Cleethorpes (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Cleethorpes County constituency |
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| Cleethorpes shown within Humberside, and Humberside shown within England | |
| Created: | 1997 |
| MP: | Shona McIsaac |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | North East Lincolnshire |
| EP constituency: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Cleethorpes is a 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. It is a marginal seat between Labour and the Conservatives.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency includes the towns of Cleethorpes, Immingham, and Barton-upon-Humber.
It is made up of 7 wards of North East Lincolnshire: -Immingham (suburban / council estate mix, heavy industry) -Wolds (rural / suburban mix) -Waltham (suburban) -Humberston & New Waltham (suburban) -Haverstoe (suburban) -Croft Baker (terrace / suburban mix) -Sidney Sussex (terraced houses)
And 2 wards of North Lincolnshire: -Ferry (rural / suburban mix) -Barton-upon-Humber (suburban / council estate mix)
[edit] Members of Parliament
- 1997 – present: Shona McIsaac, Labour
Previously the Cleethorpes constituency was wholly within the Brigg and Cleethorpes constituency.
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: Cleethorpes | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Shona McIsaac | 18,889 | 43.3 | -6.3 | |
| Conservative | Martin Vickers | 16,247 | 37.3 | +1.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Geoff Lowis | 6,437 | 14.8 | +2.8 | |
| UK Independence | William Hardie | 2,016 | 4.6 | +2.5 | |
| Majority | 2,642 | 6.1 | |||
| Turnout | 43,589 | 61.6 | -0.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -3.6 | |||
| General Election 2001: Cleethorpes | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Shona McIsaac | 21,032 | 49.6 | -2.0 | |
| Conservative | Stephen Howd | 15,412 | 36.3 | +2.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gordon Smith | 5,080 | 12.0 | +0.6 | |
| UK Independence | Janet Hatton | 894 | 2.1 | N/A | |
| Majority | 5,620 | 13.3 | |||
| Turnout | 42,418 | 62.0 | -11.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Cleethorpes | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Shona McIsaac | 26,058 | 51.6 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Michael Brown | 16,882 | 33.4 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | K. Melton | 5,746 | 11.4 | N/A | |
| Referendum Party | J. Berry | 894 | 3.5 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,176 | N/A | |||
| Turnout | 73.4 | N/A | |||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
[edit] Developments
According to the UK Polling Report website, Cleethorpes will be Conservative target number 56 at the next General Election.
The Conservative Party selected it's parliamentary candidate in an 'open primray' on Wednesday 8th November. Applications were open to any member of the Conservative Party's priority list of approved candidates and to members of the standard list of approved candidates who claimed a local connection.
The two candidates in the final were Martin Vickers and Andrew Percy. Percy was replaced a week before the final by Alan Lockwood when Percy was selected for neighbouring Brigg & Goole. Martin Vickers won the selection in front of 100-130 people at Cleethorpes Constitutional Club. This was despite there being virtually no local press coverage from the monopoly Grimsby Telegraph newspaper and little active campaigning by the candidates ahead of the primary.
Vickers is a councillor in Grimsby and fought the seat at the last General Elections. He works as constituency agent to Edward Leigh MP and was not on the priority list. Vickers was actually the second candidate selected for the constituency after Rachel Lake was deselected in late November 2004.
