UK general elections2017 › Bury South

Bury South — 2017

Ivan Lewis (Labour Party) was elected with 27,165 votes53.3% of 50,990 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 53.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +3.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,990

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
1Ivan Lewis Labour Party 27,16553.3%+3.3 ptsElected
2Robert Largan Conservative Party 21,20041.6%
3Ian Henderson UK Independence Party 1,3162.6%
4Andrew Page Liberal Democrats 1,0652.1%
5Peter Wright Independent 2440.5%

Electorate 73,715 · Turnout 69.2% · Majority 5,965 · 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.