UK general elections › 2017 › Blackburn
Blackburn — 2017
Kate Hollern (Labour Party) was elected with 33,148 votes— 69.8% of 47,515 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 69.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +19.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,515
| 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 | Kate Hollern | Labour Party | 33,148 | 69.8% | +19.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Bob Eastwood | Conservative Party | 12,780 | 26.9% | — | |
| 3 | Duncan Miller | Independent | 878 | 1.8% | — | |
| 4 | Irfan Ahmed | Liberal Democrats | 709 | 1.5% | — |
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.