UK general elections2015 › Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough

Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough — 2015

Harry Harpham (Labour Party) was elected with 22,663 votes56.6% of 40,053 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 56.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +6.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 40,053

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
1Harry Harpham Labour Party 22,663+6.6 ptsElected
2John Booker UK Independence Party 8,856
3Elise Dünweber Conservative Party 4,407
4Jonathan Harston Liberal Democrats 1,802
5Christine Gilligan Kubo Green Party 1,712
6Maxine Bowler Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 442
7Justin Saxton English Democrats 171

Electorate 70,874 · Turnout 56.5% · Majority 13,807 · 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.