UK general elections › 2010 › Stoke-on-Trent South
Stoke-on-Trent South — 2010
Robert Flello (Labour Party) was elected with 15,446 votes— 38.8% of 39,852 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. 38.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −11.2 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 39,852
| 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 | Robert Flello | Labour Party | 15,446 | 38.8% | −11.2 pts | Elected |
| 2 | James Rushton | Conservative Party | 11,316 | 28.4% | — | |
| 3 | Zulfiqar Ali | Liberal Democrats | 6,323 | 15.9% | — | |
| 4 | Michael Coleman | British National Party | 3,762 | 9.4% | — | |
| 5 | Mike Barlow | UK Independence Party | 1,363 | 3.4% | — | |
| 6 | Terence Follows | Staffordshire Independent Group | 1,208 | 3.0% | — | |
| 7 | Mark Breeze | Independent | 434 | 1.1% | — |
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.