UK general elections2017 › Newcastle upon Tyne East

Newcastle upon Tyne East — 2017

Nicholas Brown (Labour Party) was elected with 28,127 votes67.6% of 41,637 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 67.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +17.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 41,637

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
1Nicholas Brown Labour Party 28,127+17.6 ptsElected
2Simon Kitchen Conservative Party 8,866
3Wendy Taylor Liberal Democrats 2,574
4Tony Sanderson UK Independence Party 1,315
5Alistair Ford Green Party 755

Electorate 61,989 · Turnout 67.2% · Majority 19,261 · 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.