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Stoke-on-Trent Central — 2015

Tristram Hunt (Labour Party) was elected with 12,220 votes39.3% 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 12,22039.3%−10.7 ptsElected
2Mick Harold UK Independence Party 7,04122.7%
3Liam Ascough Conservative Party 7,00822.5%
4Mark Breeze Independent 2,1206.8%
5Zulfiqar Ali Liberal Democrats 1,2964.2%
6Jan Zablocki Green Party 1,1233.6%
7Ali Majid Cannabis Is Safer Than Alcohol 2440.8%
8Paul Toussaint Ubuntu Party 320.1%

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.