Bournemouth East is a parliamentary constituency[n 1] in Dorset represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Tobias Ellwood, a Conservative.[n 2]
Bournemouth East | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Dorset |
Population | 102,152 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 73,805 (2018)[2] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Tobias Ellwood (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Bournemouth East and Christchurch |
The seat covers the eastern suburbs of Bournemouth including Muscliff, Springbourne and Southbourne.[3] Residents' wealth is around average for the UK.[4]
1974–1983: The County Borough of Bournemouth wards of Boscombe East, Boscombe West, King's Park, Moordown North, Moordown South, Queen's Park, Southbourne, and West Southbourne.
1983–1997: The Borough of Bournemouth wards of Boscombe East, Boscombe West, Central, East Cliff, Littledown, Moordown, Muscliff, Queen's Park, Southbourne, Strouden Park, and West Southbourne.
1997–2010: The Borough of Bournemouth wards of Boscombe East, Boscombe West, Littledown, Moordown, Muscliff, Queen's Park, Southbourne, Strouden Park, and West Southbourne.
2010–present: The Borough of Bournemouth wards of Boscombe East, Boscombe West, East Cliff and Springbourne, East Southbourne and Tuckton, Littledown and Iford, Moordown, Queen's Park, Strouden Park, Throop and Muscliff, and West Southbourne.
The constituency is based on the eastern portion of Bournemouth, in Dorset, including the Southbourne district at the border of Christchurch, Boscombe, Throop, and Queen's Park.
Following boundary changes enacted at the 2010 general election, the western boundary of the constituency changed so that it aligned with ward boundaries (which had changed since the constituency boundary changes of the 1990s). The main changes saw East Cliff brought into the constituency with the loss of part of east Winton.
Bournemouth Town Centre was in this constituency from 1983 to 1997.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
Very small change following re-organisation of local authorities and wards in Dorset.
Election | Member[6] | Party | Notes | |
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Feb 1974 | John Cordle | Conservative | Resigned July 1977 as a result of the John Poulson scandal | |
1977 by-election | David Atkinson | Conservative | ||
2005 | Tobias Ellwood | Conservative | Served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, Africa and Counter Terrorism (2014–2017); Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for Defence People and Veterans (2017–2019); Chair of the Defence Select Committee (2020–present). Whip removed on 19 July 2022 after Ellwood failed to support the government in the vote of confidence the previous day. Whip restored on 15 October 2022. | |
2022 | Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Hayes[7] | ||||
Reform UK | Martin Houlden[8] | ||||
Green | Joe Salmon[9] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tobias Ellwood | 24,926 | 50.6 | ―1.3 | |
Labour | Corrie Drew | 16,120 | 32.7 | ―2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Philip Dunn | 5,418 | 11.0 | +4.5 | |
Green | Alasdair Keddie | 2,049 | 4.2 | +1.7 | |
Independent | Ben Aston | 447 | 0.9 | New | |
Independent | Emma Johnson | 314 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 8,806 | 17.9 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 49,274 | 66.5 | +1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tobias Ellwood | 25,221 | 51.9 | +2.9 | |
Labour | Mel Semple | 17,284 | 35.6 | +19.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jon Nicholas | 3,168 | 6.5 | ―1.9 | |
UKIP | David Hughes | 1,405 | 2.9 | ―13.6 | |
Green | Alasdair Keddie | 1,236 | 2.5 | ―4.8 | |
Independent | Kieron Wilson | 304 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 7,937 | 16.3 | ―16.3 | ||
Turnout | 48,618 | 65.2 | +2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―8.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tobias Ellwood[14] | 22,060 | 49.0 | +0.6 | |
Labour | Peter Stokes | 7,448 | 16.6 | +3.3 | |
UKIP | David Hughes[14] | 7,401 | 16.5 | +9.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jon Nicholas | 3,752 | 8.4 | −22.5 | |
Green | Alasdair Keddie[15] | 3,263 | 7.3 | New | |
Independent | David Ross | 903 | 2.0 | New | |
Majority | 14,612 | 32.6 | +15.1 | ||
