UK general elections › 2015 › Leicester East
Leicester East — 2015
Keith Vaz (Labour Party) was elected with 29,386 votes— 61.1% of 48,068 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 61.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +11.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,068
| 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 | Keith Vaz | Labour Party | 29,386 | +11.1 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Kishan Devani | Conservative Party | 11,034 | — | ||
| 3 | Susanna Steptoe | UK Independence Party | 4,290 | — | ||
| 4 | Nimit Jethwa | Green Party | 1,468 | — | ||
| 5 | Dave Raval | Liberal Democrats | 1,233 | — | ||
| 6 | Michael Barker | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 540 | — | ||
| 7 | Tom Darwood | Independent | 117 | — |
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.