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Stoke-on-Trent Central — 2015

Tristram Hunt (Labour Party) was elected with 12,220 votes— 39.3% of 31,084 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. 39.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 31,084

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
1Tristram Hunt Labour Party 12,220−10.7 ptsElected
2Mick Harold UK Independence Party 7,041—
3Liam Ascough Conservative Party 7,008—
4Mark Breeze Independent 2,120—
5Zulfiqar Ali Liberal Democrats 1,296—
6Jan Zablocki Green Party 1,123—
7Ali Majid Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol 244—
8Paul Toussaint Ubuntu Party 32—

Electorate 60,634 · Turnout 51.3% · Majority 5,179 · 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.