Brighton Pavilion (UK Parliament constituency)
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Brighton, Pavilion in East Sussex.
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![]() Location of East Sussex within England.
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County | East Sussex |
Population | 103,593 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 77,430 (December 2010)[2] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1950 |
Member of parliament | Caroline Lucas (Green) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Brighton |
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European Parliament constituency | South East England |
Brighton Pavilion is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament[n 2] since 2010 by Caroline Lucas of the Green Party who on election became the first MP for that party in the United Kingdom.
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Boundaries
1983–1997: The Borough of Brighton wards of Hollingbury, Patcham, Preston, Regency, St Peter's, Seven Dials, Stanmer, and Westdene.
1997–2010: The Borough of Brighton wards of Hanover, Hollingbury, Patcham, Preston, Regency, St Peter's, Seven Dials, Stanmer, and Westdene.
2010–present: The City of Brighton and Hove wards of Hanover and Elm Grove, Hollingbury and Stanmer, Patcham, Preston Park, Regency, St Peter’s and North Laine, and Withdean.
Constituency history and profile
The constituency was created in 1950 from the former two-seat constituency of Brighton (one of the last remaining multi-member constituencies), for which Brighton Pavilion's first Member of Parliament, Sir William Teeling, had previously been the joint representative.
The present name is derived from the Royal Pavilion.[n 3] On current boundaries, the pavilion itself is right on the South-Eastern border of the seat – the opposite side of the road is Brighton Kemptown. It encompasses the heart of the city, including the Georgian and Regency alleyway properties of The Lanes and the bohemian North Laine shopping area. The developed centre of the promenade above the pebbled beach has Brighton Pier, major entertainment venues and the city's largest hotels including the Grand Hotel and Hilton Brighton Metropole. It is a relatively affluent seat, since average income is higher than the UK average (based upon 2001 statistics) and unemployment is lower.[3]
From 1950 until 1997 the seat had Conservative Party representatives. In 1997, David Lepper of the Labour Party[n 4] began service as MP for 13 years by winning the two subsequent elections.
In July 2007, the Green Party selected Caroline Lucas to contest the seat, at which point she was neither Leader nor Principal Speaker for the party.[4] In November 2009 Charlotte Vere was selected as the Conservative Party candidate at an open primary attended by local Party members and residents.[5] In January 2010 the Liberal Democrats also selected a female candidate, Bernadette Millam.[6] Labour had selected Nancy Platts, local campaigner and former union worker, as their candidate in June 2007 and their share of the vote fell in 2010 by 6.5%.[7] In 2010, Lucas, by then leading the Green Party, won the seat. In contrast to national results, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat share of the vote fell.[8]
Lucas held the seat for the Green Party in the 2015 General Election with an increased majority. Purna Sen, who held senior roles at the Commonwealth, LSE and Amnesty International, was selected to contest the seat for Labour. Clarence Mitchell, a former BBC News reporter and spokesman for the family of Madeleine McCann, was selected as the Conservative Party candidate.[9]
Members of Parliament
Election results
Elections in the 2010s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Caroline Lucas | 22,871 | 41.8 | +10.5 | |
Labour | Purna Sen | 14,904 | 27.3 | −1.7 | |
Conservative | Clarence Mitchell | 12,448 | 22.8 | −0.9 | |
UKIP | Nigel Carter | 2,724 | 5.0 | +3.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Chris Bowers | 1,525 | 2.8 | −11.0 | |
Independent | Nick Yeomans | 116 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Socialist (GB) | Howard Pilott | 88 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,967 | 14.6 | +12.2 | ||
