UK general elections › 2017 › Faversham and Mid Kent
Faversham and Mid Kent — 2017
Helen Whately (Conservative Party) was elected with 30,390 votes— 61.1% of 49,749 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 61.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +11.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 49,749
| 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 | Helen Whately | Conservative Party | 30,390 | 61.1% | +11.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Michael Desmond | Labour Party | 12,977 | 26.1% | — | |
| 3 | David Naghi | Liberal Democrats | 3,249 | 6.5% | — | |
| 4 | Mark McGiffin | UK Independence Party | 1,702 | 3.4% | — | |
| 5 | Alastair Gould | Green Party | 1,431 | 2.9% | — |
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.