Turnout | 45,014 | 62.6 | +0.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tobias Ellwood | 21,320 | 48.4 | +3.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lisa Northover | 13,592 | 30.9 | −0.2 | |
Labour | David Stokes | 5,836 | 13.3 | −5.8 | |
UKIP | David Hughes | 3,027 | 6.9 | +2.1 | |
Independent | Steven Humphrey | 249 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 7,728 | 17.5 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 44,024 | 61.9 | +2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tobias Ellwood | 16,925 | 45.0 | +1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Garratt | 11,681 | 31.1 | −2.6 | |
Labour | David Stokes | 7,191 | 19.1 | −0.8 | |
UKIP | Thomas Collier | 1,802 | 4.8 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 5,244 | 13.9 | +4.3 | ||
Turnout | 37,599 | 59.3 | +1.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Atkinson | 15,501 | 43.3 | +1.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Garratt | 12,067 | 33.7 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Paul Nicholson | 7,107 | 19.9 | −1.3 | |
UKIP | George Chamberlaine | 1,124 | 3.1 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 3,434 | 9.6 | -0.4 | ||
Turnout | 35,799 | 58.2 | −12.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Atkinson | 17,997 | 41.4 | −14.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Douglas Eyre | 13,655 | 31.4 | +0.4 | |
Labour | Jessica Stevens | 9,181 | 21.2 | +8.3 | |
Referendum | Alan Musgrave-Scott | 1,808 | 4.2 | New | |
UKIP | Kenneth Benney | 791 | 1.8 | New | |
Majority | 4,346 | 10.01 | -14.4 | ||
Turnout | 43,432 | 70.21 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Atkinson | 30,820 | 56.4 | −1.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Neil Russell | 15,998 | 29.3 | −1.3 | |
Labour | Peter Brushett | 7,541 | 13.8 | +2.7 | |
Natural Law | Susan Holmes | 329 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 14,822 | 27.1 | −0.6 | ||
Turnout | 54,688 | 72.8 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Atkinson | 30,925 | 58.3 | +4.8 | |
Liberal | John Millward | 16,242 | 30.6 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Ian Taylor | 5,885 | 11.1 | +2.6 | |
Majority | 14,683 | 27.7 | +3.4 | ||
Turnout | 53,052 | 70.5 | +3.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Atkinson | 25,176 | 53.5 | −9.2 | |
Liberal | John Millward | 13,760 | 29.2 | +12.7 | |
Labour | Michael Shutler | 4,026 | 8.5 | −9.9 | |
Ind. Conservative | Phyllis Hogarth | 3,644 | 7.7 | New | |
Ecology | Trevor Dykes | 273 | 0.6 | -0.7 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Jeremy Stooks | 225 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 11,416 | 24.3 | |||
Turnout | 47,104 | 66.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −11.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Atkinson | 25,808 | 62.6 | +10.8 | |
Labour | Joseph Goodwin | 7,553 | 18.3 | −2.7 | |
Liberal | Donald Matthew | 6,738 | 16.4 | −8.8 | |
New Britain | John Philip Pratt | 581 | 1.4 | New | |
Ecology | Jacqueline Mary Dempsey | 523 | 1.3 | New | |
Majority | 18,255 | 44.3 | +17.7 | ||
Turnout | 41,203 | 73.1 | +2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Atkinson | 15,235 | 62.1 | +10.3 | |
Labour | Joseph Goodwin | 3,684 | 15.0 | −6.0 | |
Liberal | Donald Matthew | 3,212 | 13.1 | −12.1 | |
New Britain | John Philip Pratt | 1,127 | 4.6 | New | |
National Front | Kenneth Roderick McKilliam | 725 | 3.0 | +0.9 | |
International Marxist | Brian Heron | 494 | 1.4 | New | |
Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident | Bill Boaks | 42 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 11,551 | 47.1 | +20.5 | ||
Turnout | 24,519 | 24.5 | -46.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Cordle | 20,790 | 51.8 | +1.6 | |
Liberal | George Hamilton Musgrave | 10,129 | 25.2 | −4.1 | |
Labour | Desmond Earle Lock | 8,422 | 21.0 | +4.3 | |
National Front | Michael John Hayes | 828 | 2.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 10,661 | 26.6 | +5.7 | ||
Turnout | 40,149 | 70.5 | −8.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Cordle | 22,319 | 50.2 | ||
Liberal | George Hamilton Musgrave | 13,005 | 29.3 | ||
Labour | Desmond Earle Lock | 7,423 | 16.7 | ||
National Front | Michael John Hayes | 875 | 2.0 | ||
Anti-EEC | Alan Stanley Reynolds | 834 | 1.9 | ||
Majority | 9,314 | 20.95 | |||
Turnout | 44,456 | 78.6 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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