UK general elections › 2015 › Rochester and Strood
Rochester and Strood — 2015
Kelly Tolhurst (Conservative Party) was elected with 23,142 votes— 44.1% of 52,516 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. 44.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −5.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 52,516
| 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 | Kelly Tolhurst | Conservative Party | 23,142 | −5.9 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Mark Reckless | UK Independence Party | 16,009 | — | ||
| 3 | Naushabah Khan | Labour Party | 10,396 | — | ||
| 4 | Clive Gregory | Green Party | 1,516 | — | ||
| 5 | Prue Bray | Liberal Democrats | 1,251 | — | ||
| 6 | Daniel Burn | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 202 | — |
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.