UK general elections › 2015 › Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Bermondsey and Old Southwark — 2015
Neil Coyle (Labour Party) was elected with 22,146 votes— 43.1% of 51,424 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. 43.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −6.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 51,424
| 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 | Neil Coyle | Labour Party | 22,146 | −6.9 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Simon Hughes | Liberal Democrats | 17,657 | — | ||
| 3 | JP Floru | Conservative Party | 6,051 | — | ||
| 4 | Andrew Beadle | UK Independence Party | 3,254 | — | ||
| 5 | William Lavin | Green Party | 2,023 | — | ||
| 6 | Kingsley Abrams | Left Unity | 142 | — | ||
| 7 | Lucy Hall | Independent | 72 | — | ||
| 8 | Donald Cole | All People's Party | 59 | — | ||
| 9 | Steve Freeman | The Republican Socialist Party | 20 | — |
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.