UK general elections2017 › City of Durham

City of Durham — 2017

Roberta Blackman-Woods (Labour Party) was elected with 26,772 votes55.4% of 48,324 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 55.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +5.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,324

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
1Roberta Blackman-Woods Labour Party 26,772+5.4 ptsElected
2Richard Lawrie Conservative Party 14,408
3Amanda Hopgood Liberal Democrats 4,787
4Malcolm Bint UK Independence Party 1,116
5Jonathan Elmer Green Party 797
6Jim Clark Independent 399
7Jon Collings Young People's Party 45

Electorate 71,132 · Turnout 67.9% · Majority 12,364 · 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.