UK general elections › 2015 › Leicester South
Leicester South — 2015
Jon Ashworth (Labour Party) was elected with 27,473 votes— 59.8% of 45,942 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 59.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +9.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 45,942
| 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 | Jon Ashworth | Labour Party | 27,473 | 59.8% | +9.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Leon Hadji-Nikolaou | Conservative Party | 9,628 | 21.0% | — | |
| 3 | Peter Stone | UK Independence Party | 3,832 | 8.3% | — | |
| 4 | Gabby Garcia | Green Party | 2,533 | 5.5% | — | |
| 5 | Anita Prabhakar | Liberal Democrats | 2,127 | 4.6% | — | |
| 6 | Andrew Walton | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 349 | 0.8% | — |
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.