Cleethorpes County constituency
Cleethorpes shown within Humberside, and Humberside shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	Shona McIsaac
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	North East Lincolnshire
EP constituency:	Yorkshire and the Humber

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Boundaries

The constituency includes the towns of Cleethorpes, Immingham, and Barton-upon-Humber. Arms of Cleethorpes Cleethorpes is a town in North East Lincolnshire, England, situated at the mouth of the River Humber. ... Immingham is a town near Grimsby, in North East Lincolnshire, located on south bank of the River Humber. ... Barton-upon-Humber or Barton is a small town in North Lincolnshire, on the south bank of the River Humber, and at the end of the Humber Bridge. ...

It is made up of 7 wards of North East Lincolnshire: -Immingham (suburban / council estate mix, heavy industry) -Wolds (rural / suburban mix) -Waltham (suburban) -Humberston & New Waltham (suburban) -Haverstoe (suburban) -Croft Baker (terrace / suburban mix) -Sidney Sussex (terraced houses)

And 2 wards of North Lincolnshire: -Ferry (rural / suburban mix) -Barton-upon-Humber (suburban / council estate mix)

Members of Parliament

• 1997 – present: Shona McIsaac, Labour

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Election results

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Developments

According to the UK Polling Report website, Cleethorpes will be Conservative target number 56 at the next General Election.

The Conservative Party advertised for candidates for the Cleethorpes constituency on Friday 25 August 2006 and the final will take place on Wednesday 8th November. As with all current Conservative selection procedures, applications were open to any member of the Conservative Party's priority list of approved candidates and to members of the standard list of approved candidates who claimed a local connection. The constituency will select by way of an 'open primary'.

The two candidates in the final will be Martin Vickers and Andrew Percy.

Vickers was the candidate in Cleethorpes in 2005 and is a councillor in Grimsby. He works as constituency agent to Edward Leigh MP and was not on the priority list.

Percy is a former candidate elsewhere in the country and is a councillor in Kingston upon Hull. He is on the priority list and may have to be replaced if he gets selected for the neighbouring constituency of Brigg & Goole, where he is also a finalist, in the meantime. Brigg and Goole is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...

Details on the number of people who applied, the number of women among them and who would replace Percy should he be selected elsewhere are unknown at this time. The local Conservative Party did deselect a woman candidate before the 2005 election.

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside