UK general elections › 2015 › Bath
Bath — 2015
Ben Howlett (Conservative Party) was elected with 17,833 votes— 37.8% of 47,167 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. 37.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −12.2 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,167
| 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 | Ben Howlett | Conservative Party | 17,833 | 37.8% | −12.2 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Steve Bradley | Liberal Democrats | 14,000 | 29.7% | — | |
| 3 | Ollie Middleton | Labour Party | 6,216 | 13.2% | — | |
| 4 | Dominic Tristram | Green Party | 5,634 | 11.9% | — | |
| 5 | Julian Deverell | UK Independence Party | 2,922 | 6.2% | — | |
| 6 | Loraine Morgan-Brinkhurst | Independent | 499 | 1.1% | — | |
| 7 | Jenny Knight | English Democrats | 63 | 0.1% | — |
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.