UK general elections › 2015 › Sunderland Central
Sunderland Central — 2015
Julie Elliott (Labour Party) was elected with 20,959 votes— 50.2% of 41,762 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 50.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +0.2 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 41,762
| 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 | Julie Elliott | Labour Party | 20,959 | 50.2% | +0.2 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Jeffrey Townsend | Conservative Party | 9,780 | 23.4% | — | |
| 3 | Bryan Foster | UK Independence Party | 7,997 | 19.1% | — | |
| 4 | Rachel Featherstone | Green Party | 1,706 | 4.1% | — | |
| 5 | Adrian Page | Liberal Democrats | 1,105 | 2.6% | — | |
| 6 | Joseph Young | Independent | 215 | 0.5% | — |
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.