East Worthing and Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 50°49′19″N 0°19′34″W / 50.822°N 0.326°W

East Worthing and Shoreham
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of East Worthing and Shoreham in West Sussex for the 2010 general election.
Location of West Sussex within England.
County	West Sussex
Electorate	72,996 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlements	Shoreham-by-Sea
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Tim Loughton (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Worthing and Shoreham
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

East Worthing and Shoreham is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Tim Loughton of the Conservative Party.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

The District of Adur, and the Borough of Worthing wards of Broadwater, Gaisford, Offington, and Selden.

The constituency covers an eastern portion of Worthing, the town of Shoreham-by-Sea and just three nearby inland villages that are also in West Sussex.

History

Under the Boundary Commission's fourth review, enacted in time for the 1997 election, the larger Shoreham portion of this constituency was taken from the disbanded Shoreham seat and the minor East Worthing portion had been in the disbanded Worthing seat.

Before 1974, the Shoreham seat had been a part of the Arundel and Shoreham seat.

Between 1945 and 1950, the whole area was in the Worthing seat and between 1918 and 1945 (on which the Boundary Commission was formed and carried out its first periodic review), in the Horsham and Worthing seat.

Political history

Apart from the 1997 general election result with the Conservative Party candidate's majority as 9.9% of the vote, more recent greater majorities together with the most recent result, a 22.9% majority, suggest the seat is safer than most other constituencies currently held by the Conservative Party. In terms of second place, this was retaken by the Liberal Democrat candidate in 2010, ousting the Labour Party from that position, having achieved second place at general elections here since 2001.

Trivia

The competitive hustings in September 2007 of the local Labour Party selected Emily Benn, granddaughter of Tony Benn and niece of Hilary Benn, former ministers of state, then aged 17, to contest the 2010 general election, making her the youngest ever Labour parliamentary candidate: had she been elected, she would have been the youngest MP since the Reform Act 1832.^[2]

Constituency profile

Shoreham can be viewed with Worthing as less of an economic force than the neighbouring local government district, the City of Brighton and Hove, with a majority of houses with larger gardens, fewer listed buildings but Shoreham's large boat harbour facility an amenity for visitors, residents, - mooring and maintenance for people living close enough to the county, rival harbours being as far away as Chichester and Newhaven.^[3] Much work is in the service sector, including a major presence of sharedealing and banking service and processing facilities in the borough (see Lancing, West Sussex) and a slightly greater proportion of people are retired compared to the national average (2.11% of the population greater, at 15.8%).^[4]

Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.6% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.^[5]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[6]	Party
	1997	Tim Loughton	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: East Worthing and Shoreham[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tim Loughton	24,686	49.5	+1.0
	Labour	Tim Macpherson	9,737	19.5	+2.8
	UKIP	Mike J. Glennon	8,267	16.6	+10.4
	Liberal Democrat	Bob Smytherman	3,360	6.7	−18.8
	Green	James Doyle	2,605	5.2	+2.9
	National Health Action	Carl Walker	1,243	2.5	N/A
Majority			14,949	30.0	+7.1
Turnout			49,898	67.2	+1.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 2010: East Worthing and Shoreham[8][9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tim Loughton	23,458	48.5	+4.6
	Liberal Democrat	James E. Doyle	12,353	25.5	+1.2
	Labour	Emily Benn	8,087	16.7	−8.8
	UKIP	Mike J. Glennon	2,984	6.2	+1.4
	Green	Susan E. Board	1,126	2.3	N/A
	English Democrats	Clive T. Maltby	389	0.8	N/A
Majority			11,105	22.9
Turnout			48,397	65.4	+3.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: East Worthing and Shoreham[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tim Loughton	19,548	43.9	+0.7
	Labour	Daniel Jonathan Yates	11,365	25.5	−3.5
	Liberal Democrat	James E. Doyle	10,844	24.3	+1.4
	UKIP	Richard B. Jelf	2,109	4.7	+1.9
	Legalise Cannabis	Christopher John Baldwin	677	1.5	−0.6
Majority			8,183	18.4
Turnout			44,543	61.6	1.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.1

General Election 2001: East Worthing and Shoreham[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tim Loughton	18,608	43.2	+2.7
	Labour	Daniel Jonathan Yates	12,469	29.0	+5.0
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Steven Elgood	9,876	22.9	−7.6
	UKIP	James McCulloch	1,195	2.8	+1.0
	Legalise Cannabis	Christopher John Baldwin	920	2.1	N/A
Majority			6,139	14.2
Turnout			43,068	59.7	−13.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: East Worthing and Shoreham[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tim Loughton	20,864	40.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Martin King	15,766	30.6	N/A
	Labour	Mark A. Williams	12,335	23.9	N/A
	Referendum	James McCulloch	1,683	3.3	N/A
	UKIP	Mrs. Rosemary L. Jarvis	921	1.8	N/A
Majority			5,098	9.9	N/A
Turnout			51,569	72.9	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Sussex

Notes and references

Notes

1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
2. 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

1. "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
2. "Benn's granddaughter runs for MP". BBC News Online. 2007-09-25. Retrieved 2007-09-28.
3. OS Map with Listed Buildings and Parks marked
4. 2011 Census "Economically Inactive - see subcategories"
5. Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
6. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
7. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
8. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
9. "Worthing East & Shoreham". BBC News Online. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
10. "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
11. "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
12. "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

Sources

• Election result, 2005 (BBC)
• Election results, 1997 - 2001 (BBC)
• Election results, 1997 - 2001 (Election Demon)
• Election results, 1997 - 2005 (Guardian)