Turnout | 54,676 | 71.4 | +1.4 | ||
Green hold | Swing | +6.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Caroline Lucas | 16,238 | 31.3 | +9.4 | |
Labour | Nancy Platts | 14,986 | 28.9 | −7.5 | |
Conservative | Charlotte Vere | 12,275 | 23.7 | −0.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Berni Millam | 7,159 | 13.8 | −2.7 | |
UKIP | Nigel Carter | 948 | 1.8 | +0.6 | |
Socialist Labour | Ian Christopher Fyvie | 148 | 0.3 | −0.0 | |
Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality | Soraya Anne Kara | 61 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Independent | Leo Atreides | 19 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,252 | 2.4 | |||
Turnout | 51,834 | 70.0 | +7.7 | ||
Green gain from Labour Co-op | Swing | +8.4 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | David Lepper | 15,427 | 35.4 | −13.3 | |
Conservative | Mike Weatherley | 10,397 | 23.9 | −1.2 | |
Green | Keith Taylor | 9,530 | 21.9 | +12.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Hazel Thorpe | 7,171 | 16.5 | +3.4 | |
UKIP | Kimberley Crisp-Comotto | 508 | 1.2 | +0.3 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Tony Greenstein | 188 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Socialist Labour | Ian Fyvie | 152 | 0.3 | −1.1 | |
Independent | Christopher Rooke | 122 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Independent | Keith Jago | 44 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 5,030 | 11.5 | −12.1 | ||
Turnout | 43,580 | 64.0 | +5.5 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | −6.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | David Lepper | 19,846 | 48.7 | −5.9 | |
Conservative | David Gold | 10,203 | 25.1 | −2.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Ruth Berry | 5,348 | 13.1 | +3.6 | |
Green | Keith Taylor | 3,806 | 9.3 | +6.7 | |
Socialist Labour | Ian Fyvie | 573 | 1.4 | +1.4 | |
Free Party | Bob Dobbs | 409 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
UKIP | Stuart Hutchin | 361 | 0.9 | +0.5 | |
ProLife Alliance | Marie Paragallo | 177 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 9,643 | 23.6 | −3.3 | ||
Turnout | 40,723 | 58.5 | −14.9 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | David Lepper | 26,737 | 54.6 | +16.3 | |
Conservative | Derek Spencer | 13,556 | 27.7 | −18.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Kenneth Blanshard | 4,644 | 9.5 | −3.2 | |
Referendum | Peter Stocken | 1,304 | 2.7 | +2.7 | |
Green | Peter West | 1,249 | 2.6 | +0.4 | |
Independent Conservative | Richard Huggett | 1,098 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
UKIP | Frank Stevens | 179 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Independent | Bob Dobbs | 125 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Alan Card | 59 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 13,181 | 26.9 | +18.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,952 | 73.4 | −3.4 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative | Swing | 15.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Derek Spencer | 20,630 | 46.6 | −4.2 | |
Labour Co-op | David Lepper | 16,955 | 38.3 | +8.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Tom Pearce | 5,606 | 12.7 | +12.7 | |
Green | Iain Brodie | 963 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
Natural Law | Eileen Turner | 103 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 3,675 | 8.3 | −12.8 | ||
Turnout | 44,255 | 76.8 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −6.4 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Julian Amery | 22,056 | 50.8 | -0.7 | |
Labour | David Stanley Hill | 12,914 | 29.7 | +5.8 | |
Social Democratic | Kevin Francis Carey | 8,459 | 19.5 | -5.1 | |
Majority | 9,142 | 21.1 | -5.8 | ||
Turnout | 43,416 | 73.7 | +4.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Julian Amery | 21,323 | 51.5 | -2.2 | |
Social Democratic | Michael William John Neves | 10,191 | 24.6 | +24.6 | |
Labour | Harold Spillman | 9,879 | 23.9 | -5.4 | |
Majority | 11,132 | 26.9 | +2.5 | ||
Turnout | 41,390 | 69.3 | -3.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Julian Amery | 22,218 | 53.7 | +5.3 | |
