Bristol East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bristol East Borough constituency
Bristol East shown within Avon (county), and Avon (county) shown within England
Created:	1885, 1983
MP:	Kerry McCarthy
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Bristol
EP constituency:	South West England

Bristol East 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1885-1950 2.2 MPs 1983-present 3 Election results 4 See also 5 External Links

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the east of Bristol.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Bristol, Somerset and South Gloucestershire, the Boundary Commission for England has created a Bristol East constituency with minor changes from the current seat.

The electoral wards in the seat to be fought at the election in 2009 or 2010 are;

• Brislington East, Brislington West, Eastville, Frome Vale, Hillfields, St George East, St George West, Stockwood.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1885-1950

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Handel Cossham
	1890	Sir Joseph Dodge Weston
	1895	Sir William Henry Wills
	1900	Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse	Liberal
	1918	George Bryant Britton	Coalition Liberal
	1922	Harold Spencer Morris	National Liberal
	1923	Walter John Baker	Labour
	1931	Sir Stafford Cripps	Labour
	1939		Independent Labour
	1945		Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] MPs 1983-present

• Constituency recreated (1983)

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Jonathan Sayeed	Conservative
	1987
	1992	Jean Corston	Labour
	1997
	2001
	2005	Kerry McCarthy	Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kerry McCarthy	19,152	45.9	−9.1
	Liberal Democrats	Philip James	10,531	25.2	+8.1
	Conservative	Julia Manning	8,787	21.1	−0.7
	Green	Arjuna Krishna-Das	1,586	3.8	+1.0
	UKIP	Jean Smith	1,132	2.7	+1.3
	Respect	Paulette North	532	1.3	N/A
Majority			8,621	20.7
Turnout			41,720	61.3	+3.9
	Labour hold		Swing	−8.6

General Election 2001: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jean Corston	22,180	55.0
	Conservative	Jack Lo-Presti	8,788	21.8
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Niblett	6,915	17.1
	Green	Geoff Collard	1,110	2.8
	UKIP	Roger Marsh	572	1.4
	Socialist Labour	Michael Langley	438	1.1
	Socialist Alliance	Andrew Pryor	331	0.8
Majority				33.2
Turnout				57.4
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jean Corston	27,418	56.9
	Conservative	Ed Vaizey	11,259	23.4
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Tyzack	7,121	14.8
	Referendum Party	G. Philip	1,479	3.1
	Socialist Labour	P. Williams	766	1.6
	Natural Law	J. McLaggan	158	0.3
Majority			16,159	33.5
Turnout				69.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jean Corston	22,418	44.6
	Conservative	Jonathan Sayeed	19,726	39.2
	Liberal Democrats	John Kiely	7,903	15.7
	National Front	I.H.M. Anderson	270	0.5
Majority			2,692	5.4
Turnout				80.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1987: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Sayeed	21,906	43.6
	Labour	R.R. Thomas	17,783	35.4
	Liberal	Don Foster	10,247	20.4
	Independent National Front	P.M. Kingston	286	0.6
Majority			4,123	8.2
Turnout				78.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Sayeed	19,844	40.5
	Labour	Tony Benn	18,055	36.9
	Liberal	P.E. Tyrer	10,404	21.3
	National Front	E.H. Andrews	343	0.7
	Ecology	G.A. Dorey	311	0.6
Majority			1,789	3.6
Turnout				73.9

• Constituency recreated 1983

• Constituency abolished 1950 with the major part going to Bristol South East

General Election 1945: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sir R. Stafford Cripps	27,975	73.5
	Conservative	T.D. Corpe	10,073	26.5
Majority			12,550	47.1
Turnout				76.3
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1935: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sir R. Stafford Cripps	22,009	59.3
	National Labour	A.G. Church	15,126	40.7
Majority			6,883	18.5
Turnout				75.8
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sir R. Stafford Cripps	19,435	50.6
	Conservative	J.M. Spreull	19,006	49.4
Majority			429	1.1
Turnout				80.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Bristol East by-election January 1931
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sir R. Stafford Cripps	19,261	61.7
	Conservative		7,937	25.4
	Liberal		4,010	12.8
Majority			11,324	36.3
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1929: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Walter J. Baker	24,197	65.8
	Liberal	C.G. Spencer	12,576	34.2
Majority			11,621	31.6
Turnout				78.2
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1924: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Walter J. Baker	16,920	58.2
	Liberal		12,143	41.8
Majority			4,777	16.4
Turnout				79.8
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1923: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Walter J. Baker	14,824	53.7
	Liberal	Harold Morris	12,788	46.3
Majority			2,036	7.4
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1922: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National Liberal	Harold Morris	13,910	50.3
	Labour	L. Bateman	13,759	49.7
Majority			151	0.5
	National Liberal hold		Swing

General Election 1918: Bristol East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Liberal	George B. Britton	9,434	49.6
	Labour	L. Bateman	8,135	42.8
	Liberal	Sir Charles E.H. Hobhouse	1,447	7.6
Majority			1,299	6.8
	Coalition Liberal gain from Liberal		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Avon

Constituencies in South West England
Conservative	Bournemouth East | Bournemouth West | Bridgwater | Christchurch | Cotswold | Devizes | East Devon | Forest of Dean | North Dorset | North Wiltshire | Poole | Salisbury | South West Devon | Tewkesbury | Tiverton and Honiton | Torridge and West Devon | Totnes | Wells | West Dorset | Westbury | Weston-super-Mare | Woodspring
Liberal Democrat	Bath | Bristol West | Cheltenham | Falmouth and Camborne | Mid Dorset and North Poole | North Cornwall | North Devon | Northavon | Somerton and Frome | South East Cornwall | St Ives | Taunton | Teignbridge | Torbay | Truro and St Austell | Yeovil
Labour	Bristol East | Bristol North West | Bristol South | Exeter | Gloucester | Kingswood | North Swindon | Plymouth Devonport | Plymouth Sutton | South Dorset | South Swindon | Stroud | Wansdyke
South West European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Liberal Democrats (1) | Labour (1)

[edit] External Links

[1] - Interviews with the 2005 parliamentary candidates.