UK general elections › 2015 › Mansfield
Mansfield — 2015
Alan Meale (Labour Party) was elected with 18,603 votes— 39.4% of 47,193 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. 39.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,193
| 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 | Alan Meale | Labour Party | 18,603 | −10.6 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Andrea Clarke | Conservative Party | 13,288 | — | ||
| 3 | Sid Pepper | UK Independence Party | 11,850 | — | ||
| 4 | Tony Rogers | Liberal Democrats | 1,642 | — | ||
| 5 | Paul Frost | Green Party | 1,486 | — | ||
| 6 | Karen Seymour | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 324 | — |
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.