Bournemouth East
2010 Results:
Conservative: 21320 (48.43%)
Labour: 5836 (13.26%)
Liberal Democrat: 13592 (30.87%)
UKIP: 3027 (6.88%)
Independent: 249 (0.57%)
Majority: 7728 (17.56%)
Notional 2005 Results:
Conservative: 19448 (45.4%)
Liberal Democrat: 13386 (31.2%)
Labour: 7937 (18.5%)
Other: 2106 (4.9%)
Majority: 6062 (14.1%)
Actual 2005 result
Conservative: 16925 (45%)
Labour: 7191 (19.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 11681 (31.1%)
UKIP: 1802 (4.8%)
Majority: 5244 (13.9%)
2001 Result
Conservative: 15501 (43.3%)
Labour: 7107 (19.9%)
Liberal Democrat: 12067 (33.7%)
UKIP: 1124 (3.1%)
Majority: 3434 (9.6%)
1997 Result
Conservative: 17997 (41.4%)
Labour: 9181 (21.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 13651 (31.4%)
Referendum: 1808 (4.2%)
Other: 791 (1.8%)
Majority: 4346 (10%)
Boundary changes:
Profile:
Current MP: Tobias Ellwood(Conservative) (more information at They work for you)
Tobias Ellwood(Conservative) (more information at They work for you)
David Stokes (Labour) Born 1961, Bournemouth. Educated at Beaufort Secondary and Hatfield Polytechnic. Quantity surveyor. Contested Bournemouth West 2001, Bournemouth East 2005.
Lisa Northover (Liberal Democrat) Educated at St Katherine`s. Bournemouth councillor.David Hughes (UKIP) Steven J Humphrey (Independent)2001 Census Demographics
Total 2001 Population: 90882
Male: 47.9%
Female: 52.1%
Under 18: 19.2%
Over 60: 25.2%
Born outside UK: 8.2%
White: 96.6%
Black: 0.5%
Asian: 0.7%
Mixed: 1.3%
Other: 1%
Christian: 71.6%
Jewish: 1%
Muslim: 0.9%
Full time students: 5.9%
Graduates 16-74: 18.6%
No Qualifications 16-74: 23.8%
Owner-Occupied: 70.9%
Social Housing: 8.8% (Council: 4.7%, Housing Ass.: 4.1%)
Privately Rented: 17.6%
Homes without central heating and/or private bathroom: 9.8%
Clark was radically pro-animal rights, but a bit convoluted on hunting.
He refused to allow it on his land, and made many disparaging remarks about it in his diaries, yet (I think quite rightly) he saw factory farming and fur as a much greater evil than fox hunting or shooting.
As a country squire he would also have known that if they weren’t hunted, many more country foxes would be killed by shooting and baiting.
As well as political expediency, this may explain his confused position.
Thanks for the info Hemelig
I remember being shocked by Clark’s prominent role in demonstations against the export of live cattle from Shoreham to France in the mid 90s
He was quiterefreshingly accepting of the charge that he cared more for animal welfare than that for some humans
I can understand his point of view. Largely humans have enough rights (Syria and similar places excepted) animals certainly do not.
Amongst the latest round of by-elections was one for Bournemouth council, in the split Con-LD ward of Redhill & Northbourne. No doubt ignoring the “2-horse race” graphics & “Labour can’t win here” line (well, all right, it was still sort of true), the ward voted as follows:
Conservative 675
Labour 539
LD 424
Independent 1 398
UKIP 327
Green 54
Independent 2 51
BNP 42
Independent 3 15
Pretty crowded field, and an interesting result. Also very coincidental that Labour’s candidate got an identical numerical vote to that obtained when the ward was last contested, last year (there was only one Labour candidate). It’s clearly a good result for Labour & not very good for the LDs but the Tories won with reasonable comfort. Anyone know the ward well enough to comment? As far as I’ve heard, Labour hasn’t shown in the ward for a good many years, if ever.
The Labour candidate stood as an Independent last year and came within 52 votes of the bottom-placed Conservative, (info from VoteUK Forum).