Watford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Watford Borough constituency

Watford shown within Hertfordshire, and Hertfordshire shown within England
Created:	1885
MP:	Claire Ward
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Hertfordshire
EP constituency:	East of England

Garden display boards in Abbots Langley supporting the re-election of Claire Ward at the 2005 general election.

Watford 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.

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

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency comprises the whole of Watford Borough Council, together with five wards from Three Rivers District. Two of the Three Rivers wards, Carpenders Park and Oxhey Hall, are to the south of Watford town and include mostly prosperous commuter villages. The remaining three, Abbots Langley, Langleybury and Leavesden, are to the north of Watford and include the large village of Abbots Langley which is more mixed in character. There was a considerable Liberal Democrats advance into second place in 2005, taking many votes off Labour with the Tories not too far behind; it is now a genuine three-way marginal seat.

[edit] Members of Parliament

1885 - 1906: Rt. Hon. Thomas Halsey (Conservative)
1906 - 1910: Nathaniel Micklem (Liberal)
1910 - 1918: Arnold Ward (Conservative)
1918 - 1943: Sir Dennis Herbert (Conservative)
1943 - 1945: Air Commodore William Helmore (Conservative)
1945 - 1955: Major John Freeman (Labour)
1955 - 1964: Frederick Farey-Jones (Conservative)
1964 - 1979: Raphael Tuck (Labour)
1979 - 1997: Tristan Garel-Jones (Conservative)
1997 – present: Claire Ward, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Watford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Claire Ward	16,575	33.6	−11.7
	Liberal Democrats	Sal Brinton	15,427	31.2	+13.8
	Conservative	Ali Miraj	14,634	29.6	−3.7
	Green	Steve Rackett	1,466	3.0	+1.1
	UK Independence	Kenneth Wight	1,292	2.6	+1.4
Majority			1,148	2.3
Turnout			49,394	64.8	+3.7
	Labour hold		Swing	−12.8

General Election 2001: Watford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Claire Ward	20,992	45.3	N/A
	Conservative	Michael McManus	15,437	33.3	-1.5
	Liberal Democrats	Duncan Hames	8,088	17.4	+0.7
	Green	Denise Kingsley	900	1.9	N/A
	UK Independence	Edmund Stewart-Mole	535	1.2	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Jon Berry	420	0.9	N/A
Majority			5,555	12.0
Turnout			46,372	61.1	-13.5
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hertfordshire

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)