UK general elections2017 › Penrith and The Border

Penrith and The Border — 2017

Rory Stewart (Conservative Party) was elected with 28,078 votes60.4% of 46,470 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 60.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +10.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,470

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
1Rory Stewart Conservative Party 28,078+10.4 ptsElected
2Lola McEvoy Labour Party 12,168
3Neil Hughes Liberal Democrats 3,641
4Kerryanne Wilde UK Independence Party 1,142
5Douglas Lawson Green Party 1,029
6Jonathan Davies Independent 412

Electorate 65,139 · Turnout 71.3% · Majority 15,910 · 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.