UK general elections › 2015 › Luton South
Luton South — 2015
Gavin Shuker (Labour Party) was elected with 18,660 votes— 44.2% of 42,216 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. 44.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −5.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 42,216
| 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 | Gavin Shuker | Labour Party | 18,660 | −5.8 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Katie Redmond | Conservative Party | 12,949 | — | ||
| 3 | Muhammad Rehman | UK Independence Party | 5,129 | — | ||
| 4 | Ashuk Ahmed | Liberal Democrats | 3,183 | — | ||
| 5 | Simon Hall | Green Party | 1,237 | — | ||
| 6 | Attiq Malik | Independent | 900 | — | ||
| 7 | Paul Weston | Independent | 158 | — |
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.