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Don Valley — 2015
Caroline Flint (Labour Party) was elected with 19,621 votes— 46.2% of 42,486 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. 46.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −3.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 42,486
| 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 | Caroline Flint | Labour Party | 19,621 | 46.2% | −3.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Carl Jackson | Conservative Party | 10,736 | 25.3% | — | |
| 3 | Guy Aston | UK Independence Party | 9,963 | 23.5% | — | |
| 4 | Rene Paterson | Liberal Democrats | 1,487 | 3.5% | — | |
| 5 | Steve Williams | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 437 | 1.0% | — | |
| 6 | Louise Dutton | English Democrats | 242 | 0.6% | — |
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.