UK general elections › 2015 › Huddersfield
Huddersfield — 2015
Barry Sheerman (Labour Party) was elected with 18,186 votes— 44.9% of 40,478 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. 44.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −5.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 40,478
| 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 | Barry Sheerman | Labour Party | 18,186 | −5.1 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Itrat Ali | Conservative Party | 10,841 | — | ||
| 3 | Rob Butler | UK Independence Party | 5,948 | — | ||
| 4 | Andrew Cooper | Green Party | 2,798 | — | ||
| 5 | Zulfiqar Ali | Liberal Democrats | 2,365 | — | ||
| 6 | Mike Forster | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 340 | — |
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.