UK general elections › 2010 › Bournemouth East
Bournemouth East — 2010
Tobias Ellwood (Conservative Party) was elected with 21,320 votes— 48.4% of 44,024 valid votes. Under First Past the Post, a plurality is enough; a majority is not required.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 48.4% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.6 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 44,024
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share of votes Candidate votes ÷ valid votes in this constituency. Matches the share the returning officer publishes. | Below quota Elected candidate's share of valid votes minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = won the seat below the quota; positive = cleared it. | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tobias Ellwood | Conservative Party | 21,320 | 48.4% | −1.6 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Lisa Northover | Liberal Democrats | 13,592 | 30.9% | — | |
| 3 | David Stokes | Labour Party | 5,836 | 13.3% | — | |
| 4 | David Hughes | UK Independence Party | 3,027 | 6.9% | — | |
| 5 | Steven Humphrey | Independent | 249 | 0.6% | — |
Source data: UK Parliament psephology database, retrieved
2026-05-19, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl-psephology@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.