UK general elections › 2010 › Wakefield
Wakefield — 2010
Mary Creagh (Labour Party) was elected with 17,454 votes— 39.3% of 44,444 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. 39.3% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.7 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 44,444
| 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 | Mary Creagh | Labour Party | 17,454 | 39.3% | −10.7 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Alex Story | Conservative Party | 15,841 | 35.6% | — | |
| 3 | David Smith | Liberal Democrats | 7,256 | 16.3% | — | |
| 4 | Ian Senior | British National Party | 2,581 | 5.8% | — | |
| 5 | Miriam Hawkins | Green Party | 873 | 2.0% | — | |
| 6 | Mark Harrop | Independent | 439 | 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.