UK general elections › 2015 › Witham
Witham — 2015
Priti Patel (Conservative Party) was elected with 27,123 votes— 57.5% of 47,168 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 57.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +7.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,168
| 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 | Priti Patel | Conservative Party | 27,123 | 57.5% | +7.5 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Gary Cockrill | UK Independence Party | 7,569 | 16.0% | — | |
| 3 | John Clarke | Labour Party | 7,467 | 15.8% | — | |
| 4 | Jo Hayes | Liberal Democrats | 2,891 | 6.1% | — | |
| 5 | James Abbott | Green Party | 2,038 | 4.3% | — | |
| 6 | Doreen Scrimshaw | Christian Peoples Alliance | 80 | 0.2% | — |
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.