Cleethorpes (UK Parliament constituency)

Cleethorpes
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Cleethorpes in Humberside.
Location of Humberside within England.
County	North East Lincolnshire
Electorate	70,895 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997 (1997)
Member of Parliament	Martin Vickers (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Brigg & Cleethorpes
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Cleethorpes is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is a marginal seat between Labour and the Conservatives. The current MP is Martin Vickers of the Conservative Party, first elected at the 2010 general election.

Boundaries

The constituency includes the towns of Cleethorpes, Immingham, and Barton-upon-Humber.

It is made up of 7 wards of North East Lincolnshire: -Immingham (suburban / council estate mix, heavy industry) -Wolds (rural / suburban mix) -Waltham (suburban) -Humberston & New Waltham (suburban) -Haverstoe (suburban) -Croft Baker (terrace / suburban mix) -Sidney Sussex (terraced houses)

And 2 wards of North Lincolnshire: -Ferry (rural / suburban mix) -Barton-upon-Humber (suburban / council estate mix)

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1997	Shona McIsaac	Labour
	2010	Martin Vickers	Conservative

Previously the Cleethorpes constituency was wholly within the Brigg and Cleethorpes constituency.

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Cleethorpes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martin Vickers	18,939	42.1	+4.8
	Labour	Shona McIsaac	14,641	32.6	-10.8
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Morland	8,192	18.2	+3.5
	UKIP	Stephen Harness	3,194	7.1	+2.5
Majority			4,298	9.6
Turnout			44,966	64.0	+2.4
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+7.8

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Cleethorpes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Shona McIsaac	18,889	43.3	-6.3
	Conservative	Martin Vickers	16,247	37.3	+1.0
	Liberal Democrat	Geoff Lowis	6,437	14.8	+2.8
	UKIP	William Hardie	2,016	4.6	+2.5
Majority			2,642	6.1
Turnout			43,589	61.6	-0.4
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.6

General Election 2001: Cleethorpes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Shona McIsaac	21,032	49.6	-2.0
	Conservative	Stephen Howd	15,412	36.3	+2.9
	Liberal Democrat	Gordon Smith	5,080	12.0	+0.6
	UKIP	Janet Hatton	894	2.1	N/A
Majority			5,620	13.3
Turnout			42,418	62.0	-11.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Cleethorpes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Shona McIsaac	26,058	51.6	N/A
	Conservative	Michael Brown	16,882	33.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	K. Melton	5,746	11.4	N/A
	Referendum Party	J. Berry	894	3.5	N/A
Majority			9,176		N/A
Turnout				73.4	N/A
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Developments

According to research conducted by Professor Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Cleethorpes will be Conservative target number 58 at the next General Election and Labour's 55th most vulnerable seat, requiring a 3.03% swing for it to change hands. It is the Liberal Democrats' 477th target.

The Conservative Party selected its parliamentary candidate in an 'open primary' on Wednesday 8 November. Applications were open to any member of the Conservative Party's priority list of approved candidates and to members of the standard list of approved candidates who claimed a local connection.

The two candidates in the final were Martin Vickers and Alan Lockwood. Martin Vickers won the selection in front of 100-130 people at Cleethorpes Constitutional Club.

Vickers is a councillor in Grimsby and fought the seat at the last General Election. He works as constituency agent to Edward Leigh MP and was not on the priority list.

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside