UK general elections2015 › Sheffield South East

Sheffield South East — 2015

Clive Betts (Labour Party) was elected with 21,439 votes51.4% of 41,685 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 51.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +1.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 41,685

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
1Clive Betts Labour Party 21,43951.4%+1.4 ptsElected
2Steve Winstone UK Independence Party 9,12821.9%
3Matt Sleat Conservative Party 7,24217.4%
4Gail Smith Liberal Democrats 2,2265.3%
5Linda Duckenfield Green Party 1,1172.7%
6Jen Battersby Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol 2070.5%
7Ian Whitehouse Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 1850.4%
8Matthew Roberts English Democrats 1410.3%

Electorate 70,422 · Turnout 59.2% · Majority 12,311 · 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.