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Blackburn — 2015

Kate Hollern (Labour Party) was elected with 24,762 votes56.3% of 43,999 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 56.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +6.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 43,999

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
1Kate Hollern Labour Party 24,76256.3%+6.3 ptsElected
2Bob Eastwood Conservative Party 12,00227.3%
3Dayle Taylor UK Independence Party 6,28014.3%
4Gordon Lishman Liberal Democrats 9552.2%

Electorate 73,260 · Turnout 60.1% · Majority 12,760 · 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.