UK general elections › 2017 › East Yorkshire
East Yorkshire — 2017
Greg Knight (Conservative Party) was elected with 31,442 votes— 58.3% of 53,956 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 58.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +8.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 53,956
| 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 | Greg Knight | Conservative Party | 31,442 | 58.3% | +8.3 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Alan Clark | Labour Party | 16,436 | 30.5% | — | |
| 3 | Carl Minns | Liberal Democrats | 2,134 | 4.0% | — | |
| 4 | Andrew Dennis | UK Independence Party | 1,986 | 3.7% | — | |
| 5 | Timothy Norman | The Yorkshire Party | 1,015 | 1.9% | — | |
| 6 | Michael Jackson | Green Party | 943 | 1.7% | — |
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.