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Bolsover — 2017

Dennis Skinner (Labour Party) was elected with 24,153 votes51.9% of 46,519 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 51.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +1.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,519

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
1Dennis Skinner Labour Party 24,153+1.9 ptsElected
2Helen Harrison Conservative Party 18,865
3Philip Rose UK Independence Party 2,129
4Ross Shipman Liberal Democrats 1,372

Electorate 73,429 · Turnout 63.4% · Majority 5,288 · 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.