UK general elections › 2010 › Skipton and Ripon
Skipton and Ripon — 2010
Julian Smith (Conservative Party) was elected with 27,685 votes— 50.6% of 54,724 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 50.6% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +0.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 54,724
| 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 | Julian Smith | Conservative Party | 27,685 | 50.6% | +0.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Helen Flynn | Liberal Democrats | 17,735 | 32.4% | — | |
| 3 | Claire Hazelgrove | Labour Party | 5,498 | 10.0% | — | |
| 4 | Rodney Mills | UK Independence Party | 1,909 | 3.5% | — | |
| 5 | Bernard Allen | British National Party | 1,403 | 2.6% | — | |
| 6 | Roger Bell | Independent | 315 | 0.6% | — | |
| 7 | Dylan Gilligan | The Youth Party | 95 | 0.2% | — | |
| 8 | Robert Leakey | Virtue Currency Cognitive Appraisal Party | 84 | 0.2% | — |
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.