UK general elections › 2019 › Canterbury
Canterbury — 2019
Rosemary Duffield (Labour Party) was elected with 29,018 votes— 48.3% of 60,113 valid votes. Under First Past the Post, a plurality is enough; a majority is not required.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 48.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 60,113
| 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 | Rosemary Duffield | Labour Party | 29,018 | 48.3% | −1.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Anna Firth | Conservative Party | 27,182 | 45.2% | — | |
| 3 | Claire Malcomson | Liberal Democrats | 3,408 | 5.7% | — | |
| 4 | Michael Gould | Independent | 505 | 0.8% | — |
Source data: House of Commons Library general election results 2019, retrieved
2026-05-19, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.