UK general elections › 2015 › St Austell and Newquay
St Austell and Newquay — 2015
Steve Double (Conservative Party) was elected with 20,250 votes— 40.2% of 50,361 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. 40.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −9.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,361
| 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 | Steve Double | Conservative Party | 20,250 | −9.8 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Stephen Gilbert | Liberal Democrats | 12,077 | — | ||
| 3 | David Mathews | UK Independence Party | 8,503 | — | ||
| 4 | Deborah Hopkins | Labour Party | 5,150 | — | ||
| 5 | Steve Slade | Green Party | 2,318 | — | ||
| 6 | Dick Cole | Mebyon Kernow - The Party for Cornwall | 2,063 | — |
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.