UK general elections › 2017 › Great Grimsby
Great Grimsby — 2017
Melanie Onn (Labour Party) was elected with 17,545 votes— 49.4% of 35,521 valid votes. Under First Past the Post, a plurality is enough; a majority is not required.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 49.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −0.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 35,521
| 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 | Melanie Onn | Labour Party | 17,545 | 49.4% | −0.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Jo Gideon | Conservative Party | 14,980 | 42.2% | — | |
| 3 | Mike Hookem | UK Independence Party | 1,648 | 4.6% | — | |
| 4 | Steve Beasant | Liberal Democrats | 954 | 2.7% | — | |
| 5 | Christina McGilligan-Fell | Independent | 394 | 1.1% | — |
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.