UK general elections › 2010 › Don Valley
Don Valley — 2010
Caroline Flint (Labour Party) was elected with 16,472 votes— 37.9% of 43,420 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. 37.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −12.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 43,420
| 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 | Caroline Flint | Labour Party | 16,472 | 37.9% | −12.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Matthew Stephens | Conservative Party | 12,877 | 29.7% | — | |
| 3 | Edwin Simpson | Liberal Democrats | 7,422 | 17.1% | — | |
| 4 | Erwin Toseland | British National Party | 2,112 | 4.9% | — | |
| 5 | William Shaw | UK Independence Party | 1,904 | 4.4% | — | |
| 6 | Bernadette Aston | English Democrats | 1,756 | 4.0% | — | |
| 7 | Martin Williams | Independent | 877 | 2.0% | — |
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.