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Devizes — 2015

Claire Perry (Conservative Party) was elected with 28,295 votes57.7% of 49,006 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 57.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +7.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 49,006

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
1Claire Perry Conservative Party 28,29557.7%+7.7 ptsElected
2David Pollitt UK Independence Party 7,54415.4%
3Chris Watts Labour Party 6,36013.0%
4Manda Rigby Liberal Democrats 3,9548.1%
5Emma Dawnay Green Party 2,8535.8%

Electorate 69,205 · Turnout 70.8% · Majority 20,751 · 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.