East Grinstead Meridian (electoral division)

Coordinates: 51°08′00″N 0°00′02″W / 51.13326°N 0.00043°W / 51.13326; -0.00043

East Grinstead Meridian
Shown within West Sussex
District:	Mid Sussex
UK Parliament Constituency:	Mid Sussex
Ceremonial county:	West Sussex
EU Constituency:	South East England
Electorate (2009):	8323
County Councillor
Liz Bennett (Con)

East Grinstead Meridian is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.

Extent

The division covers the northern part of the town of East Grinstead, and came into existence as the result of a boundary review recommended by the Boundary Committee for England, the results of which were accepted by the Electoral Commission in March 2009.

It comprises the following Mid Sussex District wards: East Grinstead Ashplats Ward, East Grinstead Baldwins Ward and the northern part of East Grinstead Town Ward; and falls entirely within the civil parish of East Grinstead.

Election Results

2013 Election

Results of the election held on 2 May 2013:

East Grinstead Meridian
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Liz Bennett	1,006	48.0	+0.5
	UKIP	Ian Simcock	507	24.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Jackie Beckford	307	14.7	-24.2
	Labour	Andrew Skudder	163	7.8	+4.3
	Green	Catherine Edminson	111	5.3	-4.8
Majority			499	23.8	+15.2
Turnout			2,094	24.9	-10.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

2009 Election

Results of the election held on 4 June 2009:

East Grinstead Meridian
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Liz Bennett	1,408	47.5
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Johnson	1,153	38.9
	Green	James Blair	300	10.1
	Labour	Colin Moffatt	103	3.5
Majority			255	8.6
Turnout			2,964	35.6
	Conservative win (new seat)

References

Election Results - West Sussex County Council

External links

Electoral Divisions in West Sussex

Conservative	Angmering and Findon Arundel and Wick Billingshurst Bognor Regis West & Aldwick Bramber Castle Broadwater Burgess Hill East Burgess Hill Town Chichester North Chichester South Chichester West Cissbury Chichester East Cuckfield and Lucastes East Grinstead Meridian East Grinstead South & Ashurst Wood East Preston and Ferring Fernhurst Fontwell Goring Hassocks and Victoria Haywards Heath East Haywards Heath Town Henfield Holbrook Hurstpierpoint & Bolney Imberdown Kingston Buci Lindfield and High Weald Maidenbower Petworth Pound Hill and Worth Pulborough Roffey Rustington Shoreham Southwater and Nuthurst Southwick Storrington The Witterings Tilgate and Furnace Green Warnham and Rusper Worth Forest Worthing East Worthing Pier Worthing West

UKIP	Bersted Bourne Durrington and Salvington Felpham Lancing Middleton Nyetimber Saltings Selsey Sompting and North Lancing

Liberal Democrats	Bognor Regis East Horsham Hurst Horsham Riverside Horsham Tanbridge & Broadbridge Heath Littlehampton East Littlehampton Town Northbrook Tarring

Labour	Bewbush and Ifield West Broadfield Gossops Green and Ifield East Langley Green and West Green Northgate and Three Bridges Southgate and Crawley Central

Independent	Midhurst

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