UK general elections › 2015 › Bury North
Bury North — 2015
David Nuttall (Conservative Party) was elected with 18,970 votes— 41.9% of 45,230 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. 41.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −8.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 45,230
| 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 | David Nuttall | Conservative Party | 18,970 | 41.9% | −8.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | James Frith | Labour Party | 18,592 | 41.1% | — | |
| 3 | Ian Henderson | UK Independence Party | 5,595 | 12.4% | — | |
| 4 | John Southworth | Green Party | 1,141 | 2.5% | — | |
| 5 | Richard Baum | Liberal Democrats | 932 | 2.1% | — |
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.