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2017 general election · North West

Leigh: 2017 general election result

Joanne Platt (Labour) won Leigh at the 2017 general election with a majority of 9,554. Full result for every candidate, turnout and change since the last election.

Winner
Joanne PlattLabour
Majority
9,55420.4% of valid votes
Turnout
61.5%46,874 valid votes
Electorate
76,202
Result
Lab hold
Result
CandidatePartyVotesShareChangeShare bar
Joanne Platt ElectedLabour
Labour and Co-operative Party
26,34756.2%+2.3
James GrundyConservative16,79335.8%+13.2
Mark BradleyUK Independence Party2,7835.9%−13.8
Richard KilpatrickLiberal Democrats9512.0%−0.5
Valid votes46,874
Majority9,55420.4%

Change compared with the 2015 general election (same boundaries).

Declared 9 June 2017, 01:19.

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Questions and answers

Who won Leigh at the 2017 general election?

Joanne Platt (Labour) won with 26,347 votes (56.2%). Result: Lab hold.

What was the majority in Leigh in 2017?

9,554 votes (20.4% of valid votes) over the Conservative candidate, James Grundy.

What was the turnout in Leigh in 2017?

61.5% of the 76,202 registered electors cast a valid vote (46,874 votes).

Official results UK Parliament election results data (House of Commons Library). Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. How we use this data

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