UK general elections2017 › North East Bedfordshire

North East Bedfordshire — 2017

Alistair Burt (Conservative Party) was elected with 39,139 votes60.9% of 64,220 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 60.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +10.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 64,220

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
1Alistair Burt Conservative Party 39,13960.9%+10.9 ptsElected
2Julian Vaughan Labour Party 18,27728.5%
3Stephen Rutherford Liberal Democrats 3,6935.8%
4Duncan Strachan UK Independence Party 1,8963.0%
5Philippa Fleming Green Party 1,2151.9%

Electorate 87,505 · Turnout 73.4% · Majority 20,862 · 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.