UK general elections › 2010 › Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme — 2010
Paul Farrelly (Labour Party) was elected with 16,393 votes— 38.0% of 43,191 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. 38.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −12.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 43,191
| 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 | Paul Farrelly | Labour Party | 16,393 | 38.0% | −12.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Robert Jenrick | Conservative Party | 14,841 | 34.4% | — | |
| 3 | Nigel Jones | Liberal Democrats | 8,466 | 19.6% | — | |
| 4 | David Nixon | UK Independence Party | 3,491 | 8.1% | — |
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.