Wansdyke (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wansdyke County constituency
Wansdyke shown within Avon (county), and Avon (county) shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Dan Norris
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Somerset
EP constituency:	South West England

Wansdyke 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.

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

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the part of Bath and North East Somerset that is not in the Bath constituency. It also contains four wards or parts of wards from South Gloucestershire Council. It is named after the former Wansdyke district. At the next general election 2009/2010 much of this constituency will change to North East Somerset (UK Parliament constituency).

[edit] Members of Parliament

• 1983 — 1997: Jack Aspinwall, Conservative
• 1997 — present: Dan Norris, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Wansdyke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dan Norris	20,686	40.6	−6.2
	Conservative	Chris Watt	18,847	37.0	+1.5
	Liberal Democrats	Gail Coleshill	10,050	19.7	+5.3
	UKIP	Peter Sandell	1,129	2.2	+0.9
	Independent	Geoffrey Parkes	221	0.4	N/A
Majority			1,839	3.6
Turnout			50,933	72.4	+2.5
	Labour hold		Swing	−3.8

General Election 2001: Wansdyke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dan Norris	23,206	46.8	+2.8
	Conservative	Chris Watt	17,593	35.5	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Gail Coleshill	7,135	14.4	-2.4
	Green	Francis Hayden	958	1.9	N/A
	UKIP	Peter Sandell	655	1.3	+0.5
Majority			5,613	11.3
Turnout			49,547	69.9	-9.1
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Wansdyke
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dan Norris	24,117	44.1	0
	Conservative	Mark Prisk	19,318	35.3	0
	Liberal Democrats	Jeff Manning	9,205	16.8	0
	Referendum Party	K. Clinton	1327	2.4	0
	Independent	T. Hunt	438	0.8	0
	Monster Raving Loony	P. House	225	0.4	0
	Natural Law	S. Lincoln	92	0.2	0
Majority			4,799	8.7
Turnout			54,722	79.3	0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	0

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Avon

Constituencies in South West England
Conservative	Bournemouth East | Bournemouth West | Bridgwater | Christchurch | Cotswold | Devizes | East Devon | Forest of Dean | North Dorset | North Wiltshire | Poole | Salisbury | South West Devon | Tewkesbury | Tiverton and Honiton | Torridge and West Devon | Totnes | Wells | West Dorset | Westbury | Weston-super-Mare | Woodspring
Liberal Democrat	Bath | Bristol West | Cheltenham | Falmouth and Camborne | Mid Dorset and North Poole | North Cornwall | North Devon | Northavon | Somerton and Frome | South East Cornwall | St Ives | Taunton | Teignbridge | Torbay | Truro and St Austell | Yeovil
Labour	Bristol East | Bristol North West | Bristol South | Exeter | Gloucester | Kingswood | North Swindon | Plymouth Devonport | Plymouth Sutton | South Dorset | South Swindon | Stroud | Wansdyke
South West European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Liberal Democrats (1) | Labour (1)