West Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)

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West Chelmsford County constituency

West Chelmsford shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	Simon Burns
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

West Chelmsford 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.

Since its creation in 1983, it has returned a Conservative MP.

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

[edit] Boundaries

The new boundaries of this seat are based much more on the Chelmsford's more urban centre, and as a result, this has seen the seat become a much better prospect for the Liberal Democrats as the more Conservative leaning rural wards no longer form part of the constituency. The seat is still notionally Conservative, but now becomes a top Liberal Democrat target.

[edit] Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1997	Simon Burns	Conservative
2001
2005

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: West Chelmsford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Burns	22,946	44.9	+2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Robinson	13,326	26.1	+2.8
	Labour	Russell Kennedy	13,236	25.9	-3.6
	UKIP	Ken Wedon	1,544	3.0	+1.4
Majority			9,620	18.8
Turnout			51,052	61.9	+0.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.2

General Election 2001: West Chelmsford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Simon Burns	20,446	42.5	+1.9
	Labour	Adrian Longden	14,185	29.5	+3.1
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Robinson	11,197	23.3	-5.9
	Green	Eleanor Burgess	837	1.7	+1.0
	UKIP	Ken Wedon	693	1.4	+1.0
	Legalise Cannabis	Herb Philbin	442	0.9	N/A
Majority			6,261	13.0
Turnout			48,143	61.5	-15.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

[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)