Tonbridge and Malling (UK Parliament constituency)
Tonbridge and Malling | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent. | |
Location of Kent within England. | |
County | Kent |
Electorate | 72,671 (2015)[1] |
Major settlements | Tonbridge, Edenbridge and West Malling |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of parliament | Thomas Tugendhat (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Sevenoaks, Tonbridge |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South East England |
Tonbridge and Malling is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Thomas Tugendhat, a Conservative.[n 2]
History
The seat was created in 1974 from parts of the seats of Sevenoaks and Tonbridge.
Boundaries
1974-1983: The Urban District of Tonbridge, the Rural District of Malling (the civil parishes of Addington, Allington, Aylesford, Birling, Borough Green, Burham, Ditton, East Malling and Larkfield, East Peckham, Ightham, Leybourne, Mereworth, Offham, Platt, Plaxtol, Ryarsh, Shipbourne, Snodland, Stansted, Trottiscliffe, Wateringbury, West Malling, West Peckham, Wouldham, and Wrotham), and in the Rural District of Tonbridge the civil parishes of Hadlow and Hildenborough.
1983-1997: The District of Tonbridge and Malling (the wards of Aylesford, Birling, Leybourne and Ryarsh, Blue Bell Hill, Borough Green, Burham, Eccles and Wouldham, Cage Green, Castle, Ditton, East Malling, East Peckham, Hadlow, Higham, Hildenborough, Ightham, Judd, Larkfield North, Larkfield South, Long Mill, Medway, Oast, Snodland East, Snodland West, Trench, Vauxhall, Wateringbury, West Malling, West Peckham and Mereworth, and Wrotham).
1997-2010: The Borough of Tonbridge and Malling wards of Birling, Leybourne and Ryarsh, Borough Green, Cage Green, Castle, East Malling, East Peckham, Hadlow, Higham, Hildenborough, Ightham, Judd, Long Mill, Medway, Oast, Trench, Vauxhall, Wateringbury, West Malling, West Peckham and Mereworth, and Wrotham, and the District of Sevenoaks wards of Edenbridge North, Edenbridge South, Leigh, Penshurst and Fordcombe, and Somerden.
2010-present: The Borough of Tonbridge and Malling wards of Borough Green and Long Mill, Cage Green, Castle, Downs, East Malling, East Peckham and Golden Green, Hadlow, Mereworth and West Peckham, Higham, Hildenborough, Ightham, Judd, Kings Hill, Medway, Trench, Vauxhall, Wateringbury, West Malling and Leybourne, and Wrotham, and the District of Sevenoaks wards of Cowden and Hever, Edenbridge North and East, Edenbridge South and West, Leigh and Chiddingstone Causeway, and Penshurst, Fordcombe and Chiddingstone.
The constituency is in the west of the county of Kent in south eastern England and includes all of the Borough of Tonbridge and Malling and parts of Sevenoaks District.
Constituency profile
This safe Conservative seat is characterised by a large commuter population although significant light engineering, farming and local service industry sectors are represented alongside the public sector, skilled trades and some construction.[2] It has good road and rail links with London. Visitor attractions in the constituency include the River Medway, the Eden Valley Walk which covers Edenbridge and Penshurst, including Hever Castle, Chiddingstone Castle, Penshurst Place and Tonbridge Castle. In this seat are numerous oast houses and remaining Wealden woodlands.
Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.0% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[3]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
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1974 | Sir John Stanley | Conservative | |
2015 | Thomas Tugendhat | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2015: Tonbridge and Malling[5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Thomas Tugendhat[6] | 31,887 | 59.4 | +1.5 | |
UKIP | Robert Izzard[7] | 8,153 | 15.2 | +11.5 | |
Labour | Claire Leigh[8] | 7,604 | 14.2 | +1.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mary Varrall[9] | 3,660 | 6.8 | −15.7 | |
Green | Howard Porter | 2,366 | 4.4 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 23,734 | 44.2 | |||
Turnout | 53,670 | 73.8 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -6.5 | |||
General Election 2010: Tonbridge and Malling[10][11] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 29,723 | 57.9 | +5.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Elizabeth Simpson | 11,545 | 22.5 | +3.0 | |
Labour | Daniel Griffiths | 6,476 | 12.6 | −11.2 | |
UKIP | David Waller | 1,911 | 3.7 | −0.2 | |
Green | Steve Dawe | 764 | 1.5 | N/A | |
National Front | Michael David Stephen Easter | 505 | 1.0 | N/A | |
English Democrats | Lisa Rogers | 390 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,178 | 35.4 | |||
Turnout | 51,314 | 71.5 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.1 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
General Election 2005: Tonbridge and Malling[12] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 24,357 | 52.9 | +3.5 | |
Labour | Victoria Hayman | 11,005 | 23.9 | −6.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | John Barstow | 8,980 | 19.5 | +1.6 | |
UKIP | Dave Waller | 1,721 | 3.7 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 13,352 | 29.0 | |||
Turnout | 46,063 | 67.3 | +3.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 2001: Tonbridge and Malling[13] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 20,956 | 49.4 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Mrs. Victoria Hayman | 12,706 | 29.9 | +2.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Jean Merilyn Canet | 7,605 | 17.9 | −1.3 | |
UKIP | Mrs. Lynne Mary Florence Croucher | 1,169 | 2.8 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 8,250 | 19.5 | |||
Turnout | 42,436 | 64.3 | −11.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
General Election 1997: Tonbridge and Malling[14] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 23,640 | 48.0 | −9.2 | |
Labour | Barbara Withstandley | 13,410 | 27.2 | +9.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Keith Brown | 9,467 | 19.2 | −4.3 | |
Referendum | John Scrivenor | 2,005 | 4.1 | N/A | |
UKIP | B. Bullen | 502 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Gerard Valente | 205 | 0.4 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 10,230 | 20.8 | |||
Turnout | 49,229 | 75.8 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -9.2 | |||
General Election 1992: Tonbridge and Malling[15][16] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 36,542 | 57.2 | +0.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Paul D. Roberts | 14,984 | 23.5 | −6.0 | |
Labour | Mrs Margaret A. O'Neill | 11,533 | 18.1 | +5.0 | |
Green | Jim Tidy | 612 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Mrs Janet I.R. Horvath | 221 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 21,558 | 33.7 | +6.2 | ||
Turnout | 63,892 | 82.7 | +4.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.1 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
General Election 1987:Tonbridge and Malling[17][18] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 33,990 | 56.9 | +0.8 | |
Social Democratic | Michael John Ward | 17,561 | 29.4 | −1.8 | |
Labour | Derek Gordon Still | 7,803 | 13.1 | +0.4 | |
BNP | Michael David Stephen Easter | 369 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,429 | 27.5 | |||
Turnout | 59,725 | 77.8 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.3 | |||
General Election 1983:Tonbridge and Malling[19][20] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 30,417 | 56.1 | +1.6 | |
Social Democratic | R. Freeman | 16,897 | 31.2 | +11.1 | |
Labour | D.J. Bishop | 6,896 | 12.7 | −11.8 | |
Majority | 13,520 | 24.9 | |||
Turnout | 54,210 | 74.7 | −4.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1979:Tonbridge and Malling[21] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 29,534 | 54.5 | +7.7 | |
Labour | R. Ackerley | 13,282 | 24.5 | −4.9 | |
Liberal | G. Knopp | 10,904 | 20.1 | −3.7 | |
National Front | G. Burnett | 429 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,252 | 30.0 | |||
Turnout | 54,149 | 79.5 | +4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.3 | |||
General Election October 1974:Tonbridge and Malling[22] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 23,188 | 46.8 | +1.0 | |
Labour | P. Knight | 14,579 | 29.4 | +2.3 | |
Liberal | M. Vann | 11,767 | 23.8 | −3.1 | |
Majority | 8,609 | 17.4 | |||
Turnout | 49,534 | 75.5 | −7.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election February 1974:Tonbridge and Malling[23] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Paul Stanley | 24,809 | 45.8 | N/A | |
Liberal | M Vann | 14,701 | 27.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Jack Straw | 14,683 | 27.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,108 | 18.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 54,193 | 83.4 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2015 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
- ↑ "Neighbourhood Statistics". statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 2)
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Tom Tugendhat MP". Tom Tugendhat MP. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ "UK Polling Report". ukpollingreport.co.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ Tonbridge and Malling Labour Party. "@ClaireLeighLab, Labour PPC for Tonbridge Edenbridge & Malling". claireleigh4tonbridge.co.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ http://www.libdems.org.uk/general_election_candidates#South East
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.tmbc.gov.uk/assets/Elections/WPE/WPE_TM_SoPN.pdf
- ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: June 1987 [Archive]". politicsresources.net. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: June 1983 [Archive]". politicsresources.net. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: May 1979 [Archive]". politicsresources.net. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: October 1974 [Archive]". politicsresources.net. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ↑ "UK General Election results: February 1974 [Archive]". politicsresources.net. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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