North East Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North East Hertfordshire County constituency

North East Hertfordshire shown within Hertfordshire, and Hertfordshire shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	Oliver Heald
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Hertfordshire
EP constituency:	East of England

North East Hertfordshire 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.

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The constituency includes the towns of Letchworth, Royston and Baldock and the surrounding rural area.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Hertfordshire the Boundary Commission for England has recommended the creation of a North East Hertfordshire constituency for the next United Kingdom general election from electoral wards in East Hertfordshire and North Hertfordshire districts:

From East Hertfordshire: Braughing, Buntingford, Hertford Rural North, Hertford Rural South, Little Hadham, Mundens and Cottered, Puckeridge, Thundridge and Standon, Walkern, and Watton-at-Stone
From North Hertfordshire: Arbury, Baldock East, Baldock Town, Ermine, Letchworth East, Letchworth Grange, Letchworth South East, Letchworth South West, Letchworth Wilbury, Royston Heath, Royston Meridian, Royston Palace, and Weston and Sandon.

General Election 2005: North East Hertfordshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oliver Heald	22,402	47.3	+3.2
	Labour	Andy Harrop	13,264	28.0	−8.4
	Liberal Democrats	Iain Coleman	10,147	21.4	+4.2
	UK Independence	David Hitchman	1,561	3.3	+1.0
Majority			9,138	19.3
Turnout			47,374	65.6	+0.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.8

General Election 2001: North East Hertfordshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oliver Heald	19,695	44.1	+2.4
	Labour	Ivan Gibbons	16,251	36.4	+0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Alison Kingman	7,686	17.2	-1.0
	UK Independence	Malcolm Virgo	1,013	2.3	N/A
Majority			3,444	7.7
Turnout			44,645	65.0	-12.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

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)