UK general elections › 2010 › Bolton South East
Bolton South East — 2010
Yasmin Qureshi (Labour Party) was elected with 18,782 votes— 47.4% of 39,604 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. 47.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −2.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 39,604
| 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 | Yasmin Qureshi | Labour Party | 18,782 | −2.6 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Andy Morgan | Conservative Party | 10,148 | — | ||
| 3 | Donal O'Hanlon | Liberal Democrats | 6,289 | — | ||
| 4 | Mary Spink | British National Party | 2,012 | — | ||
| 5 | Ian Sidaway | UK Independence Party | 1,564 | — | ||
| 6 | Alan Johnson | Green Party | 614 | — | ||
| 7 | Wavaid Syed | Christian Peoples Alliance | 195 | — |
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.