UK general elections › 2017 › Buckingham
Buckingham — 2017
John Bercow (Speaker) was elected with 34,299 votes— 65.1% of 52,679 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 65.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +15.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 52,679
| 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 | John Bercow speaker | Speaker | 34,299 | 65.1% | +15.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Michael Sheppard speaker | Green Party | 8,574 | 16.3% | — | |
| 3 | Scott Raven speaker | Independent | 5,638 | 10.7% | — | |
| 4 | Brian Mapletoft speaker | UK Independence Party | 4,168 | 7.9% | — |
Data caveats on this contest: speaker. What these mean.
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.