UK general elections › 2010 › Leicester East
Leicester East — 2010
Keith Vaz (Labour Party) was elected with 25,804 votes— 53.8% of 47,995 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 53.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +3.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,995
| 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 | Keith Vaz | Labour Party | 25,804 | 53.8% | +3.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Jane Hunt | Conservative Party | 11,722 | 24.4% | — | |
| 3 | Ali Asghar | Liberal Democrats | 6,817 | 14.2% | — | |
| 4 | Colin Gilmore | British National Party | 1,700 | 3.5% | — | |
| 5 | Mo Taylor | Green Party | 733 | 1.5% | — | |
| 6 | Felicity Ransome | UK Independence Party | 725 | 1.5% | — | |
| 7 | Avtar Sadiq | Unity for Peace and Socialism | 494 | 1.0% | — |
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.