Brighton Pavilion | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | East Sussex |
Population | 103,593 (2011 UK Census) [1] |
Electorate | 79,057 (December 2019) [2] |
Major settlements | Brighton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1950 |
Member of Parliament | Caroline Lucas (Green) |
Created from | Brighton |
Brighton Pavilion is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Caroline Lucas of the Green Party.
1950–1983: The County Borough of Brighton wards of Hollingbury, Montpelier, Patcham, Pavilion, Preston, Preston Park, Regency, St Nicholas, St Peters, and West. [3]
1955–1983: The County Borough of Brighton wards of Hollingbury, Montpelier, Patcham, Preston, Preston Park, Regency, Stanmer, St Nicholas, and St Peter's. [4]
1983–1997: The Borough of Brighton wards of Hollingbury, Patcham, Preston, Regency, St Peter's, Seven Dials, Stanmer, and Westdene.
1997–2010: The Borough of Brighton wards of Hanover, Hollingbury, Patcham, Preston, Regency, St Peter's, Seven Dials, Stanmer, and Westdene.
2010–present: The City of Brighton and Hove wards of Hanover and Elm Grove, Hollingdean and Stanmer (called Hollingbury and Stanmer before 2011), Patcham, Preston Park, Regency, St Peter's and North Laine, and Withdean.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency from the 2024 United Kingdom general election will be reduced slightly by removing part of the Hanover and Elm Grove ward – namely polling district PHEA, and that part of polling district PHEF to the east of Queen's Park Road – to be transferred to the renamed constituency of Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven. [5]
Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, [6] [7] the constituency will now comprise the following wards of the City of Brighton and Hove from the 2024 general election:
The constituency was created in 1950 from the former two-member constituency of Brighton (one of the last remaining multi-member constituencies), for which Brighton Pavilion's first Member of Parliament, Sir William Teeling, had previously been the joint representative.
The present name is derived from the Royal Pavilion. [n 2] On current boundaries, the pavilion itself is right on the South-Eastern border of the seat; the opposite side of the road is Brighton Kemptown, which includes the Gay Village of St James Street, Brighton Pier, and the beach eastward. Brighton Pavilion encompasses the heart of the city, including the Georgian and Regency alleyway properties of The Lanes and the Bohemian North Laine shopping area. The developed centre of the promenade above the central pebbled beach has major entertainment venues and the city's largest hotels, including the Grand Hotel and Hilton Brighton Metropole. It is a relatively affluent constituency since average income is higher than the UK average (based upon 2001 statistics) and the unemployment rate is lower than average. [9]
From 1950 to 1997, the seat elected Conservative MPs. In 1997, David Lepper of the Labour Party, aided by somewhat notionally favourable minor boundary changes before the 1997 general election, began service as MP for thirteen years by winning the two subsequent elections. The Conservatives' share of the vote has declined at every election there since 1979.
In July 2007, the Green Party selected Caroline Lucas to contest the seat, at which point she was a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England constituency. [10] In November 2009, Charlotte Vere was selected as the Conservative Party candidate at an open primary attended by local Conservative Party members and residents. [11] In January 2010, the Liberal Democrats also selected a female candidate, Bernadette Millam. [12] Labour had selected Nancy Platts, a local campaigner and former union worker, as their candidate in June 2007. [13] This meant that, distinctively, all of the four leading parties in the constituency had female candidates. In 2010, Labour's share of the vote fell by 6.5%, and Lucas, then leading the Green Party, won the seat. In contrast to national results, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat share of the vote fell. [14]
Lucas retained the seat for the Green Party at the 2015 general election with an increased majority. Purna Sen, who held senior roles at the Commonwealth, LSE, and Amnesty International, was selected to contest the seat for Labour. Clarence Mitchell, a former BBC News reporter and spokesman for the family of Madeleine McCann, was selected as the Conservative Party candidate. [15]
