Easington (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Easington in County Durham.
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Location of County Durham within England.
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County | County Durham |
Electorate | 65,618 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1950 |
Member of parliament | Grahame Morris (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
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European Parliament constituency | North East England |
Easington is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Grahame Morris of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Contents
Constituency profile
Constituents' occupations include to a significant degree agriculture and the service sector, however the area was formerly heavily economically supported by the mining of coal, iron ore and businesses in the county still extract gangue minerals in present mining, such as fluorspar for the smelting of aluminium, to the south in the county is Darlington, which has particular strengths in international transport construction, including bridges. To the north is the large city of Sunderland which has a large service sector. The seat currently ranks as the 8th-safest Labour seat in Britain by majority, and the third-safest Labour seat in England, behind Knowsley and Liverpool Walton, in Merseyside.
Boundaries
The constituency comprises the majority of the district of the same name, which takes in the coastal portion of the administrative county of Durham. The principal towns are Peterlee and Seaham. A seat of former mining traditions, it is one of Labour's safest in Britain; former party firebrand Manny Shinwell was MP here for many years.
Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in County Durham, the Boundary Commission for England has made only minor changes to the boundaries of Easington constituency (on the southern part of the boundary with Sedgefield constituency). It was first fought at the 2010 UK general election.
The electoral wards used to create the seat are:
- Acre Rigg, Blackhalls, Dawdon, Dene House, Deneside, Easington Colliery, Easington Village and South Hetton, Eden Hill, Haswell and Shotton, Horden North, Horden South, Howletch, Hutton Henry, Murton East, Murton West, Passfield, Seaham Harbour and Seaham North.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1950 | Manny Shinwell | Labour | |
1970 | Jack Dormand | Labour | |
1987 | John Cummings | Labour | |
2010 | Grahame Morris | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Grahame Morris | 21,132 | 61.0 | +2.1 | |
UKIP | Jonathan Arnott | 6,491 | 18.7 | +14.1 | |
Conservative | Chris Hampsheir [6] | 4,478 | 12.9 | -0.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Luke Armstrong | 834 | 2.4 | -13.6 | |
North East Party | Susan McDonnell[7] | 810 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Green | Martie Warin | 733 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Socialist (GB) | Steve Colborn [8] | 146 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,641 | 42.3 | -0.6 | ||
Turnout | 34,624 | 56.1 | +1.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -6.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Grahame Morris | 20,579 | 58.9 | −12.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Tara Saville | 5,597 | 16.0 | +3.1 | |
Conservative | Richard Harrison | 4,790 | 13.7 | +3.0 | |
BNP | Cheryl Dunn | 2,317 | 6.6 | +3.4 | |
UKIP | Martyn Aiken | 1,631 | 4.7 | +4.7 | |
Majority | 14,982 | 42.9 | -15.6 | ||
Turnout | 34,914 | 54.7 | +2.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −7.7 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Cummings | 22,733 | 71.4 | −5.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Christopher Ord | 4,097 | 12.9 | +2.6 | |
Conservative | Lucille Nicholson | 3,400 | 10.7 | +0.4 | |
BNP | Ian McDonald | 1,042 | 3.3 | +3.3 | |
Socialist Labour | Dave Robinson | 583 | 1.8 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 18,636 | 58.5 | |||
Turnout | 31,855 | 52.1 | −1.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Cummings | 25,360 | 76.8 | −3.4 | |
Conservative | Philip F. Lovel | 3,411 | 10.3 | +1.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Christopher J. Ord | 3,408 | 10.3 | +3.1 | |
Socialist Labour | Dave Robinson | 831 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 21,949 | 66.5 | |||
Turnout | 33,010 | 53.6 | −13.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Cummings | 33,600 | 80.2 | +7.5 | |
Conservative | Jason D. Hollands | 3,588 | 8.6 | −8.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Jim P. Heppell | 3,025 | 7.2 | −3.4 | |
Referendum | Richard B. Pulfrey | 1,179 | 2.8 | N/A | |
Socialist (GB) | Steve P. Colborn | 503 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 30,012 | 71.6 | |||
Turnout | 41,895 | 67.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Cummings | 34,269 | 72.7 | +4.6 | |
Conservative | William John Perry | 7,879 | 16.7 | +0.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Peter Freitag | 5,001 | 10.6 | −5.0 | |
Majority | 26,390 | 56.0 | +4.2 | ||
Turnout | 47,149 | 72.5 | −0.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.1 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Cummings | 32,396 | 68.06 | ||
Conservative | William John Perry | 7,757 | 16.30 | ||
Liberal | George William Beaumont Howard | 7,447 | 15.64 | ||
Majority | 24,639 | 51.76 | |||
Turnout | 73.39 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jack Dormand | 25,912 | 59.39 | ||
Liberal | F.E. Patterson | 11,120 | 25.06 | ||
Conservative | C.J. Coulson-Thomas | 7,342 | 16.55 | ||
Majority | 14,792 | 33.33 | |||
Turnout | 67.51 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jack Dormand | 29,537 | 60.60 | ||
Conservative | J.S. Smailes | 11,981 | 24.70 | ||
Liberal | V. Morley | 6,979 | 14.39 | ||
Majority | 17,556 | 36.20 | |||
Turnout | 74.33 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jack Dormand | 28,984 | 65.82 | ||
Conservative | J.S. Smailes | 8,047 | 18.27 | ||
Liberal | N.J. Scaggs | 7,005 | 15.91 | ||
Majority | 20,937 | 47.55 | |||
Turnout | 69.01 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jack Dormand | 33,637 | 71.96 | ||
Conservative | J.S. Smailes | 13,107 | 28.04 | ||
Majority | 20,530 | 43.92 | |||
Turnout | 73.95 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jack Dormand | 33,418 | 79.80 | ||
Conservative | William Michael Hardy Spicer | 8,457 | 20.20 | ||
Majority | 24,961 | 59.61 | |||
Turnout | 69.28 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Manny Shinwell | 32,097 | 81.37 | ||
Conservative | William Michael Hardy Spicer | 7,350 | 18.63 | ||
Majority | 24,747 | 62.73 | |||
Turnout | 70.54 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Manny Shinwell | 34,028 | 80.45 | ||
Conservative | G.W. Rossiter | 8,270 | 19.55 | ||
Majority | 25,758 | 60.90 | |||
Turnout | 75.22 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Manny Shinwell | 36,552 | 79.79 | ||
Conservative | G.W. Rossiter | 9,259 | 20.21 | ||
Majority | 27,293 | 59.58 | |||
Turnout | 80.81 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Manny Shinwell | 34,352 | 79.07 | ||
Conservative | G.W. Rossiter | 9,095 | 20.93 | ||
Majority | 25,257 | 58.13 | |||
Turnout | 79.36 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Manny Shinwell | 37,899 | 80.77 | ||
Conservative | G.W. Rossiter | 9,025 | 19.23 | ||
Majority | 28,874 | 61.53 | |||
Turnout | 86.74 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Manny Shinwell | 38,367 | 81.05 | ||
Conservative | C.A. Macfarlane | 8,972 | 18.95 | ||
Majority | 29,395 | 62.09 | |||
Turnout | 87.69 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county 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.
- References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/SunderlandPost/status/553641801274630145
- ↑ http://www.durhamgreenparty.org.uk/
- ↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/easington-2015.html
- ↑ http://www.chrishampsheir.com/
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- ↑ http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/world-socialist-movement/general-election-news-release
- ↑ http://www.durham.gov.uk/PDFApproved/ParliamentaryElection2010_SoPN_EAS.pdf
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