Ipswich (Constituency) 2017 results - General election results

Summary

Summary of the key information for the 2017 general election.

LAB

Labour Gain

Sandy Martin

Majority

836

Electorate

75,668

Turnout

67.6%

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 (%)
Sandy Martin	Lab	24,235	47.4	10.3
Ben Gummer	Con	23,399	45.7	1.0
Tony Gould *	UKIP	1,372	2.7	-9.0
Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett *	LD	1,187	2.3	-0.6
Charlotte Armstrong *	Green	840	1.6	-1.9
David Tabane *	Ind	121	0.2	0.2

* Candidate lost their deposit

The percentage share of the party vote by election year.

Year	Lab	Con	UKIP	LD	Green	Ind	BNP	Christian Party, Proclaiming Christ's Lordship	Oth
2005	42.9%	31.1%	2.7%	21.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.1%
2010	34.7%	39.1%	2.9%	18.2%	1.7%	0.2%	2.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	37.1%	44.8%	11.7%	2.9%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	47.4%	45.7%	2.7%	2.3%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	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.