UK general elections › 2015 › Edinburgh South
Edinburgh South — 2015
Ian Murray (Labour Party) was elected with 19,293 votes— 39.1% of 49,286 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. 39.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 49,286
| 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 | Ian Murray | Labour Party | 19,293 | 39.1% | −10.9 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Neil Hay | Scottish National Party | 16,656 | 33.8% | — | |
| 3 | Miles Briggs | Conservative Party | 8,626 | 17.5% | — | |
| 4 | Phyl Meyer | Green Party (Scottish Green Party) | 2,090 | 4.2% | — | |
| 5 | Pramod Subbaraman | Liberal Democrats | 1,823 | 3.7% | — | |
| 6 | Paul Marshall | UK Independence Party | 601 | 1.2% | — | |
| 7 | Colin Fox | Scottish Socialist Party | 197 | 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.