UK general elections › 2015 › Selby and Ainsty
Selby and Ainsty — 2015
Nigel Adams (Conservative Party) was elected with 27,725 votes— 52.5% of 52,804 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 52.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +2.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 52,804
| 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 | Nigel Adams | Conservative Party | 27,725 | 52.5% | +2.5 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Mark Hayes | Labour Party | 14,168 | 26.8% | — | |
| 3 | Colin Heath | UK Independence Party | 7,389 | 14.0% | — | |
| 4 | Nicola Turner | Liberal Democrats | 1,920 | 3.6% | — | |
| 5 | Ian Richards | Green Party | 1,465 | 2.8% | — | |
| 6 | Ian Wilson | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 137 | 0.3% | — |
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.