Great Yarmouth: MP, 2024 result and local figures
Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain) is the MP for Great Yarmouth, elected at the general election of 4 July 2024. The 2024 count gave Rupert Lowe (Reform UK) 14,385 votes and Keir Cozens (Labour) 12,959, a majority of 1,426. 40,748 valid votes were cast by an electorate of 73,317, 55.6% of those registered. Rupert Lowe stood for Reform UK in 2024; the Members API now lists the party as Restore Britain.
Key figures
What the figures show
Compared with other constituencies, Great Yarmouth has the 16th lowest share working mainly from home (2021) of the 575 constituencies with this figure (16.6%).
DWP figures count 6,392 children under 16 in relative low income families after housing costs in 2024/25, 37.2% of children here against 26.0% across the UK. On the before-housing-costs measure it rose from 25.1% in 2021/22 to 29.9% in 2024/25.
Great Yarmouth counted 44,544 households on Census day 2021; 27.7% of adults were retired and 16.6% of those in work were mostly working from home.
Residents of Great Yarmouth earned more than jobs based there paid in April 2025: median full-time pay was £33,355 for workplace jobs and £34,794 for residents. In April 2024 the residents' figure was £33,038. The residents' figure ranks 131st lowest of 632 constituencies with an estimate. The latest year is provisional.
Workplaces in Great Yarmouth accounted for 38,000 jobs in 2024; the business register lists 3,430 local units for March 2026.
The median price paid for a home was £222,500 in the year to March 2026 (ONS, from HM Land Registry data). Ten years earlier, in the year to March 2016, it was £150,000. The highest March-year median in the series was £230,000, in the year to March 2023. It ranks 150th lowest of 575 constituencies. 1,224 sales were registered in the period, against 1,601 in the year to March 2025.
The ONS estimates 100,529 people lived in Great Yarmouth in mid-2024, up 2.0% on 2014. 24,942 were aged 65 or over and 17,170 were under 16.
The Annual Population Survey puts the employment rate for 16 to 64 year olds at 74.8% for April 2025 to March 2026, give or take 9.3 points. 24.0% were economically inactive.
The claimant count for September 2026 was 2,800, or 4.8% of the working-age population. A year earlier the count was 2,515.
MP
Rupert Lowe, Restore Britain
- MP for Great Yarmouth since 4 July 2024
Official UK Parliament page · Statements by Rupert Lowe on this site
In Parliament
Hansard records these as Rupert Lowe's latest words in Parliament, from 1 June 2026 to 15 September 2026. Hansard search returns 120 spoken contributions by Rupert Lowe since 4 July 2024.
First, can I say how much I enjoy serving on the Public Accounts Committee with the hon. Lady? I think—and I am sure she agrees with me—that the key to correcting this situation is for the Government to make better decisions.
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I think the British public have had enough of Labour blaming the Tories and the Tories blaming Labour. Meanwhile, this national emergency continues to get worse. Does the Minister accept the fact that just playing “he said, she said” is not good enough?
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I thank the hon. Member for her intervention. I am not going to go into detail; it is all in this policy document. I will give her one to take away. Specialist detention facilities would be constructed near airfields to hasten the process.
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The hon. Member has made a very good point. We have been in touch with the Government and Baroness Longfield and have said that we will help them, but so far nobody has actually made contact with me.
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Siobhain. I thank the 260,974 British men and women who signed the petition to make this debate possible, and I welcome the brave survivors who are sitting behind us in the Chamber. This debate is about them; as the hon.
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Read from the Hansard API on 27 October 2026. Up to two items per debate; remarks under 40 characters are left out. All contributions in Hansard.
General election, 4 July 2024
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Change in share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rupert Lowe | Reform UK | 14,385 | 35.3% | |
| Keir Cozens | Labour | 12,959 | 31.8% | +6.7 |
| James Clark | Conservative | 10,034 | 24.6% | −41.2 |
| Trevor Rawson | Green Party | 1,736 | 4.3% | +1.8 |
| Fionna Tod | Liberal Democrat | 1,102 | 2.7% | −1.1 |
| Paul Brown | Independent | 230 | 0.6% | |
| Catherine Blaiklock | English Democrats | 171 | 0.4% | |
| Clare Roullier | Independent | 131 | 0.3% |
Result summary as published: RUK gain from Con. Change in share is in percentage points against the notional 2019 result on the new boundaries. Source: House of Commons Library, election results (data, read 14 October 2026).
