UK general elections › 2017 › Rochester and Strood
Rochester and Strood — 2017
Kelly Tolhurst (Conservative Party) was elected with 29,232 votes— 54.4% of 53,769 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 54.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +4.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 53,769
| 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 | Kelly Tolhurst | Conservative Party | 29,232 | 54.4% | +4.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Teresa Murray | Labour Party | 19,382 | 36.0% | — | |
| 3 | David Allen | UK Independence Party | 2,893 | 5.4% | — | |
| 4 | Bart Ricketts | Liberal Democrats | 1,189 | 2.2% | — | |
| 5 | Sonia Hyner | Green Party | 781 | 1.5% | — | |
| 6 | Steve Benson | Christian Peoples Alliance | 163 | 0.3% | — | |
| 7 | Primerose Chiguri | Independent | 129 | 0.2% | — |
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.