For the 2017 general election and the 2019 general election, the local Liberal Democrat party chose not to field a candidate in the seat, endorsing Lucas instead due to their shared pro-EU stance. [16] Lucas retained Brighton Pavilion for the Green Party, which was returned with the biggest numerical majority for any candidate in the seat since 1959. In the 2019 election, the seat had the largest winning margin and the highest winning vote share of any seat not held by the Conservatives or Labour.[ citation needed ] Caroline Lucas announced on 8 June 2023, that she would not be standing in the 2024 UK general election. [17] On 19 July 2023, the Green Party picked Siân Berry to replace her. [18]
Election | Member [19] [20] | Party | |
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1950 | William Teeling | Conservative | |
1969 by-election | Julian Amery | Conservative | |
1992 | Derek Spencer | Conservative | |
1997 | David Lepper | Labour Co-op | |
2010 | Caroline Lucas | Green |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Siân Berry [21] | ||||
SDP | Carl Buckfield [22] | ||||
Labour | Tom Gray [23] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Ashley Ridley [24] | ||||
Workers Party | Don Goghrod [25] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Caroline Lucas | 33,151 | 57.2 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Adam Imanpour | 13,211 | 22.8 | –4.0 | |
Conservative | Emma Hogan | 10,176 | 17.5 | –1.7 | |
Brexit Party | Richard Milton | 770 | 1.3 | New | |
Monster Raving Loony | Citizen Skwith | 301 | 0.5 | New | |
Independent | Bob Dobbs | 212 | 0.4 | New | |
UKIP | Nigel Furness | 177 | 0.3 | –0.8 | |
Majority | 19,940 | 34.4 | +8.9 | ||
Turnout | 57,998 | 73.4 | –3.0 | ||
Green hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Caroline Lucas | 30,149 | 52.3 | +10.5 | |
Labour | Solomon Curtis | 15,450 | 26.8 | –0.5 | |
Conservative | Emma Warman | 11,082 | 19.2 | –3.6 | |
UKIP | Ian Buchanan | 630 | 1.1 | –3.9 | |
Independent | Nick Yeomans | 376 | 0.7 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 14,699 | 25.5 | +11.0 | ||
Turnout | 57,687 | 76.4 | +5.0 | ||
Green hold | Swing | +5.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Caroline Lucas | 22,871 | 41.8 | +10.5 | |
Labour | Purna Sen | 14,904 | 27.3 | −1.6 | |
Conservative | Clarence Mitchell | 12,448 | 22.8 | −0.9 | |
UKIP | Nigel Carter | 2,724 | 5.0 | +3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Bowers | 1,525 | 2.8 | −11.0 | |
Independent | Nick Yeomans | 116 | 0.2 | New | |
Socialist (GB) | Howard Pilott | 88 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 7,967 | 14.5 | +12.1 | ||
Turnout | 54,676 | 71.4 | +1.4 | ||
Green hold | Swing | +6.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Caroline Lucas | 16,238 | 31.3 | +9.4 | |
Labour | Nancy Platts | 14,986 | 28.9 | −7.5 | |
Conservative | Charlotte Vere | 12,275 | 23.7 | −0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Berni Millam | 7,159 | 13.8 | −2.7 | |
UKIP | Nigel Carter | 948 | 1.8 | +0.6 | |
Socialist Labour | Ian Fyvie | 148 | 0.3 | −0.0 | |
Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality | Soraya Kara | 61 | 0.1 | New | |
Independent | Leo Atreides | 19 | 0.0 | New | |
Majority | 1,252 | 2.4 | |||
Turnout | 51,834 | 70.0 | +7.7 | ||
Green gain from Labour Co-op | Swing | +8.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | David Lepper | 15,427 | 35.4 | −13.3 | |
Conservative | Mike Weatherley | 10,397 | 23.9 | −1.2 | |
Green | Keith Taylor | 9,530 | 21.9 | +12.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hazel Thorpe | 7,171 | 16.5 | +3.4 | |
UKIP | Kimberley Crisp-Comotto | 508 | 1.2 | +0.3 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Tony Greenstein | 188 | 0.4 | New | |
Socialist Labour | Ian Fyvie | 152 | 0.3 | −1.1 | |
Independent | Christopher Rooke | 122 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Keith Jago | 44 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 5,030 | 11.5 | −12.1 | ||
Turnout | 43,580 | 64.0 | +5.5 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | −6.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | David Lepper | 19,846 | 48.7 | −5.9 | |
Conservative | David Gold | 10,203 | 25.1 | −2.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ruth Berry | 5,348 | 13.1 | +3.6 | |
Green | Keith Taylor | 3,806 | 9.3 | +6.7 | |
Socialist Labour | Ian Fyvie | 573 | 1.4 | New | |
Free Party | Bob Dobbs | 409 | 1.0 | New | |
UKIP | Stuart Hutchin | 361 | 0.9 | +0.5 | |
ProLife Alliance | Marie Paragallo | 177 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 9,643 | 23.6 | −3.3 | ||
Turnout | 40,723 | 58.5 | −14.9 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | David Lepper | 26,737 | 54.6 | +16.3 | |
