UK general elections › 2015 › Aberdeen South
Aberdeen South — 2015
Callum McCaig (Scottish National Party) was elected with 20,221 votes— 41.6% of 48,551 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. 41.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −8.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,551
| 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 | Callum McCaig | Scottish National Party | 20,221 | 41.6% | −8.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Anne Begg | Labour Party | 12,991 | 26.8% | — | |
| 3 | Ross Thomson | Conservative Party | 11,087 | 22.8% | — | |
| 4 | Dennis Rixson | Liberal Democrats | 2,252 | 4.6% | — | |
| 5 | Dan Yeats | Green Party (Scottish Green Party) | 964 | 2.0% | — | |
| 6 | Sandra Skinner | UK Independence Party | 897 | 1.8% | — | |
| 7 | Christopher Gray | Independent | 139 | 0.3% | — |
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.