East Worthing and Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of East Worthing and Shoreham in West Sussex for the 2010 general election.
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Location of West Sussex within England.
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County | West Sussex |
Electorate | 72,996 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Shoreham-by-Sea |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | Tim Loughton (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Worthing and Shoreham |
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European Parliament constituency | South East England |
East Worthing and Shoreham is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Tim Loughton of the Conservative Party.[n 2]
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency covers an eastern portion of Worthing, the town of Shoreham-by-Sea and just three nearby inland villages that are also in West Sussex.
Boundary review
After the Fifth Periodic Review of the Boundary Commission, sweeping changes were made to most constituencies to deal with population changes, however in this seat only 29 electors were moved into Worthing West in the nationwide abolition of ward sharing.[2] The seat comprises the Electoral wards:
- Buckingham, Churchill, Cokeham, Eastbrook, Hillside, Manor, Marine, Mash Barn, Peverel, St Mary's, St Nicholas, Southlands, Southwick Green and Widewater forming the Adur District/eɪdɜːr/
- Broadwater, Gaisford, Offington and Selden in the Borough of Worthing[2]
History
Under the Boundary Commission's fourth review, enacted in time for the 1997 election, the larger Shoreham portion of this constituency was taken from the disbanded Shoreham seat and the minor East Worthing portion had been in the disbanded Worthing seat.
Before 1974, the Shoreham seat had been a part of the Arundel and Shoreham seat.
Between 1945 and 1950, the whole area was in the Worthing seat and between 1918 and 1945 (on which the Boundary Commission was formed and carried out its first periodic review), in the Horsham and Worthing seat.
- Political history
Apart from the 1997 general election result with the Conservative Party candidate's majority as 9.9% of the vote, more recent greater majorities together with the most recent result, a 22.9% majority, suggest the seat is safer than most other constituencies currently held by the Conservative Party. In terms of second place, this was retaken by the Liberal Democrat candidate in 2010, ousting the Labour Party from that position, having achieved second place at general elections here since 2001.
- Trivia
The competitive hustings in September 2007 of the local Labour Party selected Emily Benn, granddaughter of Tony Benn and niece of Hilary Benn, former ministers of state, then aged 17, to contest the 2010 general election, making her the youngest ever Labour parliamentary candidate: had she been elected, she would have been the youngest MP since the Reform Act 1832.[3]
Constituency profile
Shoreham can be viewed with Worthing as less of an economic force than the neighbouring local government district, the City of Brighton and Hove, with a majority of houses with larger gardens, fewer listed buildings but Shoreham's large boat harbour facility an amenity for visitors, residents, - mooring and maintenance for people living close enough to the county, rival harbours being as far away as Chichester and Newhaven.[4] Much work is in the service sector, including a major presence of sharedealing and banking service and processing facilities in the borough (see Lancing, West Sussex) and a slightly greater proportion of people are retired compared to the national average (2.11% of the population greater, at 15.8%).[5]
Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.6% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[6]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[7] | Party | |
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1997 | Tim Loughton | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Loughton | 24,686 | 49.5 | +1.0 | |
Labour | Tim Macpherson | 9,737 | 19.5 | +2.8 | |
UKIP | Mike J. Glennon | 8,267 | 16.6 | +10.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Bob Smytherman | 3,360 | 6.7 | −18.8 | |
Green | James Doyle | 2,605 | 5.2 | +2.9 | |
National Health Action | Carl Walker | 1,243 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,949 | 30.0 | +7.1 | ||
Turnout | 49,898 | 67.2 | +1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Loughton | 23,458 | 48.5 | +4.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | James E. Doyle | 12,353 | 25.5 | +1.2 | |
Labour | Emily Benn | 8,087 | 16.7 | −8.8 | |
UKIP | Mike J. Glennon | 2,984 | 6.2 | +1.4 | |
Green | Susan E. Board | 1,126 | 2.3 | N/A | |
English Democrats | Clive T. Maltby | 389 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,105 | 22.9 | |||
Turnout | 48,397 | 65.4 | +3.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Loughton | 19,548 | 43.9 | +0.7 | |
Labour | Daniel Jonathan Yates | 11,365 | 25.5 | −3.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | James E. Doyle | 10,844 | 24.3 | +1.4 | |
UKIP | Richard B. Jelf | 2,109 | 4.7 | +1.9 | |
Legalise Cannabis | Christopher John Baldwin | 677 | 1.5 | −0.6 | |
Majority | 8,183 | 18.4 | |||
Turnout | 44,543 | 61.6 | 1.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Loughton | 18,608 | 43.2 | +2.7 | |
Labour | Daniel Jonathan Yates | 12,469 | 29.0 | +5.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Paul Steven Elgood | 9,876 | 22.9 | −7.6 | |
UKIP | James McCulloch | 1,195 | 2.8 | +1.0 | |
Legalise Cannabis | Christopher John Baldwin | 920 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,139 | 14.2 | |||
Turnout | 43,068 | 59.7 | −13.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Loughton | 20,864 | 40.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Martin King | 15,766 | 30.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Mark A. Williams | 12,335 | 23.9 | N/A | |
Referendum | James McCulloch | 1,683 | 3.3 | N/A | |
UKIP | Mrs. Rosemary L. Jarvis | 921 | 1.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,098 | 9.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 51,569 | 72.9 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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
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- ↑ OS Map with Listed Buildings and Parks marked
- ↑ 2011 Census "Economically Inactive - see subcategories"
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
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Sources
- Election result, 2005 (BBC)
- Election results, 1997 - 2001 (BBC)
- Election results, 1997 - 2001 (Election Demon)
- Election results, 1997 - 2005 (Guardian)
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Parliamentary constituencies in South East England
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1997
- Politics of West Sussex
- Adur District
- Politics of Worthing