UK general elections › 2015 › Scarborough and Whitby
Scarborough and Whitby — 2015
Robert Goodwill (Conservative Party) was elected with 20,613 votes— 43.2% of 47,739 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. 43.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −6.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,739
| 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 | Robert Goodwill | Conservative Party | 20,613 | 43.2% | −6.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Ian McInnes | Labour Party | 14,413 | 30.2% | — | |
| 3 | Sam Cross | UK Independence Party | 8,162 | 17.1% | — | |
| 4 | David Malone | Green Party | 2,185 | 4.6% | — | |
| 5 | Michael Beckett | Liberal Democrats | 2,159 | 4.5% | — | |
| 6 | Juliet Boddington | Alliance for Green Socialism | 207 | 0.4% | — |
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.