UK general elections2017 › Leigh

Leigh — 2017

Joanne Platt (Labour Party) was elected with 26,347 votes56.2% of 46,874 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 56.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +6.2 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,874

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
1Joanne Platt Labour Party 26,34756.2%+6.2 ptsElected
2James Grundy Conservative Party 16,79335.8%
3Mark Bradley UK Independence Party 2,7835.9%
4Richard Kilpatrick Liberal Democrats 9512.0%

Electorate 76,202 · Turnout 61.5% · Majority 9,554 · 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.