UK general elections › 2015 › Batley and Spen
Batley and Spen — 2015
Jo Cox (Labour Party) was elected with 21,826 votes— 43.2% of 50,479 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. 43.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −6.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,479
| 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 | Jo Cox | Labour Party | 21,826 | 43.2% | −6.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Imtiaz Ameen | Conservative Party | 15,769 | 31.2% | — | |
| 3 | Aleks Lukic | UK Independence Party | 9,080 | 18.0% | — | |
| 4 | John Lawson | Liberal Democrats | 2,396 | 4.7% | — | |
| 5 | Ian Bullock | Green Party | 1,232 | 2.4% | — | |
| 6 | Dawn Wheelhouse | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 123 | 0.2% | — | |
| 7 | Karl Varley | Patriotic Socialist Party | 53 | 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.