Results on these boundaries
| Date | Election | First | Second | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2024 | General election | Reform UK 35.3% | Labour 31.8% | 1,426 | 55.6% |
| 12 December 2019 | General election (notional result on these boundaries) | Conservative 65.8% | Labour 25.2% | 17,663 | 62.0% |
Only results on the constituency boundaries first used at the 2024 general election are shown. The 2019 figures are the House of Commons Library's notional estimates of how votes cast in 2019 would have fallen on these boundaries, not a result that was declared. Source: House of Commons Library, constituency results.
Councils
Great Yarmouth lies within Great Yarmouth.
- Great Yarmouth E07000145
Who has power over Great Yarmouth
Every body that makes decisions for Great Yarmouth, from the street up to the G20. Each one links to its page on the official record. How the ten levels work.
Level 1: Neighbourhood and community power
Residents' and tenants' groups, neighbourhood forums and local policing panels.
Level 2: Parish, town and community councils
Parish, town and community councils, where the area has them, sit below the council.
Level 5: Devolved and state governments
England has no devolved parliament of its own: its laws are made by the UK Parliament.
Level 6: National government
- Great Yarmouth this page: Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain) MP
- All 650 MPs votes, interests and costs
- UK government and Parliament official figures and sources
Level 7: Regional blocs and supranational bodies
- Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (CoE / ECtHR) The UK Government says the United Kingdom was one of the Council of Europe's founding members.
Level 8: The UN and global treaty bodies
- United Nations (General Assembly and Security Council) The UN lists the United Kingdom as a member admitted on 24 October 1945.
- United Nations Security Council (UNSC) The UK is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council and holds the veto, according to the UN.
- NATO NATO lists the United Kingdom among its 12 founding members, which signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- World Health Organization (WHO) WHO's list of member states includes the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- World Trade Organization (WTO) The WTO says the United Kingdom has been a WTO member since 1 January 1995 and a member of GATT since 1 January 1948.
- Commonwealth of Nations The UK is one of the 56 members, one of three European members with Cyprus and Malta, and the Commonwealth Secretariat is headquartered at Marlborough House in London.
Level 9: The IMF, World Bank and global finance
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) The UK has been a member since 27 December 1945 and has a quota of SDR 20,155.1 million (IMF country page for the United Kingdom).
- World Bank Group (WBG) The UK holds 3.75% of voting power in the IBRD (data as of 30 June 2026) and 6.92% in IDA (as of 30 June 2026), according to the World Bank's voting tables.
Level 10: G7, G20, Davos and global forums
Sources
| Figure | Period | Publisher | Read | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | mid-2024 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Claimants as a share of residents aged 16 to 64 | September 2026 | ONS | 29 October 2026 | data · area |
| Claimant count | September 2026 | ONS | 29 October 2026 | data · area |
| Employment rate, aged 16 to 64 | April 2025 to March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Median full-time pay of residents | April 2025 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Median full-time pay of people working here | April 2025 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Median house price | the year to March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · release |
| Homes sold | the year to March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · release |
| Children in relative low income families, after housing costs | 2024/25 | DWP | 14 October 2026 | data · release |
| Children in relative low income families, before housing costs | 2024/25 | DWP | 14 October 2026 | data · release |
| Business sites (local units) | March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| People employed by businesses here | 2024 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Economically inactive, aged 16 to 64 | April 2025 to March 2026 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Households | Census 2021 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Residents per square kilometre | Census 2021 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Workers mainly working from home | Census 2021 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
| Residents aged 16+ who are retired | Census 2021 | ONS | 14 October 2026 | data · area |
"Data" is the file or query each figure was read from (its SHA-256 is in the link title); "area" shows the same table for this constituency alone.
Common questions
Who is the MP for Great Yarmouth?
Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain), elected on 4 July 2024, according to UK Parliament records.
What was the 2024 general election result in Great Yarmouth?
The House of Commons Library records 14,385 votes for Rupert Lowe of Reform UK and a majority of 1,426; 55.6% of the electorate cast a valid vote.
What is the unemployment claimant rate in Great Yarmouth?
The ONS claimant count for September 2026 is 2,800, 4.8% of the 16 to 64 population.
What is the average house price in Great Yarmouth?
£222,500: the middle price of homes sold in the year to March 2026, published by the ONS from Land Registry records.
What is the average salary in Great Yarmouth?
For full-time employees living here the ONS puts median annual pay at £34,794 (April 2025).
How many children in Great Yarmouth live in low income families?
6,392 children under 16, 37.2%, after housing costs in 2024/25, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.
What is the population of Great Yarmouth?
100,529 in mid-2024, the latest ONS estimate.
Built 14 October 2026 from official records; how these pages are compiled. This page lists what the record shows and gives no verdict on the MP or the area. Link moved or figure wrong? Tell us.