Haltemprice and Howden | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | East Riding of Yorkshire |
Electorate | 70,252 (December 2019) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | David Davis (Conservative Party (UK)) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Beverley, Boothferry |
Haltemprice and Howden is a constituency [n 1] in the East Riding of Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by David Davis, a Conservative who was also Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union until his resignation from that role on 8 July 2018. [2] [n 2]
The seat is due to be abolished for the next general election. [3]
Election | Member [4] | Party | |
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1997 | David Davis | Conservative |
The Electoral Reform Society considers it to be historically the safest seat in the country, after North Shropshire was lost to the Liberal Democrats in 2021. Taking into account the previous seats roughly covering its boundaries, the Society considers that the seat has been held continuously by the Conservative Party since the 1837 general election. [5]
The constituency covers a large, wide area stretching from the border of Hull in the east to Howden in the west and northwards to Holme-on-Spalding-Moor towards York in the Yorkshire Wolds. The bulk of the population is centred in the villages of Willerby, Kirk Ella, Anlaby and Cottingham, which were part of the former district of Haltemprice, which was abolished in 1974. Rural Howdenshire forms the bulk of the geographical area of the constituency but provides only a small part of the total electorate.
The constituency includes many towns and villages along the A63 corridor including, Brough, Elloughton, South Cave, North Ferriby, Swanland, Gilberdyke, Newport, Welton and Melton.
2010–present: The District of East Riding of Yorkshire wards of Cottingham North, Cottingham South, Dale, Howden, Howdenshire, South Hunsley, Tranby, and Willerby and Kirk Ella. 1997–2010: The Borough of Boothferry wards of East Derwent, East Howdenshire, Gilberdyke, Holme upon Spalding Moor, Howden, Mid Howdenshire, and North Cave, and the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley wards of Anlaby, Brough, Castle, Kirk Ella, Mill Beck and Croxby, Priory, Skidby and Rowley, South Cave, Springfield, Swanland, and Willerby.
The constituency was created for the 1997 general election, covering an area previously part of the Beverley and Boothferry constituencies. In 1997, it returned the Conservative David Davis, who had previously been the member for Boothferry; he was re-elected in the 2001, 2005 and 2010 general elections.
The area was placed as 10th most affluent in the country in the 2003 Barclays Private Clients survey. [6] Election results but one to date suggest a Safe seat, with the 2001 result being an exception when the Conservative majority was cut to less than 2,000 votes. However, no party has come as near since then.
On 12 June 2008, a day after a vote on the extension of detention of terror suspects without charge, in an unexpected move, Davis took the Chiltern Hundreds, effectively resigning his seat as the constituency's MP. He stated this was to force a by-election, in which he intended to provoke a wider public debate on the single issue of the perceived erosion of civil liberties. Over the course of the following week, the campaign was launched on the theme of David Davis for Freedom.
