UK general elections › 2010 › Spelthorne
Spelthorne — 2010
Kwasi Kwarteng (Conservative Party) was elected with 22,261 votes— 47.1% of 47,304 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. 47.1% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −2.9 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 47,304
| 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 | Kwasi Kwarteng | Conservative Party | 22,261 | 47.1% | −2.9 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Mark Chapman | Liberal Democrats | 12,242 | 25.9% | — | |
| 3 | Adam Tyler-Moore | Labour Party | 7,789 | 16.5% | — | |
| 4 | Chris Browne | UK Independence Party | 4,009 | 8.5% | — | |
| 5 | Ian Swinglehurst | Independent | 314 | 0.7% | — | |
| 6 | Rod Littlewood | Best of a Bad Bunch | 244 | 0.5% | — | |
| 7 | Paul Couchman | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 176 | 0.4% | — | |
| 8 | John Gore | Campaign for Independent Politicians | 167 | 0.4% | — | |
| 9 | Grahame Leon-Smith | Independents Federation UK | 102 | 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.