North East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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North East Cambridgeshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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![]() Boundary of North East Cambridgeshire in Cambridgeshire.
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![]() Location of Cambridgeshire within England.
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County | Cambridgeshire |
Electorate | 83,661 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Wisbech, March, Whittlesey and Chatteris |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Stephen Barclay (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Isle of Ely |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | East of England |
North East Cambridgeshire is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Stephen Barclay, a Conservative.[n 2]
Contents
History
Clement Freud, former Liberal MP for Isle of Ely from 1973, represented the seat from its creation in 1983 until 1987, when he was defeated by the Conservative Malcolm Moss and since then it has been served by one other Conservative MP.
Boundaries
1983-1997: The District of Fenland, the District of East Cambridgeshire wards of Downham, Haddenham, Littleport, Stretham, Sutton, and Witchford, and the City of Peterborough wards of Eye, Newborough, and Thorney.
1997-2010: The District of Fenland, the District of East Cambridgeshire wards of Downham, Littleport, and Sutton, and the City of Peterborough wards of Eye, Newborough, and Thorney.
2010-present: The District of Fenland, and the District of East Cambridgeshire wards of Downham Villages, Littleport East, Littleport West, and Sutton.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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Isle of Ely prior to 1983 | |||
1983 | Clement Freud | Liberal | |
1987 | Malcolm Moss | Conservative | |
2010 | Stephen Barclay | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Stephen Barclay | 28,524 | 55.1 | +3.5 | |
UKIP | Andrew Charalambous[4] | 11,650 | 22.5 | +17.1 | |
Labour | Ken Rustidge [5] | 7,476 | 14.4 | −3.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Lucy Nethsingha [6] | 2,314 | 4.5 | −15.6 | |
Green | Helen Scott-Daniels[7] | 1,816 | 3.5 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 16,874 | 32.6 | |||
Turnout | 51,780 | 62.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Stephen Barclay | 26,862 | 51.4 | +4.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Lorna Spenceley | 10,437 | 20.0 | +2.9 | |
Labour | Peter Roberts | 9,274 | 17.7 | −12.9 | |
UKIP | Robin Talbot | 2,991 | 5.7 | +0.4 | |
BNP | Susan Clapp | 1,747 | 3.3 | +3.3 | |
Independent | Debra Jordan | 566 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
English Democrats | Graham Murphy | 387 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 16,425 | 31.4 | |||
Turnout | 52,264 | 71.4 | +12.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Malcolm Moss | 24,181 | 47.5 | −0.6 | |
Labour | ffinlo Costain | 15,280 | 30.0 | −4.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Alan Dean | 8,693 | 17.1 | +3.1 | |
UKIP | Len Baynes | 2,723 | 5.4 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 8,901 | 17.5 | |||
Turnout | 50,877 | 59.8 | −0.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Malcolm Moss | 23,132 | 48.1 | +5.1 | |
Labour | Dil Owen | 16,759 | 34.9 | +1.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Richard Renaut | 6,733 | 14.0 | −2.4 | |
UKIP | John Stevens | 1,189 | 2.5 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | Tony Hoey | 238 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,373 | 13.2 | |||
Turnout | 48,051 | 60.1 | −12.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.1 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Malcolm Moss | 23,855 | 43.0 | −11.0 | |
Labour | Virginia Bucknor | 18,754 | 33.8 | +20.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Andrew Nash | 9,070 | 16.4 | −13.9 | |
Referendum | Michael W. Bacon | 2,636 | 4.8 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Chris J. Bennett | 851 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Luke K.C. Leighton | 259 | 0.5 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 5,101 | 9.2 | |||
Turnout | 55,425 | 72.6 | −6.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −15.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Malcolm Moss | 34,288 | 54.0 | +7.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Maurice Leeke | 19,195 | 30.3 | −14.2 | |
Labour | Ron Harris | 8,746 | 13.8 | +5.3 | |
Liberal | Chris D. Ash | 998 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Marion J. Chalmers | 227 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,093 | 23.7 | |||
Turnout | 63,454 | 79.3 | +1.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +10.6 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Malcolm Moss | 26,983 | 47.0 | +6.2 | |
Liberal | Clement Freud | 25,555 | 44.5 | −6.0 | |
Labour | Ron Harris | 4,891 | 8.5 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 1,428 | 2.5 | |||
Turnout | 57,429 | 77.4 | +1.1 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +6.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Clement Freud | 26,936 | 50.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Nicholas C. Duval | 21,741 | 40.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Ron Harris | 4,625 | 8.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,195 | 9.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 53,302 | 76.3 | N/A | ||
Liberal 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
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ https://yournextmp.com/constituency/66063/
- ↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/cambridgeshire-north-east-2015.html
- ↑ http://fenlandlibdems.org.uk/en/page/lucy-nethsingha
- ↑ http://peterborough.greenparty.org.uk/news/nec-parliamentary-candidate.html
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- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Cambridgeshire North East, guardian.co.uk
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 British Parliamentary Election results 1983-97: English Counties
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