Reigate (UK Parliament constituency)
Reigate | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Reigate in Surrey. | |
Location of Surrey within England. | |
County | Surrey |
Electorate | 72,043 (December 2010) |
Major settlements | Reigate, Redhill |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1295, 1885 |
Member of parliament | Crispin Blunt (Conservative) |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South East England |
Reigate /ˈraɪɡeɪt/ is a constituency[lower-alpha 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Crispin Blunt of the Conservative Party.[lower-alpha 2]
Boundaries
The constituency is in Surrey bordering Greater London and is centered on the town of Reigate from which it takes its name. As shown by the map the constituency excludes most of the post town of Horley in the East Surrey seat and parts of Walton-on-the-Hill in the Epsom and Ewell seat but contains the remainder of the Reigate and Banstead district.[1]
Latest boundary review
The Boundary Commission boundary review before the 2010 general election moved the Preston ward in the district and in the medium size town/village of Tadworth from Epsom and Ewell into the Reigate constituency to increase the population of the seat which was the smallest in Surrey.
At the public consultation stage of the boundary review a small number of petitions called for a new name of Reigate and Banstead to bring it in line with the district, including from the local MP and the borough council. However, the review rejected these petitions as it says it gives weight to a new name only when the seat has undergone substantial boundary changes that render the existing name implausible; that the constituency contains only 70% of the district; that the seat is centred on Reigate but Banstead is in the extreme northeast corner; that other towns such as Redhill might have as much if not greater claim to be in the name; and that Banstead has a history of being moved between seats[lower-alpha 3] and may be moved again.
History
This constituency was first created with the first election of Burgesses to Parliament in 1295, electing two members. It continued to elect two members until 1832 when its representation was reduced to one member by the Great Reform Act.
In 1868 the constituency was disenfranchised for corruption, but was revived in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 when the East Surrey constituency was abolished and broken up. Since 1918 the seat has been held by a candidate in the Conservative Party with the exception of four months during which the anti-EU MP in 1997 before the election of that year joined the Referendum Party (UK). The Liberal Democrats including their two predecessor parties amassed their largest share of the vote in 2010. The largest opposition party has changed to the Liberal Democrats since the 2005 election.
In 1974, the seat saw major boundary changes which removed some of Eastern Surrey which was in the seat into the radically redesigned East Surrey seat and added the Banstead area to the seat. One of the three Green local councillors stood as the Green Party candidate for the first time the party has stood in 23 years at the 2010 general election.[2]
Members of Parliament
MPs 1295–1660
Parliament | First member | Second member |
---|---|---|
1386 | John Aubyn | Richard atte Mere[3] |
1388 (Feb) | John Chaunce I | Thomas Ballard[3] |
1388 (Sep) | John Aubyn | William Bone[3] |
1390 (Jan) | John Aubyn | William Bone[3] |
1390 (Nov) | ||
1391 | Roger Chaunce I | William Bone[3] |
1393 | John Aubyn | John Bavell[3] |
1394 | ||
1395 | John Skinner | John Bavell[3] |
1397 (Jan) | John Skinner | John Bavell[3] |
1397 (Sep) | John Skinner | Richard atte Mere[3] |
1399 | John Skinner | Roger Chaunce I[3] |
1401 | ||
1402 | Richard Turner | Thomas Barber[3] |
1404 (Jan) | ||
1404 (Oct) | ||
1406 | John Chaunce II | John Taylor[3] |
1407 | John Chaunce II | Thomas Barber[3] |
1410 | ||
1411 | ||
1413 (Feb) | ||
1413 (May) | ||
1414 (Apr) | ||
1414 (Nov) | John Skinner | Roger Chaunce II[3] |
1415 | John Skinner | Walter Wrigge[3] |
1416 (Mar) | ||
1416 (Oct) | ||
1417 | John Knight | John Chaunce II[3] |
1419 | John Pope | John Chaunce II[3] |
1420 | John Pope | John Skinner[3] |
1421 (May) | John Pope | Walter Urry[3] |
1421 (Dec) | Robert Wanford | Roger Chaunce II[3] |
1432 | Thomas Russell[4] | |
1510–1523 | No names known[5] | |
1529 | John Skinner I | Thomas Michell[5] |
1536 | ? | |
1539 | ? | |
1542 | James Skinner | John Skinner II[5] |
1545 | ? | |
1547 | Robert Richers | William More[5] |
1553 (Mar) | Robert Robotham | Henry Fisher[5] |
1553 (Oct) | Sir Thomas Saunders | Thomas Ingler[5] |
1554 (Apr) | Henry White | Robert Richers[5] |
