UK general elections › 2017 › City of Durham
City of Durham — 2017
Roberta Blackman-Woods (Labour Party) was elected with 26,772 votes— 55.4% 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
| 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 | Roberta Blackman-Woods | Labour Party | 26,772 | 55.4% | +5.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Richard Lawrie | Conservative Party | 14,408 | 29.8% | — | |
| 3 | Amanda Hopgood | Liberal Democrats | 4,787 | 9.9% | — | |
| 4 | Malcolm Bint | UK Independence Party | 1,116 | 2.3% | — | |
| 5 | Jonathan Elmer | Green Party | 797 | 1.6% | — | |
| 6 | Jim Clark | Independent | 399 | 0.8% | — | |
| 7 | Jon Collings | Young People's Party | 45 | 0.1% | — |
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.