UK general elections › 2017 › Hastings and Rye
Hastings and Rye — 2017
Amber Rudd (Conservative Party) was elected with 25,668 votes— 46.9% of 54,766 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. 46.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −3.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 54,766
| 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 | Amber Rudd | Conservative Party | 25,668 | 46.9% | −3.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Peter Chowney | Labour Party | 25,322 | 46.2% | — | |
| 3 | Nicholas Perry | Liberal Democrats | 1,885 | 3.4% | — | |
| 4 | Michael Sheridan | UK Independence Party | 1,479 | 2.7% | — | |
| 5 | Nicholas Wilson | Independent | 412 | 0.8% | — |
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.