1554 (Nov) | Robert Richers | James Skinner[5] |
1555 | Thomas Windsor | Walter Haddon[5] |
1558 | George Elsden | Thomas Banester[5] |
1559 | William Howard | John Skinner[6] |
1562/3 | Sir George Howard | William Howard[6] |
1571 | William Howard | John Agmondesham I[6] |
1572 | William Howard | John Skinner[6] |
1584 | William Howard | Edmund Sanders[6] |
1586 | William Howard | Edmund Sanders[6] |
1588 | Julius Caesar | Thomas Lyfield[6] |
1593 | William Howard | John Trevor[6] |
1597 | Sir William Howard | Edward Howard[6] |
1601 | Edward Howard | John Trevor |
1604 | Sir Edward Howard | Herbert Pelham |
1614 | Sir Edward Howard | John Suckling |
1621 | Thomas Glemham | Robert Lewis |
1624 | Sir Thomas Bludder | Robert Lewis |
1625 | Sir Thomas Bludder | Sir Roger James |
1626 | Sir Thomas Bludder | Sir William Monson |
1628 | Charles Cockayne | Sir Thomas Bludder |
1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | |
1640 (Apr) | Edward Thurland | Sir Thomas Bludder |
1640 (Nov) | William Lord Monson | George Evelyn |
1645 | ||
1648 | ||
1653 | Reigate not represented in Barebones Parliament | |
1654 | Edward Bysshe | (one seat only) |
1656 | ?John Goodwin | (one seat only) |
1659 | John Hele | Edward Thurland |
MPs 1660–1832
Year | 1st Member[7] | 1st Party | 2nd Member[7] | 2nd Party | ||
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1660 | John Hele | Edward Thurland | ||||
1661 | Roger James | |||||
1673 | Sir John Werden | |||||
February 1679 | Deane Goodwin | |||||
October 1679 | Ralph Freeman | |||||
1680 | Deane Goodwin | |||||
1681 | Ralph Freeman | |||||
1685 | Sir John Werden | Sir John Parsons | ||||
January 1689 | Roger James | |||||
March 1689 | Thomas Vincent | |||||
1690 | Sir John Parsons | John Parsons | ||||
1698 | Stephen Hervey | Edward Thurland | ||||
1701 | Sir John Parsons | |||||
1707 | James Cocks | |||||
1710 | John Ward | |||||
1713 | James Cocks | |||||
1717 | William Jordan | |||||
1720 | Thomas Jordan | |||||
1722 | Sir Joseph Jekyll | Whig | ||||
1739 | John Hervey | |||||
1741 | Philip Yorke | Whig | ||||
June 1747 | Charles Cocks[8] | |||||
December 1747 | Charles Yorke | Whig | ||||
1768 | John Yorke | |||||
1784 | William Bellingham | Edward Leeds | ||||
1787 | Reginald Pole-Carew | |||||
1789 | The Lord Hood | |||||
1790 | John Somers Cocks | Joseph Sydney Yorke | Tory | |||
February 1806 | Philip James Cocks | |||||
November 1806 | Edward Charles Cocks | Viscount Royston | ||||
1808 | James Cocks | |||||
1812 | John Somers-Cocks | Tory | ||||
1818 | Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke | Tory | James Somers Cocks | |||
1823 | James Cocks | |||||
April 1831 | Joseph Yorke | |||||
July 1831 | Charles Philip Yorke | Tory |
MPs 1832–1868
- Representation reduced to one (1832)
Election | Member[7] | Party | |
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1832 | Viscount Eastnor I | Conservative | |
1841 by-election | Viscount Eastnor II | Conservative | |
1847 | Thomas Somers-Cocks | Conservative | |
1857 | William Hackblock[lower-alpha 4] | Liberal | |
Feb. 1858 by-election | Henry Creswicke Rawlinson | Liberal | |
Oct 1858 by-election | William John Monson | Liberal | |
1863 by-election | Granville William Gresham Leveson-Gower | Liberal | |
1868 | Constituency disenfranchised for corruption |
MPs since 1885
- Constituency revived (1885)
Election | Member[7] | Party | |
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1885 | Sir James John Trevor Lawrence | Conservative | |
1892 | Henry Cubitt | Conservative | |
1906 | Harry Cunningham Brodie | Liberal | |
January 1910 | Lt Col Richard Hamilton Rawson | Conservative | |
1917 | National Party | ||
1918 | Sir George Kynaston Cockerill | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | Conservative | ||
1931 | Sir Gordon Touche | Conservative | |
1950 | John Vaughan-Morgan | Conservative | |
1970 | Geoffrey Howe | Conservative | |
February 1974 | Sir George Gardiner | Conservative | |
1997 | Referendum Party | ||
1997 | Crispin Blunt | Conservative |
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Elections
Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2015: Reigate[10] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Ali Aklakul | ||||
Conservative | Crispin Blunt | ||||
Green | Jonathan Essex[11] | ||||
UKIP | Joe Fox[12] | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Anna Tarrant[13] | ||||
General Election 2010: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Crispin Blunt | 26,688 | 53.4 | +4.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Jane Kulka | 13,097 | 26.2 | +3.1 | |
Labour | Robert Hull | 5,672 | 11.3 | −10.2 | |
UKIP | Joseph Fox | 2,089 | 4.2 | −0.3 | |
BNP | Keith Brown | 1,345 | 2.7 | +2.7 | |
