UK general elections › 2010 › Preston
Preston — 2010
Mark Hendrick (Labour Party) was elected with 15,668 votes— 48.2% of 32,505 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. 48.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 32,505
| 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 | Mark Hendrick | Labour Party | 15,668 | 48.2% | −1.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Mark Jewell | Liberal Democrats | 7,935 | 24.4% | — | |
| 3 | Nerissa Warner-O'Neill | Conservative Party | 7,060 | 21.7% | — | |
| 4 | Richard Muirhead | UK Independence Party | 1,462 | 4.5% | — | |
| 5 | George Ambroze | Christian Party, Proclaiming Christ's Lordship | 272 | 0.8% | — | |
| 6 | Krishnamurta Tayya | Independent | 108 | 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.