UK general elections › 2015 › Bolsover
Bolsover — 2015
Dennis Skinner (Labour Party) was elected with 22,542 votes— 51.2% of 43,998 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 51.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +1.2 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 43,998
| 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 | Dennis Skinner | Labour Party | 22,542 | 51.2% | +1.2 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Peter Bedford | Conservative Party | 10,764 | 24.5% | — | |
| 3 | Ray Calladine | UK Independence Party | 9,228 | 21.0% | — | |
| 4 | David Lomax | Liberal Democrats | 1,464 | 3.3% | — |
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.