UK general elections › 2010 › Heywood and Middleton
Heywood and Middleton — 2010
Jim Dobbin (Labour Party) was elected with 18,499 votes— 40.1% of 46,125 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. 40.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −9.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,125
| 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 | Jim Dobbin | Labour Party | 18,499 | 40.1% | −9.9 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Mike Holly | Conservative Party | 12,528 | 27.2% | — | |
| 3 | Wera Hobhouse | Liberal Democrats | 10,474 | 22.7% | — | |
| 4 | Peter Greenwood | British National Party | 3,239 | 7.0% | — | |
| 5 | Victoria Cecil | UK Independence Party | 1,215 | 2.6% | — | |
| 6 | Chrissy Lee | Independent | 170 | 0.4% | — |
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.