South East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South East Cambridgeshire
South East Cambridgeshire
County constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of South East Cambridgeshire in Cambridgeshire
	Location of Cambridgeshire within England
County	Cambridgeshire
Electorate	82,265 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Ely /ˈiːli/ ⓘ
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of Parliament	Lucy Frazer (Conservative)
Seats	One
Created from	Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely

52°07′52″N 0°18′36″E / 52.131°N 0.310°E / 52.131; 0.310

South East Cambridgeshire is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Lucy Frazer, a Conservative.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

1983-1997: The District of East Cambridgeshire wards of Bottisham, Burwell, Cheveley, Dullingham Villages, Ely North, Ely South, Ely West, Fordham Villages, Isleham, Soham, The Swaffhams, and Woodditton, and the District of South Cambridgeshire wards of Abington, Balsham, Bar Hill, Castle Camps, Coton, Cottenham, Elsworth, Fulbourn, Girton, Histon, Linton, Longstanton, Milton, Over, Swavesey, Teversham, The Wilbrahams, Waterbeach, and Willingham.

1997-2010: The District of East Cambridgeshire wards of Bottisham, Burwell, Cheveley, Dullingham Villages, Ely North, Ely South, Ely West, Fordham Villages, Haddenham, Isleham, Soham, Stretham, The Swaffhams, Witchford, and Woodditton, and the District of South Cambridgeshire wards of Abington, Balsham, Castle Camps, Cottenham, Fulbourn, Histon, Linton, Milton, Over, Teversham, The Wilbrahams, Waterbeach, and Willingham.

2010-present: The District of East Cambridgeshire wards of Bottisham, Burwell, Cheveley, Dullingham Villages, Ely East, Ely North, Ely South, Ely West, Fordham Villages, Haddenham, Isleham, Soham North, Soham South, Stretham, and The Swaffhams, and the District of South Cambridgeshire wards of Balsham, Fulbourn, Histon and Impington, Linton, Milton, Teversham, The Wilbrahams, Waterbeach, and Willingham and Over.

The constituency includes the eastern half of South Cambridgeshire district and the southern part of East Cambridgeshire. Ely is the city, in fact with cathedral city status, and largest community, with many smaller settlements including Burwell, Fulbourn, Isleham, Linton, Milton, Soham and Waterbeach.

History

The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the former seats of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. It has to date been a safe Conservative seat.

Constituency profile

Workless claimants were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 1.4% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.^[2]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[3]	Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1983	Francis Pym	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1987	Sir Jim Paice	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	2015	Lucy Frazer	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2017: South East Cambridgeshire ^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lucy Frazer
	Labour	Huw Jones
	Liberal Democrats	Lucy Nethsingha

General Election 2015: South East Cambridgeshire^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lucy Frazer ^[8]^{[n 3]}	28,845	48.5	+0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Chatfield ^[10]	12,008	20.2	−17.5
	Labour	Huw Jones ^[11]	9,013	15.1	+7.5
	UKIP	Deborah Rennie ^[12]	6,593	11.1	+7.4
	Green	Clive Semmens ^[13]	3,047	5.1	+3.8
Majority			16,837	28.3
Turnout			59,506	70.4	+1.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+9.0

General Election 2010: South East Cambridgeshire^[14]^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Paice	27,629	48.0	+0.8^[16]
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Chatfield	21,683	37.6	+6.2
	Labour	John Cowan	4,380	7.6	−13.8 ^{[n 4]}
	UKIP	Andy Monk	2,138	3.7	N/A
	Green	Simon Sedgwick-Jell	766	1.3	N/A
	Independent	Geoffrey Woollard	517	0.9	N/A
	CPA	Daniel Bell	489	0.8	N/A
Majority			5,946	10.3
Turnout			57,602	69.3	+5.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.7

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: South East Cambridgeshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Paice	26,374	47.1	+2.9
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Chatfield	17,750	31.7	+4.8
	Labour	Fiona Ross	11,936	21.3	−5.1
Majority			8,624	15.4
Turnout			56,060	65.3	+1.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.0

General Election 2001: South East Cambridgeshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Paice	22,927	44.2	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Sal Brinton	13,937	26.9	+1.8
	Labour	Andrew Inchley	13,714	26.4	−0.1
	UKIP	Neil Scarr	1,308	2.5	N/A
Majority			8,990	17.3
Turnout			51,886	63.5	−10.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.3

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: South East Cambridgeshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Paice	24,397	42.9	−15.0
	Labour	Rex Collinson	15,048	26.5	+6.5
	Liberal Democrats	Sal Brinton	14,246	25.1	+4.8
	Referendum	John Howlett	2,838	5.0	N/A
	Building a Fair Society	Karl Lam	167	0.3	N/A
	Natural Law	Peter While	111	0.2	−0.2
Majority			9,349	17.3
Turnout			56,807	75.1	−5.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	−10.8

