UK general elections2015 › Lewisham East

Lewisham East — 2015

Heidi Alexander (Labour Party) was elected with 23,907 votes55.7% of 42,923 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 55.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +5.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 42,923

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare 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
1Heidi Alexander Labour Party 23,90755.7%+5.7 ptsElected
2Peter Fortune Conservative Party 9,57422.3%
3Anna Waters UK Independence Party 3,8869.1%
4Julia Fletcher Liberal Democrats 2,4555.7%
5Storm Poorun Green Party 2,4295.7%
6Nick Long People Before Profit 3900.9%
7Maureen Martin Christian Peoples Alliance 2820.7%

Electorate 66,913 · Turnout 64.1% · Majority 14,333 · Back to 2015 overview

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.