UK general elections › 2015 › Lancaster and Fleetwood
Lancaster and Fleetwood — 2015
Catherine Smith (Labour Party) was elected with 17,643 votes— 42.3% of 41,738 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. 42.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −7.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 41,738
| 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 | Catherine Smith | Labour Party | 17,643 | 42.3% | −7.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Eric Ollerenshaw | Conservative Party | 16,378 | 39.2% | — | |
| 3 | Matthew Atkins | UK Independence Party | 4,060 | 9.7% | — | |
| 4 | Chris Coates | Green Party | 2,093 | 5.0% | — | |
| 5 | Robin Long | Liberal Democrats | 1,390 | 3.3% | — | |
| 6 | Harold Elletson | Independent | 174 | 0.4% | — |
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.