Hertsmere (UK Parliament constituency)

Hertsmere
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Hertsmere in Hertfordshire.
Location of Hertfordshire within England.
County	Hertfordshire
Electorate	70,772 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Borehamwood
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Oliver Dowden (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	South Hertfordshire and South West Hertfordshire^[2]
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East of England

Hertsmere is a constituency^{[n 1]} identical with the area of the Hertsmere Borough of Hertfordshire in England represented since 2015 in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Oliver Dowden of the Conservative Party.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries and composition

1983-1997: The Borough of Hertsmere, and the City of St Albans ward of London Colney.

1997-present: The Borough of Hertsmere.

Since 1997 the constituency is coterminous with the borough of Hertsmere, in southern Hertfordshire (before then it had also included one electoral ward from the City of St Albans district). Hertsmere consists of the major towns and villages of Bushey, Radlett, Potters Bar and Borehamwood, elevated settlements above the headwaters of the River Colne which forms much of the northern border. Bushey borders Watford and the London Borough of Harrow to the west and south west, while Potters Bar borders Barnet and Broxbourne on the east. Borehamwood is just south-east of the centre, the largest town in the constituency — in the north and centre is Radlett, separated by two large villages and farms from St Albans to the north.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Hertfordshire, the Boundary Commission recommended no changes to constituency boundaries for the 2010 general election. The seat has electoral wards:

Aldenham East, Aldenham West, Borehamwood Brookmeadow, Borehamwood Cowley Hill, Borehamwood Hillside, Borehamwood Kenilworth, Bushey Heath, Bushey North, Bushey Park, Bushey St James, Elstree, Potters Bar Furzefield, Potters Bar Oakmere, Potters Bar Parkfield, Shenley.^[3]

Constituency profile

Just beyond the boundaries of Greater London and with fast railway lines into the capital, Hertsmere is an archetypal middle-class, mixed economy, Home Counties district with many commuters to London, considered by most to be well within the London Commuter Belt.

The Aldenham East ward, assessed as the least deprived of 8414 wards in England in IMD2000 of the year 2000, is in the constituency. A minority of wards of Borehamwood have Labour councillors and the seat has proven to date to be a Conservative safe seat. A close result for second place occurred 2010 with only 661 votes separating the Labour and the Liberal Democrat candidate.

Members of Parliament

This safe Conservative constituency was created in 1983 from the former seat of South Hertfordshire. The former Cabinet minister Cecil Parkinson, who previously represented South Hertfordshire, was the MP from the seat's creation until his retirement in 1992. James Clappison held the seat from 1992 until his decision to stand down from parliament at the 2015 General Election.^[4] The seat was subsequently won by Oliver Dowden.^[5]

	Member^[6]	Party
1983	Cecil Parkinson	Conservative
1992	James Clappison	Conservative
2015	Oliver Dowden	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Hertsmere^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Oliver Dowden	29,696	59.3	+3.3
	Labour	Richard Butler^[9]	11,235	22.4	+3.7
	UKIP	Frank Ward	6,383	12.7	+9.1
	Liberal Democrat	Sophie Bowler	2,777	5.5	−11.8
Majority			18,461	36.9	−0.3
Turnout			50,091	67.9	+3.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 2010: Hertsmere^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Clappison	26,476	56.0	+2.8
	Labour	Sam Russell	8,871	18.8	−8.4
	Liberal Democrat	Anthony Rowlands	8,210	17.4	−1.0
	UKIP	David Rutter	1,712	3.6	N/A
	BNP	Daniel Seabrook	1,397	3.0	N/A
	Green	Arjuna Krishna-Das	604	1.3	N/A
Majority			17,605	37.2
Turnout			47,270	64.7	+1.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	5.6

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Hertsmere^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Clappison	22,665	53.2	+5.4
	Labour	Kelly Tebb	11,572	27.2	−8.8
	Liberal Democrat	Jonathan Davies	7,817	18.4	+3.2
	Socialist Labour	James Dry	518	1.2	+0.2
Majority			11,093	26.1
Turnout			42,572	63.0	+2.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	7.1

General Election 2001: Hertsmere^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Clappison	19,855	47.8	+3.5
	Labour	Hilary Broderick	14,953	36.0	−2.2
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Thompson	6,300	15.2	+2.3
	Socialist Labour	James Dry	397	1.0	N/A
Majority			4,902	11.8
Turnout			41,505	60.3	−13.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Hertsmere^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Clappison	22,305	44.3
	Labour	Beth Kelly	19,230	38.2
	Liberal Democrat	Ann Gray	6,466	12.8
	Referendum	James Marlow	1,703	3.4	N/A
	UKIP	Rodney Saunders	453	0.9	N/A
	Natural Law	Nigel Kahn	191	0.4	N/A
Majority			3,075	6.1
Turnout			50,348	74.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1992: Hertsmere^[14]^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	James Clappison	32,133	56.8	+0.2
	Labour	David Norman Souter	13,398	23.7	+4.1
	Liberal Democrat	Zerbanoo Gifford	10,681	18.9	−4.9
	Natural Law	Ms. Diana Muriel Harding	373	0.7	N/A
Majority			18,735	33.1	+0.4
Turnout			56,585	80.9	+5.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.9

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Hertsmere^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Cecil Parkinson	31,278	56.6
	Liberal	Laurence Stephen Brass	13,172	23.8
	Labour	Frank Ward	10,835	19.6
Majority			18,106	32.75
Turnout				75.35
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1983: Hertsmere^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Cecil Parkinson	28,628	53.2	N/A
	Liberal	Zerbanoo Gifford	13,758	25.6	N/A
	Labour	Ian David Derek Reed	10,315	19.2	N/A
	Independent Communist	Ronald William Parkinson	1,116	2.1	N/A
Majority			14,870	27.6	N/A
Turnout				73.72	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

↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ "'Hertsmere', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
↑ 2015 proposed map
↑ Hertsmere MP James Clappison to stand down at next election Watford Observer, 3 July 2014
↑ Oliver Dowden retains Conservative seat in Hertsmere Watford Observer, 8 May 2015
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Statement Of Persons Nominated And Notice Of Poll". Acting Returning Officer. 9 April 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/hertsmere-2015.html
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "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.
↑ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. 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.
↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

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Coordinates: 51°40′N 0°16′W / 51.667°N 0.267°W / 51.667; -0.267

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