UK general elections › 2015 › Shipley
Shipley — 2015
Philip Davies (Conservative Party) was elected with 25,269 votes— 50.0% of 50,542 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. 50.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. 0.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,542
| 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 | Philip Davies | Conservative Party | 25,269 | 50.0% | 0.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Steve Clapcote | Labour Party | 15,645 | 31.0% | — | |
| 3 | Waqas Ali Khan | UK Independence Party | 4,479 | 8.9% | — | |
| 4 | Kevin Warnes | Green Party | 2,657 | 5.3% | — | |
| 5 | Andrew Martin | Liberal Democrats | 1,949 | 3.9% | — | |
| 6 | Darren Hill | Yorkshire First | 543 | 1.1% | — |
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.