UK general elections › 2015 › Hartlepool
Hartlepool — 2015
Iain Wright (Labour Party) was elected with 14,076 votes— 35.6% of 39,490 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. 35.6% 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. 39,490
| 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 | Iain Wright | Labour Party | 14,076 | −14.4 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Philip Broughton | UK Independence Party | 11,052 | — | ||
| 3 | Richard Royal | Conservative Party | 8,256 | — | ||
| 4 | Stephen Picton | Independent | 2,954 | — | ||
| 5 | Michael Holt | Green Party | 1,341 | — | ||
| 6 | Sandra Allison | Save Hartlepool Hospital | 849 | — | ||
| 7 | Hilary Allen | Liberal Democrats | 761 | — | ||
| 8 | John Hobbs | Independent | 201 | — |
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.