UK general elections › 2015 › Canterbury
Canterbury — 2015
Julian Brazier (Conservative Party) was elected with 22,918 votes— 42.9% of 53,465 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. 42.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −7.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 53,465
| 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 | Julian Brazier | Conservative Party | 22,918 | −7.1 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Hugh Lanning | Labour Party | 13,120 | — | ||
| 3 | Jim Gascoyne | UK Independence Party | 7,289 | — | ||
| 4 | James Flanagan | Liberal Democrats | 6,227 | — | ||
| 5 | Stuart Jeffery | Green Party | 3,746 | — | ||
| 6 | Robert Cox | The Socialist Party of Great Britain | 165 | — |
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.