margin 1.6 pts Dec 1910: Conservative margin 6.9 pts Jan 1910: Conservative margin 8.3 pts 1918: Unionist margin 11.4 pts 1922: Unionist margin 19.4 pts 1923: Labour margin 0.2 pts 1924: Unionist margin 15.4 pts 1929: Unionist margin 8.8 pts 1931: Conservative margin 41.7 pts 1935: Conservative margin 24.4 pts 1945: Labour margin 20.8 pts 1950: Labour margin 4.0 pts 1951: Labour margin 1.6 pts 1955: Conservative margin 1.3 pts 1959: Conservative margin 5.0 pts 1964: Conservative margin 3.2 pts 1966: Conservative margin 1.0 pts 1970: Conservative margin 10.9 pts Feb 1974: Conservative margin 14.3 pts Oct 1974: Conservative margin 13.6 pts 1979: Conservative margin 32.7 pts 2010: Conservative margin 40.5 pts 2015: Conservative margin 45.9 pts 2017: Conservative margin 46.7 pts 2019: Conservative margin 59.6 pts 2024: Conservative margin 13.9 pts 1832 1835 1837 1841 1847 1852 1857 1859 1865 1868 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 1906 Dec 1910 Jan 1910 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 Feb 1974 Oct 1974 1979 2010 2015 2017 2019 2024

Trend

Maldon has been contested at 43 general elections on record since 1832. Parties that have won a seat here over that span: Whig, Conservative, Liberal, Unionist, Labour.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Maldon in the 2024 general election?

Conservative won Maldon in 2024 with 19,374 votes (38.9%), a majority of 6,906 votes over Reform UK in second place.

Which parties have won Maldon since 1832?

Since 1832, Maldon has been won by: Conservative, Labour, Liberal, Unionist, Whig.

What was the closest result in Maldon?

The closest result on record for Maldon was 1923, when Labour beat Unionist by just 49 votes (0.2 percentage points).

Did Maldon ever elect more than one MP at a time?

Yes -- like most UK constituencies before the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Maldon elected multiple MPs at once in some elections on this page (a system called multi-member plurality, or 'block vote'), each voter casting one vote per available seat.

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