Rochford (UK Parliament constituency)
Rochford | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Essex |
1983–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Rayleigh, Rochford and Southend East, Maldon and Chelmsford East |
Created from | Chelmsford, Maldon, South East Essex, Southend East |
Rochford was a parliamentary constituency in Essex, centred on the town of Rochford.
It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new constituency of Rochford and Southend East.
Boundaries
The District of Rochford, and the Borough of Chelmsford wards of Ramsden Heath and Downham, Rettendon and South Hanningfield, Runwell, Woodham Ferrers North, and Woodham Ferrers South.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1983 | Michael Clark | Conservative | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Rayleigh, Rochford and Southend East & Maldon and Chelmsford East |
Elections
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Michael Clark | 29,495 | 57.8 | −3.28 | |
Liberal | Richard Henry Boyd | 16,393 | 32.15 | +14.11 | |
Labour | Hyman Mark Witzer | 5,105 | 10.01 | −10.83 | |
Majority | 13,102 | 25.69 | |||
Turnout | 50,993 | 73.49 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael Clark | 35,872 | 60.4 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Philip Young | 16,178 | 27.3 | −4.9 | |
Labour | David Adams Weir | 7,308 | 12.3 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 19,694 | 33.1 | |||
Turnout | 59,358 | 78.05 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Michael Clark | 38,967 | 61.1 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Nicholas Harris | 12,931 | 20.3 | −7.0 | |
Labour | Donald Quinn | 10,537 | 16.5 | +4.2 | |
Liberal | Ms. Linda Farmer | 1,362 | 2.1 | −25.1 | |
Majority | 26,036 | 40.8 | +7.6 | ||
Turnout | 63,797 | 83.0 | +4.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.8 | |||
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
- 1 2 "'Rochford', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
Coordinates: 51°35′N 0°43′E / 51.58°N 0.71°E
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