UK general elections › 2017 › Bexhill and Battle
Bexhill and Battle — 2017
Huw Merriman (Conservative Party) was elected with 36,854 votes— 62.0% of 59,472 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 62.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +12.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 59,472
| 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 | Huw Merriman | Conservative Party | 36,854 | 62.0% | +12.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Christine Bayliss | Labour Party | 14,689 | 24.7% | — | |
| 3 | Joel Kemp | Liberal Democrats | 4,485 | 7.5% | — | |
| 4 | Geoffrey Bastin | UK Independence Party | 2,006 | 3.4% | — | |
| 5 | Jonathan Kent | Green Party | 1,438 | 2.4% | — |
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.