Penrith and The Border (Constituency) 2017 results - General election results

Summary

Summary of the key information for the 2017 general election.

CON

Conservative Hold

Rory Stewart

Majority

15,910

Electorate

65,139

Turnout

71.3%

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 (%)
Rory Stewart	Con	28,078	60.4	0.8
Lola McEvoy	Lab	12,168	26.2	11.8
Neil Hughes	LD	3,641	7.8	-0.7
Kerryanne Wilde *	UKIP	1,142	2.5	-9.7
Douglas Lawson *	Green	1,029	2.2	-3.1
Jonathan Davies *	Ind	412	0.9	0.9

* Candidate lost their deposit

The percentage share of the party vote by election year.

Year	Con	Lab	LD	UKIP	Green	Ind	BNP	Oth
2005	51.4%	19.1%	25.8%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2010	53.4%	12.9%	28.5%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	2.4%	0.0%
2015	59.7%	14.4%	8.5%	12.2%	5.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	60.4%	26.2%	7.8%	2.5%	2.2%	0.9%	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.