UK general elections2017 › Wyre and Preston North

Wyre and Preston North — 2017

Ben Wallace (Conservative Party) was elected with 30,684 votes58.3% of 52,646 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 58.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +8.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 52,646

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare 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
1Ben Wallace Conservative Party 30,68458.3%+8.3 ptsElected
2Michelle Heaton-Bentley Labour Party 18,43835.0%
3John Potter Liberal Democrats 2,5514.8%
4Ruth Norbury Green Party 9731.8%

Electorate 72,319 · Turnout 72.8% · Majority 12,246 · Back to 2017 overview

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.