UK general elections › 2017 › Barking
Barking — 2017
Margaret Hodge (Labour Party) was elected with 32,319 votes— 67.8% of 47,679 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 67.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +17.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,679
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Margaret Hodge | Labour Party | 32,319 | 67.8% | +17.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Minesh Talati | Conservative Party | 10,711 | 22.5% | — | |
| 3 | Roger Gravett | UK Independence Party | 3,031 | 6.4% | — | |
| 4 | Shannon Butterfield | Green Party | 724 | 1.5% | — | |
| 5 | Pauline Pearce | Liberal Democrats | 599 | 1.3% | — | |
| 6 | Noel Falvey | Independent | 295 | 0.6% | — |
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.