Epping Forest (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Epping Forest in Essex.
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Location of Essex within England.
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County | Essex |
Electorate | 72,212 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Waltham Abbey |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of parliament | Eleanor Laing (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Epping Chigwell |
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European Parliament constituency | East of England |
Epping Forest is a parliamentary constituency[n 1] in Essex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Eleanor Laing, a Conservative.[n 2]
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency of Epping Forest comprises Loughton, Epping, Waltham Abbey, Chigwell, Buckhurst Hill, Theydon Bois, part of North Weald, small intermediate villages and almost the whole of the ancient Forest itself, except those parts which were transferred to Greater London in 1965.
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission has created a modified Epping Forest constituency with the following electoral wards:
- Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing, Buckhurst Hill East, Buckhurst Hill West, Chigwell Row, Chigwell Village, Epping Hemnall, Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common, Grange Hill, Loughton Alderton, Loughton Broadway, Loughton Fairmead, Loughton Forest, Loughton Roding, Loughton St John’s, Loughton St Mary’s, Theydon Bois, Waltham Abbey High Beach, Waltham Abbey Honey Lane, Waltham Abbey North East, Waltham Abbey Paternoster and Waltham Abbey South West.
Other wards of Epping Forest have been used in the creation of a modified Harlow seat.
Historic wards
In the boundaries in place from the February 1974 general election to the 1983 general election the constituency was made up of:
- Urban districts:
- Chigwell Urban District: Loughton, Chigwell, Buckhurst Hill
- Epping Urban District: Epping
- Waltham Holy Cross Urban District: Waltham Abbey
- Rural districts: Part of Epping and Ongar Rural District
- Civil Parishes of Epping Upland, Lambourne, Stapleford Abbots, Stapleford Tawney, Theydon Bois, Theydon Garnon, Theydon Mount
Political geography
When Epping Forest was first created, it was more favourable to the Conservative than the old Epping seat, as it lost the new town of Harlow (inside the old Epping Rural District) and gained the more Conservative Chigwell Urban District. During the Thatcher period the Labour Party's vote was crushed. Even though the Liberals managed to move into second place, their vote did little more than follow national trends and as soon as 1987 their votes dropped away as well.
Two former candidates in the Epping Forest constituency have also stood for election as Mayor of London: Steve Norris (Conservative; MP 1988-97) and Julian Leppert (British National Party).
Members of Parliament
The constituency was created in 1974 from the seats of Epping and Chigwell — both of these (then one constituency, Epping) were represented by Winston Churchill throughout his tenure as Prime Minister during World War II. The present MP is the Conservative Eleanor Laing, who has been a Deputy Speaker of the House to John Bercow since October 2013.
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Sir John Biggs-Davison | Conservative | |
1988 by-election | Steve Norris | Conservative | |
1997 | Eleanor Laing | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Eleanor Laing[5] | 27,027 | 54.8 | +0.8 | |
UKIP | Andrew Smith[5] | 9,049 | 18.3 | +14.4 | |
Labour | Gareth Barrett | 7,962 | 16.1 | +1.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Jon Whitehouse[6] | 3,448 | 7.0 | −14.5 | |
Green | Anna Widdup | 1,782 | 3.6 | +2.2 | |
YPP | Mark Wadsworth | 80 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 17,978 | 36.4 | +3.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,348 | 67.1 | +2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Eleanor Laing | 25,148 | 54.0 | 1.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Ann Haigh | 10,017 | 21.5 | +3.4 | |
Labour | Katie Curtis | 6,641 | 14.3 | −7.2 | |
BNP | Patricia Richardson | 1,982 | 4.3 | +0.2 | |
UKIP | Andrew Smith | 1,852 | 4.0 | +1.7 | |
Green | Simon Pepper | 659 | 1.4 | N/A | |
English Democrats | Kim Sawyer | 285 | 0.6 | −0.9 | |
Majority | 15,131 | 32.5 | +1.2 | ||
Turnout | 46,584 | 64.5 | +2.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Eleanor Laing | 23,783 | 53.0 | +3.9 | |
Labour | Bambos Charalambous | 9,425 | 21.0 | −8.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Michael Anthony Cyril Heavens | 8,279 | 18.5 | −0.1 | |
BNP | Julian Leppert | 1,728 | 3.9 | N/A | |
UKIP | Andrew George Smith | 1,014 | 2.2 | −0.7 | |
English Democrats | Robin Tilbrook | 631 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,358 | 32.0 | |||
