Elections in The 2010s
| General Election 2010: Birmingham, Northfield | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Richard Burden | 16,841 | 40.3 | -10.1 | |
| Conservative | Keely Huxtable | 14,059 | 33.6 | +3.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Mike Dixon | 6,550 | 15.7 | +3.3 | |
| BNP | Les Orton | 2,290 | 5.5 | +2.2 | |
| UKIP | John Borthwick | 1,363 | 3.3 | +1.0 | |
| Green | Susan Pearce | 406 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| Common Good | Dick Rodgers | 305 | 0.7 | -0.4 | |
| Majority | 2,782 | 6.7 | |||
| Turnout | 41,814 | 58.6 | +3.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -6.6 | |||
Read more about this topic: Birmingham Northfield (UK Parliament Constituency)
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