Chingford and Woodford Green (Constituency) 2017 results - General election results

Summary

Summary of the key information for the 2017 general election.

CON

Conservative Hold

Iain Duncan Smith

Majority

2,438

Electorate

65,958

Turnout

71.2%

Distribution of party votes by percentages.

Results for each party with number of votes, percentage share of the vote and changes since last election.

Candidate	Party	Votes	Vote (%)	Change (%)
Iain Duncan Smith	Con	23,076	49.1	1.2
Bilal Mahmood	Lab	20,638	43.9	15.2
Deborah Unger *	LD	2,043	4.4	-1.1
Sinead King *	Green	1,204	2.6	-1.7

* Candidate lost their deposit

The percentage share of the party vote by election year.

Year	Con	Lab	LD	Green	UKIP	TUSC	Class War	BNP	Ind	Oth
2005	53.2%	25.7%	17.7%	0.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	52.8%	22.7%	16.8%	1.5%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	3.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	47.9%	28.8%	5.5%	4.2%	12.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	49.1%	43.9%	4.4%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Safest seats by majority (%)		Average: 24.3%
1	Liverpool, Walton	77.1%
551	Chingford and Woodford Green	5.2%
650	North East Fife	0.0%

Majority is calculated as the difference between the winning % share of the vote and second place % share of the vote.

Highest winning vote share %		Average: 55.9%
1	Liverpool, Walton	85.7%
495	Chingford and Woodford Green	49.1%
650	Ceredigion	29.2%

Share of the vote is calculated as the percentage of valid votes cast for each party.

Highest % turnout		Average: 68.8%
1	Twickenham	79.5%
222	Chingford and Woodford Green	71.2%
650	Glasgow North East	53.0%

Turnout is calculated as the percentage of electorate who voted.