UK general elections › 2017 › Leigh
Leigh — 2017
Joanne Platt (Labour Party) was elected with 26,347 votes— 56.2% 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
| 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 | Joanne Platt | Labour Party | 26,347 | 56.2% | +6.2 pts | Elected |
| 2 | James Grundy | Conservative Party | 16,793 | 35.8% | — | |
| 3 | Mark Bradley | UK Independence Party | 2,783 | 5.9% | — | |
| 4 | Richard Kilpatrick | Liberal Democrats | 951 | 2.0% | — |
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.