UK general elections › 2015 › Gedling
Gedling — 2015
Vernon Coaker (Labour Party) was elected with 20,307 votes— 42.3% of 47,998 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. 42.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −7.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,998
| 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 | Vernon Coaker | Labour Party | 20,307 | 42.3% | −7.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Carolyn Abbott | Conservative Party | 17,321 | 36.1% | — | |
| 3 | Lee Waters | UK Independence Party | 6,930 | 14.4% | — | |
| 4 | Robert Swift | Liberal Democrats | 1,906 | 4.0% | — | |
| 5 | Jim Norris | Green Party | 1,534 | 3.2% | — |
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.