Elections in The 2010s
| General Election 2010: Lagan Valley | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Democratic Unionist | Jeffrey Donaldson | 18,199 | 49.8 | −8.5 | |
| Conservatives and Unionists | Daphne Trimble | 7,713 | 21.1 | −1.8 | |
| Alliance | Trevor Lunn | 4,174 | 11.4 | +0.5 | |
| Traditional Unionist Voice | Keith Harbinson | 3,154 | 8.6 | +8.6 | |
| SDLP | Brian Heading | 1,835 | 5.0 | −1.1 | |
| Sinn Féin | Paul Butler | 1,465 | 4.0 | −3.5 | |
| Majority | 10,486 | 28.7 | |||
| Turnout | 36,540 | 56.0 | |||
| Democratic Unionist hold | Swing | −3.4 | |||
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