Worthing (UK Parliament constituency)

Worthing
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
County West Sussex
1945–1997
Number of members One
Replaced by East Worthing & Shoreham and Worthing West
Created from Horsham and Worthing

Worthing was a parliamentary constituency in West Sussex, centred on the town of Worthing in West Sussex. It returned one Member of Parliament(MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created for the 1945 general election by dividing Horsham and Worthing, and abolished for the 1997 general election. Its territory was then divided between the new constituencies of Worthing West and East Worthing and Shoreham.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[1]Party
1945 Otho Prior-Palmer Conservative
1964 Terence Higgins Conservative
1997 constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Worthing[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Terence Higgins 34,198 57.0 -4.7
Liberal Democrat Mrs Sue Bucknall 17,665 29.4 +0.7
Labour Jim L.W. Deen 6,679 11.1 +1.5
Green Mrs P.J. Beever 806 1.3 +1.3
Liberal Nicholas J. Goble 679 1.1 -27.6
Majority 16,533 27.5 -5.5
Turnout 60,027 77.4 +4.6
Conservative hold Swing -2.7

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Worthing
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Terence Higgins 34,579 61.7
SDP–Liberal Alliance Bob Clare 16,072 28.7
Labour Jim L.W. Deen 5,387 9.6
Majority 18,501 33.0
Turnout 56,032 72.8
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1983: Worthing
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Terence Higgins 32,807 60.9
SDP–Liberal Alliance Bob Clare 17,554 32.6
Labour Ashley Minto 3,158 5.7
National Front Martin Wingfield 292 0.5
BNP D Monks 103 0.2
Majority 15,253 28.3
Turnout 53,914 71.2
Conservative hold Swing

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
  2. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.