UK general elections › 2017 › West Suffolk
West Suffolk — 2017
Matt Hancock (Conservative Party) was elected with 31,649 votes— 61.2% of 51,746 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 61.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +11.2 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 51,746
| 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 | Matt Hancock | Conservative Party | 31,649 | 61.2% | +11.2 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Michael Jefferys | Labour Party | 14,586 | 28.2% | — | |
| 3 | Julian Flood | UK Independence Party | 2,396 | 4.6% | — | |
| 4 | Elfreda Tealby-Watson | Liberal Democrats | 2,180 | 4.2% | — | |
| 5 | Donald Allwright | Green Party | 935 | 1.8% | — |
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.