UK general elections › 2010 › Stoke-on-Trent North
Stoke-on-Trent North — 2010
Joan Walley (Labour Party) was elected with 17,815 votes— 44.3% of 40,196 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. 40,196
| 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 | Joan Walley | Labour Party | 17,815 | 44.3% | −5.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Andrew Large | Conservative Party | 9,580 | 23.8% | — | |
| 3 | John Fisher | Liberal Democrats | 7,120 | 17.7% | — | |
| 4 | Melanie Baddeley | British National Party | 3,196 | 8.0% | — | |
| 5 | Geoffrey Locke | UK Independence Party | 2,485 | 6.2% | — |
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.