UK general elections › 2015 › Makerfield
Makerfield — 2015
Yvonne Fovargue (Labour Party) was elected with 23,208 votes— 51.8% of 44,788 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 51.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +1.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 44,788
| 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 | Yvonne Fovargue | Labour Party | 23,208 | 51.8% | +1.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Andrew Collinson | UK Independence Party | 10,053 | 22.4% | — | |
| 3 | Zehra Zaidi | Conservative Party | 8,752 | 19.5% | — | |
| 4 | John Skipworth | Liberal Democrats | 1,639 | 3.7% | — | |
| 5 | Philip Mitchell | Green Party | 1,136 | 2.5% | — |
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.