UK general elections › 2015 › South Thanet
South Thanet — 2015
Craig MacKinlay (Conservative Party) was elected with 18,838 votes— 38.1% of 49,401 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. 38.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −11.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 49,401
| 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 | Craig MacKinlay | Conservative Party | 18,838 | −11.9 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Nigel Farage | UK Independence Party | 16,026 | — | ||
| 3 | Will Scobie | Labour Party | 11,740 | — | ||
| 4 | Ian Driver | Green Party | 1,076 | — | ||
| 5 | Russell Timpson | Liberal Democrats | 932 | — | ||
| 6 | Al Murray | Independent | 318 | — | ||
| 7 | Ruth Bailey | Manston Airport Independent Party | 191 | — | ||
| 8 | Nigel Askew | We Are The Reality Party | 126 | — | ||
| 9 | Grahame Birchall | Party for a United Thanet | 63 | — | ||
| 10 | Dean McCastree | Independent | 61 | — | ||
| 11 | Zebadiah Abu-Obadiah | Al-Zebabist Nation of Ooog | 30 | — |
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.