UK general elections › 2010 › Great Grimsby
Great Grimsby — 2010
Austin Mitchell (Labour Party) was elected with 10,777 votes— 32.7% of 32,954 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. 32.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −17.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 32,954
| 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 | Austin Mitchell | Labour Party | 10,777 | −17.3 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Victoria Ayling | Conservative Party | 10,063 | — | ||
| 3 | Andrew de Freitas | Liberal Democrats | 7,388 | — | ||
| 4 | Henry Hudson | UK Independence Party | 2,043 | — | ||
| 5 | Steve Fyfe | British National Party | 1,517 | — | ||
| 6 | Ernie Brown | Independent | 835 | — | ||
| 7 | Adrian Howe | The P.N.D.P. | 331 | — |
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.