Michael has been re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks. His\u00a0share of the vote increased\u00a0by 6.8%, meaning he secured a record 64% of the vote.<\/p>\n
Michael\u2019s majority is now nearly 22,000 votes. A candidate has only achieved over 64% of the vote in Sevenoaks twice in the last 120 years, first in 1900 and second in 1935, both times when Labour either didn\u2019t exist or didn\u2019t stand.<\/p>\n
General Election 2017: SEVENOAKS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Michael FALLON (Cons) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>32,644 votes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a063.7% \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(+6.8%)<\/span><\/p>\n Chris Clark (Lab) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 10,727 votes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 20.9% \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(+8.1%)<\/span><\/p>\n Alan Bullion (LibDem) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04,280 votes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 8.4% \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(+0.5%)<\/span><\/p>\n Graham Cushway (UKIP) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01,894 votes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a03.7% \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(-14.2%)<\/span><\/p>\n Philip Dodd (Green) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01,673 votes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3.3% \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(-1.2%)<\/span><\/p>\n Majority \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a021,917 votes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 42.8%<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Turnout \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a051,218 votes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a072.1% \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (+1.2%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael has been re-elected as the Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks. His\u00a0share of the vote increased\u00a0by 6.8%, meaning he secured a record 64% of the vote. Michael\u2019s majority is now nearly 22,000 votes. A candidate has only achieved over 64% of the vote in Sevenoaks twice in the last 120 years, first in 1900 and … Continue reading “Michael is re-elected!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[551,545,553,550,497,549,552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}