Rochford and Southend East (UK Parliament constituency)
Rochford and Southend East | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Rochford and Southend East in Essex. | |
Location of Essex within England. | |
County | Essex |
Electorate | 71,131 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | James Duddridge (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Southend East, Rochford |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | East of England |
Rochford and Southend East is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by James Duddridge, a Conservative.[n 2]
Boundaries
1997-2010: The Borough of Southend-on-Sea wards of Milton, St Luke's, Shoebury, Southchurch, Thorpe, and Victoria, and the District of Rochford wards of Barling and Sutton, Foulness and Great Wakering East, Great Wakering Central, Great Wakering West, Rochford Eastwood, Rochford Roche, and Rochford St Andrews.
2010-present: The Borough of Southend-on-Sea wards of Kursaal, Milton, St Luke’s, Shoeburyness, Southchurch, Thorpe, Victoria, and West Shoebury, and the District of Rochford wards of Barling and Sutton, Foulness and Great Wakering, and Rochford.
The constituency covers the town of Rochford and the town centre, main seafront and eastern part of Southend-on-Sea, such as Thorpe Bay and Shoeburyness.
Constituency profile
Rochford and Southend East had a relatively marginal Conservative majority on its 1997 creation, as it had some of Labour's stronger wards in Southend, such as Kursaal, Milton and Victoria, with the party nearly gaining its predecessor seat Southend East in a by-election in 1980, though in the elections since a much larger majority suggests a Conservative safe seat. Dependency on social housing[2] and unemployment benefit in the constituency is low[3] and in the Rochford local council only 14.5% of households do not have a car (band 5 of 5 in the 2011 census) whereas 27% of households in the Southend part lack a car (band 2 of 5).[4]
Local government
Currently the 31 Council seats held in Rochford and Southend East are 7 Conservative (from Rochford), 10 Independent, 7 Labour, 5 Conservative and 2 UKIP (from Southend).
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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1997 | Sir Teddy Taylor | Conservative | |
2005 | James Duddridge | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | James Duddridge | 20,241 | 46.4 | -0.4 | |
Labour | Ian Gilbert | 10,765 | 24.7 | +4.4 | |
UKIP | Floyd Waterworth[8] | 8,948 | 20.5 | +14.7 | |
Green | Simon Cross[9] | 2,195 | 5.0 | +3.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Peter Gwizdala | 1,459 | 3.3 | -16.1 | |
Majority | 9,476 | 21.7 | |||
Turnout | 43,608 | 60.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | James Duddridge | 19,509 | 46.9 | +1.5 | |
Labour | Kevin Bonavia[12] | 8,459 | 20.3 | -11.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Graham Longley[13] | 8,084 | 19.4 | +4.7 | |
UKIP | James Moyies[14] | 2,405 | 5.8 | +0.9 | |
BNP | Geoff Strobridge[15] | 1,856 | 4.5 | N/A | |
Green | Andrew Vaughan[16] | 707 | 1.7 | -1.8 | |
Independent | Anthony Brian Chytry | 611 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,050 | 26.6 | |||
Turnout | 41,631 | 58.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.4 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | James Duddridge | 17,874 | 45.3 | -8.3 | |
Labour | Fred Grindrod | 12,384 | 31.4 | -3.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Graham Longley | 5,967 | 15.1 | +7.7 | |
UKIP | John Croft | 1,913 | 4.8 | ||
Green | Andrew Vaughan | 1,328 | 3.4 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 5,490 | 13.9 | |||
Turnout | 39,466 | 55.4 | +2.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Teddy Taylor | 20,058 | 53.6 | +4.8 | |
Labour | Chris Dandridge | 13,024 | 34.8 | -4.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Stephen Newton | 2,780 | 7.4 | -2.0 | |
Green | Adrian Hedges | 990 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Liberal | Brian Lynch | 600 | 1.6 | -0.6 | |
Majority | 7,034 | 18.8 | |||
Turnout | 37,452 | 52.7 | -10.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Teddy Taylor | 22,683 | 48.7 | ||
Labour | Nigel Smith | 18,458 | 39.7 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Paula Smith | 4,387 | 9.4 | ||
Liberal | Brian Lynch | 1,007 | 2.2 | ||
Majority | 4,225 | 9.1 | |||
Turnout | 46,535 | 63.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ "Check Browser Settings". Neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ↑ Simon Rogers, John Burn-Murdoch and Ami Sedghi. "Unemployment: the key UK data and benefit claimants for every constituency | News". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ↑ "2011 Census Interactive". ONS. 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Archived 11 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "UK Polling Report". UK Polling Report. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ↑ "Eastern Region Green Party | Green Party announces its candidates for the East of England's seaside towns". Eastern.greenparty.org.uk. 2014-11-25. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election 2010 | Constituency | Rochford & Southend East". BBC News. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
- ↑ "Prospective Parliamentary Candidates". Labour Party. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
- ↑ "Rochford and Southend East & Southend West". Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
- ↑ "Eastern Counties Region". UKIP. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ↑ "Rochford and Southend East Announces Its BNP Parliamentary Candidate". BNP. 6 December 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- ↑ "Green Party Parlimentary Candidate". South East Essex Green Party. 6 May 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
- ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
Coordinates: 51°33′N 0°49′E / 51.55°N 0.81°E