Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough (Constituency) 2017 results - General election results

Summary

Summary of the key information for the 2017 general election.

LAB

Labour Hold

Gill Furniss

Majority

19,143

Electorate

70,344

Turnout

59.5%

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 (%)
Gill Furniss	Lab	28,193	67.3	10.8
Michael Naughton	Con	9,050	21.6	10.6
Shane Harper	UKIP	2,645	6.3	-15.8
Simon Clement-Jones *	LD	1,061	2.5	-2.0
Christine Gilligan Kubo *	Green	737	1.8	-2.5
Mike Driver *	WRP	137	0.3	0.3
Muzafar Rahman *	SDP	47	0.1	0.1

* Candidate lost their deposit

The percentage share of the party vote by election year.

Year	Lab	Con	UKIP	LD	Green	WRP	SDP	TUSC	ED	BNP
2005	49.4%	33.5%	3.7%	13.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	55.0%	11.5%	4.1%	20.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	7.8%
2015	56.6%	11.0%	22.1%	4.5%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	67.3%	21.6%	6.3%	2.5%	1.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Safest seats by majority (%)		Average: 24.3%
1	Liverpool, Walton	77.1%
60	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough	45.7%
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%
54	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough	67.3%
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%
621	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough	59.5%
650	Glasgow North East	53.0%

Turnout is calculated as the percentage of electorate who voted.