UK general elections › 2010 › Blackpool South
Blackpool South — 2010
Gordon Marsden (Labour Party) was elected with 14,449 votes— 41.1% of 35,192 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. 41.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −8.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 35,192
| 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 | Gordon Marsden | Labour Party | 14,449 | 41.1% | −8.9 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Ron Bell | Conservative Party | 12,597 | 35.8% | — | |
| 3 | Doreen Holt | Liberal Democrats | 5,082 | 14.4% | — | |
| 4 | Roy Goodwin | British National Party | 1,482 | 4.2% | — | |
| 5 | Hamish Howitt | UK Independence Party | 1,352 | 3.8% | — | |
| 6 | Sithu Tun | Integrity UK | 230 | 0.7% | — |
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.