UK general elections › 2017 › Gainsborough
Gainsborough — 2017
Edward Leigh (Conservative Party) was elected with 31,790 votes— 61.8% of 51,425 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 61.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +11.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 51,425
| 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 | Edward Leigh | Conservative Party | 31,790 | 61.8% | +11.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Catherine Tite | Labour Party | 14,767 | 28.7% | — | |
| 3 | Lesley Rollings | Liberal Democrats | 3,630 | 7.1% | — | |
| 4 | Vicky Pearson | Green Party | 1,238 | 2.4% | — |
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.