Rochford and Southend East (UK Parliament constituency)

Rochford and Southend East
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Rochford and Southend East in Essex.
Location of Essex within England.
County	Essex
Electorate	71,131 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	James Duddridge (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Southend East, Rochford
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East of England

Rochford and Southend East is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by James Duddridge, a Conservative.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

1997-2010: The Borough of Southend-on-Sea wards of Milton, St Luke's, Shoebury, Southchurch, Thorpe, and Victoria, and the District of Rochford wards of Barling and Sutton, Foulness and Great Wakering East, Great Wakering Central, Great Wakering West, Rochford Eastwood, Rochford Roche, and Rochford St Andrews.

2010-present: The Borough of Southend-on-Sea wards of Kursaal, Milton, St Luke’s, Shoeburyness, Southchurch, Thorpe, Victoria, and West Shoebury, and the District of Rochford wards of Barling and Sutton, Foulness and Great Wakering, and Rochford.

The constituency covers the town of Rochford and the town centre, main seafront and eastern part of Southend-on-Sea, such as Thorpe Bay and Shoeburyness.

Constituency profile

Rochford and Southend East had a relatively marginal Conservative majority on its 1997 creation, as it had some of Labour's stronger wards in Southend, such as Kursaal, Milton and Victoria, with the party nearly gaining its predecessor seat Southend East in a by-election in 1980, though in the elections since a much larger majority suggests a Conservative safe seat. Dependency on social housing^[2] and unemployment benefit in the constituency is low^[3] and in the Rochford local council only 14.5% of households do not have a car (band 5 of 5 in the 2011 census) whereas 27% of households in the Southend part lack a car (band 2 of 5).^[4]

Local government

Currently the 31 Council seats held in Rochford and Southend East are 7 Conservative (from Rochford), 10 Independent, 7 Labour, 5 Conservative and 2 UKIP (from Southend).

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[5]	Party
	1997	Sir Teddy Taylor	Conservative
	2005	James Duddridge	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Rochford and Southend East^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Duddridge	20,241	46.4	-0.4
	Labour	Ian Gilbert	10,765	24.7	+4.4
	UKIP	Floyd Waterworth^[8]	8,948	20.5	+14.7
	Green	Simon Cross^[9]	2,195	5.0	+3.3
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Gwizdala	1,459	3.3	-16.1
Majority			9,476	21.7
Turnout			43,608	60.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.4

General Election 2010: Rochford and Southend East^[10]^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Duddridge	19,509	46.9	+1.5
	Labour	Kevin Bonavia^[12]	8,459	20.3	-11.3
	Liberal Democrat	Graham Longley^[13]	8,084	19.4	+4.7
	UKIP	James Moyies^[14]	2,405	5.8	+0.9
	BNP	Geoff Strobridge^[15]	1,856	4.5	N/A
	Green	Andrew Vaughan^[16]	707	1.7	-1.8
	Independent	Anthony Brian Chytry	611	1.5	N/A
Majority			11,050	26.6
Turnout			41,631	58.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+6.4

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Rochford and Southend East^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Duddridge	17,874	45.3	-8.3
	Labour	Fred Grindrod	12,384	31.4	-3.4
	Liberal Democrat	Graham Longley	5,967	15.1	+7.7
	UKIP	John Croft	1,913	4.8
	Green	Andrew Vaughan	1,328	3.4	+0.8
Majority			5,490	13.9
Turnout			39,466	55.4	+2.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	-2.4

General Election 2001: Rochford and Southend East^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Teddy Taylor	20,058	53.6	+4.8
	Labour	Chris Dandridge	13,024	34.8	-4.9
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Newton	2,780	7.4	-2.0
	Green	Adrian Hedges	990	2.6	N/A
	Liberal	Brian Lynch	600	1.6	-0.6
Majority			7,034	18.8
Turnout			37,452	52.7	-10.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Rochford and Southend East^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Teddy Taylor	22,683	48.7
	Labour	Nigel Smith	18,458	39.7
	Liberal Democrat	Paula Smith	4,387	9.4
	Liberal	Brian Lynch	1,007	2.2
Majority			4,225	9.1
Turnout			46,535	63.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

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

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↑ "2011 Census Interactive". ONS. 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
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↑ Archived 11 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine.
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↑ "Eastern Region Green Party | Green Party announces its candidates for the East of England's seaside towns". Eastern.greenparty.org.uk. 2014-11-25. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Election 2010 | Constituency | Rochford & Southend East". BBC News. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2015-12-06.
↑ "Prospective Parliamentary Candidates". Labour Party. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
↑ "Rochford and Southend East & Southend West". Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
↑ "Eastern Counties Region". UKIP. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
↑ "Rochford and Southend East Announces Its BNP Parliamentary Candidate". BNP. 6 December 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
↑ "Green Party Parlimentary Candidate". South East Essex Green Party. 6 May 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

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Liberal Democrats (1)	North Norfolk

UK Independence Party (1)	Clacton

East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) Labour (1) UKIP (3)

Coordinates: 51°33′N 0°49′E / 51.55°N 0.81°E / 51.55; 0.81

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