Christchurch (UK Parliament constituency)

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Christchurch
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Christchurch in Dorset
Outline map
Location of Dorset within England
County1983– Dorset
1572–1918: Hampshire
Population83,596 (2011 census)[1]
Electorate69,008 (December 2010)[2]
Major settlementsChristchurch
Current constituency
Created1983
Member of ParliamentChristopher Chope (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created fromChristchurch and Lymington, North Dorset, New Forest
1572–1918
Seats1572–1832: Two
1832–1918: One
Type of constituencyBorough constituency
Replaced byNew Forest and Christchurch

Christchurch is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Christopher Chope of the Conservative Party. Centred on the town of the same name in Dorset that has a non-commercial harbour it includes the small resort of Mudeford, Ferndown, West Moors, St Leonards and station-served woodside settlement of Highcliffe and has been a Conservative safe seat since 1997.[n 2]

History

The original Christchurch constituency, a parliamentary borough, existed from 1572 until 1918.

The constituency was re-created as a county constituency in 1983 from parts of the seat of Christchurch and Lymington, North Dorset and New Forest. It has since 1983 seen strong Conservative majorities, with the exception of a 1993 by-election caused by the death of Robert Adley when it was won by Diana Maddock a Liberal Democrat. The Conservatives regained the seat at the next general election in 1997, despite their landslide defeat nationally and Chris Chope has retained it ever since.

Boundaries

1983-1997: The Borough of Christchurch, and the District of Wimborne wards of Ameysford, Ferndown Central, Golf Links, Longham, St Leonards and St Ives East, St Leonards and St Ives South, St Leonards and St Ives West, Stapehill, Tricketts Cross, Verwood, West Moors North, West Moor South, and West Parley.

1997-2010: The Borough of Christchurch, and the District of East Dorset wards of Ameysford, Ferndown Central, Golf Links, St Leonards and St Ives East, St Leonards and St Ives South, St Leonards and St Ives West, Tricketts Cross, Verwood, West Moors North, West Moors South, and West Parley.

2010-present: The Borough of Christchurch, and the District of East Dorset wards of Ameysford, Ferndown Central, Ferndown Links, Longham, Parley, St Leonards and St Ives East, St Leonards and St Ives West, Stapehill, and West Moors.

Constituency profile

The area is not as rural as the adjoining New Forest constituencies, nor as urban as Bournemouth and Poole, and contains a mixed assortment of coastal retirement havens, outlying Bournemouth suburbs and the town of Christchurch itself which has expanded to include dedicated villages of sheltered housing on its outskirts.

Consequently, the present Christchurch seat contains one of the most elderly electorates in the country - only Eastbourne and Devon East have an older average voter age and Christchurch has the highest proportion of over-60s of all UK seats. Having recovered from an early-1990s by-election loss, it is a safe Conservative seat, with MP Christopher Chope attaining a majority of over 30% at the last general election. It is the safest Tory seat in the South West and on most analyses is on the fringe of the area that usually qualifies as the South West, served by a station with direct links to the capital and closest to London.

Bournemouth airport is located within the seat.

Members of Parliament

Parliamentary borough (1572–1918)

MPs 1571–1640

Parliament First member Second member
Parliament of 1571 Andrew Rogers John Hyett
Parliament of 1572-1581 Henry Knollys Matthew Evans
Parliament of 1584-1585 Alexander Nevill
Parliament of 1586-1587 Henry Ashley
Parliament of 1588-1589 Justinian Champernoun Sampson Lennard
Parliament of 1593 John Herbert John Agmondesham[3]
Parliament of 1597-1598 Simon Willis Andrew Rogers
Parliament of 1601 Henry Meere
Parliament of 1604-1611 Richard Martin Nicholas Hyde
Addled Parliament (1614) Sir Thomas Norton Henry Breton
Parliament of 1621-1622 Sir George Hastings Nathaniel Tomkins
Happy Parliament (1624-1625) Sir George Astmyll
Useless Parliament (1625) Sir Thomas Wilford
Parliament of 1625-1626 Robert Norton
Parliament of 1628-1629 Henry Croke
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

