Billericay (UK Parliament constituency)

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Billericay County constituency
Billericay shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1950, 1983
MP:	John Baron
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Billericay 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.

It has elected Conservative MPs at every election except 1966.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

In time for the next United Kingdom general election the seat of Billericay is to effectively merge with Basildon to form a new seat of Basildon and Billericay.

The current wards are Billericay East, Billericay West, Burstead, Crouch, Laindon Park, Pitsea North West, Pitsea South East, Vange, Wickford Castledon, Wickford North and Wickford Park.^[1]

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1950	Bernard Braine	Conservative
	1950
	1955	Richard Body	Conservative
	1959	Edward Gardner	Conservative
	1964
	1966	Eric Moonman	Labour
	1970	Robert McCrindle	Conservative
February 1974		constituency abolished (see Basildon); recreated 1983
	1983	Harvey Proctor	Conservative
	1987	Teresa Gorman	Conservative
	1992
	1997
	2001	John Baron	Conservative
	2005

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Billericay
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Baron	25,487	52.2	+4.8
	Labour	Anneliese Dodds	14,281	29.2	-7.2
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Hibbs	6,471	13.2	-0.7
	British National	Bryn Robinson	1,435	2.9	+2.9
	UK Independence	Seantino Callaghan	1,184	2.4	0.0
Majority			11,206	22.9
Turnout			48,858	61.4	+3.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.0

General Election 2001: Billericay
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Baron	21,608	47.4	+7.6
	Labour	Amanda Campbell	16,595	36.4	-0.9
	Liberal Democrats	Frank Bellard	6,323	13.9	-1.9
	UK Independence	Nick Yeomans	1,072	2.4	N/A
Majority			5,013	11.0
Turnout			45,598	58.1	-14.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex
• Billericay
• Laindon

[edit] References

1. ^ Education and Skills In Your Area - Parliamentary Constituency : Billericay (HTML). www.dfes.gov.uk. Retrieved on 2007-01-11.

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)