UK general elections2017 › Epping Forest

Epping Forest — 2017

Eleanor Laing (Conservative Party) was elected with 31,462 votes62.0% of 50,779 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 62.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +12.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,779

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
1Eleanor Laing Conservative Party 31,46262.0%+12.0 ptsElected
2Liam Preston Labour Party 13,21926.0%
3Jon Whitehouse Liberal Democrats 2,8845.7%
4Patrick O'Flynn UK Independence Party 1,8713.7%
5Simon Heap Green Party 1,2332.4%
6Thomas Hall Young People's Party 1100.2%

Electorate 74,737 · Turnout 67.9% · Majority 18,243 · 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.