UK general elections › 2015 › Gainsborough
Gainsborough — 2015
Edward Leigh (Conservative Party) was elected with 25,949 votes— 52.7% of 49,261 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 52.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +2.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 49,261
| 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 | Edward Leigh | Conservative Party | 25,949 | +2.7 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | David Prescott | Labour Party | 10,500 | — | ||
| 3 | John Saxon | UK Independence Party | 7,727 | — | ||
| 4 | Lesley Rollings | Liberal Democrats | 3,290 | — | ||
| 5 | Geoffrey Barnes | Green Party | 1,290 | — | ||
| 6 | Chris Darcel | Lincolnshire Independents Lincolnshire First | 505 | — |
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.