UK general elections › 2017 › Ipswich
Ipswich — 2017
Sandy Martin (Labour Party) was elected with 24,224 votes— 47.4% of 51,137 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. 47.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −2.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 51,137
| 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 | Sandy Martin | Labour Party | 24,224 | 47.4% | −2.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Ben Gummer | Conservative Party | 23,393 | 45.7% | — | |
| 3 | Tony Gould | UK Independence Party | 1,372 | 2.7% | — | |
| 4 | Adrian Hyyrylainen-Trett | Liberal Democrats | 1,187 | 2.3% | — | |
| 5 | Charlotte Armstrong | Green Party | 840 | 1.6% | — | |
| 6 | David Tabane | Independent | 121 | 0.2% | — |
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.