UK general elections › 2015 › Epping Forest
Epping Forest — 2015
Eleanor Laing (Conservative Party) was elected with 27,027 votes— 54.8% of 49,348 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 54.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +4.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 49,348
| 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 | Eleanor Laing | Conservative Party | 27,027 | 54.8% | +4.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Andrew Smith | UK Independence Party | 9,049 | 18.3% | — | |
| 3 | Gareth Barrett | Labour Party | 7,962 | 16.1% | — | |
| 4 | Jon Whitehouse | Liberal Democrats | 3,448 | 7.0% | — | |
| 5 | Anna Widdup | Green Party | 1,782 | 3.6% | — | |
| 6 | Mark Wadsworth | Young People's Party | 80 | 0.2% | — |
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.