UK general elections2015 › Hackney South and Shoreditch

Hackney South and Shoreditch — 2015

Meg Hillier (Labour Party) was elected with 30,633 votes64.4% 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.