Southend East (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Southend East Borough constituency |
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| Created: | 1950 |
| Abolished: | 1997 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | one |
Southend East was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Southend-on-Sea in Essex. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new constituency of Rochford and Southend East.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1950 | Sir Stephen James McAdden | Conservative | |
| 1980 | Teddy Taylor | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Rochford and Southend East | ||
[edit] Election results
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| Southend East by-election, 1980 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Teddy Taylor | 13,117 | 36.8 | -19.3 | |
| Labour | Colin George | 12,687 | 35.6 | +6.5 | |
| Liberal | David Evans | 8,939 | 25.1 | +12 | |
| New Britain | Terence Robertson | 532 | 1.5 | N/A | |
| Anti Common-Market Free Trade | Oliver Smedley | 207 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Independent Liberal | James Curry | 132 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident | Bill Boaks | 23 | 0.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,430 | ||||
| Turnout | 57,016 | 62.5 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -12.87 | |||
