UK general elections › 2015 › Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme — 2015
Paul Farrelly (Labour Party) was elected with 16,520 votes— 38.4% of 42,997 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. 38.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −11.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 42,997
| 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 | Paul Farrelly | Labour Party | 16,520 | 38.4% | −11.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Tony Cox | Conservative Party | 15,870 | 36.9% | — | |
| 3 | Phil Wood | UK Independence Party | 7,252 | 16.9% | — | |
| 4 | Ian Wilkes | Liberal Democrats | 1,826 | 4.2% | — | |
| 5 | Sam Gibbons | Green Party | 1,246 | 2.9% | — | |
| 6 | David Nixon | Independent | 283 | 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.