Islington South and Finsbury (Constituency) 2017 results - General election results

Summary

Summary of the key information for the 2017 general election.

LAB

Labour Hold

Emily Thornberry

Majority

20,263

Electorate

69,536

Turnout

69.1%

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 (%)
Emily Thornberry	Lab	30,188	62.8	11.9
Jason Charalambous	Con	9,925	20.7	-1.6
Alain Desmier	LD	5,809	12.1	1.2
Benali Hamdache *	Green	1,198	2.5	-5.1
Pete Muswell *	UKIP	929	1.9	-5.7

* Candidate lost their deposit

The percentage share of the party vote by election year.

Year	Lab	Con	LD	Green	UKIP	CISTAP	Eng Dem	AC	Oth
2005	39.9%	14.8%	38.3%	4.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	42.3%	19.4%	34.1%	1.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	50.9%	22.2%	10.9%	7.6%	7.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	62.8%	20.7%	12.1%	2.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Safest seats by majority (%)		Average: 24.3%
1	Liverpool, Walton	77.1%
87	Islington South and Finsbury	42.2%
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%
127	Islington South and Finsbury	62.8%
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%
323	Islington South and Finsbury	69.1%
650	Glasgow North East	53.0%

Turnout is calculated as the percentage of electorate who voted.