UK general elections › 2019 › East Lothian
East Lothian — 2019
Kenny MacAskill (Scottish National Party) was elected with 21,156 votes— 36.2% of 58,513 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. 36.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −13.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 58,513
| 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 | Kenny MacAskill | Scottish National Party | 21,156 | 36.2% | −13.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Martin Whitfield | Labour Party | 17,270 | 29.5% | — | |
| 3 | Craig Hoy | Conservative Party | 15,523 | 26.5% | — | |
| 4 | Robert O'Riordan | Liberal Democrats | 4,071 | 7.0% | — | |
| 5 | David Sisson | UK Independence Party | 493 | 0.8% | — |
Source data: House of Commons Library general election results 2019, retrieved
2026-05-19, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.