Rayleigh and Wickford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Rayleigh and Wickford
County constituency
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Rayleigh and Wickford shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created: for 2009 or 2010 election
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Type: House of Commons
County: Essex
EP constituency: East of England

Rayleigh and Wickford will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

[edit] Boundaries

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England has made significant alterations to existing constituencies to allow for the increase of parliamentary seats in the county to increase by one. The existing Rayleigh seat has been altered as a consequence of these changes.

The new seat has been formed from the following electoral wards;

  • Wickford Castledon, Wickford North, and Wickford Park from Basildon district
  • Ashingdon and Canewdon, Downhall and Rawreth, Grange, Hawkwell North, Hawkwell South, Hawkwell West, Hockley Central, Hockley North, Hockley West, Hullbridge, Lodge, Rayleigh Central, Sweyne Park, Trinity, Wheatley and Whitehouse from Rochford

[edit] Election results

This new seat will be fought at the 2009 or 2010 UK general election

[edit] See also

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)