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Barking — 2015

Margaret Hodge (Labour Party) was elected with 24,826 votes57.7% of 43,041 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 57.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +7.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 43,041

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare 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
1Margaret Hodge Labour Party 24,826+7.7 ptsElected
2Roger Gravett UK Independence Party 9,554
3Mina Rahman Conservative Party 7,019
4Tony Rablen Green Party 897
5Peter Wilcock Liberal Democrats 562
6Joseph Mambuliya Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 183

Electorate 73,977 · Turnout 58.2% · Majority 15,272 · Back to 2015 overview

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.