UK general elections2017 › Hexham

Hexham — 2017

Guy Opperman (Conservative Party) was elected with 24,996 votes54.1% of 46,224 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 54.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +4.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,224

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare 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
1Guy Opperman Conservative Party 24,99654.1%+4.1 ptsElected
2Stephen Powers Labour Party 15,76034.1%
3Fiona Hall Liberal Democrats 3,2857.1%
4Wesley Foot Green Party 1,2532.7%
5Stuart Miles UK Independence Party 9302.0%

Electorate 61,053 · Turnout 75.7% · Majority 9,236 · Back to 2017 overview

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.