Braintree (UK Parliament constituency)

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Braintree County constituency
Braintree shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1974
MP:	Brooks Newmark
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Braintree is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The seat normally elects Conservative MPs, but Labour won in their landslide victories at the 1997 and 2001 general elections.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Political Geography 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England has created a modified Braintree constituency with the following electoral wards;

• Bocking Blackwater, Bocking North, Bocking South, Braintree Central, Braintree East, Braintree South, Bumpstead, Cressing and Stisted, Gosfield and Greenstead Green, Great Notley and Braintree West, Halstead St Andrews, Halstead Trinity, Hedingham and Maplestead, Panfield, Rayne, Stour Valley North, Stour Valley South, The Three Colnes, Three Fields, Upper Colne and Yeldham.

This modified Braintree seat will be fought for the first time at the 2009 or 2010 UK general election

[edit] Political Geography

Constituncy results if national result is: Con 36%, Lab 36%, LibDem 20%

Election	Con	Lab	LD
2005	50%	38%	12%
2001	49%	39%	12%
1997	49%	37%	14%
1992	46%	30%	24%

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	Feb 1974	Tony Newton	Conservative
	Oct 1974
	1979
	1983
	1987
	1992
	1997	Alan Hurst	Labour
	2001
	2005	Brooks Newmark	Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Braintree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Brooks Newmark	23,597	44.5	+3.2
	Labour	Alan Hurst	19,704	37.1	-4.9
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Turner	7,037	13.3	+2.0
	Green	James Abbott	1,308	2.5	0.0
	UK Independence	Roger Lord	1,181	2.2	+0.7
	Independent (politician)	Buster Michael Nolan	228	0.4	+0.4
Majority			3,893	7.3
Turnout			53,055	65.9	+2.3
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	4.0

General Election 2001: Braintree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Hurst	21,123	42.0	-0.7
	Conservative	Brooks Newmark	20,765	41.3	+1.2
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Turner	5,664	11.3	-0.3
	Green	James Abbott	1,241	2.5	+1.2
	Legalise Cannabis	Michael Nolan	774	1.5	N/A
	UK Independence	Charlie Cole	748	1.5	N/A
Majority			358	0.7
Turnout			50,315	63.6	-12.5
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

Constituencies in the East of England
Conservative	Billericay | Braintree | Brentwood and Ongar | Broxbourne | Bury St Edmunds | Castle Point | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Epping Forest | Harwich | Hemel Hempstead | Hertford and Stortford | Hertsmere | Hitchin and Harpenden | Huntingdon | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Norfolk | North Essex | North East Bedfordshire | North East Cambridgeshire | North East Hertfordshire | North West Cambridgeshire | North West Norfolk | Peterborough | Rayleigh | Rochford and Southend East | Saffron Walden | Southend West | South Cambridgeshire | South East Cambridgeshire | South Norfolk | South Suffolk | South West Bedfordshire | South West Hertfordshire | South West Norfolk | St Albans | Suffolk Coastal | Welwyn Hatfield | West Chelmsford | West Suffolk
Labour	Basildon | Bedford | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Ipswich | Luton North | Luton South | Norwich North | Norwich South | Stevenage | Thurrock | Watford | Waveney
Liberal Democrat	Cambridge | Colchester | North Norfolk
East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)