UK general elections › 2010 › Hyndburn
Hyndburn — 2010
Graham Jones (Labour Party) was elected with 17,531 votes— 41.1% of 42,672 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. 41.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −8.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 42,672
| 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 | Graham Jones | Labour Party | 17,531 | 41.1% | −8.9 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Karen Buckley | Conservative Party | 14,441 | 33.8% | — | |
| 3 | Andrew Rankine | Liberal Democrats | 5,033 | 11.8% | — | |
| 4 | David Shapcott | British National Party | 2,137 | 5.0% | — | |
| 5 | Granville Barker | UK Independence Party | 1,481 | 3.5% | — | |
| 6 | Kevin Logan | Christian Peoples Alliance | 795 | 1.9% | — | |
| 7 | Kerry Gormley | Green Party | 463 | 1.1% | — | |
| 8 | Christopher Reid | English Democrats | 413 | 1.0% | — | |
| 9 | Craig Hall | Independent | 378 | 0.9% | — |
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.