UK general elections › 2015 › Cambridge
Cambridge — 2015
Daniel Zeichner (Labour Party) was elected with 18,646 votes— 36.0% of 51,774 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. 36.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −14.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 51,774
| 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 | Daniel Zeichner | Labour Party | 18,646 | 36.0% | −14.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Julian Huppert | Liberal Democrats | 18,047 | 34.9% | — | |
| 3 | Chamali Fernando | Conservative Party | 8,117 | 15.7% | — | |
| 4 | Rupert Read | Green Party | 4,109 | 7.9% | — | |
| 5 | Patrick O'Flynn | UK Independence Party | 2,668 | 5.2% | — | |
| 6 | Keith Garrett | Rebooting Democracy | 187 | 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.