General Election 1992: South East Cambridgeshire^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Paice	36,693	57.9	−0.9
	Liberal Democrats	Ronald Wotherspoon	12,883	20.3	−7.2
	Labour	Arthur Jones	12,688	20.0	+6.3
	Green	John Marsh	836	1.3	N/A
	Natural Law	Bridget Langridge	231	0.4	N/A
Majority			23,810	37.5
Turnout			63,331	80.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.2

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: South East Cambridgeshire^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Paice	32,901	58.8	+1.2
	SDP	Peter Lee	15,399	27.5	−2.3
	Labour	Thomas Ling	7,694	13.7	+1.1
Majority			17,502	31.3
Turnout			55,994	77.4	+3.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.8

General Election 1983: South East Cambridgeshire^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Francis Pym	28,555	57.6	N/A
	SDP	Christopher Slee	14,791	29.8	N/A
	Labour	Mary Jackson	6,261	12.6	N/A
Majority			13,764	27.8	N/A
Turnout			49,607	74.2	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

Notes and references

Notes

^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
^ 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.
^ Note: In January 2014 Lucy Frazer, a barrister, was "reaffirmed" as Conservative candidate for South East Cambridgeshire on Friday despite claims that she had been beaten in an open primary by another woman, Heidi Allen,^[9] who is the Conservative candidate in the neighbouring constituency, South Cambridgeshire.
^ Note: In April 2010 John Cowan was suspended from the Labour Party following controversy over comments he had made which, if elected, would have led to a period as an independent MP. As nominations for candidates had closed, Labour were unable to replace him, nor did he withdraw his candidature.^[17] He had previously been expelled from the Liberal Democrats.^[18]

References

^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
^ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)
^ https://www.eastcambs.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Parliament%20-%20Statement%20of%20Persons%20Nominated%20and%20Notice%20of%20Poll.pdf
^ http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2017-05-12/candidates-standing-in-the-general-election-in-cambridgeshire/
^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ [1], BBC News
^ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/cambridgeshire-south-east-2015.html
^ "The battle of the Tory women: Farcical scenes after 'invalid' vote to select candidate for safe seat". Independent. 12 January 2014.
^ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/cambridgeshire-south-east-2015.html
^ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/cambridgeshire-south-east-2015.html
^ http://ukip-cambridge.org/
^ http://eastcambs.greenparty.org.uk/news/2014/11/30/green-party-announce-candidate-for-general-election/
^ http://www.scambs.gov.uk/admin/documents/retrieve.asp?pk_document=908869
^ Cambridgeshire South East, BBC News
^ Percentage changes based on 2005 notional results due to boundary changes
^ "Labour axes Muslim row candidate". BBC News. 26 April 2010.
^ "General Election 2010: Labour suspends candidate over online messages". The Daily Telegraph. London. 26 April 2010.
^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
^ ^a ^b British Parliamentary Election Results 1983-97

External links

South East Cambridgeshire Conservative Association

[2] A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)

[3] 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.

[12] Note: In January 2014 Lucy Frazer, a barrister, was "reaffirmed" as Conservative candidate for South East Cambridgeshire on Friday despite claims that she had been beaten in an open primary by another woman, Heidi Allen,^[9] who is the Conservative candidate in the neighbouring constituency, South Cambridgeshire.

[22] Note: In April 2010 John Cowan was suspended from the Labour Party following controversy over comments he had made which, if elected, would have led to a period as an independent MP. As nominations for candidates had closed, Labour were unable to replace him, nor did he withdraw his candidature.^[17] He had previously been expelled from the Liberal Democrats.^[18]

[1] "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.

[4] Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian

[rayment-5] Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)

[6] ttps://www.eastcambs.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Parliament%20-%20Statement%20of%20Persons%20Nominated%20and%20Notice%20of%20Poll.pdf

[7] ttp://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2017-05-12/candidates-standing-in-the-general-election-in-cambridgeshire/

[electoralcalculus-8] "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

[9] [1], BBC News

[10] ttp://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/cambridgeshire-south-east-2015.html

[11] "The battle of the Tory women: Farcical scenes after 'invalid' vote to select candidate for safe seat". Independent. 12 January 2014.

[13] ttp://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/cambridgeshire-south-east-2015.html

[14] ttp://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/cambridgeshire-south-east-2015.html

[15] ttp://ukip-cambridge.org/

[16] ttp://eastcambs.greenparty.org.uk/news/2014/11/30/green-party-announce-candidate-for-general-election/

[17] ttp://www.scambs.gov.uk/admin/documents/retrieve.asp?pk_document=908869

[18] Cambridgeshire South East, BBC News

[19] Percentage changes based on 2005 notional results due to boundary changes

[20] "Labour axes Muslim row candidate". BBC News. 26 April 2010.

[21] "General Election 2010: Labour suspends candidate over online messages". The Daily Telegraph. London. 26 April 2010.

[23] "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.

[uker-24] British Parliamentary Election Results 1983-97

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