Conservative | Derek Spencer | 13,556 | 27.7 | −18.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kenneth Blanshard | 4,644 | 9.5 | −3.2 | |
Referendum | Peter Stocken | 1,304 | 2.7 | New | |
Green | Peter West | 1,249 | 2.6 | +0.4 | |
Ind. Conservative | Richard Huggett | 1,098 | 2.2 | New | |
UKIP | Frank Stevens | 179 | 0.4 | New | |
Independent | Bob Dobbs | 125 | 0.3 | New | |
Rainbow Dream Ticket | Alan Card | 59 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 13,181 | 26.9 | +18.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,952 | 73.4 | −3.4 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative | Swing | +15.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Derek Spencer | 20,630 | 46.6 | −4.2 | |
Labour Co-op | David Lepper | 16,955 | 38.3 | +8.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Pearce | 5,606 | 12.7 | -6.8 | |
Green | Iain Brodie | 963 | 2.2 | New | |
Natural Law | Eileen Turner | 103 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 3,675 | 8.3 | −12.8 | ||
Turnout | 44,257 | 76.8 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −6.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Julian Amery | 22,056 | 50.8 | −0.7 | |
Labour | Dave Hill | 12,914 | 29.7 | +5.8 | |
SDP | Kevin Carey | 8,459 | 19.5 | −5.1 | |
Majority | 9,142 | 21.1 | −5.8 | ||
Turnout | 43,416 | 73.7 | +4.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Julian Amery | 21,323 | 51.5 | −2.2 | |
SDP | Michael Neves | 10,191 | 24.6 | +10.2 | |
Labour | Harold Spillman | 9,879 | 23.9 | −5.4 | |
Majority | 11,132 | 26.9 | +2.5 | ||
Turnout | 41,390 | 69.3 | −3.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Julian Amery | 22,218 | 53.7 | +5.3 | |
Labour | Dave Hill | 12,099 | 29.3 | −0.3 | |
Liberal | D. Venables | 5,965 | 14.4 | −7.6 | |
Ecology | J Beale | 638 | 1.5 | New | |
National Front | H Jones | 436 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 10,119 | 24.4 | +5.6 | ||
Turnout | 41,355 | 72.6 | +4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Julian Amery | 19,041 | 48.4 | -2.1 | |
Labour | G W Humphrey | 11,624 | 29.6 | +3.6 | |
Liberal | D Venables | 8,648 | 22.0 | -0.5 | |
Majority | 7,417 | 18.8 | -5.7 | ||
Turnout | 57,351 | 68.6 | -8.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Julian Amery | 21,910 | 50.5 | -11.4 | |
Labour | F Tonks | 11,292 | 26.0 | -9.0 | |
Liberal | K Hooper | 9,764 | 22.5 | New | |
Independent | Harvey Holford | 428 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 10,618 | 24.5 | -2.4 | ||
Turnout | 56,982 | 76.2 | +9.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Julian Amery | 21,365 | 61.9 | +3.8 | |
Labour | Francis Tonks | 13,771 | 35.0 | -6.9 | |
Independent | George E Thomas | 1,205 | 3.1 | New | |
Majority | 10,594 | 26.9 | +10.7 | ||
Turnout | 59,150 | 66.5 | -3.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Julian Amery | 17,636 | 70.5 | +12.4 | |
Labour | Thomas Skeffington-Lodge | 4,654 | 18.6 | -23.3 | |
Liberal | Nesta Wyn Ellis | 2,711 | 10.8 | New | |
Majority | 12,982 | 51.9 | +35.7 | ||
Turnout | 25,001 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Teeling | 22,687 | 58.1 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Alistair Graham | 16,333 | 41.9 | +13.7 | |
Majority | 6,354 | 16.2 | -8.8 | ||
Turnout | 55,532 | 70.3 | +0.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Teeling | 20,998 | 53.2 | -16.8 | |
Labour | Peter Nurse | 11,148 | 28.2 | -1.8 | |
Liberal | David Randall Sinnatt | 7,362 | 18.6 | New | |
Majority | 9,850 | 25.0 | -15.0 | ||
Turnout | 56,391 | 70.0 | +0.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Teeling | 27,972 | 70.0 | +2.0 | |
Labour | Reginald G White | 11,998 | 30.0 | -2.0 | |
Majority | 15,974 | 40.0 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 39,970 | 69.8 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Teeling | 27,128 | 68.0 | -0.5 | |
Labour | Leonard Knowles | 12,742 | 32.0 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 14,386 | 36.0 | -1.0 | ||
Turnout | 39,870 | 67.5 | -8.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Teeling | 29,167 | 68.5 | +7.0 | |
Labour | Elisabeth R. Littlejohn | 13,410 | 31.5 | +3.5 | |
Majority | 15,757 | 37.0 | +3.5 | ||
Turnout | 42,577 | 75.5 | -3.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Teeling | 26,917 | 61.5 | ||
Labour | Leonard Knowles | 12,264 | 28.0 | ||
Liberal | John Stewart Choate | 4,555 | 10.5 | ||
Majority | 14,653 | 33.5 | |||
Turnout | 43,736 | 78.9 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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