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Ashford — 2017

Damian Green (Conservative Party) was elected with 35,318 votes— 59.0% of 59,879 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 59.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +9.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 59,879

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare of votes Candidate votes ÷ valid votes in this constituency. Matches the share the returning officer publishes.Below quota Elected candidate's share of valid votes minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = won the seat below the quota; positive = cleared it.Elected
1Damian Green Conservative Party 35,318+9.0 ptsElected
2Sally Gathern Labour Party 17,840—
3Adrian Gee-Turner Liberal Democrats 3,101—
4Gerald O'Brien UK Independence Party 2,218—
5Mandy Rossi Green Party 1,402—

Electorate 87,387 · Turnout 68.5% · Majority 17,478 · Back to 2017 overview

Source data: UK Parliament psephology database, retrieved 2026-05-19, generated 2026-05-19 (Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl-psephology@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.