UK general elections › 2010 › Dewsbury
Dewsbury — 2010
Simon Reevell (Conservative Party) was elected with 18,898 votes— 35.0% of 54,008 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. 35.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −15.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 54,008
| 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 | Simon Reevell | Conservative Party | 18,898 | −15.0 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Shahid Malik | Labour Party | 17,372 | — | ||
| 3 | Andrew Hutchinson | Liberal Democrats | 9,150 | — | ||
| 4 | Khizar Iqbal | Independent | 3,813 | — | ||
| 5 | Roger Roberts | British National Party | 3,265 | — | ||
| 6 | Adrian Cruden | Green Party | 849 | — | ||
| 7 | Michael Felse | English Democrats | 661 | — |
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.