UK general elections2017 › Southampton, Test

Southampton, Test — 2017

Alan Whitehead (Labour Party) was elected with 27,509 votes58.7% of 46,903 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 58.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +8.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,903

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
1Alan Whitehead Labour Party 27,50958.7%+8.7 ptsElected
2Paul Holmes Conservative Party 16,00634.1%
3Thomas Gravatt Liberal Democrats 1,8924.0%
4Andrew Pope Southampton Independents 8161.7%
5Keith Morrell Independent 6801.4%

Electorate 70,199 · Turnout 66.8% · Majority 11,503 · 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.