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Bootle — 2017

Peter Dowd (Labour Party) was elected with 42,259 votes84.0% of 50,288 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 84.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +34.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,288

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
1Peter Dowd Labour Party 42,25984.0%+34.0 ptsElected
2Charles Fifield Conservative Party 6,05912.0%
3David Newman Liberal Democrats 8371.7%
4Alison Gibbon Green Party 7091.4%
5Kim Bryan Socialist Labour Party 4240.8%

Electorate 72,872 · Turnout 69.0% · Majority 36,200 · 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.