UK general elections › 2017 › Newbury
Newbury — 2017
Richard Benyon (Conservative Party) was elected with 37,399 votes— 61.5% of 60,849 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 61.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +11.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 60,849
| 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 Benyon | Conservative Party | 37,399 | 61.5% | +11.5 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Judith Bunting | Liberal Democrats | 13,019 | 21.4% | — | |
| 3 | Alex Skirvin | Labour Party | 8,596 | 14.1% | — | |
| 4 | Paul Field | Green Party | 1,531 | 2.5% | — | |
| 5 | Dave Yates | Apolitical Democrats | 304 | 0.5% | — |
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.