UK general elections › 2015 › Stoke-on-Trent North
Stoke-on-Trent North — 2015
Ruth Smeeth (Labour Party) was elected with 15,429 votes— 39.9% of 38,654 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. 39.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 38,654
| 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 | Ruth Smeeth | Labour Party | 15,429 | −10.1 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Ben Adams | Conservative Party | 10,593 | — | ||
| 3 | Geoffrey Locke | UK Independence Party | 9,542 | — | ||
| 4 | Paul Roberts | Liberal Democrats | 1,137 | — | ||
| 5 | Sean Adam | Green Party | 1,091 | — | ||
| 6 | John Millward | Independent | 508 | — | ||
| 7 | Craig Pond | Independent | 354 | — |
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.