UK general elections › 2017 › Maidstone and The Weald
Maidstone and The Weald — 2017
Helen Grant (Conservative Party) was elected with 29,156 votes— 56.4% of 51,717 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 56.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +6.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 51,717
| 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 | Helen Grant | Conservative Party | 29,156 | 56.4% | +6.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Allen Simpson | Labour Party | 11,433 | 22.1% | — | |
| 3 | Emily Fermor | Liberal Democrats | 8,455 | 16.3% | — | |
| 4 | Pamela Watts | UK Independence Party | 1,613 | 3.1% | — | |
| 5 | Stuart Jeffery | Green Party | 888 | 1.7% | — | |
| 6 | Yolande Kenward | Independent | 172 | 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.