Election Results

General election 2024

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 North Down on 6 May 2010.

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

Independent gain from Ulster Unionist Party by Sylvia Hermon with a majority of 14,364 - 42.9% - on a turnout of 55.2%.

Candidates

Name Party Vote Vote share Vote change
HERMON, Sylvia Ind 21,181 63.3% -
PARSLEY, Ian Ind 6,817 20.4% -
FARRY, Stephen APNI 1,876 5.6% -
KILPATRICK, Mary TUV 1,634 4.9% -
AGNEW, Steven Green 1,043 3.1% -
LOGAN, Liam SDLP 680 2.0% -1.1%
PARKER, Vincent SF 250 0.7% 0.1%

An electorate of 60,698, having a valid vote count of 33,481 and an invalid vote count of 62.

Result declared at 01:14 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 North Down was established by the 2010-2024 boundary set for Northern Ireland. 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.