Labour | Dave S. Hill | 12,099 | 29.3 | -0.3 | |
Liberal | D. Venables | 5,965 | 14.4 | -7.6 | |
Ecology | J Beale | 638 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
National Front | H Jones | 436 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
Majority | 10,119 | 24.4 | +5.6 | ||
Turnout | 41,355 | 72.6 | +4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Julian Amery | 19,041 | 48.4 | -2.1 | |
Labour | G W Humphrey | 11,624 | 29.6 | +3.6 | |
Liberal | D Venables | 8,648 | 22.0 | -0.5 | |
Majority | 7,417 | 18.8 | -5.7 | ||
Turnout | 57,351 | 68.6 | -8.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Julian Amery | 21,910 | 50.5 | -11.4 | |
Labour | F Tonks | 11,292 | 26.0 | -9.0 | |
Liberal | K Hooper | 9,764 | 22.5 | +22.5 | |
Independent | Robert Beaumont | 428 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 10,618 | 24.5 | -2.4 | ||
Turnout | 56,982 | 76.2 | +9.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Julian Amery | 21,365 | 61.9 | -8.6 | |
Labour | F Tonks | 13,771 | 35.0 | +18.6 | |
Independent | G E Thomas | 1,205 | 3.1 | +3.1 | |
Majority | 10,594 | 26.9 | -25 | ||
Turnout | 59,150 | 66.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Harold Julian Amery | 17,636 | 70.5 | +12.5 | |
Labour | Thomas Skeffington-Lodge | 4,654 | 18.6 | -23.3 | |
Liberal | Nesta Wyn Ellis | 2,711 | 10.8 | +10.8 | |
Majority | 12,982 | 51.9 | +35.7 | ||
Turnout | 25,001 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir William Teeling | 22,687 | 58.1 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Alistair Graham | 16,333 | 41.9 | +13.7 | |
Majority | 6,354 | 16.2 | -8.8 | ||
Turnout | 55,532 | 70.3 | +0.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir William Teeling | 20,998 | 53.2 | -16.8 | |
Labour | P Nurse | 11,148 | 28.2 | -1.8 | |
Liberal | D R Sinnatt | 7,362 | 18.6 | +18.6 | |
Majority | 9,850 | 25.0 | -15.0 | ||
Turnout | 56,391 | 70.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Teeling | 27,972 | 70.0 | +2.0 | |
Labour | R G White | 11,998 | 30.0 | -2.0 | |
Majority | 15,974 | 40.0 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 39,970 | 69.8 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Teeling | 27,128 | 68.0 | -0.5 | |
Labour | L. Knowles | 12,742 | 32.0 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 14,386 | 36.0 | -1.0 | ||
Turnout | 39,870 | 67.5 | -8.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Teeling | 29,167 | 68.5 | +6.7 | |
Labour | E. R. Littlejohn | 13,410 | 31.5 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 15,757 | 37.0 | +3.4 | ||
Turnout | 42,577 | 75.5 | -3.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Teeling | 26,917 | 61.5 | +61.5 | |
Labour | L. Knowles | 12,264 | 28.0 | +28.0 | |
Liberal | John Stewart Choate | 4,555 | 10.5 | +10.5 | |
Majority | 14,653 | 33.5 | +33.5 | ||
Turnout | 43,736 | 78.9 | +78.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex
- Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election in individual constituencies
Notes
- ↑ A borough 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.
- ↑ Silhouette used as the Council's symbol see Brighton and Hove website
- ↑ Aided by somewhat notionally favourable minor boundary changes before the 1997 election to the Labour Party
References
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- ↑ Charlotte Vere picked in "open primary", Brighton Argus, 18 November 2009
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- Sources
- Election result, 2005 (BBC)
- Election results, 1997 – 2001 (BBC)
- Election results, 1997 – 2001 (Election Demon)
- Election results, 1983 – 1992 (Election Demon)
- Election results, 1992 – 2005 (Guardian)
- Election results, 1951 – 2001 (Keele University)
- By-election result, 1969 (Geocities)
- F. W. S. Craig. British Parliamentary Election Results 1950–1973. (ISBN 0-900178-07-8)
External links
- nomis Constituency Profile for Brighton, Pavilion — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- EngvarB from September 2013
- Use dmy dates from September 2013
- Pages with broken file links
- Politics of Brighton and Hove
- Parliamentary constituencies in South East England
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950