Electoral history of Michael Gove
This is a summary of the electoral history of Michael Gove, who is a prominent Conservative Party politician who has served as a Cabinet minister under David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, and has been a Member of Parliament since 2005.
Parliamentary elections[edit]
2005 general election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Gove | 24,642 | 51.5 | +1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Rosalyn Harper | 13,797 | 28.8 | +3.1 | |
| Labour | Chris Lowe | 7,989 | 16.7 | –4.7 | |
| UKIP | Steve Smith | 1,430 | 3.0 | –0.3 | |
| Majority | 10,845 | 22.7 | –1.3 | ||
| Turnout | 47,858 | 62.9 | +3.4 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –0.7 | |||
2010 general election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Gove | 31,326 | 57.6 | +6.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Hilliar | 14,037 | 25.8 | –3.0 | |
| Labour | Matt Willey | 5,552 | 10.2 | –6.5 | |
| UKIP | Mark Stroud | 3,432 | 6.3 | +3.3 | |
| Majority | 17,289 | 31.8 | +9.1 | ||
| Turnout | 54,347 | 70.0 | +7.1 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +4.5 | |||
2015 general election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Gove | 32,582 | 59.9 | +2.3 | |
| UKIP | Paul Chapman[4] | 7,778 | 14.3 | +8.0 | |
| Labour | Laween Atroshi | 6,100 | 11.2 | +1.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ann-Marie Barker | 4,937 | 9.1 | –16.8 | |
| Green | Kimberley Lawson[5] | 2,400 | 4.4 | New | |
| Christian | Juliana Brimicombe | 361 | 0.7 | New | |
| Independent | Bob and Roberta Smith[6] | 273 | 0.5 | New | |
| Majority | 24,804 | 45.6 | +13.8 | ||
| Turnout | 54,431 | 68.5 | –1.5 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
2017 general election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Gove | 37,118 | 64.2 | +4.3 | |
| Labour | Laween Atroshi | 12,175 | 21.1 | +9.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ann-Marie Barker | 6,271 | 10.8 | +1.7 | |
| Green | Sharon Galliford | 2,258 | 3.9 | –0.5 | |
| Majority | 24,943 | 43.1 | –2.5 | ||
| Turnout | 57,822 | 71.6 | +3.1 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –2.8 | |||
2019 general election[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Michael Gove | 34,358 | 58.6 | –5.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Alasdair Pinkerton | 16,009 | 27.3 | +16.5 | |
| Labour | Brahma Mohanty | 5,407 | 9.2 | –11.9 | |
| Green | Sharon Galliford | 2,252 | 3.8 | –0.1 | |
| UKIP | David Roe | 628 | 1.1 | New | |
| Majority | 18,349 | 31.3 | –11.8 | ||
| Turnout | 58,654 | 72.1 | +0.5 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | –11.0 | |||
Conservative Party leadership elections[edit]
2016 leadership election[edit]
| Candidate | First ballot: 5 July 2016 |
Second ballot: 7 July 2016 |
Members' vote (Cancelled) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Theresa May | 165 | 50.2 | 199 | 60.5 | Unopposed | ||
| Andrea Leadsom | 66 | 20.1 | 84 | 25.5 | Withdrew | ||
| Michael Gove | 48 | 14.6 | 46 | 14.0 | Eliminated | ||
| Stephen Crabb | 34 | 10.3 | Withdrew, endorsed May | ||||
| Liam Fox | 16 | 4.9 | Eliminated, endorsed May | ||||
| Turnout | 329 | 99.7 | 329 | 99.7 | — | ||
| Theresa May unopposed | |||||||
 | Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
2019 leadership election[edit]
| Candidate | First ballot: 13 June 2019 |
Second ballot: 18 June 2019 |
Third ballot: 19 June 2019 |
Fourth ballot: 20 June 2019 |
Fifth ballot: 20 June 2019 |
Members' vote | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | |
| Boris Johnson | 114 | 36.4 | 126 | 40.3 | 143 | 45.7 | 157 | 50.2 | 160 | 51.1 | 92,153 | 66.4 |
| Jeremy Hunt | 43 | 13.7 | 46 | 14.7 | 54 | 17.3 | 59 | 18.8 | 77 | 24.6 | 46,656 | 33.6 |
| Michael Gove | 37 | 11.8 | 41 | 13.1 | 51 | 16.3 | 61 | 19.5 | 75 | 24.0 | Eliminated | |
| Sajid Javid | 23 | 7.3 | 33 | 10.5 | 38 | 12.1 | 34 | 10.9 | Eliminated | |||
| Rory Stewart | 19 | 6.1 | 37 | 11.8 | 27 | 8.6 | Eliminated | |||||
| Dominic Raab | 27 | 8.6 | 30 | 9.6 | Eliminated | |||||||
| Matt Hancock | 20 | 6.4 | Withdrew | |||||||||
| Andrea Leadsom | 11 | 3.5 | Eliminated | |||||||||
| Mark Harper | 10 | 3.2 | Eliminated | |||||||||
| Esther McVey | 9 | 2.9 | Eliminated | |||||||||
| Spoilt ballots | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.6 | 1 | 0.3 | 509 | 0.4 |
| Turnout | 313 | 100.0 | 313 | 100.0 | 313 | 100.0 | 313 | 100.0 | 313 | 100.0 | 139,318 | 87.4 |
| Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
References[edit]
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- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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- ^ "Kimberley Lawson PPC page". Green Party of England and Wales. Archived from the original on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ Clark, Nick (3 December 2014). "Bob and Roberta Smith will run against Michael Gove at the election on culture platform". Independent. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
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