North Essex (UK Parliament constituency)

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North Essex County constituency
North Essex shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1832, 1997
MP:	Bernard Jenkin
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

North Essex is a parliamentary 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 History 2 Boundaries 2.1 Boundaries 1997-present 2.2 Boundaries 1832-1868 3 Members of Parliament 3.1 MPs 1832-1868 3.2 MPs 1997-present 4 Election results 4.1 Result of 2005 4.2 Result of 2001 4.3 Result of 1997 4.4 Notional result of 1992 5 Boundary changes 6 See also

[edit] History

The current constituency was created for the 1997 general election.

A previous constituency called Essex Northern existed from 1832 until 1868, when it was divided into two new constituencies: East Essex and West Essex.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Boundaries 1997-present

[edit] Boundaries 1832-1868

Area covered:

• Saffron Walden and Uttlesford
• Braintree
• Maldon
• Chelmsford

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1832-1868

• Constituency created (1832)
• 1832 – 1857: Sir John Tyssen Tyrell
• 1832 – 1835: Alexander Baring
• 1835 – 1837: John Payne Elwes
• 1837 – 1847: Charles Gray Round
• 1847 – 1865: William Beresford, (Conservative)
• 1857 – 1868: Charles du Cane
• 1865 – 1868: Sir Thomas Burch Western
• Constituency abolished (1868)

[edit] MPs 1997-present

• 1997 – "present": Bernard Jenkin, Conservative

[edit] Election results

[edit] Result of 2005

General Election 2005: North Essex
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bernard Jenkin	22,811	47.6	+0.2
	Labour	Elizabeth Hughes	11,908	24.8	-6.7
	Liberal Democrats	James Raven	9,831	20.5	+3.0
	Green	Chris Fox	1,718	3.6	+3.6
	UK Independence	George Curtis	1,691	3.5	-0.1
Majority			10,903	22.7
Turnout			47,959	65.7	+2.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	3.4

[edit] Result of 2001

General Election 2001: North Essex
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bernard Jenkin	21,325	47.4	+3.5
	Labour	Philip Hawkins	14,139	31.5	-1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Trevor Ellis	7,867	17.5	-2.1
	UK Independence	George Curtis	1,613	3.6	+1.2
Majority			7,186	15.9
Turnout			44,944	62.8	-12.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Result of 1997

General Election 1997: North Essex
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bernard Jenkin	22,480	43.9	−13.8
	Labour	Timothy Young	17,004	33.2	+14.1
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Phillips	10,028	20.0	−2.2
	UK Independence	Roger Lord	1,202	2.3	+2.3
	Green	Susan Ransome	495	1.0	+0.5
Majority			5,476	10.7
Turnout			51,209	75.3	−5.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−14.0

[edit] Notional result of 1992

General Election 1992: North Essex
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bernard Jenkin	36,381	53.1
	Liberal Democrats		17,224	25.1
	Labour		14,014	20.4
	Green		700	1.0
	Natural Law		238	0.3
Majority			19,157	27.9
Turnout			68,557	79.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] Boundary changes

Preceded by Essex	UK Parliament constituency 1832–1868	Succeeded by Essex Eastern
	UK Parliament constituency 1832–1868	Succeeded by Essex Western

Preceded by Colchester North	UK Parliament constituency 1997–	Succeeded by Current constituency
Preceded by Colchester South and Maldon	UK Parliament constituency 1997–

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

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)