MPs 1640–1832

Year First member[4] First party Second member[4] Second party
April 1640 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Arnold Herbert rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Tulse
November 1640 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color" | Matthew Davis Royalist
1642 Tulse died September(?) 1642 - seat left vacant
March 1643 Davis disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | Richard Edwards Parliamentarian style="background-color: Template:Roundhead/meta/color" | John Kempe Parliamentarian
December 1648 Kempe not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge
1653 Christchurch was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Bulkeley style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Tulse
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
March 1660 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Hildesley rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Tulse
1661 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Humphrey Weld
February 1679 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Clarges
August 1679 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George Fulford
1685 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Anthony Ettrick
1689 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Gwyn rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Ettrick
1695 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Viscount Cornbury
1701 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Gwyn
1710 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | (Sir) Peter Mews[5]
1717 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Gwyn[6]
1724 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Prideaux Gwyn
1726 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Jacob Banks
1727 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Joseph Hinxman style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Charles Wither
1732 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Philip Lloyd
1734 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Hooper
1740 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | (Sir) Charles Armand Powlett[7]
1748 by-election rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Robinson
1751 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Harry Powlett
1754 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. John Mordaunt
1761 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. Thomas Robinson rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | James Harris Whig
Nov,mber 1770 by-election style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | James Harris (junior) Whig
1774 style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" | Hon. Thomas Villiers Hyde[8] Tory
1780 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir James Harris Whig
1781 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | (Sir) John Frederick[9]
1788 by-election rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" | Hans Sloane Tory
1790 rowspan="5" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George Rose
1796 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Stewart Rose
May 1800 by-election style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Chamberlayne
1802 style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" | William Sturges Bourne Tory
1812 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Edward Tomline
March 1818 by-election rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" | Sir George Henry Rose Tory
June 1818 style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" | William Sturges Bourne Tory
1826 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | George Pitt Rose
1832 Representation reduced to one member

MPs 1832–1918

Election Member[10][4] Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1832 Sir George William Tapps-Gervis, Bt Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1837 Sir George Henry Rose Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1844 by-election Hon. Edward Harris Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1852 John Edward Walcott Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1868 Edmund Haviland-Burke Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1874 Sir Henry Drummond Wolff Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1880 Horace Davey Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1885 Charles Edward Baring Young Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1892 Abel Henry Smith Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1900 Kenneth Robert Balfour Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1906 Arthur Acland Allen Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1910 Henry Page Croft Conservative
style="background-color: Template:National Party (UK, 1917)/meta/color" | 1917 National
1918 constituency abolished: see Bournemouth & New Forest and Christchurch

County constituency

MPs since 1983

Election Member[11][4] Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1983 Robert Adley Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | 1993 by-election Diana Maddock Liberal Democrat
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1997 Christopher Chope Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Christchurch[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Chope 28,887 58.1 +1.7
UKIP Robin Grey 10,663 21.5 +13.0
Labour Andrew Satherley 4,745 9.5 -0.3
Liberal Democrats Andy Canning[13] 3,263 6.6 -18.7
Green Shona Dunn [14] 2,149 4.3 +4.3
Majority 18,224 36.7 +5.5
Turnout 49,707 71.7 -0.1
Conservative hold Swing -5.6
General Election 2010: Christchurch[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Chope 27,888 56.4 +1.1
Liberal Democrats Martyn Hurll 12,478 25.3 +1.2
Labour Robert Deeks 4,849 9.8 -5.8
UKIP David Williams 4,201 8.5 +3.4
Majority 15,410 31.2
Turnout 49,416 71.8 +1.4
Conservative hold Swing +1.4

