UK general elections2010 › Welwyn Hatfield

Welwyn Hatfield — 2010

Grant Shapps (Conservative Party) was elected with 27,894 votes57.0% of 48,972 valid votes.

Result · single-seat

Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 57.0% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +7.0 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 48,972

RankCandidatePartyVotesShare 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
1Grant Shapps Conservative Party 27,89457.0%+7.0 ptsElected
2Mike Hobday Labour Party 10,47121.4%
3Paul Zukowskyj Liberal Democrats 8,01016.4%
4David Platt UK Independence Party 1,6433.4%
5Jill Weston Green Party 7961.6%
6Nigel Parker Independent 1580.3%

Electorate 72,058 · Turnout 68.0% · Majority 17,423 · Back to 2010 overview

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.