UK general elections › 2015 › Bristol South
Bristol South — 2015
Karin Smyth (Labour Party) was elected with 19,505 votes— 38.4% of 50,842 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. 38.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −11.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,842
| 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 | Karin Smyth | Labour Party | 19,505 | 38.4% | −11.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Isobel Grant | Conservative Party | 12,377 | 24.3% | — | |
| 3 | Steve Wood | UK Independence Party | 8,381 | 16.5% | — | |
| 4 | Tony Dyer | Green Party | 5,861 | 11.5% | — | |
| 5 | Mark Wright | Liberal Democrats | 4,416 | 8.7% | — | |
| 6 | Tom Baldwin | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 302 | 0.6% | — |
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.