Rochford and Southend East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Rochford and Southend East
County constituency

Rochford and Southend East shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created: 1997
MP: James Duddridge
Party: Conservative
Type: House of Commons
County: Essex
EP constituency: East of England

Rochford and Southend East 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.

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[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Rochford and Southend East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Duddridge 17,874 45.3 -8.3
Labour Fred Grindrod 12,384 31.4 -3.4
Liberal Democrats Graham Longley 5,967 15.1 +7.7
UK Independence John Croft 1,913 4.8 +4.8
Green Andrew Vaughan 1,328 3.4 +0.8
Majority 5,490 13.9
Turnout 39,466 55.4 +2.7
Conservative hold Swing -2.4


General Election 2001: Rochford and Southend East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Teddy Taylor 20,058 53.6 +4.8
Labour Chris Dandridge 13,024 34.8 -4.9
Liberal Democrats Stephen Newton 2,780 7.4 -2.0
Green Adrian Hedges 990 2.6 N/A
Liberal Brian Lynch 600 1.6 -0.6
Majority 7,034 18.8
Turnout 37,452 52.7 -10.9
Conservative hold Swing

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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)