- Clacton (UK Parliament constituency)
-
Clacton County constituency for the House of Commons 
Boundary of Clacton in Essex for the 2010 general election.
Location of Essex within England.County Essex Electorate 67,447 (December 2010)[1] Current constituency Created 2010 Member of Parliament Douglas Carswell (Conservative) Number of members One Created from Harwich Overlaps European Parliament constituency East of England Clacton is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Contents
Boundaries
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England created this new constituency, which is essentially the former Harwich constituency, minus the town of Harwich itself and a few nearby villages. Additionally, St. Osyth and Weeley have transferred from the old North Essex constituency.
This new seat contains the towns of Clacton, Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze, as well as surrounding villages.
The electoral wards used to form the Clacton constituency are entirely within the district of Tendring
- Alton Park, Beaumont and Thorpe, Bockings Elm, Burrsville, Frinton, Golf Green, Hamford, Haven, Holland and Kirby, Homelands, Little Clacton and Weeley, Peter Bruff, Pier, Rush Green, St Bartholomews, St James, St Johns, St Marys, St Osyth and Point Clear, St Pauls, and Walton.
Constituency profile
The new seat is almost completely coastal, comprising seaside resorts along the Tendring peninsula. It shares an inland border with just one constituency - Harwich and North Essex.
Like some other coastal seats, such as Christchurch in Dorset, the electorate is one of the oldest in the country, with a high proportion of retirees, and low numbers of non-white residents. Sleepy places like Walton and Frinton are comfortable, if unexciting retirement havens.
The stark exception is the town of Jaywick, an area that suffers from extremely high levels of deprivation.
In the Indices of deprivation 2010 an area of Jaywick was identified as the single most deprived LSOA in all of England, out of around 32,000, with unemployment estimated at almost 50%. Many homes essentially beach huts and are severely lacking basic amenities. In the 2007 Index, this area was the third most deprived in the country.
But overall, Clacton is a typical Conservative seaside seat.
Members of Parliament
Election Member [2] Party 2010 Douglas Carswell Conservative Elections
Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2010: Clacton[3] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Douglas Carswell 22,867 53.0 +8.6 Labour Ivan Henderson 10,799 25.0 −10.9 Liberal Democrat Michael Green 5,577 12.9 −0.6 BNP Jim Taylor 1,975 4.6 N/A Tendring First Terry Allen 1,078 2.5 N/A Green Chris Southall 535 1.2 N/A Independent Chris Humphrey 292 0.7 N/A Majority 12,068 28.0 Turnout 43,123 64.2 +1.6 Conservative hold Swing +9.7 See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)
- ^ "Clacton". BBC News. 7 May 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/b14.stm.
Coordinates: 51°50′N 1°09′E / 51.83°N 1.15°E
Categories:- Clacton-on-Sea
- Parliamentary constituencies in Essex
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 2010
- United Kingdom constituency stubs
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
