Saffron Walden (UK Parliament constituency)

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Saffron Walden County constituency
Saffron Walden shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1885
MP:	Alan Haselhurst
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Saffron Walden is a parliamentary 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

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The constituency is based around the town of Saffron Walden, in North-West Essex. Other major conurbations within the boundaries are Dunmow and Halstead. Occupying nearly 400 square miles, Saffron Walden is the largest constituency, by area, in Essex.^[1]

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Herbert Gardner	Liberal
	1895	Charles Gold
	1900	Armine Wodehouse	Liberal
	1901	Joseph Pease	Liberal
	Jan 1910	Douglas Proby
	Dec 1910	Sir Cecil Beck	Liberal
	1922	Sir William Foot Mitchell	Conservative
	1929	Rab Butler	Conservative
	1965	Peter Michael Kirk	Conservative
	1977	Alan Haselhurst	Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Saffron Walden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alan Haselhurst	27,263	51.4	+2.5
	Liberal Democrat	Elfreda Tealby-Watson	14,255	26.9	+2.0
	Labour	Swatantra Nandanwar	8,755	16.5	−6.1
	UK Independence	Raymond Tyler	1,412	2.7	−0.8
	English Democrats	Raymond Brown	860	1.6	N/A
	Veritas	Trevor Hackett	475	0.9	N/A
Majority			13,008	24.5
Turnout			53,020	68.3	+3.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.3

General Election 2001: Saffron Walden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alan Haselhurst	24,485	48.9	+3.6
	Liberal Democrat	Elfreda Tealby-Watson	12,481	24.9	-1.9
	Labour	Tania Rogers	11,305	22.6	+1.1
	UK Independence	Richard Glover	1,769	3.5	+2.4
Majority			12,004	24.0
Turnout			50,040	65.2	-11.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Preceded by Essex Western

UK Parliament constituency 1885–

Succeeded by Current incumbent

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

[edit] References

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)