Castle Point (UK Parliament constituency)
Castle Point | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Essex |
Population | 88,011 (2011 census)[1] |
Electorate | 70,923 (2023)[2] |
Major settlements | Canvey Island, South Benfleet, Hadleigh |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Rebecca Harris (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | South East Essex |
Castle Point is a constituency[n 1] in Essex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Rebecca Harris, a Conservative.[n 2]
Constituency profile
[edit]The seat is coterminous with the Castle Point local authority, taking its name from Hadleigh Castle and Canvey Point, and covering the Canvey Island at the seaside end of the Thames Estuary plus a segment of the adjoining mainland.
In 2001, Castle Point was characterised by skilled manual workers, commuters and the self-employed. Levels of home and car ownership in Hadleigh and Canvey were very high while social deprivation was relatively low.[3]
Of all the constituencies of the UK, it has one of the lowest levels of graduates.[4]
History
[edit]This seat was created for the 1983 general election from the former seat of South East Essex. It comprised the District of Castle Point which was formed from the former Urban Districts of Canvey Island and Benfleet and includes Canvey Island, Hadleigh, South Benfleet, and Thundersley.
In all but one election, it has been won by a Conservative candidate, passing to Labour once, in the 1997 election. The former MP defeated in 1997, Bob Spink, regained the seat in 2001. He was re-elected in 2005 but subsequently resigned from the Conservative Party on 22 April 2008. Spink briefly joined UKIP,[5] but resigned the whip shortly afterwards and sat as an Independent MP.[6] In the 2010 election, Spink lost in Castle Point to the Conservative candidate, Rebecca Harris.
At the 2017 election Castle Point had the largest Conservative majority, at 42.2%, of any constituency to have elected a Labour MP in the 1997–2010 government. This was increased even further, to 60.1%, at the 2019 election. In 2024, the Conservative vote was more than halved with Reform UK taking over 30%, reducing the majority to just 8%.
Boundaries
[edit]1983–2024
[edit]Since its creation in 1983 until the 2024 general election, the Castle Point constituency was contiguous with the boundaries of the district council of the same name. The seat is one of only a very few that were unchanged by the boundary reviews which came into effect in 1997 and 2010, having seen population growth in line with the average seat (which is slightly larger), including development in the designated development plans of the Thames Gateway.
Current
[edit]Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency was expanded slightly to meet the electorate size requirements, with the transfer in from South Basildon and East Thurrock of polling district DN of the Pitsea South East ward in the Borough of Basildon - equivalent to the civil parish of Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet.[7]
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member[8][9] | Party | |
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1983 | Sir Bernard Braine | Conservative | |
1992 | Bob Spink | Conservative | |
1997 | Christine Butler | Labour | |
2001 | Bob Spink | Conservative | |
April 2008 | UKIP | ||
November 2008 | Independent | ||
2010 | Rebecca Harris | Conservative |
Elections
[edit]Elections in the 2020s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rebecca Harris | 15,485 | 38.1 | −38.4 | |
Reform UK | Keiron McGill | 12,234 | 30.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Mark Maguire | 9,455 | 23.3 | +6.5 | |
Green | Bob Chapman | 2,118 | 5.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | James Willis | 1,341 | 3.3 | −3.3 | |
Majority | 3,251 | 8.0 | −52.1 | ||
Turnout | 40,633 | 57.6 | –6.2 | ||
Registered electors | 70,552 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Elections in the 2010s
[edit]2019 notional result[11] | |||
---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 34,611 | 76.5 | |
Labour | 7,602 | 16.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | 3,004 | 6.6 | |
Turnout | 45,217 | 63.8 | |
Electorate | 70,923 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rebecca Harris | 33,971 | 76.7 | +9.4 | |
Labour | Katie Curtis | 7,337 | 16.6 | −8.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Howson | 2,969 | 6.7 | +4.4 | |
