UK general elections › 2010 › Poplar and Limehouse
Poplar and Limehouse — 2010
Jim Fitzpatrick (Labour Party) was elected with 18,679 votes— 40.0% of 46,700 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. 40.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 46,700
| 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 | Jim Fitzpatrick | Labour Party | 18,679 | 40.0% | −10.0 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Tim Archer | Conservative Party | 12,649 | 27.1% | — | |
| 3 | George Galloway | Respect Party | 8,160 | 17.5% | — | |
| 4 | Jonathan Fryer | Liberal Democrats | 5,209 | 11.2% | — | |
| 5 | Wayne Lochner | UK Independence Party | 565 | 1.2% | — | |
| 6 | Andrew Osborne | English Democrats | 470 | 1.0% | — | |
| 7 | Chris Smith | Green Party | 449 | 1.0% | — | |
| 8 | Kabir Mahmud | Independent | 293 | 0.6% | — | |
| 9 | Mohammed Hoque | Independent | 167 | 0.4% | — | |
| 10 | Jim Thornton | Independent | 59 | 0.1% | — |
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.