UK general elections › 2017 › Halifax
Halifax — 2017
Holly Lynch (Labour Party) was elected with 25,507 votes— 52.8% of 48,276 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 52.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +2.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,276
| 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 | Holly Lynch | Labour Party | 25,507 | 52.8% | +2.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Chris Pearson | Conservative Party | 20,131 | 41.7% | — | |
| 3 | Mark Weedon | UK Independence Party | 1,568 | 3.2% | — | |
| 4 | James Baker | Liberal Democrats | 1,070 | 2.2% | — |
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.