South Basildon and East Thurrock (UK Parliament constituency)
| South Basildon and East Thurrock | |
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| Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of South Basildon and East Thurrock in Essex. |
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 Location of Essex within England. |
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| County | Essex |
| Electorate | 71,819 (December 2010)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Stephen Metcalfe (Conservative) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Basildon, Thurrock |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | East of England |
South Basildon and East Thurrock is a parliamentary 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.
Its predecessor seat, Basildon, was a well known bellwether seat, having consistently voted for the winning party in each election. In 2010, South Basildon and East Thurrock maintained this tradition to an extent by electing a Conservative MP, Stephen Metcalfe, in an election when the Conservative Party emerged as the largest party in a hung parliament.
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[edit] Boundaries
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England made a number of radical changes to existing constituencies to allow for an extra seat to be awarded to the county.
Despite its name, this new constituency is actually the successor to the Basildon constituency.
The Basildon constituency that existed after 1997 was never wholly within the Basildon district, nor even contained the whole of the Basildon urban area, but it extended south into the Thurrock council area to take in towns such as Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham.
This new seat retains all of the Thurrock wards, loses some areas around central Basildon, and replaces them with Pitsea to the east of Basildon. Additionally, the ward of East Tilbury is added from the Thurrock constituency.
The electoral wards used in the new seat are:
- Corringham and Fobbing, East Tilbury, Orsett, Stanford East and Corringham Town, Stanford-le-Hope West and The Homesteads from Thurrock district
- Langdon Hills, Nethermayne, Pitsea North West, Pitsea South East and Vange from Basildon.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | Member [2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Stephen Metcalfe | Conservative | |
[edit] Elections
[edit] Elections in the 2010s
| General Election 2010: South Basildon and East Thurrock[3][4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Stephen Metcalfe | 19,624 | 43.9 | +5.3 | |
| Labour | Angela Evans Smith* | 13,852 | 31.0 | -9.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Geoff Williams | 5,977 | 13.4 | +2.8 | |
| UKIP | Kerry Smith | 2,639 | 5.9 | +3.3 | |
| BNP | Chris Roberts | 2,518 | 5.6 | +0.8 | |
| Independent | None of the Above X | 125 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
| Majority | 5,772 | 12.9% | |||
| Turnout | 44,735 | 62.3% | +3.0% | ||
- * Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)
- ^ Statement of Persons Nominated Basildon Council
- ^ "BBC NEWS – Election 2010 – Basildon South & Thurrock East". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/e08.stm.
