UK general elections › 2015 › Worsley and Eccles South
Worsley and Eccles South — 2015
Barbara Keeley (Labour Party) was elected with 18,600 votes— 44.2% of 42,048 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. 44.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −5.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 42,048
| 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 | Barbara Keeley | Labour Party | 18,600 | 44.2% | −5.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Iain Lindley | Conservative Party | 12,654 | 30.1% | — | |
| 3 | Owen Hammond | UK Independence Party | 7,688 | 18.3% | — | |
| 4 | Chris Bertenshaw | Green Party | 1,242 | 3.0% | — | |
| 5 | Kate Clarkson | Liberal Democrats | 1,100 | 2.6% | — | |
| 6 | Steven North | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 380 | 0.9% | — | |
| 7 | Mags McNally | We Are The Reality Party | 200 | 0.5% | — | |
| 8 | Geoffrey Berg | Independent | 184 | 0.4% | — |
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.