United Kingdom General election 2017 — Results
Election day: June 8, 2017
- Conservative Party: 42.34%, 317 seats
- Labour Party: 39.99%, 262 seats
- Liberal Democrats: 7.37%, 12 seats
- Scottish National Party: 3.04%, 35 seats
- UK Independence Party: 1.84%, 0 seats
- Green Party: 1.63%, 1 seats
- Democratic Unionist Party: 0.91%, 10 seats
- Sinn Féin: 0.74%, 7 seats
Turnout: 68.80%
About this election
How the vote works
As in every Westminster election, the 650 MPs were chosen by first-past-the-post in single-member constituencies, with the party able to command a Commons majority forming the government. A working majority requires 326 seats (or slightly fewer in practice, because Sinn Féin's MPs do not take their seats and the Speaker does not vote).
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 2.35 points separated Conservative Party from Labour Party — 758,766 votes.
- Conservative Party converted 42.34% of the vote into 317 of 650 seats (48.77%), 6.43 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 82.33% of the vote between them, and 3 lists cleared 5%.
- Conservative Party moved +5.53 points against the 2015 general election (36.81% → 42.34%).
- Support for Conservative Party ranged from 54.64% in East of England to 0.48% in Northern Ireland — a spread of 54.16 points across 12 regions, and it led in 5 of 12.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure