Maldon (UK Parliament constituency)

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Maldon
County constituency
Image:Constituency.png
Maldon shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created: for 2009 or 2010 election
MP: John Whittingdale
Party: Conservative
Type: House of Commons
County: Essex
EP constituency: East of England

Maldon will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

This seat is a successor to the existing seat of Maldon and East Chelmsford.

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[edit] Boundaries

Following their review of parliamntary representtion in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England have created a number of radically altered and new constituencies to allow for the increasing population. Electoral wards from Maldon have been used to create a new constituency of Witham.

The electoral wards used in the redrawn Maldon constituency are;

  • Althorne, Burnham-on-Crouch North, Burnham-on-Crouch South, Heybridge East, Heybridge West, Maldon East, Maldon North, Maldon South, Maldon West, Mayland, Purleigh, Southminster and Tillingham from Maldon district
  • Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield, Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon, Rettendon and Runwell, South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting, South Woodham Ferrers–Chetwood and Collingwood, and South Woodham Ferrers–Elmwood and Woodville from Chelmsford district

[edit] Election results

The re-formed Maldon seat will be fought for the first time at the United Kingdom election of 2009 or 2010.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election MP Party
1906 Thomas Robert Bethell
1910 Sir James Fortescue Flannery
1922 Lt Col Edward Ruggles-Brise MC Conservative
1923 Valentine George Crittall, later Baron Braintree Labour
1924 Lt Col Edward Ruggles-Brise MC Conservative
1929 Lt Col Edward Ruggles-Brise MC Conservative
1931 Lt Col Edward Ruggles-Brise MC Conservative
1935 Lt Col Edward Ruggles-Brise MC Conservative
1942 by-election Tom Driberg Independent
1945 Tom Driberg Labour
1950 Tom Driberg Labour
1951 Tom Driberg Labour
1955 Alastair Harrison Conservative
1959 Alastair Harrison Conservative
1964 Alastair Harrison Conservative
1966 Alastair Harrison Conservative
1970 Alastair Harrison Conservative
1974 (Feb) John Wakeham Conservative
1974 (Oct) John Wakeham Conservative
1979 John Wakeham Conservative

[edit] See also

Constituencies in the East of England
Conservative

Billericay | Braintree | Brentwood and Ongar | Broxbourne | Bury St Edmunds | Castle Point | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Epping Forest | Harwich | Hemel Hempstead | Hertford and Stortford | Hertsmere | Hitchin and Harpenden | Huntingdon | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Norfolk | North Essex | North East Bedfordshire | North East Cambridgeshire | North East Hertfordshire | North West Cambridgeshire | North West Norfolk | Peterborough | Rayleigh | Rochford and Southend East | Saffron Walden | Southend West | South Cambridgeshire | South East Cambridgeshire | South Norfolk | South Suffolk | South West Bedfordshire | South West Hertfordshire | South West Norfolk | St Albans | Suffolk Coastal | Welwyn Hatfield | West Chelmsford | West Suffolk
Labour

Basildon | Bedford | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Ipswich | Luton North | Luton South | Norwich North | Norwich South | Stevenage | Thurrock | Watford | Waveney
Liberal Democrat

Cambridge | Colchester | North Norfolk
East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)
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