Wolverhampton South West (Constituency) 2017 results - General election results

Summary

Summary of the key information for the 2017 general election.

LAB

Labour Hold

Eleanor Smith

Majority

2,185

Electorate

59,971

Turnout

70.6%

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 (%)
Eleanor Smith	Lab	20,899	49.4	6.1
Paul Uppal	Con	18,714	44.2	3.0
Rob Jones *	UKIP	1,012	2.4	-8.3
Sarah Quarmby *	LD	784	1.9	-0.3
Andrea Cantrill *	Green	579	1.4	-1.3
Jagmeet Singh *	Ind	358	0.8	0.7

* Candidate lost their deposit

The percentage share of the party vote by election year.

Year	Lab	Con	UKIP	LD	Green	Ind	EPA	Oth
2005	43.4%	38.1%	2.5%	13.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%
2010	39.0%	40.7%	3.7%	16.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	43.2%	41.2%	10.7%	2.1%	2.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	49.4%	44.2%	2.4%	1.9%	1.4%	0.8%	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.