UK general elections › 2017 › Worthing West
Worthing West — 2017
Peter Bottomley (Conservative Party) was elected with 30,181 votes— 55.4% of 54,503 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 55.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +5.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 54,503
| 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 | Peter Bottomley | Conservative Party | 30,181 | 55.4% | +5.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Beccy Cooper | Labour Party | 18,091 | 33.2% | — | |
| 3 | Hazel Thorpe | Liberal Democrats | 2,982 | 5.5% | — | |
| 4 | Mark Withers | UK Independence Party | 1,635 | 3.0% | — | |
| 5 | Benjamin Cornish | Green Party | 1,614 | 3.0% | — |
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.