Majority | 26,634 | 60.1 | +17.9 | ||
Turnout | 44,277 | 63.6 | −0.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.0 |
This was the largest Conservative vote share at the 2019 general election.[13]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rebecca Harris | 30,076 | 67.3 | +16.4 | |
Labour | Joe Cooke | 11,204 | 25.1 | +11.3 | |
UKIP | David Kurten | 2,381 | 5.3 | −25.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Holder | 1,049 | 2.3 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 18,872 | 42.2 | +22.5 | ||
Turnout | 44,710 | 64.4 | −2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rebecca Harris | 23,112 | 50.9 | +6.9 | |
UKIP | Jamie Huntman [18] | 14,178 | 31.2 | New | |
Labour | Joe Cooke [19] | 6,283 | 13.8 | −0.9 | |
Green | Dom Ellis[20] | 1,076 | 2.4 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Sereena Davey [21] | 801 | 1.8 | −7.6 | |
Majority | 8,934 | 19.7 | +2.7 | ||
Turnout | 45,450 | 66.7 | −0.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −24.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rebecca Harris | 19,806 | 44.0 | −4.3 | |
Independent Save Our Green Belt | Bob Spink | 12,174 | 27.0 | New | |
Labour | Julian Ware-Lane | 6,609 | 14.7 | −15.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brendan D'Cruz | 4,232 | 9.4 | −0.9 | |
BNP | Philip Howell | 2,205 | 4.9 | New | |
Majority | 7,632 | 17.0 | −0.9 | ||
Turnout | 45,026 | 66.9 | +1.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -15.7 |
Elections in the 2000s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bob Spink | 22,118 | 48.3 | +3.7 | |
Labour | Luke Akehurst | 13,917 | 30.4 | −11.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Sandbach | 4,719 | 10.3 | +2.5 | |
UKIP | Neil Hamper | 3,431 | 7.5 | +4.3 | |
Green | Irene Willis | 1,617 | 3.5 | New | |
Majority | 8,201 | 17.9 | +15.4 | ||
Turnout | 45,802 | 65.9 | +7.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +7.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bob Spink | 17,738 | 44.6 | +4.5 | |
Labour | Christine Butler | 16,753 | 42.1 | −0.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Billy Boulton | 3,116 | 7.8 | −1.4 | |
UKIP | Ronald Hurrell | 1,273 | 3.2 | New | |
Independent | Douglas Roberts | 663 | 1.7 | New | |
Truth Party | Nik Searle | 223 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 985 | 2.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 39,766 | 58.4 | −13.7 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +2.4 |
Elections in the 1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Christine Butler | 20,605 | 42.4 | +18.4 | |
Conservative | Bob Spink | 19,462 | 40.1 | −15.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael Baker | 4,477 | 9.2 | −10.0 | |
Referendum | Hugh Maulkin | 2,700 | 5.6 | New | |
Independent | Linda Kendall | 1,301 | 2.7 | New | |
Majority | 1,143 | 2.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 48,545 | 72.1 | −8.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +17.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bob Spink | 29,629 | 55.6 | −4.3 | |
Labour | David Flack | 12,799 | 24.0 | +5.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Allan Petchey | 10,208 | 19.2 | −1.9 | |
Green | Irene Willis | 643 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 16,830 | 31.6 | −7.2 | ||
Turnout | 53,279 | 80.4 | +5.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.7 |
Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bernard Braine | 29,681 | 59.9 | +1.4 | |
SDP | Anne Bastow | 10,433 | 21.1 | −3.7 | |
Labour | William Deal | 9,422 | 19.0 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 19,248 | 38.8 | +5.1 | ||
Turnout | 49,536 | 74.5 | +3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bernard Braine | 26,730 | 58.5 | ||
SDP | Anne Bastow | 11,313 | 24.8 | ||
Labour | Lynne Cunningham | 7,621 | 16.7 | ||
Majority | 15,417 | 33.7 | |||
Turnout | 45,664 | 71.3 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ A borough 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
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External links
[edit]- nomis Constituency Profile for Castle Point — presenting data from the ONS annual population survey and other official statistics.
- Castle Point UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
- Castle Point UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Castle Point UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK