UK general elections › 2015 › Aberavon
Aberavon — 2015
Stephen Kinnock (Labour Party) was elected with 15,416 votes— 48.9% of 31,523 valid votes. Under First Past the Post, a plurality is enough; a majority is not required.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 48.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 31,523
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share of votes Candidate votes ÷ valid votes in this constituency. Matches the share the returning officer publishes. | Below quota Elected candidate's share of valid votes minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = won the seat below the quota; positive = cleared it. | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Kinnock | Labour Party | 15,416 | −1.1 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Peter Bush | UK Independence Party | 4,971 | — | ||
| 3 | Edward Yi He | Conservative Party | 3,742 | — | ||
| 4 | Duncan Higgitt | Plaid Cymru | 3,663 | — | ||
| 5 | Helen Clarke | Liberal Democrats | 1,397 | — | ||
| 6 | Captain Beany | Independent | 1,137 | — | ||
| 7 | Jonathan Tier | Green Party | 711 | — | ||
| 8 | Andrew Jordan | Socialist Labour Party | 352 | — | ||
| 9 | Owen Herbert | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 134 | — |
Source data: UK Parliament psephology database, retrieved
2026-05-19, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl-psephology@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.