UK general elections › 2017 › Scarborough and Whitby
Scarborough and Whitby — 2017
Robert Goodwill (Conservative Party) was elected with 24,401 votes— 48.4% of 50,449 valid votes. Under First Past the Post, a plurality is enough; a majority is not required.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 48.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,449
| 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 | Robert Goodwill | Conservative Party | 24,401 | −1.6 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Eric Broadbent | Labour Party | 20,966 | — | ||
| 3 | Sam Cross | UK Independence Party | 1,682 | — | ||
| 4 | Robert Lockwood | Liberal Democrats | 1,354 | — | ||
| 5 | David Malone | Green Party | 915 | — | ||
| 6 | John Freeman | Independent | 680 | — | ||
| 7 | Bill Black | The Yorkshire Party | 369 | — | ||
| 8 | Gordon Johnson | Independent | 82 | — |
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.