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Revision as of 15:16, 3 June 2024
Clacton | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Clacton in Essex for the 2010 general election | |
![]() Location of Essex within England | |
County | Essex |
Population | 85,359 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 67,447 (December 2010)[2] |
Major settlements | Clacton, Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Giles Watling (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Harwich |
Clacton is a constituency[n 1] in Essex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Giles Watling of the Conservative Party.
Constituency profile
Clacton is almost completely coastal, comprising seaside resorts along the Tendring peninsula, including Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze. It shares an inland border with just one constituency – Harwich and North Essex.
Like some other coastal seats, such as Christchurch in Dorset, the electorate is one of the oldest in the country, with a high proportion of retired people, and low numbers of non-White residents. The area has experienced a considerable influx of White British families from multicultural areas of East London such as Barking and Dagenham, leading to the town of Clacton becoming known as "Little Dagenham."[3]
The village of Jaywick was, in both the Indices of deprivation 2010 and 2015, identified as the single most deprived LSOA in England, out of around 32,000, with unemployment estimated at almost 50%. Many homes are essentially beach huts and lack basic amenities. In 2018, Jaywick was visited by the UN special rapporteur for poverty, Professor Philip Alston, as part of his examination into the causes of extreme poverty.[4] Jaywick was named the most deprived place in the UK for the third consecutive year in 2019.[5]
History
The seat was created for the 2010 general election following a review of the Parliamentary representation of Essex by the Boundary Commission for England.[6] It was formed from the abolished Harwich constituency, excluding the town of Harwich itself and surrounding areas.
Douglas Carswell, who was previously the Conservative MP for Harwich, won it at the general election that year. In August 2014, Carswell announced his defection to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and triggered a by-election in the constituency, which he won with a large majority, becoming UKIP's first elected MP, with Nigel Farage declaring that Clacton had, "Shaken up British politics".[7] Carswell retained his seat at the 2015 general election; this was the only constituency won by UKIP at the election. In March 2017, Carswell left UKIP and became an independent MP; he did not stand for re-election in the 2017 general election, and the seat was gained by Watling for the Conservatives.
Boundaries
2010–2024
The District of Tendring wards of Alton Park, Beaumont and Thorpe, Bockings Elm, Burrsville, Frinton, Golf Green, Hamford, Haven, Holland and Kirby, Homelands, Little Clacton and Weeley, Pier, Rush Green, St Bartholomews, St James, St Johns, St Marys, St Osyth and Point Clear, St Pauls and Walton.[8]
The new seat consisted essentially of the former Harwich constituency, minus the town of Harwich itself and a few nearby villages, plus St Osyth and Weeley, transferred from the abolished North Essex constituency.
Current
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency is as follows (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
- The District of Tendring wards of: Bluehouse; Burrsville; Cann Hall; Coppins; Eastcliff; Frinton; Homelands; Kirby Cross; Kirby-le-Soken & Hamford; Little Clacton; Pier; St. Bartholomew’s; St. James; St. John’s; St. Osyth; St. Paul’s; The Bentleys & Frating; The Oakleys & Wix; Thorpe, Beaumont & Great Holland; Walton; Weeley & Tendring; West Clacton & Jaywick Sands.[9]
The revised contents correspond to the existing constituency, expanded slightly by the addition of some inland rural areas and villages, transferred from Harwich and North Essex.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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2010 | Douglas Carswell | Conservative | |
2014 by-election | UKIP | ||
Mar 2017 | Independent | ||
Jun 2017 | Giles Watling | Conservative |
The constituency's Member of Parliament until 3 May 2017, was Douglas Carswell, who had previously sat for the Harwich constituency since gaining that seat for the Conservatives in 2005.[10][11]
On 28 August 2014, Carswell announced his defection to UKIP.[12] Although not required to seek re-election following a change of party allegiance, Carswell triggered a by-election, held on 9 October 2014, in which he was elected as the UKIP candidate.[13] He became the first elected UKIP MP.[14] Carswell retained the seat for UKIP at the 2015 general election, seeing his majority cut by roughly three-quarters, with an 11% swing to the Conservatives. Carswell then became UKIP's sole MP in the House of Commons, as Mark Reckless, a fellow Conservative defector, lost his seat.[15]
On 25 March 2017, Carswell announced on his blog that he was quitting UKIP to sit as an independent MP,[16] saying that "I switched to UKIP because I desperately wanted us to leave the EU. Now we can be certain that that is going to happen, I have decided that I will be leaving UKIP".[17]
After Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election on 19 April 2017, Carswell announced that he would not stand for re-election, and he endorsed the Conservative Party candidate Giles Watling.[18] Watling was elected at the 2017 general election; at that election, UKIP's share of the vote fell by 36.8%, one of its largest declines in the country, and the subsequent Conservative victory in Clacton marked the first time every constituency in Essex had returned a Conservative MP since 1987.
