Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency)

Haltemprice and Howden
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Haltemprice and Howden in Humberside.
Location of Humberside within England.
County	East Riding of Yorkshire
Electorate	70,864 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997 (1997)
Member of Parliament	David Davis (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Beverley, Boothferry
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Haltemprice and Howden 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.

The Electoral Reform Society considers it to be historically the second safest seat in the country, after North Shropshire. Taking into account the previous seats roughly covering its boundaries, the Society considers that the seat has been held continuously by the Conservative Party since the 1837 general election.

Boundaries & Local Government

The constituency covers a wide area stretching from the border of Hull in the east to the outskirts of Goole in the west and northwards to Holme-on-Spalding-Moor. The bulk of the population is centred in the villages of Willerby, Kirk Ella, Anlaby and Cottingham. Rural Howdenshire forms the bulk of the geographical area of the constituency but provides only a small part of the total electorate.

The constituency includes many towns and villages along the A63 corridor including, Brough, Elloughton, South Cave, North Ferriby, Swanland, Gilberdyke, Newport, Welton and Melton.

There are currently Conservative Councillors in Howden, Howdenshire, Dale, South Hunsley, Cottingham North, Cottingham South, and Willerby and Kirk Ella Wards. The Lib Dems, who previously enjoyed a strong support in the constituency, suffered heavy losses in the 2011 local elections, losing their seats to the Conservatives in the Cottingham South and Willerby & Kirk Ella Wards. The Lib Dems now only hold one seat in the Tranby Ward (Anlaby & Anlaby Common), after losing the other seat there to Labour; this being the first time a Labour Councillor had ever been elected in the constituency. Notedly, the seat was won by 19 year-old Josh Newlove, who recorded a 27% swing to Labour to seal the victory, just four years after the party came fourth in the same area.

The constituency saw only small boundary changes for the 2010 general election. The minor adjustments brought the constituencies of the East Riding into line with local government boundaries. Haltemprice and Howden lost the civil parish of Newbald to Beverley and Holderness and gained the civil parish of Woodmansey from Beverley and Holderness. The electoral impact of these changes is insignificant.

History

The constituency was created for the 1997 general election, covering an area previously part of the Beverley and Boothferry constituencies. In 1997, it returned the Conservative David Davis, who had previously been the member for Boothferry; he was re-elected in the 2001, 2005 and 2010 general elections.

The area was placed as 10th most affluent in the country in the 2003 Barclays Private Clients survey.

2008 by-election

Main article: Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008

On 12 June 2008, a day after a vote on the extension of detention of terror suspects without charge, in an unexpected move, David Davis took the Chiltern Hundreds, effectively resigning his seat as the constituency's MP. He stated this was in order to force a by-election, in which he intended to provoke a wider public debate on the single issue of the perceived erosion of civil liberties. Over the course of the following week, the campaign was launched on the theme of David Davis for Freedom.

Davis formally resigned as an MP on 18 June 2008, and the by-election took place on 10 July 2008, which Davis won.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1997	David Davis	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Haltemprice and Howden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Davis	24,486	50.2	+3.2
	Liberal Democrat	Jon Neal	12,884	26.4	-10.0
	Labour	Danny Marten	7,630	15.7	+2.2
	BNP	James Cornell	1,583	3.2	+1.6
	English Democrats	Joanne Robinson	1,485	3.0	N/A
	Green	Shan Oakes	669	1.4	N/A
Majority			11,602	23.8
Turnout			48,737	69.2	-1.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.1

Elections in the 2000s

Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Davis	17,113	71.6	+24.1
	Green	Shan Oakes	1,758	7.4	N/A
	English Democrats	Joanne Robinson	1,714	7.2	N/A
	National Front	Tess Culnane	544	2.3	N/A
	Miss Great Britain Party	Gemma Garrett	521	2.2	N/A
	Independent	Jill Saward	492	2.1	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Mad Cow-Girl	412	1.7	N/A
	Independent	Walter Sweeney	238	1.0	N/A
	Independent	John Nicholson	162	0.7	N/A
	Independent	David Craig	135	0.6	N/A
	New Party	David Pinder	135	0.6	N/A
	no label	David Icke	110	0.5	N/A
	Freedom 4 Choice	Hamish Howitt	91	0.4	N/A
	Socialist Equality	Chris Talbot	84	0.4	N/A
	Independent	Grace Astley	77	0.3	N/A
	Christian	George Hargreaves	76	0.3	N/A
	Church of the Militant Elvis	David Bishop	44	0.2	N/A
	Independent	John Upex	38	0.2	N/A
	Independent	Greg Wood	32	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Eamonn Fitzpatrick	31	0.1	N/A
	Make Politicians History	Ronnie Carroll	29	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Thomas Darwood	25	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Christopher Foren	23	0.1	N/A
	Independent	Herbert Crossman	11	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Tony Farnon	8	0.0	N/A
	Independent	Norman Scarth	8	0.0	N/A
Majority			15,355	64.2	+53.5
Turnout			23,911	34.5	-35.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 2005: Haltemprice and Howden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Davis	22,792	47.5	+4.3
	Liberal Democrat	Jon Neal	17,676	36.8	–2.1
	Labour	Edward Hart	6,104	12.7	–3.0
	BNP	John Mainprize	798	1.7	N/A
	UKIP	Philip Lane	659	1.4	–0.8
Majority			5,116	10.7	+6.4
Turnout			48,029	70.1	+4.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.2

General Election 2001: Haltemprice and Howden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Davis	18,994	43.2	–0.8
	Liberal Democrat	Jon Neal	17,091	38.9	+10.1
	Labour	Leslie Howell	6,898	15.7	–7.9
	UKIP	Joanne Robinson	945	2.2	+1.5
Majority			1,903	4.3	-10.9
Turnout			43,928	65.8	–9.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Haltemprice and Howden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Davis	21,809	44.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Diana Wallis	14,295	28.8	N/A
	Labour	George McManus	11,701	23.6	N/A
	Referendum Party	T. Pearson	1,370	2.8	N/A
	UKIP	G. Bloom	301	0.6	N/A
	Natural Law	B. Stevens	74	0.1	N/A
Majority			7,514	15.2	N/A
Turnout			49,550	75.5	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside