UK general elections › 2015 › Bournemouth West
Bournemouth West — 2015
Conor Burns (Conservative Party) was elected with 20,155 votes— 48.2% of 41,773 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. 48.2% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. −1.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 41,773
| 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 | Conor Burns | Conservative Party | 20,155 | 48.2% | −1.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Martin Houlden | UK Independence Party | 7,745 | 18.5% | — | |
| 3 | David Stokes | Labour Party | 7,386 | 17.7% | — | |
| 4 | Mike Plummer | Liberal Democrats | 3,281 | 7.9% | — | |
| 5 | Elizabeth McManus | Green Party | 3,107 | 7.4% | — | |
| 6 | Dick Franklin | Patria | 99 | 0.2% | — |
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.