Green | Jonathan Essex | 1,087 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
Majority | 13,591 | 27.2 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,978 | 69.8 | +4.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.9 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
General Election 2005: Reigate | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Crispin Blunt | 20,884 | 49.0 | +1.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Jane Kulka | 9,896 | 23.2 | +2.1 | |
Labour | Samuel Townend | 8,896 | 20.9 | −6.6 | |
UKIP | Jeremy Wraith | 1,921 | 4.5 | +1.8 | |
English Democrats | Harold Green | 600 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Michael Selby | 408 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,988 | 25.8 | |||
Turnout | 42,605 | 64.8 | +4.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.5 | |||
General Election 2001: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Crispin Blunt | 18,875 | 47.8 | +4.0 | |
Labour | Simon Charleton | 10,850 | 27.5 | −0.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Jane Kulka | 8,330 | 21.1 | +1.1 | |
UKIP | Stephen Smith | 1,062 | 2.7 | +2.1 | |
Reform UK | Harold Green | 357 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,025 | 20.3 | |||
Turnout | 39,474 | 60.2 | −14.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 | |||
Elections in the 1990s
General Election 1997: Reigate | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Crispin Blunt | 21,123 | 43.8 | −13.7 | |
Labour | Andrew Howard | 13,382 | 27.8 | +10.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Peter Samuel | 9,615 | 20.0 | -4.1 | |
Referendum Party | Sir George Gardiner | 3,352 | 7.0 | N/A | |
Independent | Richard Higgs | 412 | 0.9 | N/A | |
UKIP | Stephen Smith | 290 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,741 | 16.0 | |||
Turnout | 48,174 | 74.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −12.0 | |||
This constituency underwent boundary changes between the 1992 and 1997 general elections and thus change in share of vote is based on a notional calculation. George Gardiner changed party from the Conservative Party to the Referendum following his deselection by the local Conservative association.
General Election 1992: Reigate[14] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir George Gardiner | 32,220 | 57.1 | −2.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | B Newsome | 14,566 | 25.8 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Mrs H Young | 9,150 | 16.2 | +1.9 | |
Social Democratic | M. Bilcliff | 513 | 0.9 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 17,654 | 31.3 | −3.6 | ||
Turnout | 56,449 | 78.5 | +6.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.8 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
General Election 1987: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | George Gardiner | 30,925 | 59.3 | +0.3 | |
Social Democratic | E. A. Pamplin | 12,752 | 24.4 | -2.5 | |
Labour | R. P. Spencer | 7,460 | 14.3 | +2.2 | |
Green | G. F. Brand | 1,026 | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 18,173 | 34.9 | |||
Turnout | 52,163 | 72.5 | -0.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.4 | |||
General Election 1983: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | George Gardiner | 29,932 | 59.0 | ||
Social Democratic | E. A. Pamplin | 13,625 | 26.9 | ||
Labour | Bryan A. Symons | 6,114 | 12.1 | ||
Ecology | David R. Newell | 1,029 | 2.0 | ||
Majority | 16,307 | 32.1 | |||
Turnout | 50,700 | 72.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1979: Reigate | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | George Gardiner | 33,767 | 59.8 | ||
Liberal | J. Speyer | 10,257 | 18.2 | ||
Labour | N. Grant | 12,454 | 22.1 | ||
Majority | 21,313 | 37.7 | |||
Turnout | 56,478 | 78.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election October 1974: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | George Gardiner | 27,769 | 50.70 | ||
Labour | MG Ormerod | 14,185 | 25.90 | ||
Liberal | AC Bryan | 12,554 | 22.92 | ||
People Power | Mervyn Taggart | 266 | 0.49 | ||
Majority | 13,584 | 24.80 | |||
Turnout | 75.30 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election February 1974: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | George Gardiner | 30,131 | 50.22 | ||
Liberal | AC Bryan | 16,071 | 26.78 | ||
Labour | MG Ormerod | 13,547 | 22.58 | ||
Independent Democrat | Mervyn Taggart | 254 | 0.42 | ||
Majority | 14,060 | 23.43 | |||
Turnout | 83.34 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1970: Reigate
Electorate 71,535 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe | 28,462 | 53.86 | ||
Labour | Michael P Farley | 15,433 | 29.20 | ||
Liberal | Kenneth S Vaus | 8,952 | 16.94 | ||
