UK general elections › 2010 › Tynemouth
Tynemouth — 2010
Alan Campbell (Labour Party) was elected with 23,860 votes— 45.3% of 52,668 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. 45.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −4.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 52,668
| 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 | Alan Campbell | Labour Party | 23,860 | 45.3% | −4.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Wendy Morton | Conservative Party | 18,121 | 34.4% | — | |
| 3 | John Appleby | Liberal Democrats | 7,845 | 14.9% | — | |
| 4 | Dorothy Brooke | British National Party | 1,404 | 2.7% | — | |
| 5 | Natasha Payne | UK Independence Party | 900 | 1.7% | — | |
| 6 | Julia Erskine | Green Party | 538 | 1.0% | — |
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.