UK general elections › 2015 › Halifax
Halifax — 2015
Holly Lynch (Labour Party) was elected with 17,506 votes— 40.0% of 43,753 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. 40.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 43,753
| 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 | Holly Lynch | Labour Party | 17,506 | 40.0% | −10.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Philip Allott | Conservative Party | 17,078 | 39.0% | — | |
| 3 | Liz Phillips | UK Independence Party | 5,621 | 12.8% | — | |
| 4 | Mohammad Ilyas | Liberal Democrats | 1,629 | 3.7% | — | |
| 5 | Gary Scott | Green Party | 1,142 | 2.6% | — | |
| 6 | Asama Javed | Respect Party | 465 | 1.1% | — | |
| 7 | Trevor Bendrien | Christian Party, Proclaiming Christ's Lordship | 312 | 0.7% | — |
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.