UK general elections › 2010 › Halifax
Halifax — 2010
Linda Riordan (Labour Party) was elected with 16,278 votes— 37.4% of 43,555 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. 37.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −12.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 43,555
| 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 | Linda Riordan | Labour Party | 16,278 | 37.4% | −12.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Phillip Allott | Conservative Party | 14,806 | 34.0% | — | |
| 3 | Elizabeth Wilson | Liberal Democrats | 8,335 | 19.1% | — | |
| 4 | Tom Bates | British National Party | 2,760 | 6.3% | — | |
| 5 | Diane Park | Independent Voice for Halifax | 722 | 1.7% | — | |
| 6 | Jay Sangha | UK Independence Party | 654 | 1.5% | — |
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.