UK general elections › 2015 › Leyton and Wanstead
Leyton and Wanstead — 2015
John Cryer (Labour Party) was elected with 23,856 votes— 58.6% of 40,703 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 58.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +8.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 40,703
| 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 | John Cryer | Labour Party | 23,856 | 58.6% | +8.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Matthew Scott | Conservative Party | 8,939 | 22.0% | — | |
| 3 | Ashley Gunstock | Green Party | 2,974 | 7.3% | — | |
| 4 | Rosamund Beattie | UK Independence Party | 2,341 | 5.8% | — | |
| 5 | Carl Quilliam | Liberal Democrats | 2,304 | 5.7% | — | |
| 6 | Mahtab Aziz | Independent | 289 | 0.7% | — |
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.