The great advantage of democracy is the huge power that it bestows upon everyone to support or reject individual candidates for political office. General elections are normally held every five years. The next one is due in May 2020. The last one was held in 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 |
|