UK general elections › 2010 › Portsmouth North
Portsmouth North — 2010
Penny Mordaunt (Conservative Party) was elected with 19,533 votes— 44.3% of 44,118 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. 44.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −5.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 44,118
| 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 | Penny Mordaunt | Conservative Party | 19,533 | 44.3% | −5.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Sarah McCarthy-Fry | Labour Party | 12,244 | 27.8% | — | |
| 3 | Darren Sanders | Liberal Democrats | 8,874 | 20.1% | — | |
| 4 | Mike Fitzgerald | UK Independence Party | 1,812 | 4.1% | — | |
| 5 | David Knight | English Democrats | 1,040 | 2.4% | — | |
| 6 | Iain Maclennan | Green Party | 461 | 1.0% | — | |
| 7 | Mick Tosh | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 154 | 0.3% | — |
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.