General election 2024 results: your MP for Poplar and Limehouse
It was a comfortable win for Labour’s Apsana Begum who retains her seat in Poplar & Limehouse with 43.10% of the votes and few competitors. See the runners-up and the full results.
This morning, the news was out that Sir Keir Starmer had made history and won the general election with a landslide, but who did the people of Poplar and Limehouse vote for? Here are the final results.
Final results in Poplar & Limehouse’s 2024 election
| Party | Votes No | Vote % |
| Labour Party (Apsana Begum) | 18,535 | 43.10% |
| Green Party (Nathalie Bienfait) | 5,975 | 13.90% |
| Conservative (Freddie Downing) | 4,738 | 11.00% |
| Independent (Ehtashamul Haque) | 4,554 | 10.60% |
| Liberal Democrat (Richard Flowers) | 4,189 | 9.70% |
| Reform UK (Tony Glover) | 3,403 | 7.90% |
| Workers Party for Britain (Kamran Khan) | 1,463 | 3.40% |
| Social Democratic Party (Manny Lawal) | 194 | 0.50% |
Apsana Begum won the seat for a second time, winning a 43.1% share of the votes. She had a comfortable majority of 12,560, and was followed by Nathalie Bienfait of the Green Party, who won 5,975 votes compared to Begum’s 18,535.
Voter turnout in Poplar and Limehouse was 51%, the lowest out of Tower Hamlets’ three constituencies. It went down by 17.10% since 2019. Nationally, voter turnout was significantly low compared to the last general election, declining from 67.3% in 2019 to 60% yesterday.
2024 election results across Tower Hamlets
All three constituencies in Tower Hamlets were won by Labour, but to differing degrees. While Uma Kumaran won a comfortable majority of 11,634 votes in Stratford and Bow, Rushanara Ali won by only 1,689 votes in the hotly contested constituency of Bethnal Green & Stepney.
Historic election results in Poplar & Limehouse
Since its origin as a constituency in 2010, Poplar and Limehouse has always been a Labour stronghold. In 2019, Begum won with a 28,904 majority, which shrunk to 12,560 this year.