Turnout | 44,860 | 61.6 | +3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Eleanor Laing | 20,833 | 49.1 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Christopher David Naylor | 12,407 | 29.3 | −6.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Michael Anthony Cyril Heavens | 7,884 | 18.6 | +5.2 | |
UKIP | Andrew George Smith | 1,290 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,426 | 19.8 | |||
Turnout | 42,414 | 58.4 | −14.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.0 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Eleanor Laing | 24,117 | 45.5 | −14.0 | |
Labour | Stephen William Murray | 18,865 | 35.6 | +12.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Stephen Robinson | 7,074 | 13.3 | −3.7 | |
BNP | Paul Henderson | 743 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,252 | 9.9 | |||
Turnout | 53,750 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −13.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Steve Norris | 32,407 | 59.5 | −1.4 | |
Labour | Stephen William Murray | 12,219 | 22.4 | +4.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Beryl Austen | 9,265 | 17.0 | −2.4 | |
Epping Forest Residents Association | Andrew O'Brien | 552 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 20,188 | 37.1 | −4.5 | ||
Turnout | 54,443 | 80.5 | +4.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.7 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Steven Norris | 13,183 | 39.5 | −21.5 | |
Social and Liberal Democrats | Andrew J. Thompson | 8,679 | 26.0 | +6.6 | |
Labour | Stephen William Murray | 6,261 | 18.7 | +0.4 | |
Social Democrat | Michael G. Pettman | 4,077 | 12.2 | −7.2 | |
Green | Andrew M. Simms | 672 | 2.0 | ||
National Front | Tina Wingfield | 286 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Monster Raving Loony | David Edward Sutch | 208 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Rainbow Alliance - Change the World | Miss Jackie Moore | 33 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Vote no Belsen for South Africans | Brian G. Goodier | 16 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,504 | 13.5 | |||
Turnout | 33,415 | 49.1 | −27.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Biggs-Davison | 31,536 | 60.9 | +4.4 | |
Liberal | Anthony James Humphris | 10,023 | 19.4 | −5.4 | |
Labour | Stephen William Murray | 9,499 | 18.4 | +1.3 | |
Green | Richard Francis Denhard | 695 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 21,513 | 41.6 | |||
Turnout | 51,753 | 76.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Biggs-Davison | 27,373 | 56.5 | −1.2 | |
Social Democratic | Michael G. Pettman | 11,995 | 24.8 | +12.0 | |
Labour | Ms. H.J. Bryan | 8,289 | 17.1 | −10.3 | |
Ecology | R,W, Boenke | 452 | 0.9 | N/A | |
BNP | S.H. Smith | 330 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,378 | 31.8 | |||
Turnout | 48,439 | 72.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −6.6 |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Biggs-Davison | 29,447 | 57.7 | +10.0 | |
Labour | W D Shepherd | 13,994 | 27.4 | −5.9 | |
Liberal | D Kitching | 6,528 | 12.8 | −6.3 | |
National Front | B. Wilkins | 1,110 | 2.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,453 | 30.3 | |||
Turnout | 51,079 | 76.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +8.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Biggs-Davison | 22,392 | 47.7 | +0.9 | |
Labour | S.J. Palfreman | 15,618 | 33.3 | +2.2 | |
Liberal | D.F.J. Wood | 8,952 | 19.1 | −3.0 | |
Majority | 6,774 | 14.4 | |||
Turnout | 46,962 | 73.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Biggs-Davison | 24,290 | 46.8 | −7.5 | |
Labour | W.J. Sheaff | 16,123 | 31.1 | −14.7 | |
Liberal | D.F. Wood | 11,478 | 22.1 | +22.1 | |
Majority | 8,167 | 15.7 | |||
Turnout | 51,891 | 81.8 | +8.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.6 |
Notional results (before 1974)
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Biggs-Davison | 35,010 | 54.3 | +9.2 | |
Labour | 29,506 | 45.7 | +4.3 | ||
Majority | 5,504 | 8.5 | |||
Turnout | 64,516 | 73.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | 21,834 | 44.1 | |||
Labour | 20,504 | 41.4 | |||
Liberal | 7,202 | 14.5 | |||
Majority | 1,330 | 2.7 | |||
Turnout | 82.5 | ||||
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
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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ [1]
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/epping-forest-2015.html
- ↑ http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/12867690.Ex_mayor_selected_for_election_by_Lib_Dems/
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- ↑ 2010 election result
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Preceded by
Epping (part)
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UK Parliament constituency Epping, Theydon Bois, Waltham Abbey, Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell, Loughton 1974 – present |
Current boundaries |
Preceded by
Chigwell (part)
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