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Arfon — 2015
Hywel Williams (Plaid Cymru) was elected with 11,790 votes— 43.9% of 26,837 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. 43.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −6.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 26,837
| 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 | Hywel Williams | Plaid Cymru | 11,790 | 43.9% | −6.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Alun Pugh | Labour Party | 8,122 | 30.3% | — | |
| 3 | Anwen Barry | Conservative Party | 3,521 | 13.1% | — | |
| 4 | Simon Wall | UK Independence Party | 2,277 | 8.5% | — | |
| 5 | Mohammed Shultan | Liberal Democrats | 718 | 2.7% | — | |
| 6 | Kathrine Jones | Socialist Labour Party | 409 | 1.5% | — |
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.