UK general elections › 2010 › Clacton
Clacton — 2010
Douglas Carswell (Conservative Party) was elected with 22,867 votes— 53.0% of 43,123 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 53.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +3.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 43,123
| 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 | Douglas Carswell | Conservative Party | 22,867 | 53.0% | +3.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Ivan Henderson | Labour Party | 10,799 | 25.0% | — | |
| 3 | Michael Green | Liberal Democrats | 5,577 | 12.9% | — | |
| 4 | Jim Taylor | British National Party | 1,975 | 4.6% | — | |
| 5 | Terry Allen | Tendring First | 1,078 | 2.5% | — | |
| 6 | Chris Southall | Green Party | 535 | 1.2% | — | |
| 7 | Christopher Humphrey | Independent | 292 | 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.