UK general elections › 2015 › South Shields
South Shields — 2015
Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour Party) was elected with 18,589 votes— 51.3% of 36,265 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 51.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +1.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 36,265
| 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 | Emma Lewell-Buck | Labour Party | 18,589 | 51.3% | +1.3 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Norman Dennis | UK Independence Party | 7,975 | 22.0% | — | |
| 3 | Robert Oliver | Conservative Party | 6,021 | 16.6% | — | |
| 4 | Shirley Ford | Green Party | 1,614 | 4.5% | — | |
| 5 | Lisa Nightingale | Independent | 1,427 | 3.9% | — | |
| 6 | Gita Gordon | Liberal Democrats | 639 | 1.8% | — |
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.