Maldon and East Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Maldon and East Chelmsford County constituency
Maldon and East Chelmsford shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	John Whittingdale
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Maldon and East 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

It includes the whole of the Maldon District Council area and part of the Borough of Chelmsford Council area. Danbury and Great Baddow are villages in the East Chelmsford part of the constituency.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review into parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England have created a new seat of Witham and a new Maldon. The creation of new constituencies has created major alterations to almost all Essex seats.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1997	John Whittingdale	Conservative
	2001
	2005

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Maldon and East Chelmsford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Whittingdale	23,732	51.5	+2.3
	Labour	Sue Tibballs	11,159	24.2	−5.9
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Lambert	9,270	20.1	+4.2
	UK Independence	Jesse Pryke	1,930	4.2	+1.6
Majority			12,573	27.3
Turnout			46,091	66.3	+3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.1

General Election 2001: Maldon and East Chelmsford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Whittingdale	21,719	49.2	+0.6
	Labour	Russell Kennedy	13,257	30.1	+1.3
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Jackson	7,002	15.9	-3.5
	UK Independence	Geoffrey Harris	1,135	2.6	+0.7
	Green	Walter Schwarz	987	2.2	+0.9
Majority			8,462	19.1
Turnout			44,100	62.8	-15.1
	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)