UK general elections2019 › Folkestone and Hythe

Folkestone and Hythe — 2019

Damian Collins (Conservative Party) was elected with 35,483 votes60.1% of 59,005 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 60.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +10.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 59,005

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
1Damian Collins Conservative Party 35,48360.1%+10.1 ptsElected
2Laura Davison Labour Party 14,14624.0%
3Simon Bishop Liberal Democrats 5,7559.8%
4Georgina Treloar Green Party 2,7064.6%
5Henry Bolton Independent 5761.0%
6Colin Menniss Social Democratic Party 1900.3%
7Rohen Kapur Young People's Party 800.1%
8Andy Thomas The Socialist Party of Great Britain 690.1%

Electorate 88,272 · Turnout 66.8% · Majority 21,337 · Back to 2019 overview

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.