South Holland and The Deepings (Constituency) 2017 results - General election results

Summary

Summary of the key information for the 2017 general election.

CON

Conservative Hold

John Hayes

Majority

24,897

Electorate

76,374

Turnout

65.9%

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 (%)
John Hayes	Con	35,179	69.9	10.4
Voyteck Kowalewski	Lab	10,282	20.4	8.0
Nicola Smith *	UKIP	2,185	4.3	-17.5
Julia Cambridge *	LD	1,433	2.8	-0.1
Daniel Wilshire *	Green	894	1.8	-1.4
Rick Stringer *	Ind	342	0.7	0.7

* Candidate lost their deposit

The percentage share of the party vote by election year.

Year	Con	Lab	UKIP	LD	Green	Ind	BNP	Oth
2005	46.2%	22.7%	3.4%	24.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.8%
2010	59.1%	14.0%	6.5%	15.5%	1.4%	0.0%	3.6%	0.0%
2015	59.6%	12.4%	21.8%	3.0%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	69.9%	20.4%	4.3%	2.8%	1.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%

Safest seats by majority (%)		Average: 24.3%
1	Liverpool, Walton	77.1%
39	South Holland and The Deepings	49.5%
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%
38	South Holland and The Deepings	69.9%
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%
467	South Holland and The Deepings	65.9%
650	Glasgow North East	53.0%

Turnout is calculated as the percentage of electorate who voted.