Majority | 13,029 | 24.65 | |||
Turnout | 52,847 | 73.88 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
General Election 1966: Reigate
Electorate 63,687 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan | 24,163 | 47.37 | ||
Labour | John Edward Anthony Samuels | 16,649 | 32.64 | ||
Liberal | Anthony A Stowell | 10,197 | 19.99 | ||
Majority | 7,514 | 14.73 | |||
Turnout | 51,009 | 80.09 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1964: Reigate
Electorate 63,240 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan | 24,380 | 48.35 | ||
Labour | Charles James Garnsworthy | 14,991 | 29.73 | ||
Liberal | Anthony A Stowell | 11,058 | 21.93 | ||
Majority | 9,389 | 18.62 | |||
Turnout | 50,429 | 79.74 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
General Election 1959: Reigate
Electorate 60,266 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan | 26,966 | 54.34 | ||
Labour | Charles James Garnsworthy | 14,465 | 29.14 | ||
Liberal | Mrs. Agnes H Scott | 8,205 | 16.53 | ||
Majority | 12,501 | 25.19 | |||
Turnout | 49,636 | 82.36 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1955: Reigate
Electorate 56,013 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan | 27,210 | 61.68 | ||
Labour | Charles James Garnsworthy | 16,903 | 38.32 | ||
Majority | 10,307 | 23.36 | |||
Turnout | 44,113 | 78.75 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1951: Reigate
Electorate: 51,790 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan | 24,137 | 55.92 | ||
Labour | Charles James Garnsworthy | 14,287 | 33.10 | ||
Liberal | Allan Stanley Batham | 4,740 | 10.98 | ||
Majority | 9,850 | 22.82 | |||
Turnout | 83.34 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1950: Reigate
Electorate 50,415 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan | 23,027 | 53.66 | ||
Labour | Charles James Garnsworthy | 13,931 | 32.46 | ||
Liberal | Allan Stanley Batham | 5,953 | 13.87 | ||
Majority | 9,096 | 21.20 | |||
Turnout | 85.12 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Election in the 1940s
General Election 1945: Reigate
Electorate 65,884 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Gordon Cosmo Touche | 27,419 | 57.07 | ||
Labour | Charles James Garnsworthy | 20,623 | 42.93 | ||
Majority | 6,796 | 14.15 | |||
Turnout | 72.92 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1935: Reigate
Electorate 58,783 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Gordon Cosmo Touche | 30,341 | 73.84 | ||
Labour | Leonard Lewis | 10,748 | 26.16 | ||
Majority | 19,593 | 47.68 | |||
Turnout | 69.90 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1931: Reigate
Electorate 54,671 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Gordon Cosmo Touche | 33,934 | 82.75 | ||
Labour | Percy Henry Collick | 7,076 | 17.25 | ||
Majority | 26,858 | 65.49 | |||
Turnout | 41,010 | 75.14 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1920s
General Election 1929: Reigate
Electorate 51,314 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Sir George Kynaston Cockerill | 20,851 | |||
Liberal | Harold James Hamblen | 9,532 | n/a | ||
Labour | Percy Henry Collick | 8,012 | |||
Majority | 11,319 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1924: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | George Kynaston Cockerill | 19,877 | n/a | ||
Labour | William Graham | 6,061 | n/a | ||
Majority | n/a | ||||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
General Election 1923: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | George Kynaston Cockerill | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
General Election 1922: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | George Kynaston Cockerill | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1918: Reigate | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Brig-Gen. George Kynaston Cockerill | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist win | |||||
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- ↑ it was in Epsom and Ewell prior to 1997
- ↑ Hackblock died either 1 or 8 January 1858.[9]
- References
- ↑ Open Street Map
- ↑ Reigate and Banstead
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/russell-thomas-ii
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)
- ↑ Created a baronet in 1772.
- ↑ "General News". Bury Times. 9 January 1858. p. 4 – via British Newspapers Online.
- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/reigate/
- ↑ http://www.greenparty.org.uk/people/jonathan-essex.html
- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/reigate/
- ↑ "List of selected candidates". Liberal Democrats. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
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