Harwich (UK Parliament constituency)

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Harwich County constituency
Harwich shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1707
MP:	Douglas Carswell
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Harwich 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 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1660-1868 2.2 1868-present 3 Election results 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England have created a new constituency of Clacton, which is based on the current Harwich seat.

Harwich will be moved into a new constituency called Harwich and North Essex.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1660-1868

• Samuel Pepys and Anthony Dean 1678-1679
• Sir Philip Parker, 1st Baronet 1679 - 1685
• Samuel Pepys and Anthony Dean 1685 - ?
• Philip Parker-a-Morley-Long 1715 - 1734
• Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon

[edit] 1868-present

Election		Member	Party
1868		Representation reduced to one member
	1868	Henry Jervis-White-Jervis	Conservative
	1880	Henry Whatley Tyler	Conservative
	1885	James Round	Conservative
	1906	Arthur Levy Lever	Liberal
	1910	Harry Newton	Conservative
	1922	Albert Ernest Hillary	Liberal
	1924	Sir Frederick Gill Rice	Conservative
	1929	Sir Percy John Pybus	Liberal
	1931		National Liberal
	1935	Sir Stanley Holmes	National Liberal
	1954	Julian Ridsdale	National Liberal
	1966		Conservative
	1992	Iain Sproat	Conservative
	1997	Ivan Henderson	Labour
	2005	Douglas Carswell	Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Harwich
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Douglas Carswell	21,235	42.1	+1.9
	Labour	Ivan Henderson	20,315	40.3	−5.3
	Liberal Democrat	Keith Tully	5,913	11.7	+3.2
	UK Independence	Jeffrey Titford	2,314	4.6	−0.5
	Respect	John Tipple	477	0.9	N/A
	Independent	Christopher Humphrey	154	0.3	N/A
Majority			920	1.8
Turnout			50,408	62.6	+0.5
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+3.6

General Election 2001: Harwich
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ivan Henderson	21,951	45.6	+6.9
	Conservative	Iain Sproat	19,355	40.2	+3.7
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Wilcock	4,099	8.5	-4.6
	UK Independence	Tony Finnegan-Butler	2,463	5.1	N/A
	Independent	Clive Lawrance	247	0.5	-1.9
Majority			2,596	5.4
Turnout			48,115	62.1	-8.4
	Labour 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)