UK general elections › 2015 › North Down
North Down — 2015
Sylvia Hermon (Independent) was elected with 17,689 votes— 49.2% of 35,947 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. 49.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −0.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 35,947
| 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 | Sylvia Hermon | Independent | 17,689 | 49.2% | −0.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Alex Easton | Democratic Unionist Party | 8,487 | 23.6% | — | |
| 3 | Andrew Muir | Alliance | 3,086 | 8.6% | — | |
| 4 | Steven Agnew | Green Party Northern Ireland | 1,958 | 5.4% | — | |
| 5 | Mark Brotherston | Conservative Party | 1,593 | 4.4% | — | |
| 6 | Jonny Lavery | UK Independence Party | 1,482 | 4.1% | — | |
| 7 | William Cudworth | Traditional Unionist Voice | 686 | 1.9% | — | |
| 8 | Tom Woolley | Social Democratic & Labour Party | 355 | 1.0% | — | |
| 9 | Glenn Donnelly | Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol | 338 | 0.9% | — | |
| 10 | Therese McCartney | Sinn Féin | 273 | 0.8% | — |
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.