UK general elections › 2017 › Walsall South
Walsall South — 2017
Valerie Vaz (Labour Party) was elected with 25,286 votes— 57.4% of 44,072 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 57.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +7.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 44,072
| 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 | Valerie Vaz | Labour Party | 25,286 | 57.4% | +7.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | James Bird | Conservative Party | 16,394 | 37.2% | — | |
| 3 | Derek Bennett | UK Independence Party | 1,805 | 4.1% | — | |
| 4 | Anna Wellings Purvis | Liberal Democrats | 587 | 1.3% | — |
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.