UK general elections › 2010 › Ochil and South Perthshire
Ochil and South Perthshire — 2010
Gordon Banks (Labour Party) was elected with 19,131 votes— 37.9% of 50,469 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. 37.9% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −12.1 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 50,469
| 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 | Gordon Banks | Labour Party | 19,131 | 37.9% | −12.1 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Annabelle Ewing | Scottish National Party | 13,944 | 27.6% | — | |
| 3 | Gerald Michaluk | Conservative Party | 10,342 | 20.5% | — | |
| 4 | Grahame Littlejohn | Liberal Democrats | 5,754 | 11.4% | — | |
| 5 | David Bushby | UK Independence Party | 689 | 1.4% | — | |
| 6 | Hilary Charles | Green Party (Scottish Green Party) | 609 | 1.2% | — |
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.