UK general elections › 2015 › Clacton
Clacton — 2015
Douglas Carswell (UK Independence Party) was elected with 19,642 votes— 44.4% of 44,207 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. 44.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −5.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 44,207
| 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 | Douglas Carswell | UK Independence Party | 19,642 | 44.4% | −5.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Giles Watling | Conservative Party | 16,205 | 36.7% | — | |
| 3 | Tim Young | Labour Party | 6,364 | 14.4% | — | |
| 4 | Chris Southall | Green Party | 1,184 | 2.7% | — | |
| 5 | David Grace | Liberal Democrats | 812 | 1.8% | — |
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.