UK general elections › 2015 › Hastings and Rye
Hastings and Rye — 2015
Amber Rudd (Conservative Party) was elected with 22,686 votes— 44.5% of 50,927 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. 44.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −5.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,927
| 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 | Amber Rudd | Conservative Party | 22,686 | 44.5% | −5.5 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Sarah Owen | Labour Party | 17,890 | 35.1% | — | |
| 3 | Andrew Michael | UK Independence Party | 6,786 | 13.3% | — | |
| 4 | Jake Bowers | Green Party | 1,951 | 3.8% | — | |
| 5 | Nick Perry | Liberal Democrats | 1,614 | 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.