UK general elections › 2010 › Luton South
Luton South — 2010
Gavin Shuker (Labour Party) was elected with 14,725 votes— 34.9% of 42,216 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. 34.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −15.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 42,216
| 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 | Gavin Shuker | Labour Party | 14,725 | −15.1 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Nigel Huddleston | Conservative Party | 12,396 | — | ||
| 3 | Qurban Hussain | Liberal Democrats | 9,567 | — | ||
| 4 | Esther Rantzen | Independent | 1,872 | — | ||
| 5 | Tony Blakey | British National Party | 1,299 | — | ||
| 6 | Charles Lawman | UK Independence Party | 975 | — | ||
| 7 | Stephen Rhodes | Independent | 463 | — | ||
| 8 | Mark Scheimann | Green Party | 366 | — | ||
| 9 | Joe Hall | Independent | 264 | — | ||
| 10 | Faruk Choudhury | Independent | 130 | — | ||
| 11 | Stephen Lathwell | Independent | 84 | — | ||
| 12 | Frank Sweeney | Workers Revolutionary Party | 75 | — |
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.