Rayleigh (UK Parliament constituency)

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Rayleigh County constituency

Rayleigh shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	Mark Francois
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Rayleigh 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.

It is the tenth safest Conservative seat in the United Kingdom and the second safest seat in Essex.

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 made radical alterations to existing constituencies to allow for the number of parliamentary seats in the county to be increased to eighteen. These changes include the formation of a number of new constituencies in the southern and eastern parts of the county.

Rayleigh will be modified to form a new constituency of Rayleigh and Wickford.

[edit] Members of Parliament

1997 – 2001: Dr Michael Clark, Conservative
2001 – "present": Mark Francois, Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Rayleigh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Francois	25,609	55.4	+5.3
	Labour	Julian Ware-Lane	10,883	23.6	-7.1
	Liberal Democrats	Sid Cumberland	7,406	16.0	+0.5
	UK Independence	Janet Davies	2,295	5.0	+1.3
Majority			14,726	31.9
Turnout			46,193	64.2	+3.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.2

General Election 2001: Rayleigh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Francois	21,434	50.1	+0.4
	Labour	Paul Clark	13,144	30.7	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats	Geoff Williams	6,614	15.5	-4.3
	UK Independence	Colin Morgan	1,581	3.7	N/A
Majority			8,290	19.4
Turnout			42,773	60.5	-13.8
	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)