UK general elections › 2010 › Buckingham
Buckingham — 2010
John Bercow (Speaker) was elected with 22,860 votes— 47.3% of 48,335 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. 47.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −2.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,335
| 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 | John Bercow speaker | Speaker | 22,860 | 47.3% | −2.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | John Stevens speaker | Independent | 10,331 | 21.4% | — | |
| 3 | Nigel Farage speaker | UK Independence Party | 8,401 | 17.4% | — | |
| 4 | Patrick Phillips speaker | Independent | 2,394 | 5.0% | — | |
| 5 | Debbie Martin speaker | Independent | 1,270 | 2.6% | — | |
| 6 | Lynne Mozar speaker | British National Party | 980 | 2.0% | — | |
| 7 | Colin Dale-Mills speaker | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 856 | 1.8% | — | |
| 8 | Geoff Howard speaker | Independent | 435 | 0.9% | — | |
| 9 | David Hews speaker | Christian Party, Proclaiming Christ's Lordship | 369 | 0.8% | — | |
| 10 | Anthony Watts speaker | Independent | 332 | 0.7% | — | |
| 11 | Simon Strutt speaker | Cut The Deficit | 107 | 0.2% | — |
Data caveats on this contest: speaker. What these mean.
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.