Canterbury
UK parliamentary constituency
Latest result
2024 General Election — Labour held the seat with 41.4% of the vote, majority of 8,653.
Turnout: 47,231
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2024 General Election →
Turnout 47,231| ●Labour | 19,531 | 41.4% |
| Conservative | 10,878 | 23.0% |
| Reform UK | 6,805 | 14.4% |
| Green Party | 5,920 | 12.5% |
| Liberal Democrat | 3,812 | 8.1% |
| Social Democratic Party | 285 | 0.6% |
Most-signed petitions in Canterbury
Petitions ranked by how many people in this constituency signed them.
- Call a General Election4,516 local · 3,084,713 total
- Do not introduce Digital ID cards4,188 local · 2,984,191 total
- Call an immediate general election1,405 local · 1,059,229 total
- Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants986 local · 720,772 total
- Repeal the Online Safety Act950 local · 550,136 total
- Lower the age for invites to regular mammograms to 40 & perform annually774 local · 106,212 total
- Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers555 local · 427,447 total
- Keep 5-Year ILR and Restrict Access to Benefits for New ILR Holders394 local · 244,450 total
- Raise the income tax personal allowance from £12,570 to £20,000 392 local · 281,794 total
- Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold371 local · 189,887 total
- Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures368 local · 257,938 total
- Close the borders! Suspend ALL immigration for 5 years!366 local · 229,772 total
- Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza361 local · 198,966 total
- Strengthen regulation of supported accommodations360 local · 68,937 total
- Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship348 local · 110,519 total
- Keep the 5-Year ILR pathway for existing Skilled Worker visa holders347 local · 188,125 total
- Tighten the rules on political donations344 local · 144,783 total
- By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party336 local · 129,335 total
- Mandatory collection and publication of certain child sexual offender data330 local · 260,974 total
- Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible326 local · 136,650 total
About Canterbury
Canterbury is one of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies that each elect a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons under the first-past-the-post system. It sits in England and has a registered electorate of 71,155 voters. Boundary reviews run on a regular cycle via the Boundary Commission — the current map was redrawn for the 2024 general election.
Sources: UK Parliament Members API, ONS Open Geography Portal, petition.parliament.uk. Parliament ID: 3966.
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