UK general elections › 2010 › Hartlepool
Hartlepool — 2010
Iain Wright (Labour Party) was elected with 16,267 votes— 42.5% of 38,242 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. 42.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −7.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 38,242
| 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 | Iain Wright | Labour Party | 16,267 | 42.5% | −7.5 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Alan Wright | Conservative Party | 10,758 | 28.1% | — | |
| 3 | Reg Clark | Liberal Democrats | 6,533 | 17.1% | — | |
| 4 | Stephen Allison | UK Independence Party | 2,682 | 7.0% | — | |
| 5 | Ronnie Bage | British National Party | 2,002 | 5.2% | — |
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.