East Worthing and Shoreham (Constituency) 2017 results - General election results

Summary

Summary of the key information for the 2017 general election.

CON

Conservative Hold

Tim Loughton

Majority

5,106

Electorate

75,525

Turnout

70.3%

Distribution of party votes by percentages.

Party Name	Share of the vote: 2017
Con	48.9%
Lab	39.3%
LD	4.7%
UKIP	2.7%
Green	2.4%
National Health Action Party	1.1%
Ind	0.8%

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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Vote (%)	Change (%)
Tim Loughton	Con	25,988	48.9	-0.5
Sophie Cook	Lab	20,882	39.3	19.8
Oli Henman *	LD	2,523	4.7	-2.0
Mike Glennon *	UKIP	1,444	2.7	-13.8
Leslie Groves Williams *	Green	1,273	2.4	-2.8
Carl Walker *	National Health Action Party	575	1.1	-1.4
Andy Lutwyche *	Ind	432	0.8	0.8

* Candidate lost their deposit

The percentage share of the party vote by election year.

Year	Con	Lab	LD	UKIP	Green	National Health Action Party	Ind	Eng Dem	Oth
2005	43.9%	25.5%	24.3%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2010	48.5%	16.7%	25.5%	6.2%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2015	49.5%	19.5%	6.7%	16.6%	5.2%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	48.9%	39.3%	4.7%	2.7%	2.4%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%

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

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

Turnout is calculated as the percentage of electorate who voted.