Elections in The 2010s
| General Election 2010: Blackpool South | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Gordon Marsden | 14,449 | 41.1 | −7.5 | |
| Conservative | Ron Bell | 12,597 | 35.8 | +4.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Doreen Holt | 5,082 | 14.4 | −0.7 | |
| BNP | Roy Goodwin | 1,482 | 4.2 | +0.9 | |
| UKIP | Hamish Howitt | 1,352 | 3.8 | +1.7 | |
| Integrity UK | Si Thu Tun | 230 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,852 | 5.3 | -15.4 | ||
| Turnout | 35,192 | 55.8 | +3.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −6.2 | |||
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