UK general elections › 2017 › Dartford
Dartford — 2017
Gareth Johnson (Conservative Party) was elected with 31,210 votes— 57.6% of 54,224 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 57.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +7.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 54,224
| 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 | Gareth Johnson | Conservative Party | 31,210 | 57.6% | +7.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Bachchu Kaini | Labour Party | 18,024 | 33.2% | — | |
| 3 | Ben Fryer | UK Independence Party | 2,544 | 4.7% | — | |
| 4 | Simon Beard | Liberal Democrats | 1,428 | 2.6% | — | |
| 5 | Andrew Blatchford | Green Party | 807 | 1.5% | — | |
| 6 | Ola Adewunmi | Independent | 211 | 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.