UK general elections › 2017 › Luton South
Luton South — 2017
Gavin Shuker (Labour Party) was elected with 28,804 votes— 62.4% of 46,133 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 62.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +12.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,133
| 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 | Gavin Shuker | Labour Party | 28,804 | 62.4% | +12.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Dean Russell | Conservative Party | 14,879 | 32.3% | — | |
| 3 | Andrew Strange | Liberal Democrats | 1,056 | 2.3% | — | |
| 4 | Ujjawal Bhardwhaj | UK Independence Party | 795 | 1.7% | — | |
| 5 | Marc Scheimann | Green Party | 439 | 1.0% | — | |
| 6 | Abid Ali | Independent | 160 | 0.3% | — |
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.