UK general elections2015 › Crawley

Crawley — 2015

Henry Smith (Conservative Party) was elected with 22,829 votes47.0% of 48,550 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. 47.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −3.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,550

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare 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
1Henry Smith Conservative Party 22,82947.0%−3.0 ptsElected
2Chris Oxlade Labour Party 16,30333.6%
3Chris Brown UK Independence Party 6,97914.4%
4Sarah Osborne Liberal Democrats 1,3392.8%
5Guy Hudson Green Party 1,1002.3%

Electorate 73,936 · Turnout 65.7% · Majority 6,526 · Back to 2015 overview

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.