Great Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency)

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Great Grimsby Borough constituency
Great Grimsby shown within Humberside, and Humberside shown within England
Created:	1295
MP:	Austin Mitchell
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Lincolnshire
EP constituency:	Yorkshire and the Humber

Great Grimsby 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

Great Grimsby constituency covers the town of Great Grimsby.

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1832 : William Maxfield
• 1835 : Edward Heneage
• 1852 : William Richard Annesley, Earl Annesley
• 1857 : Charles Anderson-Pelham, Viscount Worsley, later Earl of Yarborough
• 1862 : John Chapman
• 1865 : John Fildes
• 1868 : George Tomline
• 1874 : John Chapman
• 1877 : Alfred Mellor Watkin
• 1880 : Edward Heneage, later Baron Heneage
• 1892 : Henri Josse
• 1893 : Edward Heneage, later Baron Heneage
• 1895 : Sir George Doughty
• 1910 (Jan): Thomas Edward Wing
• 1910 (Dec) : Sir George Doughty
• 1914 : Thomas George Tickler
• 1922 : Tom Sutcliffe
• 1924 : Sir Walter James Womersley
• 1945 : Hon. Kenneth Younger, Labour
• 1959 : Tony Crosland, Labour
• 1977 — present: Austin Mitchell, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Great Grimsby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Austin Mitchell	15,512	47.1	-10.8
	Conservative	Giles Taylor	7,858	23.8	+0.7
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew de Freitas	6,356	19.3	+0.3
	British National	Stephen Fyfe	1,338	4.1	N/A
	UK Independence	Martin Grant	1,239	3.8	N/A
	Green	David Brooks	661	2.0	N/A
Majority			7,654	23.2
Turnout			32,964	51.7	-0.6
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2001: Great Grimsby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Austin Mitchell	19,118	57.9	-1.9
	Conservative	James Cousins	7,634	23.1	+1.0
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew De Freitas	6,265	19.0	+0.9
Majority			11,484	34.8
Turnout			33,017	52.3	-13.8
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber
Labour	Barnsley Central | Barnsley East and Mexborough | Barnsley West and Penistone | Batley and Spen | Bradford North | Bradford South | Bradford West | Brigg and Goole | Calder Valley | City of York | Cleethorpes | Colne Valley | Dewsbury | Don Valley | Doncaster Central | Doncaster North | Elmet | Great Grimsby | Halifax | Hemsworth | Huddersfield | Keighley | Hull East | Hull North | Hull West and Hessle | Leeds Central | Leeds East | Leeds North East | Leeds West | Morley and Rothwell | Normanton | Pontefract and Castleford | Pudsey | Rother Valley | Rotherham | Scunthorpe | Selby | Sheffield Attercliffe | Sheffield Brightside | Sheffield Central | Sheffield Heeley | Sheffield Hillsborough | Wakefield | Wentworth
Conservative	Beverley and Holderness | East Yorkshire | Haltemprice and Howden | Richmond (Yorks) | Ryedale | Scarborough and Whitby | Shipley | Skipton and Ripon | Vale of York
Liberal Democrat	Harrogate and Knaresborough | Leeds North West | Sheffield Hallam
Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Labour (2) | Conservative (2) | Liberal Democrats (1) | UKIP (1)