Results for the UK general election on 6 May 2010 South West, England - Elections won by Conservative

A general election to the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom with an electorate of 45,597,461, having 29,687,604 valid votes and 81,879 invalid votes.

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Constituency Candidate Electorate Turnout Votes Vote share Vote change Majority
Bournemouth East ELLWOOD, Tobias 71,125 61.9% 21,320 48.4% 3.1% 7,728
Bournemouth West BURNS, Conor 71,753 58.1% 18,808 45.1% 5.6% 5,583
Bridgwater and West Somerset LIDDELL-GRAINGER, Ian 82,180 66.3% 24,675 45.3% -0.1% 9,249
Bristol North West LESLIE, Charlotte 73,469 68.5% 19,115 38.0% 5.5% 3,274
Camborne and Redruth EUSTICE, George 63,975 66.4% 15,969 37.6% 12.0% 66
Central Devon STRIDE, Mel 71,203 75.7% 27,737 51.5% 7.7% 9,230
Christchurch CHOPE, Christopher 68,859 71.8% 27,888 56.4% 1.1% 15,410
Devizes PERRY, Claire 67,379 68.8% 25,519 55.1% 4.0% 13,005
East Devon SWIRE, Hugo 73,109 72.6% 25,662 48.3% 1.1% 9,114
Filton and Bradley Stoke LOPRESTI, Jack 69,003 70.0% 19,686 40.8% 5.3% 6,914
Forest of Dean HARPER, Mark 68,419 71.3% 22,853 46.9% 6.0% 11,064
Gloucester GRAHAM, Richard 79,321 64.0% 20,267 39.9% 5.3% 2,420
Kingswood SKIDMORE, Chris 66,361 72.2% 19,362 40.4% 8.3% 2,445
Newton Abbot MORRIS, Anne 69,319 69.7% 20,774 43.0% 8.0% 523
North Dorset WALTER, Robert 73,741 73.4% 27,640 51.1% 4.6% 7,625
North East Somerset REES-MOGG, Jacob 67,881 75.4% 21,130 41.3% 2.2% 4,914
North Somerset FOX, Liam 77,306 75.0% 28,549 49.3% 7.5% 7,862
North Swindon TOMLINSON, Justin 78,384 64.2% 22,408 44.6% 5.7% 7,060
North Wiltshire GRAY, James 66,315 73.4% 25,114 51.6% 1.9% 7,483
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport COLVILE, Oliver 72,938 60.2% 15,050 34.3% 4.7% 1,149
Poole SYMS, Robert 72,641 65.3% 22,532 47.5% 4.1% 7,541
Salisbury GLEN, John 67,430 71.9% 23,859 49.2% 2.8% 5,966
South Dorset DRAX, Richard 73,360 68.6% 22,667 45.1% 7.1% 7,443
South East Cornwall MURRAY, Sheryll 71,373 69.5% 22,390 45.1% 10.1% 3,220
South Swindon BUCKLAND, Robert 72,619 64.9% 19,687 41.8% 4.9% 3,544
South West Devon STREETER, Gary 70,813 70.4% 27,908 56.0% 11.6% 15,874
South West Wiltshire MURRISON, Andrew 71,647 68.4% 25,321 51.7% 2.5% 10,367
Stroud CARMICHAEL, Neil 78,286 74.1% 23,679 40.8% 2.5% 1,299
Tewkesbury ROBERTSON, Laurence 76,655 70.4% 25,472 47.2% -1.0% 6,310
The Cotswolds CLIFTON-BROWN, Geoffrey 76,729 71.5% 29,075 53.0% 3.7% 12,864
Tiverton and Honiton PARISH, Neil 76,808 71.5% 27,614 50.3% 3.6% 9,320
Torridge and West Devon COX, Geoffrey 77,360 71.4% 25,230 45.7% 3.4% 2,957
Totnes WOLLASTON, Sarah 67,962 70.4% 21,940 45.9% 3.0% 4,927
Truro and Falmouth NEWTON, Sarah 70,598 69.1% 20,349 41.7% 10.0% 435
West Dorset LETWIN, Oliver 76,869 74.6% 27,287 47.6% 1.1% 3,923
Weston-Super-Mare PENROSE, John 78,487 67.2% 23,356 44.3% 4.0% 2,691

Turnout as calculated by the House of Commons Library, is the total number of votes cast and not spoiled, divided by the size of the electorate.

This was the first election on a new set of constituency boundaries in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. The vote share calculations in those countries are based on notional results, which estimate the outcome of the previous election had it been contested on the new boundaries.