Constituency

Reading Central

ONS code: E14001438
Lookup slug: reading-central

Our Recommendation

TBD

Confidence

High

Strong likelihood of
beating the left

Last reviewed

15 May 2024

Updated daily

Local recommendation

Candidate recommendation pending

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Election Maps nowcast

Safe Labour hold

Source updated 10/05/2026

LAB HOLD

Labour forecast to win in Reading Central, South East

Winner: Labour
Margin: 22.8% (10,324 votes)
Turnout / electorate: 61.5% / 73,600
Second place: Conservative 18.0%

LABLabour

40.8%-6.9 pts

CONConservative

18.0%-1.8 pts

GRNGreen Party

17.6%+3.5 pts

RFMReform UK

14.2%+5.6 pts

LDMLiberal Democrat

8.3%-0.4 pts

MINMinor parties and independents

0.5%0.0 pts

OthOther

0.4%0.0 pts

SNPScottish National Party

0.0%change not recorded

PLCPlaid Cymru

Not recordedchange not recorded

WPBWorkers Party of Britain

Not recordedchange not recorded

Labour 248 seatsConservative 137 seatsReform UK 114 seatsLiberal Democrat 71 seatsGreen Party 5 seats

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House of Commons results

General election results

Only real Westminster general elections since 2010 are shown. The rows below are linked by exact Parliament constituency code or exact Parliament constituency name.

2024 general election

Reading CentralE14001438Electorate 73,600Valid votes 45,291Invalid votes 216Majority 12,637

Position	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Result
1	Matt Rodda	Labour	21,598	47.7%	Elected
2	Raj Singh	Conservative	8,961	19.8%
3	Dave McElroy	Green Party	6,417	14.2%
4	Henry Wright	Liberal Democrat	3,963	8.8%
5	Andrew Williams	Reform UK	3,904	8.6%
6	Michael Turberville	Independent	227	0.5%
7	Adam Gillman	Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	221	0.5%

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