UK general elections › 2017 › Leeds East
Leeds East — 2017
Richard Burgon (Labour Party) was elected with 25,428 votes— 61.4% of 41,441 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 61.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +11.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 41,441
| 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 | Richard Burgon | Labour Party | 25,428 | 61.4% | +11.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Matthew Robinson | Conservative Party | 12,676 | 30.6% | — | |
| 3 | Paul Spivey | UK Independence Party | 1,742 | 4.2% | — | |
| 4 | Ed Sanderson | Liberal Democrats | 739 | 1.8% | — | |
| 5 | Jaimes Moran | Green Party | 434 | 1.0% | — | |
| 6 | John Otley | The Yorkshire Party | 422 | 1.0% | — |
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.