Rochford (UK Parliament constituency)
| Rochford | |
|---|---|
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Essex |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Rayleigh, Rochford and Southend East, Maldon and Chelmsford East |
| Created from | Chelmsford, Maldon, South East Essex, Southend East |
Rochford was a parliamentary constituency in Essex, centred on the town of Rochford.
It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new constituency of Rochford and Southend East.
Boundaries
The District of Rochford (the wards of Ashingdon, Barling and Sutton, Canewdon, Downhall, Foulness and Great Wakering East, Grange and Rawreth, Great Wakering Central, Great Wakering West, Hawkwell East, Hawkwell West, Hockley Central, Hockley East, Hockley West, Hullbridge Riverside, Hullbridge South, Lodge, Rayleigh Central, Rochford Eastwood, Rochford Roche, Rochford St Andrews, Trinity, Wheatley, and Whitehouse), and the Borough of Chelmsford wards of Ramsden Heath and Downham, Rettendon and South Hanningfield, Runwell, Woodham Ferrers North, and Woodham Ferrers South.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Michael Clark | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Rayleigh, Rochford and Southend East & Maldon and Chelmsford East | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Rochford[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Michael Clark | 38,967 | 61.1 | +0.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | N Harris | 12,931 | 20.3 | −7.0 | |
| Labour | D Quinn | 10,537 | 16.5 | +4.2 | |
| Liberal | Ms. L Farmer | 1,362 | 2.1 | −25.1 | |
| Majority | 26,036 | 40.8 | +7.6 | ||
| Turnout | 63,797 | 83.0 | +4.9 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +3.8 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
| General Election 1987: Rochford[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Michael Clark | 35,872 | 60.43 | +2.59 | |
| Liberal | Philip Young | 16,178 | 27.25 | -4.89 | |
| Labour | David Adams Weir | 7,308 | 12.31 | +2.30 | |
| Majority | 19,694 | 33.18 | |||
| Turnout | 59,358 | 78.05 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1983: Rochford[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Michael Clark | 29,495 | 57.84 | -3.28 | |
| Liberal | Richard Henry Boyd | 16,393 | 32.15 | +14.11 | |
| Labour | Hyman Mark Witzer | 5,105 | 10.01 | -10.83 | |
| Majority | 13,102 | 25.69 | |||
| Turnout | 50,993 | 73.49 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- 1 2 "'Rochford', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
Coordinates: 51°35′N 0°43′E / 51.58°N 0.71°E