UK general elections › 2010 › Reading West
Reading West — 2010
Alok Sharma (Conservative Party) was elected with 20,523 votes— 43.2% of 47,530 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. 43.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −6.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,530
| 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 | Alok Sharma | Conservative Party | 20,523 | 43.2% | −6.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Naz Sarkar | Labour Party | 14,519 | 30.5% | — | |
| 3 | Daisy Benson | Liberal Democrats | 9,546 | 20.1% | — | |
| 4 | Bruce Hay | UK Independence Party | 1,508 | 3.2% | — | |
| 5 | Howard Thomas | Common Sense Party | 852 | 1.8% | — | |
| 6 | Adrian Windisch | Green Party | 582 | 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.