UK general elections › 2015 › Swansea West
Swansea West — 2015
Geraint Davies (Labour Party) was elected with 14,967 votes— 42.6% of 35,156 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. 42.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −7.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 35,156
| 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 | Geraint Davies | Labour Party | 14,967 | 42.6% | −7.4 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Emma Lane | Conservative Party | 7,931 | 22.6% | — | |
| 3 | Martyn Ford | UK Independence Party | 4,744 | 13.5% | — | |
| 4 | Chris Holley | Liberal Democrats | 3,178 | 9.0% | — | |
| 5 | Harri Roberts | Plaid Cymru | 2,266 | 6.4% | — | |
| 6 | Ashley Wakeling | Green Party | 1,784 | 5.1% | — | |
| 7 | Ronnie Job | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 159 | 0.5% | — | |
| 8 | Maxwell Rosser | Independent | 78 | 0.2% | — | |
| 9 | Brian Johnson | The Socialist Party of Great Britain | 49 | 0.1% | — |
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.