UK general elections › 2017 › Wantage
Wantage — 2017
Edward Vaizey (Conservative Party) was elected with 34,459 votes— 54.2% of 63,602 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 54.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +4.2 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 63,602
| 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 | Edward Vaizey | Conservative Party | 34,459 | 54.2% | +4.2 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Rachel Eden | Labour Party | 17,079 | 26.9% | — | |
| 3 | Christopher Carrigan | Liberal Democrats | 9,234 | 14.5% | — | |
| 4 | Sue Ap-Roberts | Green Party | 1,546 | 2.4% | — | |
| 5 | David McLeod | UK Independence Party | 1,284 | 2.0% | — |
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.