UK general elections2015 › East Yorkshire

East Yorkshire — 2015

Greg Knight (Conservative Party) was elected with 25,276 votes50.6% of 49,991 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 50.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +0.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 49,991

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
1Greg Knight Conservative Party 25,27650.6%+0.6 ptsElected
2Kevin Hickson Labour Party 10,34320.7%
3Stephanie Todd UK Independence Party 8,95517.9%
4Robert Adamson Liberal Democrats 2,9665.9%
5Mark Maloney Green Party 1,7313.5%
6Stewart Arnold Yorkshire First 7201.4%

Electorate 81,023 · Turnout 61.7% · Majority 14,933 · 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.