Castle Point (UK Parliament constituency)

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Castle Point Borough constituency
Castle Point shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Bob Spink
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Castle Point is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returns one one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

It is normally a strong Conservative seat, although it fell to Labour once, in the 1997 landslide.

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

[edit] Boundaries

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England has created a Castle Point constituency based entirely within the boundaries of the district council of the same name

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Sir Bernard Braine	Conservative
	1987
	1992	Bob Spink	Conservative
	1997	Christine Butler	Labour
	2001	Bob Spink	Conservative
	2005

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bob Spink	22,118	48.3	+3.7
	Labour	Luke Akehurst	13,917	30.4	-11.7
	Liberal Democrats	James Sandbach	4,719	10.3	+2.5
	UK Independence	Neil Hamper	3,431	7.5	+4.3
	Green	Irene Willis	1,617	3.5	+3.5
Majority			8,201	17.9
Turnout			45,802	65.9	+7.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	7.7

General Election 2001: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bob Spink	17,738	44.6	+4.5
	Labour	Christine Butler	16,753	42.1	-0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Billy Boulton	3,116	7.8	-1.4
	UK Independence	Ron Hurrell	1,273	3.2	N/A
	Independent (politician)	Douglas Roberts	663	1.7	-1.0
	Truth Party	Nik Searle	223	0.6	N/A
Majority			985	2.5
Turnout			39,766	58.4	-13.7
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1997: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	C Butler	20,605	42.4	+18.4
	Conservative	Robert Spink	19,462	40.1	-15.5
	Liberal Democrats	M Baker	4,477	9.2	-9.9
	Referendum Party	H Maulkin	2,700	5.6
	Independent (politician)	L D Kendall	1,301	2.7
Majority			1,143	2.3
Turnout				72.1
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1992: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	B Spink	29,629	55.6
	Labour	D Flack	12,799	24.0
	Liberal Democrats	A Petchey	10,208	19.2
	Green	I Willis	643	1.2
Majority			16,830	31.6
Turnout				80.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sir R Braine	29,681	59.9
	Social Democrat	A Bastow	10,433	21.1
	Labour	W Deal	9,422	19.0
Majority			19,248	38.8
Turnout				74.5
	Conservative hold		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)