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Blaydon — 2017

Liz Twist (Labour Party) was elected with 26,979 votes56.1% of 48,084 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 56.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +6.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,084

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
1Liz Twist Labour Party 26,979+6.1 ptsElected
2Thomas Smith Conservative Party 13,502
3Jonathan Wallace Liberal Democrats 4,366
4Ray Tolley UK Independence Party 2,459
5Paul McNally Green Party 583
6Michael Marchetti Libertarian Party 114
7Lisabela Marschild Space Navies Party 81

Electorate 68,459 · Turnout 70.2% · Majority 13,477 · 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.