Elections
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Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Matthew Bensilum[19] | ||||
Reform UK | Nigel Farage | ||||
Green | Natasha Osben[20] | ||||
Labour | Jovan Owusu-Nepaul[21] | ||||
Conservative | Giles Watling[22] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Giles Watling | 31,438 | 72.3 | ![]() | |
Labour | Kevin Bonavia | 6,736 | 15.5 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Callum Robertson | 2,541 | 5.8 | ![]() | |
Green | Chris Southall | 1,225 | 2.8 | ![]() | |
Independent | Andy Morgan | 1,099 | 2.5 | New | |
Independent | Colin Bennett | 243 | 0.6 | New | |
Monster Raving Loony | Just-John Sexton | 224 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 24,702 | 56.8 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 43,506 | 61.3 | ![]() | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Giles Watling | 27,031 | 61.2 | ![]() | |
Labour | Natasha Osben | 11,203 | 25.4 | ![]() | |
UKIP | Paul Oakley | 3,357 | 7.6 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | David Grace | 887 | 2.0 | ![]() | |
Green | Chris Southall | 719 | 1.6 | ![]() | |
Independent | Caroline Shearer | 449 | 1.0 | New | |
English Democrat | Robin Tilbrook | 289 | 0.7 | New | |
Independent | Nick Martin | 210 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 15,828 | 35.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 44,145 | 63.7 | ![]() | ||
Conservative gain from UKIP | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | Douglas Carswell | 19,642 | 44.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Giles Watling | 16,205 | 36.7 | ![]() | |
Labour | Tim Young | 6,364 | 14.4 | ![]() | |
Green | Chris Southall | 1,184 | 2.7 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | David Grace | 812 | 1.8 | ![]() | |
Majority | 3,437 | 7.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 44,207 | 64.1 | ![]() | ||
UKIP hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | Douglas Carswell | 21,113 | 59.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Giles Watling | 8,709 | 24.6 | ![]() | |
Labour | Tim Young[29] | 3,957 | 11.2 | ![]() | |
Green | Chris Southall | 688 | 1.9 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Andy Graham | 483 | 1.3 | ![]() | |
Independent | Bruce Sizer | 205 | 0.6 | New | |
Monster Raving Loony | Alan "Howling Laud" Hope[30] | 127 | 0.4 | New | |
Independent | Charlotte Rose | 56 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 12,404 | 35.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 35,338 | 51.2 | ![]() | ||
UKIP gain from Conservative | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Douglas Carswell | 22,867 | 53.0 | ![]() | |
Labour | Ivan Henderson | 10,799 | 25.0 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael Green | 5,577 | 12.9 | ![]() | |
BNP | Jim Taylor | 1,975 | 4.6 | New | |
Tendring First | Terry Allen | 1,078 | 2.5 | New | |
Green | Chris Southall | 535 | 1.2 | New | |
Independent | Chris Humphrey | 292 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 12,068 | 28.0 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 43,123 | 64.2 | ![]() | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ![]() |
See also
Notes
- ^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
References
- ^ "Clacton: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ^ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Easton, Mark (20 February 2013). "Why have the white British left London?". BBC News.
- ^ "Jaywick: UN poverty expert visits deprived village". BBC News. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "England's most deprived areas named as Jaywick and Blackpool". BBC News. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "2007 No.1681 REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE, ENGLAND REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007". legislation.gov.uk. 13 June 2007.
- ^ "UKIP gains first elected MP with Clacton win". BBC News. 9 October 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007". www.legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule I Part 2 Eastern region.
- ^ "Parliamentary Career for Mr Douglas Carswell". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Result: Harwich". BBC News. 2005. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Tory MP Douglas Carswell defects to UKIP and forces by-election". BBC News. 28 August 2014.
- ^ "Clacton by-election candidates". BBC News. 2 September 2014.
- ^ "UKIP gains first elected MP with Clacton win". BBC News. 10 October 2014. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Nigel Farage resigns as UKIP leader as the party vote rises". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Job done – thank UKIP!". talkcarswell.com. 25 March 2017. Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ "Douglas Carswell quitting UKIP to become independent MP for Clacton". BBC News. 25 March 2017.
- ^ "Douglas Carswell will not stand in general election". BBC News. 20 April 2017 – via bbc.co.uk.
- ^ https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/24557/matthew-bensilum
- ^ https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/34417/natasha-osben
- ^ {{Labour East [@EofELabour] (25 April 2024). "Congratulations, Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, Labour's Parliamentary candidate for Clacton!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Clacton: Conservative MP Giles Watling re-selected as candidate". BBC News. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ a b c "Clacton Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated – Clacton Constituency" (PDF). Tendring District Council. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ "Knife death mother in MP election bid for Clacton". BBC News. 21 April 2017 – via bbc.com.
- ^ "Norfolk North and Penistone & Stocksbridge choose their candidates. Latest selection news. – Conservative Home". 2 May 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ Lodge, Will (16 September 2014). "Clacton: Carswell strolls to victory for UKIP at Clacton by-election". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
- ^ "Poll: Is Clacton a town that's going nowhere?". Archived from the original on 10 September 2014.
- ^ "Clacton on sea by election". 11 September 2014.
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Clacton". BBC News. 7 May 2010.
External links
- nomis Constituency Profile for Clacton – presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.