Official portrait, 2017

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

2005 general election

2005 general election: Surrey Heath[1]
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

2010 general election: Surrey Heath[2]
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

2015 general election: Surrey Heath[3]
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

2017 general election: Surrey Heath[7]
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

2019 general election: Surrey Heath[8]
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

2016 leadership election

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

2019 leadership election

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

References

  1. ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  4. ↑ webteam, Surrey Heath UKIP. "Leave the EU - Surrey Heath Constituency UKIP branch. News, articles, videos, policies, join, in.camberley, frimley, bagshot, chobham, bisley, mytchett". surreyheathukip.org.uk. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Kimberley Lawson PPC page". Green Party of England and Wales. Archived from the original on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "Loony Party Candidates". Archived from the original on 18 January 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED, NOTICE OF POLL AND SITUATION OF POLLING STATIONS" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
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