UK general elections › 2015 › Peterborough
Peterborough — 2015
Stewart Jackson (Conservative Party) was elected with 18,684 votes— 39.7% of 47,075 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. 39.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,075
| 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 | Stewart Jackson | Conservative Party | 18,684 | 39.7% | −10.3 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Lisa Forbes | Labour Party | 16,759 | 35.6% | — | |
| 3 | Mary Herdman | UK Independence Party | 7,485 | 15.9% | — | |
| 4 | Darren Fower | Liberal Democrats | 1,774 | 3.8% | — | |
| 5 | Darren Bisby-Boyd | Green Party | 1,218 | 2.6% | — | |
| 6 | Chris Ash | Liberal | 639 | 1.4% | — | |
| 7 | John Fox | Independent | 516 | 1.1% | — |
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.