Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency)

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Haltemprice and Howden County constituency
Haltemprice and Howden shown within Humberside, and Humberside shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	David Davis
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	East Riding of Yorkshire
EP constituency:	Yorkshire and the Humber

Haltemprice and Howden is a 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 History 2.1 2008 by-election 3 Members of Parliament 4 Elections 4.1 2000s 4.2 1990s 5 References 6 See also

[edit] Boundaries

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 and Willerby and Kirk Ella Wards. The Liberal Democrats enjoy their strongest support in Anlaby, Anlaby Common and parts of Cottingham. The Lib Dems only hold Councillors in Tranby Ward (Anlaby & Anlaby Common) and the Cottingham South Ward. There are no Labour Councillors in the constituency. The local East Riding Council is strongly Conservative and the Tories currently hold 47 of the 64 seats on the Council.

This constituency will see only small boundary changes before the next election. These minor adjustments will bring the constituencies of the East Riding into line with local government boundaries. Haltemprice and Howden will lose the village of North Newbald to Beverley and Holderness and gain the village of Dunswell from Beverley and Holderness. The electoral impact of these changes is insignificant.

[edit] History

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

In 2005, the Liberal Democrats made this one of their top targets for unseating Conservative MPs. That campaign failed with the Conservatives increasing their majority three-fold and the Lib Dem share of the vote falling. Since then the Lib Dems have continued to collapse locally, losing a number of Councillors, including the previously safe Lib Dem Howden Ward in a by-election in December 2005. The Lib Dems lost 5 seats here in the local elections of 2007 and there are now 14 Conservative Councillors compared to four Lib Dem Councillors in the constituency.

The area was placed as 10th most affluent in the country in the 2003 Barclays Private Clients survey.^[1]

[edit] 2008 by-election

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.^[2]

[edit] Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1997)

Election		Member	Party
	1997	David Davis	Conservative

[edit] Elections

[edit] 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
	The 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 Party	George Hargreaves	76	0.3	N/A
	Church of the Militant Elvis Party	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[3]	-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
	British National	John Mainprize	798	1.7	N/A
	UK Independence	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
	UK Independence	Joanne Robinson	945	2.2	+1.5
Majority			1,903	4.3	-10.9
Turnout			43,928	65.8	–9.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] 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
	UK Independence	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

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

v • d • e Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber Labour Barnsley Central · Barnsley East and Mexborough · Barnsley West and Penistone · Batley and Spen · Bradford North · Bradford South · Bradford West · Brigg and Goole · Calder Valley · City of York · Cleethorpes · Colne Valley · Dewsbury · Don Valley · Doncaster Central · Doncaster North · Elmet · Great Grimsby · Halifax · Hemsworth · Huddersfield · Hull East · Hull North · Hull West and Hessle · Keighley · Leeds Central · Leeds East · Leeds North East · Leeds West · Morley and Rothwell · Normanton · Pontefract and Castleford · Pudsey · Rother Valley · Rotherham · Scunthorpe · Selby · Sheffield Attercliffe · Sheffield Brightside · Sheffield Central · Sheffield Heeley · Sheffield Hillsborough · Wakefield · Wentworth Conservative Beverley and Holderness · East Yorkshire · Haltemprice and Howden · Richmond (Yorks) · Ryedale · Scarborough and Whitby · Shipley · Skipton and Ripon · Vale of York Liberal Democrat Harrogate and Knaresborough · Leeds North West · Sheffield Hallam · Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Conservative (2) · Labour (1) · UKIP (1) · Liberal Democrats (1) · British National Party (1)