UK general elections › 2010 › Lancaster and Fleetwood
Lancaster and Fleetwood — 2010
Eric Ollerenshaw (Conservative Party) was elected with 15,404 votes— 36.1% of 42,701 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. 36.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −13.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 42,701
| 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 | Eric Ollerenshaw | Conservative Party | 15,404 | 36.1% | −13.9 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Clive Grunshaw | Labour Party | 15,071 | 35.3% | — | |
| 3 | Stuart Langhorn | Liberal Democrats | 8,167 | 19.1% | — | |
| 4 | Gina Dowding | Green Party | 1,888 | 4.4% | — | |
| 5 | Fred McGlade | UK Independence Party | 1,020 | 2.4% | — | |
| 6 | Debra Kent | British National Party | 938 | 2.2% | — | |
| 7 | Keith Riley | Independent | 213 | 0.5% | — |
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.