North East Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)
North East Hertfordshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of North East Hertfordshire in Hertfordshire.
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Location of Hertfordshire within England.
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County | Hertfordshire |
Electorate | 72,658 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Letchworth, Baldock and Royston |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | Oliver Heald (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Hertfordshire North, Hertford and Stortford, Stevenage |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | East of England |
North East Hertfordshire is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Oliver Heald, a Conservative.[n 2]
Contents
History
This seat was created in 1997 since which it has had the same member serving it in Westminster.
Boundaries
1997-2010: The District of North Hertfordshire wards of Arbury, Baldock, Grange, Letchworth East, Letchworth South East, Letchworth South West, Newsells, Royston East, Royston West, Sandon, Weston, and Wilbury, and the District of East Hertfordshire wards of Braughing, Buntingford, Cottered, Little Hadham, Munden, Standon St Mary, Stapleford, Tewin, Thundridge, and Watton-at-Stone.
2010-present: The District of North Hertfordshire wards of Arbury, Baldock East, Baldock Town, Ermine, Letchworth East, Letchworth Grange, Letchworth South East, Letchworth South West, Letchworth Wilbury, Royston Heath, Royston Meridian, Royston Palace, and Weston and Sandon, and the District of East Hertfordshire wards of Braughing, Buntingford, Hertford Rural North, Hertford Rural South, Little Hadham, Mundens and Cottered, Puckeridge, Thundridge and Standon, Walkern, and Watton-at-Stone.
Constituency profile
The constituency includes the towns of Letchworth, Baldock and Royston and the undulating rural area, strewn with traditional English villages[2] primarily to their south, most of which are within the more accessible parts of the London Commuter Belt and west of London Stansted Airport.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[3] | Party | |
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1997 | Oliver Heald | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Oliver Heald | 28,949 | 55.4 | +1.8 | |
Labour | Chris York[7] | 9,869 | 18.9 | +2.4 | |
UKIP | William Compton[8] | 6,728 | 12.9 | +8.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Joe Jordan[9] | 3,952 | 7.6 | −15.8 | |
Green | Mario May[10][11] | 2,789 | 5.3 | +3.6 | |
Majority | 19,080 | 36.5 | −4.3 | ||
Turnout | 52,500 | 70.7 | +0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Oliver Heald | 26,995 | 53.5 | +6.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Hugh Annand | 11,801 | 23.4 | +2.0 | |
Labour | David Kirkman | 8,291 | 16.4 | −11.6 | |
UKIP | Adrianne Smyth | 2,075 | 4.1 | +0.8 | |
Green | Rosemary Bland | 875 | 1.7 | +1.7 | |
Independent | Richard Campbell | 209 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Your Right To Democracy Party Limited | David Ralph | 143 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Independent | Philip Reichardt | 36 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 15,194 | 30.1 | |||
Turnout | 50,425 | 69.8 | +3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Oliver Heald | 22,402 | 47.3 | +3.2 | |
Labour | Andy Harrop | 13,264 | 28.0 | −8.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Iain Coleman | 10,147 | 21.4 | +4.2 | |
UKIP | David Hitchman | 1,561 | 3.3 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 9,138 | 19.3 | |||
Turnout | 47,374 | 65.6 | +0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Oliver Heald | 19,695 | 44.1 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Ivan Anthony Gibbons | 16,251 | 36.4 | +0.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Alison Elaine Kingman | 7,686 | 17.2 | −1.0 | |
UKIP | Malcolm Joseph Virgo | 1,013 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,444 | 7.7 | |||
Turnout | 44,645 | 65.0 | −12.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Oliver Heald | 21,712 | 41.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Ivan Anthony Gibbons | 18,624 | 35.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Steve K. Jarvis | 9,493 | 18.2 | N/A | |
Referendum | Jonathan J. Grose | 2,166 | 4.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,088 | 6.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 51,995 | 77.1 | 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
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Ordnance survey website
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/parliamentary-constituencies/north-east-hertfordshire/
- ↑ http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/GENERAL-ELECTION-2015-North-East-Hertfordshire/story-26463030-detail/story.html
- ↑ http://www.labour.org.uk/people/detail/chris-york
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.libdems.org.uk/joe-jordan
- ↑ http://eastern.greenparty.org.uk/news.html/2015/01/08/green-party-selects-its-general-election-candidates-for-seats-in-the-north-herts/
- ↑ http://northherts.greenparty.org.uk/candidates.html
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- 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 Hertfordshire
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1997
- Politics of East Hertfordshire
- Politics of North Hertfordshire