East Worthing and Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Worthing and Shoreham
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of East Worthing and Shoreham in West Sussexfor the 2010 general election
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Location of West Sussex within England
County West Sussex
Electorate 72,996 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlements Shoreham-by-Sea
Current constituency
Created 1997
Member of Parliament Tim Loughton (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created from Worthing and Shoreham

East Worthing and Shoreham is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Tim Loughton of the Conservative Party. [n 2]

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Boundaries

East Worthing and Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

The District of Adur, and the Borough of Worthing wards of Broadwater, Gaisford, Offington, and Selden.

The constituency covers an eastern portion of Worthing, the town of Shoreham-by-Sea, Lancing and three nearby inland villages in the Adur valley, all communities within the county of West Sussex.

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be unchanged. [2]

History

Under the Boundary Commission's fourth review, enacted in time for the 1997 election, the larger Shoreham portion of this constituency was taken from the disbanded Shoreham seat and the minor East Worthing portion had been in the disbanded Worthing seat.

Before 1974, the Shoreham seat had been a part of the Arundel and Shoreham seat.

Between 1945 and 1950, the whole area was in the Worthing seat and between 1918 and 1945 (on which the Boundary Commission was formed and carried out its first periodic review), in the Horsham and Worthing seat.

Political history

Although from 2001 to 2015 this was an unquestionably safe seat for the Conservative Party, its safety has significantly declined since then, especially in 2017 when Labour reduced the Conservative percentage majority to single figures. It has now succeeded Crawley as Labour's principal target seat in the county of West Sussex, though still requiring a substantial swing.

Notable candidates

The competitive hustings in September 2007 of the local Labour Party selected Emily Benn, granddaughter of Tony Benn and niece of Hilary Benn, former Secretaries of State, then aged 17, to contest the 2010 general election, making her the youngest ever Labour parliamentary candidate: had she been elected, she would have been the youngest MP since the Reform Act 1832. Her father Stephen Benn is Viscount Stansgate, succeeding his father. [3]

Labour selected Latest TV newsreader Sophie Cook [4] to be their candidate in the 2017 general election. [5] Had she been elected, she would have been the United Kingdom's first transgender MP. Although she failed to win the seat, she achieved the best ever result of any non-Conservative Party candidate in any Worthing-based constituency, receiving 20,882 votes to the Conservatives' 25,988. [6]

Constituency profile

Shoreham can be viewed with Worthing as less of an economic force than the neighbouring local government district, the City of Brighton and Hove, with a majority of houses with larger gardens, fewer listed buildings but Shoreham's large boat harbour facility an amenity for visitors, residents, - mooring and maintenance for people living close enough to the county, rival harbours being as far away as Chichester and Newhaven. [7] Much work is in the service sector, including a major presence of sharedealing and banking service and processing facilities in the borough (see Lancing, West Sussex) and a slightly greater proportion of people are retired compared to the national average (2.11% of the population greater, at 15.8%). [8]

Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.6% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [9]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [10] Party
1997 Tim Loughton Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: East Worthing and Shoreham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tom Rutland [11]
Liberal Democrats David Batchelor [12]
Majority
Turnout

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: East Worthing and Shoreham [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 27,107 51.0 +2.1
Labour Lavinia O'Connor19,63337.0–2.3
Liberal Democrats Ashley Ridley4,1277.8+3.0
Green Leslie Williams2,0063.8+1.4
Independent Sophie Cook 2550.5New
Majority7,47414.0+4.4
Turnout 53,12870.7+0.4
Conservative hold Swing +2.2

Sophie Cook withdrew from the 2019 election, but she remained on the ballot paper as this decision was made after the statement of persons nominated was released. [14]

General election 2017: East Worthing and Shoreham [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 25,988 48.9 -0.6
Labour Sophie Cook 20,88239.3+19.8
Liberal Democrats Oli Henman2,5234.7-2.0
UKIP Mike Glennon1,4442.7-13.9
Green Leslie Williams1,2732.4-2.8
NHA Carl Walker5751.1-1.4
Independent Andy Lutwyche4320.8New
Majority5,1069.6-20.4
Turnout 51,67370.7+3.5
Conservative hold Swing -10.2
General election 2015: East Worthing and Shoreham [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 24,686 49.5 +1.0
Labour Tim Macpherson9,73719.5+2.8
UKIP Mike Glennon8,26716.6+10.4
Liberal Democrats Bob Smytherman3,3606.7−18.8
Green James Doyle2,6055.2+2.9
NHA Carl Walker1,2432.5New
Majority14,94930.0+7.0
Turnout 49,89867.2+1.8
Conservative hold Swing
General election 2010: East Worthing and Shoreham [17] [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 23,458 48.5 +4.6
Liberal Democrats James Doyle12,35325.5+1.2
Labour Emily Benn 8,08716.7−8.8
UKIP Mike Glennon2,9846.2+1.5
Green Susan Board1,1262.3New
English Democrat Clive Maltby3890.8New
Majority11,10523.0+4.6
Turnout 48,39765.4+3.8
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: East Worthing and Shoreham [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 19,548 43.9 +0.7
Labour Daniel Yates11,36525.5−3.5
Liberal Democrats James Doyle10,84424.3+1.4
UKIP Richard Jelf2,1094.7+1.9
Legalise Cannabis Christopher Baldwin6771.5−0.6
Majority8,18318.4+4.2
Turnout 44,54361.6+1.9
Conservative hold Swing +2.1
General election 2001: East Worthing and Shoreham [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 18,608 43.2 +2.7
Labour Daniel Yates12,46929.0+5.1
Liberal Democrats Paul Elgood9,87622.9−7.7
UKIP James McCulloch1,1952.8+1.0
Legalise Cannabis Christopher Baldwin9202.1New
Majority6,13914.2+4.3
Turnout 43,06859.7−13.2
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: East Worthing and Shoreham [21]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tim Loughton 20,864 40.5
Liberal Democrats Martin King15,76630.6
Labour Mark Williams12,33523.9
Referendum James McCulloch1,6833.3
UKIP Rosemary Jarvis9211.8
Majority5,0989.9
Turnout 51,56972.9
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ 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.

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  2. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 6 South East region.
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