Elections in The 2010s
| General Election 2010: Batley and Spen | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Mike Wood | 21,565 | 41.5 | −3.7 | |
| Conservative | Janice Small | 17,159 | 33.0 | +1.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Neil Bentley | 8,925 | 17.2 | +1.8 | |
| BNP | David Exley | 3,685 | 7.1 | +1.1 | |
| Green | Matt Blakeley | 605 | 1.2 | −0.5 | |
| Majority | 4,406 | 8.5 | |||
| Turnout | 51,939 | 67.7 | +6.9 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
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