Bexhill and Battle (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 50°53′10″N 0°28′12″E / 50.886°N 0.470°E / 50.886; 0.470

Bexhill and Battle
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Bexhill and Battle in East Sussex.
Location of East Sussex within England.
County	East Sussex
Population	100,727 (2011 census)^[1]
Electorate	78,602 (December 2010)^[2]
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Huw Merriman (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Eastbourne and Rye^[3]
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Bexhill and Battle /ˈbɛks.hɪl ænd ˈbætəl/ is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Huw Merriman of the Conservative Party.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

1983-2010: The District of Rother wards of Ashburnham, Battle, Beckley and Peasmarsh, Bodiam and Ewhurst, Brede and Udimore, Burwash, Catsfield and Crowhurst, Central, Collington, Etchingham and Hurst Green, Northiam, Old Town, Sackville, St Mark's, St Michael's, St Stephen's, Salehurst, Sedlescombe and Whatlington, Sidley, Ticehurst, and Westfield, and the District of Wealden wards of Herstmonceux, Ninfield, and Pevensey and Westham.

2010-present: The District of Rother wards of Battle Town, Central, Collington, Crowhurst, Darwell, Ewhurst and Sedlescombe, Kewhurst, Old Town, Rother Levels, Sackville, St Mark's, St Michael's, St Stephen's, Salehurst, Sidley, and Ticehurst and Etchingham, and the District of Wealden wards of Cross In Hand/Five Ashes, Heathfield East, Heathfield North and Central, Herstmonceux, Ninfield and Hooe with Wartling, and Pevensey and Westham.

The constituency is based around the district of Rother in East Sussex.

Constituency profile

The main towns in the constituency, from which it takes its name, are the seaside resort of Bexhill-on-Sea and the historic town of Battle, location of the 1066 Battle of Hastings.

History

The seat's first MP, Charles Wardle, served as a junior Home Office minister in the government of John Major; Wardle had the Conservative whip removed shortly before the 2001 election. The seat was held by Gregory Barker from 2001 until 2015; Barker was a junior minister at the Department for Energy and Climate Change between the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition after the 2010 general election and the major government reshuffle of July 2014, when he resigned and announced his intention to retire from Parliament at the next general election.^[4] In the 2015 election new MP, Huw Merriman was elected.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[5]	Party
1983	Charles Wardle	Conservative
2001	Charles Wardle	Independent
2001	Gregory Barker	Conservative
2015	Huw Merriman	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Bexhill and Battle^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Huw Merriman ^[7]	30,245	54.8	+3.2
	UKIP	Geoffrey Bastin ^[8]	10,170	18.4	N/A
	Labour	Michelle Thew ^[9]	7,797	14.1	+2.1
	Liberal Democrat	Rachel Sadler ^[10]	4,199	7.6	−20.4
	Green	Jonathan Kent	2,807	5.1	N/A
Majority			20,075	36.4	+12.8
Turnout			55,218	70.1	+1.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 2010: Bexhill and Battle^[11]^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Gregory Barker	28,147	51.6	−2.6
	Liberal Democrat	Mary Varrall	15,267	28.0	+5.3
	Labour	James Royston	6,524	12.0	−5.9
	Trust	Stuart Wheeler	2,699	4.9	N/A
	BNP	Neil Jackson	1,950	3.6	N/A
Majority			12,880	23.6	−7.9
Turnout			54,587	68.9	+2.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	−4.0

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Bexhill and Battle^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Gregory Barker	24,629	52.6	+4.5
	Liberal Democrat	Mary Varrall	11,180	23.9	−0.8
	Labour	Michael Jones	8,457	18.1	−1.3
	UKIP	Anthony Smith	2,568	5.5	-2.3
Majority			13,449	28.7
Turnout			46,834	67.2	+2.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.7

General Election 2001: Bexhill and Battle^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Gregory Barker	21,555	48.1	0.0
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Philip Hardy	11,052	24.7	−0.8
	Labour	Anne Elizabeth Moore-Williams	8,702	19.4	+1.3
	UKIP	Nigel Farage	3,474	7.8	+6.2
Majority			10,503	23.4
Turnout			44,783	64.9	−9.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.4

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Bexhill and Battle^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles Wardle	23,570	48.1	−12.2
	Liberal Democrat	Mrs. Kathryn M. Field	12,470	25.5	−3.4
	Labour	Robert D. Beckwith	8,866	18.1	+8.7
	Referendum	Vanessa Thompson	3,302	6.7	N/A
	UKIP	John Dennis Pankhurst	786	1.6	N/A
Majority			11,100	22.6
Turnout			48,994	74.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	−4.4

This constituency underwent boundary changes between the 1992 and 1997 general elections and thus change in share of vote is based on a notional calculation.

General Election 1992: Bexhill and Battle^[16]^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles Wardle	31,380	60.3	−6.2
	Liberal Democrat	Susan M. Prochak	15,023	28.9	+3.0
	Labour	Frank W. Taylor	4,883	9.4	+1.7
	Green	Jonathan L. Prus	594	1.1	N/A
	Independent	Mary F. Smith	190	0.4	N/A
Majority			16,357	31.4	−9.2
Turnout			52,070	79.1	+1.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	−4.6

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Bexhill and Battle^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles Wardle	33,570	66.5	−0.8
	Social Democratic	Robert Kiernan	13,051	25.8	+2.3
	Labour	Derek Keith Watts	3,903	7.7	−0.3
Majority			20,519	40.7
Turnout			50,524	77.4	+4.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.6

General Election 1983: Bexhill and Battle^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Charles Wardle	30,329	67.3	N/A
	Liberal	Paul Roger Smith	10,583	23.5	N/A
	Labour	Ian Pearson	3,587	8.0	N/A
	Ecology	Miss Anne Patricia Melba Rix	538	1.2	N/A
Majority			19,746	43.8	N/A
Turnout			45,037	72.9	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

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

↑ "Bexhill and Battle: Usual Resident Population, 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ "'Bexhill and Battle', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28303750
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ http://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2014/11/cllr-huw-merriman-is-selected-for-bexhill-and-battle.htmll[]
↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/bexhill-battle-2015.html
↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/bexhill-battle-2015.html
↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/bexhill-battle-2015.html
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ BBC - Election 2010 - Bexhill & Battle
↑ "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 6 Dec 2010.
↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1983". 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, 1983 – 1992 (Election Demon) (Result is incorrect for 1992)
Election results, 1992 – 2005 (Guardian)

Constituencies in South East England (84)

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Labour (4)	Hove Oxford East Slough Southampton Test

Green (1)	Brighton Pavilion

Speaker (1)	Buckingham

South East England European constituency: UKIP (4) Conservative (3) Green (1) Labour (1) Liberal Democrats (1)

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