UK general elections2015 › Scarborough and Whitby

Scarborough and Whitby — 2015

Robert Goodwill (Conservative Party) was elected with 20,613 votes43.2% 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

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare 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
1Robert Goodwill Conservative Party 20,613−6.8 ptsElected
2Ian McInnes Labour Party 14,413
3Sam Cross UK Independence Party 8,162
4David Malone Green Party 2,185
5Michael Beckett Liberal Democrats 2,159
6Juliet Boddington Alliance for Green Socialism 207

Electorate 73,511 · Turnout 64.9% · Majority 6,200 · Back to 2015 overview

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.