Gosport (UK Parliament constituency)

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Gosport Borough constituency

Gosport shown within Hampshire, and Hampshire shown within England
Created:	1974
MP:	Peter Viggers
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Hampshire
EP constituency:	South East England

Gosport is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Elections
5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency is based around the town of Gosport, which is on the south coast of England, in Hampshire. It contains the whole of Gosport Borough including Lee-on-the-Solent. Stubbington from the neighbouring Fareham Borough is also part of the constituency.

[edit] History

Gosport constituency was created in 1974. The area had previously been part of the constituency of Fareham and Gosport.

It is a safe Conservative seat, though it has some stark social divisions; the large council estate of Rowner, for example, is not just only one of the most deprived wards in the South East but in fact the UK as a whole, but there are plenty of prosperous Tory areas here to keep it in their camp.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1974)
1974 — present: Peter Viggers, Conservative

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: Gosport
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Viggers	19,268	44.8	+1.2
	Labour	Richard Williams	13,538	31.5	-5.6
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Roberts	7,145	16.6	+1.5
	UKIP	John Bowles	1,825	4.2	+1.3
	Green	Andrea Smith	1,258	2.9	+2.9
Majority			5,730	13.3
Turnout			43,034	60.5	3.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	-3.4

General Election 2001: Gosport
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Viggers	17,364	43.6	N/A
	Labour	Richard Williams	14,743	37.1	+6.4
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Roberts	6,011	15.1	-4.5
	UKIP	John Bowles	1,162	2.9	N/A
	Socialist Labour	Kevin Chetwynd	509	1.3	N/A
Majority			2,621	6.5
Turnout			39,789	57.1	-13.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

Constituencies in South East England
Conservative	Aldershot \| Arundel and South Downs \| Ashford \| Aylesbury \| Banbury \| Basingstoke \| Beaconsfield \| Bexhill and Battle \| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton \| Bracknell \| Buckingham \| Canterbury \| Chesham and Amersham \| Chichester \| East Hampshire \| East Surrey \| East Worthing and Shoreham \| Eastbourne \| Epsom and Ewell \| Esher and Walton \| Fareham \| Faversham and Mid Kent \| Folkestone and Hythe \| Gosport \| Gravesham \| Guildford \| Havant \| Henley \| Horsham \| Isle of Wight \| Maidenhead \| Maidstone and The Weald \| Mid Sussex \| Mole Valley \| New Forest East \| New Forest West \| Newbury \| North East Hampshire \| North East Milton Keynes \| North Thanet \| North West Hampshire \| Reading East \| Reigate \| Runnymede and Weybridge \| Sevenoaks \| South West Surrey \| Spelthorne \| Surrey Heath \| Tonbridge and Malling \| Tunbridge Wells \| Wantage \| Wealden \| Windsor \| Witney \| Woking \| Wokingham \| Worthing West \| Wycombe
Labour	Brighton Kemptown \| Brighton Pavilion \| Chatham and Aylesford \| Crawley \| Dartford \| Dover \| Gillingham \| Hastings and Rye \| Hove \| Medway \| Milton Keynes South West \| Oxford East \| Portsmouth North \| Reading West \| Sittingbourne and Sheppey \| Slough \| Southampton Itchen \| Southampton Test \| South Thanet
Liberal Democrat	Eastleigh \| Lewes \| Oxford West and Abingdon \| Portsmouth South \| Romsey \| Winchester
South East European constituency: Conservative (4) \| UKIP (2) \| Liberal Democrats (2) \| Labour (1) \| Green (1)