Davis formally resigned as an MP on 18 June 2008, and the by-election took place on 10 July 2008, which Davis won. [7]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished for the next general election, with its contents distributed three ways: [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Davis | 31,045 | 62.4 | +1.4 | |
Labour | George Ayre | 10,716 | 21.5 | −9.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Linda Johnson | 5,215 | 10.5 | +5.7 | |
Green | Angela Stone | 1,764 | 3.5 | +2.1 | |
Yorkshire | Richard Honnoraty | 1,039 | 2.1 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 20,329 | 40.9 | +11.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,779 | 70.1 | −2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Davis | 31,355 | 61.0 | +6.8 | |
Labour | Hollie Devanney | 15,950 | 31.0 | +10.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Nolan | 2,482 | 4.8 | −1.5 | |
Yorkshire | Diana Wallis | 942 | 1.8 | +0.8 | |
Green | Angela Needham | 711 | 1.4 | −2.3 | |
Majority | 15,405 | 30.0 | −3.2 | ||
Turnout | 51,440 | 72.4 | +3.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Davis | 26,414 | 54.2 | +4.0 | |
Labour | Edward Hart | 10,219 | 21.0 | +5.3 | |
UKIP | John Kitchener | 6,781 | 13.9 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Carl Minns | 3,055 | 6.3 | −20.1 | |
Green | Tim Greene | 1,809 | 3.7 | +2.3 | |
Yorkshire First | Diana Wallis | 479 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 16,195 | 33.2 | +9.4 | ||
Turnout | 48,757 | 68.5 | −0.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Davis | 24,486 | 50.2 | +3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jon Neal | 12,884 | 26.4 | −10.0 | |
Labour | Danny Marten | 7,630 | 15.7 | +2.2 | |
BNP | James Cornell | 1,583 | 3.2 | +1.6 | |
English Democrat | Joanne Robinson | 1,485 | 3.0 | New | |
Green | Shan Oakes | 669 | 1.4 | New | |
Majority | 11,602 | 23.8 | +13.1 | ||
Turnout | 48,737 | 69.2 | −0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Davis | 17,113 | 71.6 | +24.1 | |
Green | Shan Oakes | 1,758 | 7.4 | New | |
English Democrat | Joanne Robinson | 1,714 | 7.2 | New | |
National Front | Tess Culnane | 544 | 2.3 | New | |
Miss Great Britain Party | Gemma Garrett | 521 | 2.2 | New | |
Independent | Jill Saward | 492 | 2.1 | New | |
Monster Raving Loony | Mad Cow-Girl | 412 | 1.7 | New | |
Independent | Walter Sweeney | 238 | 1.0 | New | |
Independent | John Nicholson | 162 | 0.7 | New | |
Independent | David Craig | 135 | 0.6 | New | |
New Party | David Pinder | 135 | 0.6 | New | |
no label | David Icke | 110 | 0.5 | New | |
Freedom 4 Choice | Hamish Howitt | 91 | 0.4 | New | |
Socialist Equality | Chris Talbot | 84 | 0.4 | New | |
Independent | Grace Astley | 77 | 0.3 | New | |
Christian | George Hargreaves | 76 | 0.3 | New | |
Church of the Militant Elvis | David Bishop | 44 | 0.2 | New | |
Independent | John Upex | 38 | 0.2 | New | |
Independent | Greg Wood | 32 | 0.1 | New | |
Independent | Eamonn Fitzpatrick | 31 | 0.1 | New | |
Make Politicians History | Ronnie Carroll | 29 | 0.1 | New | |
Independent | Thomas Darwood | 25 | 0.1 | New | |
Independent | Christopher Foren | 23 | 0.1 | New | |
Independent | Herbert Crossman | 11 | 0.0 | New | |
Independent | Tony Farnon | 8 | 0.0 | New | |
Independent | Norman Scarth | 8 | 0.0 | New | |
Majority | 15,355 | 64.2 | +53.5 | ||
Turnout | 23,911 | 34.5 [14] | −35.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Davis | 22,792 | 47.5 | +4.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jon Neal | 17,676 | 36.8 | −2.1 | |
Labour | Edward Hart | 6,104 | 12.7 | −3.0 | |
BNP | John Mainprize | 798 | 1.7 | New | |
UKIP | Philip Lane | 659 | 1.4 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 5,116 | 10.7 | +6.4 | ||
Turnout | 48,029 | 70.1 | +4.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Davis | 18,994 | 43.2 | −0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jon Neal | 17,091 | 38.9 | +10.1 | |
Labour | Leslie Howell | 6,898 | 15.7 | −7.9 | |
UKIP | Joanne Robinson | 945 | 2.2 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 1,903 | 4.3 | −10.9 | ||
Turnout | 43,928 | 65.8 | −9.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Davis | 21,809 | 44.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Diana Wallis | 14,295 | 28.8 | ||
Labour | George McManus | 11,701 | 23.6 | ||
Referendum | Trevor Pearson | 1,370 | 2.8 | ||
UKIP | Godfrey Bloom | 301 | 0.6 | ||
Natural Law | Barry Stevens | 74 | 0.1 | ||
Majority | 7,514 | 15.2 | |||
Turnout | 49,550 | 75.5 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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