UK general elections › 2017 › Ceredigion
Ceredigion — 2017
Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru) was elected with 11,623 votes— 29.2% of 39,767 valid votes. Under First Past the Post, a plurality is enough; a majority is not required.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 29.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −20.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 39,767
| 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 | Ben Lake | Plaid Cymru | 11,623 | 29.2% | −20.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Mark Williams | Liberal Democrats | 11,519 | 29.0% | — | |
| 3 | Dinah Mulholland | Labour Party | 8,017 | 20.2% | — | |
| 4 | Ruth Davis | Conservative Party | 7,307 | 18.4% | — | |
| 5 | Tom Harrison | UK Independence Party | 602 | 1.5% | — | |
| 6 | Grenville Ham | Green Party | 542 | 1.4% | — | |
| 7 | Sir Dudley the Crazed | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 157 | 0.4% | — |
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.