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Elections

ballot boxThe great advantage of democracy is the huge power that it bestows upon people to support or reject individual candidates for political office. General elections are normally held every five years. But in December 2019 we were subjected to the third general election within that period!

These are the results for June 2017:

Conservative

Ian Liddell-Grainger Votes 32,111  share 55.1 Net percentage change +9.2

Labour

Wes Hinckes Votes 16,663 share 28.6 Net percentage change +11.0

Liberal Democrat

Marcus Kravis Votes 6,332 share 10.9 Net percentage change -1.6

UKIP

Simon Smedley Votes 2,102 share 3.6 Net percentage change -15.6

Green Party

Kay Powell Votes 1,059 share 1.8 Net percentage change -3.0

Votes cast in May 2015 were as follows:

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ian Liddell-Grainger 25,020 46.0 +0.7
UKIP Stephen Fitzgerald 10,437 19.2 +14.4
Labour Michael Lerry 9,589 17.6 +0.5
Liberal Democrat Theo Butt Philip 6,765 12.4 -15.9
Green Julie Harvey-Smith 2,636 4.8 +3.3
Majority 14,583 26.8
Turnout 54,447 67.6

Here are the results for 2010:

Ian Liddell-Grainger Conservative

24,675

45.3

-0.1

Theo Butt Philip Liberal Democrat

15,426

28.3

+5.7

Kathryn Pearce Labour

9,332

17.1

-8.5

Peter Hollings UK Independence Party

2,604

4.8

+1.1

Donna Treanor British National Party

1,282

2.4

+2.4

Charles Graham Green

859

1.6

-1.2

Bob Cudlipp Independent

315

0.6

+0.6

Majority

9,249

17.0

Turnout

54,493

71.2

+7.2

 

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