UK general elections › 2017 › North Shropshire
North Shropshire — 2017
Owen Paterson (Conservative Party) was elected with 33,642 votes— 60.5% of 55,599 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 60.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +10.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 55,599
| 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 | Owen Paterson | Conservative Party | 33,642 | 60.5% | +10.5 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Graeme Currie | Labour Party | 17,287 | 31.1% | — | |
| 3 | Tom Thornhill | Liberal Democrats | 2,948 | 5.3% | — | |
| 4 | Duncan Kerr | Green Party | 1,722 | 3.1% | — |
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.