Conservatives Hold Havant

- Fri 6th May 2005

Conservative MP, David Willetts (www.davidwilletts.org.uk) has once again held the seat of Havant in yesterday’s parliamentary elections and increased his majority with a swing of 2.7% from Labour to Conservative.

Turnover across the borough was slightly up on the last election, at over 60%.  The final count was as follows:

David Willets (Conservative) 18,370 44.4%
Sarah Bogle (Labour) 11,862 28.7%
Alex Bentley (Liberal Democrat) 8,358 20.2%
Timothy Dawes (Green) 1,006 2.4%
Steve Harris (UK Independence) 998 2.4%
Ian Johnson (British National Party) 562 1.4%
Russell Thomas(Veritas) 195 0.5%

By forum user, Mat