UK general elections › 2010 › Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath — 2010
Gordon Brown (Labour Party) was elected with 29,559 votes— 64.5% of 45,802 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 64.5% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +14.5 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 45,802
| 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 | Gordon Brown | Labour Party | 29,559 | 64.5% | +14.5 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Douglas Chapman | Scottish National Party | 6,550 | 14.3% | — | |
| 3 | John Mainland | Liberal Democrats | 4,269 | 9.3% | — | |
| 4 | Lindsay Paterson | Conservative Party | 4,258 | 9.3% | — | |
| 5 | Peter Adams | UK Independence Party | 760 | 1.7% | — | |
| 6 | Susan Archibald | Independent | 184 | 0.4% | — | |
| 7 | Donald MacLaren of MacLaren | Independent | 165 | 0.4% | — | |
| 8 | Derek Jackson | Land Party | 57 | 0.1% | — |
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.