UK general elections › 2010 › Belfast East
Belfast East — 2010
Naomi Long (Alliance) was elected with 12,839 votes— 37.2% of 34,488 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. 37.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −12.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 34,488
| 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 | Naomi Long | Alliance | 12,839 | 37.2% | −12.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Peter Robinson | Democratic Unionist Party | 11,306 | 32.8% | — | |
| 3 | Trevor Ringland | Independent | 7,305 | 21.2% | — | |
| 4 | David Vance | Traditional Unionist Voice | 1,856 | 5.4% | — | |
| 5 | Niall O'Donnghaile | Sinn Féin | 817 | 2.4% | — | |
| 6 | Mary Muldoon | Social Democratic & Labour Party | 365 | 1.1% | — |
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.