UK general elections › 2017 › Wakefield
Wakefield — 2017
Mary Creagh (Labour Party) was elected with 22,987 votes— 49.7% of 46,284 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. 49.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −0.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,284
| 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 | Mary Creagh | Labour Party | 22,987 | 49.7% | −0.3 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Antony Calvert | Conservative Party | 20,811 | 45.0% | — | |
| 3 | Lucy Brown | The Yorkshire Party | 1,176 | 2.5% | — | |
| 4 | Denis Cronin | Liberal Democrats | 943 | 2.0% | — | |
| 5 | Waj Ali | Independent | 367 | 0.8% | — |
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.