Mid Sussex

Mid Sussex District
—  Non-metropolitan district  —
Mid Sussex shown within West Sussex
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	South East England
Non-metropolitan county	West Sussex
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Haywards Heath
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Mid Sussex District Council
• Leadership	Leader & Cabinet (Conservative)
• MPs	Nick Herbert Francis Maude Nicholas Soames
Area
• Total	128.97 sq mi (334.02 km2)
Area rank	130th (of 326)
Population (2010 est.)
• Total	132,500
• Rank	152nd (of 326)
• Density	1,030/sq mi (397/km2)
• Ethnicity	95.3% White 1.6% S.Asian 1.0% Black 1.2% Mixed Race
Time zone	GMT (UTC0)
• Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)
Website	www.midsussex.gov.uk

Mid Sussex is a local government district in the English county of West Sussex. It contains the towns of East Grinstead, Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill.

The district was created on 1 April 1974, and replaced the urban districts of Cuckfield, Burgess Hill, and East Grinstead and nearly all of Cuckfield Rural. These districts had previously been under East Sussex.

The district borders the Tandridge district of Surrey to the north, Lewes district and Wealden district to the east, and Brighton and Hove to the south, all in East Sussex, and Horsham district and Crawley to the west and northwest respectively, both of which are in West Sussex.

Civil parishes

Within the Mid Sussex District are the following civil parishes:

Parish	Type	Area (Hectare)	Population (2001)	Pop Density /Hectare
Albourne	Parish Council	773	600	0.78
Ardingly	Parish Council	1609	1833	1.14
Ashurst Wood	Parish Council	251	1771	7.05
Balcombe	Parish Council	2105	1765	0.84
Bolney	Parish Council	1479	1209	0.82
Burgess Hill	Town Council	947	28803	30.42
Cuckfield	Parish Council	432	3266	7.57
Cuckfield Rural	Parish Council	3869	1574	0.41
East Grinstead	Town Council	2443	23942	9.80
Fulking	Parish Council	628	250	0.40
Hassocks	Parish Council	1088	6821	6.27
Haywards Heath	Town Council	975	22800	23.38
Horsted Keynes	Parish Council	1581	1507	0.95
Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common	Parish Council	2030	6264	3.09
Lindfield	Parish Council	224	5394	24.07
Lindfield Rural	Parish Council	1981	2644	1.33
Newtimber	Parish Council	695	96	0.14
Poynings	Parish Council	666	287	0.43
Pyecombe	Parish Council	887	200	0.23
Slaugham	Parish Council	2432	2226	0.92
Turners Hill	Parish Council	1390	1849	1.33
Twineham	Parish Council	784	271	0.35
West Hoathly	Parish Council	2139	2121	0.99
Worth	Parish Council	1995	9888	4.96
Mid Sussex	Total	33403	127381	3.81

Local politics

The parliamentary constituency of Mid Sussex covers most (but not all) of the district, and is held by the Conservative Party. The incumbent Member of Parliament d(MP) is Nicholas Soames, the grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, and a former junior minister in the Government of John Major (1990–97). In the 2005 general election, Nicholas Soames held the seat with 48.0% of the popular vote, a 1.8% increase; the Liberal Democrat candidate Ms Serena Tierney took 36.1% of votes, a 5.0% increase; the Labour Party candidate Robert Fromant received 12.7% of the vote, a 6.1% decrease; and the United Kingdom Independence Party candidate Harold Piggott received 3.2%, a 0.7% increase. The turnout for Mid Sussex was 68.6% (49,494 people voted) up 3.7% from 2001.