UK general elections2010 › Gosport

Gosport — 2010

Caroline Dinenage (Conservative Party) was elected with 24,300 votes51.8% of 46,939 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 51.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +1.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,939

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
1Caroline Dinenage Conservative Party 24,300+1.8 ptsElected
2Rob Hylands Liberal Democrats 9,887
3Graham Giles Labour Party 7,944
4Andrew Rice UK Independence Party 1,496
5Barry Bennett British National Party 1,004
6Bob Shaw English Democrats 622
7Andrea Claire Smith Green Party 573
8David Smith Independent 493
9Charles Read Independent 331
10Brian Hart Independent 289

Electorate 72,816 · Turnout 64.5% · Majority 14,413 · 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.