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Buckingham — 2015

John Bercow (Speaker) was elected with 34,617 votes64.5% of 53,692 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 64.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +14.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 53,692

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
1John Bercow speaker Speaker 34,61764.5%+14.5 ptsElected
2Dave Fowler speaker UK Independence Party 11,67521.7%
3Alan Francis speaker Green Party 7,40013.8%

Electorate 77,425 · Turnout 69.3% · Majority 22,942 · Back to 2015 overview

Data caveats on this contest: speaker. What these mean.

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.