UK general elections › 2015 › Hackney South and Shoreditch

Hackney South and Shoreditch — 2015

Meg Hillier (Labour Party) was elected with 30,633 votes— 64.4% of 47,580 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 64.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +14.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,580

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
1Meg Hillier Labour Party 30,633+14.4 ptsElected
2John Tinley Conservative Party 6,420—
3Charlotte George Green Party 5,519—
4Benjamin Mathis Liberal Democrats 2,186—
5David Small UK Independence Party 1,818—
6Brian Debus Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 302—
7Paul Birch Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol 297—
8Taiwo Adewuyi Christian Peoples Alliance 236—
9Russell Higgs Independent 78—
10William Rogers Workers Revolutionary Party 63—
11Gordon Shrigley Campaign 28—

Electorate 84,971 · Turnout 56.0% · Majority 24,213 · 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.