UK general elections › 2015 › Dartford
Dartford — 2015
Gareth Johnson (Conservative Party) was elected with 25,670 votes— 49.0% of 52,418 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. 49.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 52,418
| 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 | Gareth Johnson | Conservative Party | 25,670 | 49.0% | −1.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Simon Thomson | Labour Party | 13,325 | 25.4% | — | |
| 3 | Elizabeth Jones | UK Independence Party | 10,434 | 19.9% | — | |
| 4 | Simon Beard | Liberal Democrats | 1,454 | 2.8% | — | |
| 5 | Andy Blatchford | Green Party | 1,324 | 2.5% | — | |
| 6 | Steve Uncles | English Democrats | 211 | 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.