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Bootle — 2010

Joe Benton (Labour Party) was elected with 27,426 votes— 66.4% of 41,277 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 66.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +16.4 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 41,277

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare 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
1Joe Benton Labour Party 27,426+16.4 ptsElected
2James Murray Liberal Democrats 6,245—
3Sohail Qureshi Conservative Party 3,678—
4Paul Nuttall UK Independence Party 2,514—
5Charles Stewart British National Party 942—
6Pete Glover Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 472—

Electorate 71,422 · Turnout 57.8% · Majority 21,181 · Back to 2010 overview

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.