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Gravesend girl Tamera struggled to gain more than 10% of the public vote during this year's X Factor

X Factor star Tamera Foster struggled to gain the public vote during this year’s show, it has been revealed.

Voting statistics for the full run of the hit show have been revealed by ITV.

It comes after Bexley prison guard, and former North West Kent College student, Sam Bailey was crowned the winner on last night’s show.

The stats show Sam Bailey was regularly the number one performer, missing out just three times in 10 weeks to Nicholas McDonald, also in Sunday’s final.

North West Kent College student Tamera’s first week on the show back in October saw her gain 4.9% of the public flash vote.

This compares to ultimate winner and number one seeded Sam Bailey’s 23.4%.

On the Sunday evening results that week, the 16-year-old gained 5.1%, compared to first place Nicholas McDonald’s 23.5%.

Her second week saw things improve with 9.4% with the flash vote and 9.2% on Sunday.

The third week saw her slip to 7.7% in the flash vote, putting her fourth in the table of performers. Sam Bailey continued to win the public’s attention with 27%.

Former North West Kent College student Sam Bailey. Picture: Tom Dymond
Former North West Kent College student Sam Bailey. Picture: Tom Dymond

Week four saw Tamera placed in the bottom two. She received the lowest number of public votes with 4.7%. Kingsland Road were booted out, despite getting 5.2%.

Week five saw a positive boost for Tamera who got 10% of the public vote, but she still struggled against Nicholas McDonald’s 20.2% and Sam Bailey’s 28.4%.

In week six, Tamera scraped through with 8.4%, narrowly missing the bottom two by 0.4%.

In week seven the gap narrowed even further when Tamera received 9.3% of the vote compared to eliminated Hannah Barrett’s 9.1%.

Week eight was the end of the road for Tamera. She received just 8.5% of the public vote and was eliminated from the show.

By comparison, Luke Friend received 19.3%, Rough Copy 19.7%, Nicholas McDonald 25.1% and Sam Bailey 27.4%.

But it's not the end for Tamera.

She is now preparing for the X Factor Live tour which gets underway in February and remains tipped to be a big star.

Gary Barlow told her during the show: “I wonder if we fast-forward five years, looking back, I think you may possibly be the most successful contestant from this year.

"I think you’re going to have a massive career in front of you.”

Week 1
Flash Vote Saturday

Sam Bailey 23.4%
Nicholas McDonald 23.3%
Rough Copy 18.4%
Abi Alton 9.2%
Hannah Barrett 5.3%
Tamera Foster 4.9%
Kingsland Road 3.7%
Sam Callahan 3.5%
Luke Friend 3.4%
Miss Dynamix 1.8%
Lorna Simpson 1.6%
Shelley Smith 1.5%

Sunday
Nicholas McDonald 23.5%
Sam Bailey 23.3%
Rough Copy 16.4%
Abi Alton 9.0%
Hannah Barrett 5.2%
Sam Callahan 5.1%
Tamera Foster 5.1%
Kingsland Road 4.1%
Luke Friend 3.5%
Miss Dynamix 2.2%
Lorna Simpson 1.7%
Shelley Smith 0.9%

Week 2
Flash Vote Saturday

Nicholas McDonald 28.1%
Sam Bailey 16.8%
Hannah Barrett 12.7%
Tamera Foster 9.4%
Rough Copy 8.6%
Abi Alton 6.1%
Luke Friend 5.9%
Sam Callahan 5.1%
Shelley Smith 3.7%
Kingsland Road 3.6%

Sunday
Nicholas McDonald 27.1%
Sam Bailey 17.4%
Hannah Barrett 10.4%
Rough Copy 10.2%
Tamera Foster 9.2%
Abi Alton 6.9%
Sam Callahan 6.6%
Luke Friend 6.0%
Shelley Smith 4.3%
Kingsland Road 1.9%

Week 3
Flash Vote Saturday

Sam Bailey 27.0%
Nicholas McDonald 25.3%
Luke Friend 7.9%
Tamera Foster 7.7%
Abi Alton 6.6%
Kingsland Road 6.5%
Hannah Barrett 6.2%
Rough Copy 6.2%
Sam Callahan 4.8%
Miss Dynamix 1.8%

Sunday
Sam Bailey 27.0%
Nicholas McDonald 24.8%
Luke Friend 7.5%
Tamera Foster 7.3%
Abi Alton 7.1%
Rough Copy 6.7%
Kingsland Road 6.6%
Sam Callahan 6.0%
Hannah Barrett 5.9%
Miss Dynamix 1.1%

Week 4

Sam Bailey 31.1%
Nicholas McDonald 18.2%
Hannah Barrett 12.0%
Sam Callahan 7.6%
Rough Copy 7.5%
Luke Friend 7.0%
Abi Alton 6.7%
Kingsland Road 5.2%
Tamera Foster 4.7%

Week 5

Sam Bailey 28.4%
Nicholas McDonald 20.2%
Rough Copy 11.1%
Tamera Foster 10.0%
Luke Friend 9.0%
Sam Callahan 8.0%
Hannah Barrett 7.1%
Abi Alton 6.2%

Week 6

Nicholas McDonald 31.4%
Sam Bailey 26.5%
Hannah Barrett 9.9%
Rough Copy 8.7%
Tamera Foster 8.4%
Luke Friend 8.0%
Sam Callahan 7.1%

Week 7

Sam Bailey 36.0%
Nicholas McDonald 23.9%
Luke Friend 13.0%
Tamera Foster 9.3%
Hannah Barrett 9.1%
Rough Copy 8.7%

Week 8

Sam Bailey 27.4%
Nicholas McDonald 25.1%
Rough Copy 19.7%
Luke Friend 19.3%
Tamera Foster 8.5%

Week 9

Sam Bailey 29.6%
Nicholas McDonald 28.2%
Luke Friend 26.7%
Rough Copy 15.5%

Week 10

Sam Bailey 38.2%
Nicholas McDonald 32.1%
Luke Friend 29.7%

Last night's final

Sam Bailey 53.4%
Nicholas McDonald 36.3%
Luke Friend 10.3%

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