Bournemouth East David Atkinson 17,997 9,181 13,651 0 791 Bournemouth East 25,558 5,916 14,315 0 277 Conservative Bournemouth is the very model of a genteel Victorian South Coast seaside resort and its electorate is dominated by elderly and affluent owner-occupiers. As in much of comfortable southern England, the Liberal Democrats do quite well in local elections here, and are the main general election challengers to the Conservatives, who do, however, maintain a firm grip on the parliamentary constituency. Given that the Liberal Democrats did win a famous by-election in neighbouring Christchurch in 1993, it is dangerous to say 'never', but a Conservative loss here is almost unthinkable.

	2,870	8.31	9.03	92
	8,214	23.80	11.17	213
	4,488	13.00	11.25	116
	4,387	12.71	14.70	86
	1,750	5.07	10.45	49
	0	0.00	2.81	0
	10,362	30.02	8.01	375
	1,526	4.42	15.25	29
	700	2.03	7.13	28
	0	0.00	10.17	0