UK general elections › 2010 › Leicester West
Leicester West — 2010
Liz Kendall (Labour Party) was elected with 13,745 votes— 38.4% of 35,819 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. 38.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −11.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 35,819
| 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 | Liz Kendall | Labour Party | 13,745 | −11.6 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Celia Harvey | Conservative Party | 9,728 | — | ||
| 3 | Peter Coley | Liberal Democrats | 8,107 | — | ||
| 4 | Gary Reynolds | British National Party | 2,158 | — | ||
| 5 | Stephen Ingall | UK Independence Party | 883 | — | ||
| 6 | Geoff Forse | Green Party | 639 | — | ||
| 7 | Steven Huggins | Independent | 181 | — | ||
| 8 | Steve Score | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 157 | — | ||
| 9 | Shaun Dyer | Pirate Party UK | 113 | — | ||
| 10 | John Bowley | Independent | 108 | — |
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.