UK general elections › 2015 › Walsall South
Walsall South — 2015
Valerie Vaz (Labour Party) was elected with 19,740 votes— 47.2% of 41,838 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. 47.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −2.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 41,838
| 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 | Valerie Vaz | Labour Party | 19,740 | 47.2% | −2.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Sue Arnold | Conservative Party | 13,733 | 32.8% | — | |
| 3 | Derek Bennett | UK Independence Party | 6,540 | 15.6% | — | |
| 4 | Charlotte Fletcher | Green Party | 1,149 | 2.7% | — | |
| 5 | Joel Kenrick | Liberal Democrats | 676 | 1.6% | — |
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.