Election Results

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The House of Commons Library collects and verifies election returns from local authorities before publishing the results. We expect to publish 2024 general election results here around Friday 12th July. You can read more about election night, counts and how results are announced in our explainer, and view a list of winning MPs on our summary page.

Election for the constituency of Ipswich on 6 May 2010.

An election to the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom for the constituency area of Ipswich, held as part of the general election on 6 May 2010.

Conservative gain from Labour by Benedict Gummer with a majority of 2,079 - 4.4% - on a turnout of 62.0%.

Candidates

Name Party Vote Vote share Vote change
GUMMER, Benedict Con 18,371 39.1% 8.0%
MOLE, Chris Lab 16,292 34.7% -8.2%
DYSON, Mark LD 8,556 18.2% -2.9%
STREATFIELD, Christopher UKIP 1,365 2.9% 0.2%
BOATER, Dennis BNP 1,270 2.7% -
GLOVER, Tim Green 775 1.7% -
CHRISTOFI, Kim CHP 149 0.3% -
TURTILL, Peter Ind 93 0.2% -
WAINMAN, Sally Ind 70 0.1% -

An electorate of 75,770, having a valid vote count of 46,941 and an invalid vote count of 89.

Result declared at 05:50 on 7 May 2010. Declarations times do not form part of election declarations and should be regarded as indicative rather than official.

Under section 13(b) of the Representation of the People Act 1985, a candidate gaining 5% or less of the vote share will forfeit their deposit.

This constituency of Ipswich was established by the 2010-2024 boundary set for England. This election was the first held under that boundary set. Any holds, gains and vote change percentages as a result of this election are calculated from notional results.