Thurrock (UK Parliament constituency)

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Thurrock Borough constituency
Thurrock shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1945
MP:	Andrew MacKinlay
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Thurrock 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

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1945	Leslie Solley	Labour then Labour Independent Group
	1950	Hugh Delargy	Labour
	1955
	1959
	1964
	1966
	1970
	February 1974
	October 1974
	1976	Oonagh McDonald	Labour
	1979
	1983
	1987	Tim Janman	Conservative
	1992	Andrew MacKinlay	Labour
	1997
	2001
	2005

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Thurrock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew MacKinlay	20,636	47.2	-9.3
	Conservative	Garry Hague	14,261	32.6	+2.8
	Liberal Democrat	Earnshaw Palmer	4,770	10.9	+0.6
	British National Party	Nick Geri	2,526	5.8	+5.8
	UK Independence	Carol Jackson	1,499	3.4	0.0
Majority			6,375	14.6
Turnout			43,692	54.9	5.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-6.1

General Election 2001: Thurrock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew MacKinlay	21,121	56.5	-6.8
	Conservative	Mike Penning	11,124	29.8	+3.0
	Liberal Democrat	John Lathan	3,846	10.3	+2.2
	UK Independence	Christopher Sheppard	1,271	3.4	+1.6
Majority			9,997	26.7
Turnout			37,362	49.0	-16.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Thurrock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew MacKinlay	29,896	63.32
	Conservative	Andrew Rosindell	12,640	26.77
	Liberal Democrat	J White	3,843	8.14
	UK Independence	P Compobassi	833	1.76
Majority			17,256	36.55
Turnout			47,212	65.79
	Labour hold		Swing	+17.20

General Election 1992: Thurrock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew MacKinlay	24,791	45.86
	Conservative	Tim Janman	23,619	43.69
	Liberal Democrat	A Banton	5,145	9.52
	Pensioners' Party	C Rogers	391	0.72
	Anti-Federalist League	P Compobassi	117	0.22
Majority			1,172	2.17
Turnout			54,063	78.16
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1987: Thurrock
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tim Janman	20,527	42.47
	Labour	Oonagh McDonald	19,837	41.04
	Social Democrat	D S Benson	7,970	16.49
Majority			690	1.43
Turnout			48,334	71.51
	Conservative gain from Labour		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)