UK general elections › 2010 › Walsall South
Walsall South — 2010
Valerie Vaz (Labour Party) was elected with 16,211 votes— 39.7% of 40,882 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. 39.7% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −10.3 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 40,882
| 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 | Valerie Vaz | Labour Party | 16,211 | −10.3 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Richard Hunt | Conservative Party | 14,456 | — | ||
| 3 | Murli Sinha | Liberal Democrats | 5,880 | — | ||
| 4 | Derek Bennett | UK Independence Party | 3,449 | — | ||
| 5 | Gulzaman Khan | Christian Party, Proclaiming Christ's Lordship | 482 | — | ||
| 6 | Mohammed Mulia | Independent | 404 | — |
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.