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, which will also include a link to a list of successful candidates on July 5th.

UK general election on 6 May 2010 Elections won by Social Democratic & Labour Party

Elections contested Elections won

A general election to the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom with an electorate of 45,597,461, having 29,687,604 valid votes and 81,879 invalid votes.

Read the House of Commons Library briefing.

Constituency Candidate Electorate Turnout Votes Vote share Vote change Majority
Belfast South MCDONNELL, Alasdair 59,524 57.4% 14,026 41.0% 10.9% 5,926
Foyle DURKAN, Mark 65,843 57.5% 16,922 44.7% -1.7% 4,824
South Down RITCHIE, Margaret 70,784 60.2% 20,648 48.5% 1.6% 8,412

Turnout as calculated by the House of Commons Library, is the total number of votes cast and not spoiled, divided by the size of the electorate.

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