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General election forecast

Alyn and Deeside

Predicted winner: Reform UK with 30.7% of the vote, a 0.5pp margin over Labour.

wales · wales

Predicted vote share

How the model expects this constituency to vote

Reform UK
30.7% +8.6pp
Labour
30.3% +30.3pp
Conservative
15.2% +15.2pp
Green Party
8.3% +3.9pp
Lib Dem
4.5% -0.3pp
Plaid Cymru
4.4% +4.4pp
Independent
3.4% -0.2pp
Restore
2.9% +2.9pp
SNP
0.3% +0.3pp
Other
0.0% 0.0pp

Coloured number is the swing from the 2024 general election result.

Sitting MP

Mark Tami

See also: TheyWorkForYou

2024 general election result

What happened on 4 July 2024

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Mark Tami Labour Party 18,395 42.4%
Vicki Roskams Reform UK 9,601 22.1%
Jeremy Richard Kent Conservative and Unionist Party 7,892 18.2%
Richard David Marbrow Lib Dem 2,065 4.8%
Jack Morris Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales 1,938 4.5%
Karl Raymond Macnaughton Green Party 1,926 4.4%
Edwin Duggan Independent 1,575 3.6%

Source: Returning officer declaration

How accurate is the model here?

Our 2024 backtest for this constituency

We replayed the same model architecture against the 4 July 2024 general election using only the data a forecaster running the model in May 2024 would have known. Here's what it would have predicted for Alyn and Deeside, and what actually happened.

✓ Winner called correctly , predicted Labour, actual Labour. Major-party MAE: 1.34pp, the average gap between our predicted vote share and the actual share, per major party.

Predicted

Labour
45.2%
Reform UK
20.6%
Conservative
19.1%
Lib Dem
5.5%
Plaid Cymru
4.3%
Green Party
3.8%
Independent
0.5%
Workers Party
0.6%

Actual on 4 July 2024

Labour
42.4% +2.8pp
Reform UK
22.1% -1.6pp
Conservative
18.2% +0.9pp
Lib Dem
4.8% +0.7pp
Plaid Cymru
4.5% -0.2pp
Green Party
4.4% -0.7pp
Independent
3.6% -3.1pp
Workers Party
0.0% +0.6pp

Positive gap = we predicted that party would win more share than they did. See the full GE backtest across all 650 seats for the model's national accuracy.

How this forecast was built
  1. GE2024 Baseline. Actual GE2024 result in Alyn and Deeside
  2. National Swing (Strong Transition Model). Multiplicative bounded swing, losers shed in proportion to local share, gainers absorb pro-rata national gain. Replaces additive UNS.
  3. BES MRP Prior. Baseline blended with BES Wave 1-30 wales prior at weight 5%
  4. English-identity floor. English 27.8% → Reform +1.0pp
  5. Normalise. Shares scaled to 100%

Read the full general election methodology →