UK general elections › 2015 › Bournemouth East
Bournemouth East — 2015
Tobias Ellwood (Conservative Party) was elected with 22,060 votes— 49.2% of 44,827 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. 49.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −0.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 44,827
| 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 | 22,060 | −0.8 pts | Elected | |
| 2 | Peter Stokes | Labour Party | 7,448 | — | ||
| 3 | David Hughes | UK Independence Party | 7,401 | — | ||
| 4 | Jon Nicholas | Liberal Democrats | 3,752 | — | ||
| 5 | Alasdair Keddie | Green Party | 3,263 | — | ||
| 6 | David Ross | Bournemouth Independent Alliance | 903 | — |
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.