UK general elections › 2017 › Elmet and Rothwell
Elmet and Rothwell — 2017
Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative Party) was elected with 32,352 votes— 54.3% of 59,542 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 54.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +4.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 59,542
| 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 | Alec Shelbrooke | Conservative Party | 32,352 | 54.3% | +4.3 pts | Elected |
| 2 | David Nagle | Labour Party | 22,547 | 37.9% | — | |
| 3 | Stewart Golton | Liberal Democrats | 2,606 | 4.4% | — | |
| 4 | Matthew Clover | The Yorkshire Party | 1,042 | 1.8% | — | |
| 5 | Dylan Brown | Green Party | 995 | 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.