Hertford and Stortford Bowen Wells 24,027 17,142 9,679 0 1,608 Hertford and Stortford 31,942 9,529 14,408 0 660 Conservative East Hertfordshire is a very Conservative part of England. The four main towns in Hertford and Stortford are Bishops Stortford, Hertford, Ware and Sawbridgeworth. All are prosperous market towns with buoyant service economies. The Liberal Democrats come a distant second to the Conservatives, and Labour, who actually represented part of this area prior to 1979 when Shirley Williams was the member for Hertford and Stevenage, are now a distant third.

	9,118	22.21	9.03	246
	3,700	9.01	11.17	81
	4,403	10.72	11.25	95
	9,150	22.28	14.70	152
	5,423	13.21	10.45	126
	536	1.31	2.81	46
	1,137	2.77	8.01	35
	5,029	12.25	15.25	80
	933	2.27	7.13	32
	483	1.18	10.17	12