Maldon and East Chelmsford (UK Parliament constituency)

Maldon and East Chelmsford
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Maldon and East Chelmsford in Essex for the 2005 general election.
Location of Essex within England.
County	Essex
Major settlements	Maldon, Danbury and Great Baddow
1997–2010
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Chelmsford, Maldon, Witham
Created from	Chelmsford, Colchester South and Maldon
European Parliament constituency	East of England

Maldon and East Chelmsford was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1997 to 2010 it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The District of Maldon, and the Borough of Chelmsford wards of Baddow Road and Great Baddow Village, Galleywood, Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon, Rothmans, and Woodham Ferrers and Bicknacre.

Boundary review

Following their review into parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England abolished the Maldon and East Chelmsford constituency. The wards which made up this constituency were divided between a new Maldon constituency; a new Witham constituency; and a re-created Chelmsford constituency. For the first time, the Maldon District was split between constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member ^[1]	Party
	1997	John Whittingdale	Conservative
	2010	Constituency abolished: see Maldon and Witham

Elections

General Election 2005: Maldon and East Chelmsford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Whittingdale	23,732	51.5	+2.3
	Labour	Sue Tibballs	11,159	24.2	−5.9
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Lambert	9,270	20.1	+4.2
	UKIP	Jesse Pryke	1,930	4.2	+1.6
Majority			12,573	27.3
Turnout			46,091	66.3	+3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.1

General Election 2001: Maldon and East Chelmsford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Whittingdale	21,719	49.2	+0.6
	Labour	Russell Kennedy	13,257	30.1	+1.3
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Jackson	7,002	15.9	-3.5
	UKIP	Geoffrey Harris	1,135	2.6	+0.7
	Green	Walter Schwarz	987	2.2	+0.9
Majority			8,462	19.1
Turnout			44,100	62.8	-15.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Maldon and East Chelmsford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Whittingdale	24,524	48.67
	Labour	K Freeman	14,485	28.75
	Liberal Democrat	G Pooley	9,758	19.37
	UKIP	L Overy-Owen	935	1.86
	Green	E Burgess	685	1.36
Majority			10,039	19.92
Turnout			50,387	77.90
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notes and references

↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)

Constituencies in the East of England (58)

Conservative (52)	Basildon and Billericay Bedford Braintree Brentwood and Ongar Broadland Broxbourne Bury St Edmunds Castle Point Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Chelmsford Colchester Epping Forest Great Yarmouth Harlow Harwich and North Essex Hemel Hempstead Hertford and Stortford Hertsmere Hitchin and Harpenden Huntingdon Ipswich Maldon Mid Bedfordshire Mid Norfolk North East Bedfordshire North East Cambridgeshire North East Hertfordshire North West Cambridgeshire North West Norfolk Norwich North Peterborough Rayleigh and Wickford Rochford and Southend East Saffron Walden St Albans South Basildon and East Thurrock South Cambridgeshire South East Cambridgeshire Southend West South Norfolk South Suffolk South West Bedfordshire South West Hertfordshire South West Norfolk Stevenage Suffolk Coastal Thurrock Watford Waveney Welwyn Hatfield West Suffolk Witham

Labour (4)	Cambridge Luton North Luton South Norwich South

Liberal Democrats (1)	North Norfolk

UK Independence Party (1)	Clacton

East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) Labour (1) UKIP (3)

Coordinates: 51°43′N 0°42′E / 51.72°N 0.70°E / 51.72; 0.70

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