UK general elections › 2015 › Bury South
Bury South — 2015
Ivan Lewis (Labour Party) was elected with 21,272 votes— 45.1% of 47,215 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. 45.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −4.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,215
| 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 | Ivan Lewis | Labour Party | 21,272 | 45.1% | −4.9 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Daniel Critchlow | Conservative Party | 16,350 | 34.6% | — | |
| 3 | Séamus Martin | UK Independence Party | 6,299 | 13.3% | — | |
| 4 | Paul Ankers | Liberal Democrats | 1,690 | 3.6% | — | |
| 5 | Glyn Heath | Green Party | 1,434 | 3.0% | — | |
| 6 | Valerie Morris | English Democrats | 170 | 0.4% | — |
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.