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Christchurch[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Chope 28,208 54.7 −0.4
Liberal Democrats Leslie Coman 12,649 24.5 −3.3
Labour Jim King 8,051 15.6 +0.5
UKIP David Hughes 2,657 5.2 +3.2
Majority 15,559 30.2
Turnout 51,565 69.6 +2.1
Conservative hold Swing +1.4
General Election 2001: Christchurch[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Chope 27,306 55.1 +8.7
Liberal Democrats Dorothy Webb 13,762 27.8 -14.8
Labour Judith Begg 7,506 15.1 +8.2
UKIP Margaret Strange 993 2.0 +0.9
Majority 13,544 27.3
Turnout 49,567 67.5 -11.0
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Christchurch[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Chope 26,095 46.43
Liberal Democrats Diana Margaret Maddock 23,930 42.58
Labour Charles Mannan 3,884 6.91
Referendum Ray Spencer 1,684 3.0
UKIP R.H. Dickinson 606 1.08
Majority 2,165 3.85
Turnout 56,199 78.53
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing 18.30
By-election 1993: Christchurch
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Diana Margaret Maddock 33,164 62.2 +38.6
Conservative Robert Hayward 16,737 31.4 −32.2
Labour Nigel James Dominic Lickley 1,453 2.7 −9.4
Anti-Federalist League Alan Sked 878 1.6 N/A
Monster Raving Loony David Sutch 404 0.8 N/A
Ind. Conservative Andrew Bannon 357 0.7 N/A
Sack Graham Taylor Peter G. Newman 80 0.2 N/A
Buy The Daily Sport Tara Bardot-Jackson 67 0.1 N/A
Save the National Health Service Peter A. Hollyman 60 0.1 N/A
Highlander IV Wednesday Promotion John P. Crockard 48 0.1 N/A
Natural Law Mark Roderick Francis Griffiths 45 0.1 −0.3
Ian For King Mark Belcher 23 0.0 N/A
Alfred The Chicken Karl Fitzhugh 18 0.0 N/A
Rainbow Alliance John R. Walley 16 0.0 N/A
Majority 16,427 30.8
Turnout 53,350 74.2
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing +35.4
General Election 1992: Christchurch[19][20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Adley 36,627 63.5 −2.4
Liberal Democrats Rev. Dennis Bussey 13,612 23.6 −0.9
Labour Alan Lloyd 6,997 12.1 +2.6
Natural Law James Trevor Barratt 243 0.4 N/A
Chauvinist Raving Alliance Adrian David Wareham 175 0.3 N/A
Majority 23,015 39.9 −1.4
Turnout 57,654 80.7 +4.4
Conservative hold Swing −0.7

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Christchurch[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Adley 35,656 65.9 −1.2
SDP Miss Hilary Jean McKenzie 13,282 24.5 −0.8
Labour Ms. Caralyn Elisabeth Longhurst 5,174 9.6 +2.0
Majority 22,374 41.4
Turnout 54,112 76.3
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1983: Christchurch[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Adley 31,722 67.1 N/A
SDP Stephen Elwyn Alexander 11,984 25.3 N/A
Labour John Roger Mitchell 3,590 7.6 N/A
Majority 19,738 41.7 N/A
Turnout 47,296 72.2 N/A
Conservative win (new seat)

Elections in the 1900s

A.A. Allen
General Election 1906[23] Electorate 9,530
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Arthur Acland Allen 4,634 53.3 +3.4
Conservative Kenneth Robert Balfour 4,067 46.7 -3.4
Majority 567 6.6 6.8
Turnout 91.3 +7.4
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +3.4

See also

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
References
  1. ^ "Christchurch: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  2. ^ "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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/agmondesham-john-ii-1543-98
  4. ^ a b c d Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
  5. ^ Knighted July 1712
  6. ^ Gwyn was re-elected in 1722, but had also been elected for Wells, which he chose to represent, and did not sit again for Christchurch
  7. ^ Knighted (KB), 1749
  8. ^ Styled Lord Hyde from June 1776
  9. ^ Succeeded to a baronetcy, April 1783
  10. ^ "Christchurch 1660-1918". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  11. ^ "Christchurch 1983-". Hansard 1803-2005. UK Parliament. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  12. ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  13. ^ http://www.libdems.org.uk/general_election_candidates#South West
  14. ^ http://www.westerngazette.co.uk/North-Dorset-Green-Party-announces-candidate/story-25997325-detail/story.html
  15. ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 26 July 2013 suggested (help)
  16. ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  17. ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  18. ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  19. ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  20. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  21. ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  22. ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  23. ^ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
Sources
  • The BBC/ITN Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies (Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services, 1983)
  • Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
  • British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)
  • British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
  • Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
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  • Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume III 1919-1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1979)
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