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