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Encyclopedia > East Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)

Surrey East is a 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. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ...

Contents
1 Boundaries
2 Member of Parliament
3 Election results
4 Politics and history of the constituency

Boundaries

Member of Parliament

  • Geoffrey Howe, Conservative (1974 - 1992)
  • Peter Ainsworth, Conservative (1992 - )
    This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Surrey_East_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&action=edit).

Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, PC (born December 20, 1926), usually known before 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a senior British Conservative politician. ... Peter Michael Ainsworth (born 16 November 1956) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey. ...

Election results

General Election 2005: Surrey East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Ainsworth 27,659 56.2 +3.7
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Pursehouse 11,738 23.8 -0.6
Labour James Bridge 7,288 14.8 -4.3
UKIP Tony Stone 2,158 4.4 +0.5
Legalise Cannabis Alliance Winston Matthews 410 0.8 +0.8
Majority 15,921 32.3
Turnout 49,253 66.6 3.3
Conservative hold Swing +2.1
General Election 2001: Surrey East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Ainsworth 24,706 52.5 +2.4
Liberal Democrats Jeremy Pursehouse 11,503 24.4 +2.0
Labour Jo Tanner 8,994 19.1 -2.1
UKIP Tony Stone 1,846 3.9 +2.9
Majority 13,203 28.1
Turnout 47,049 63.3 -11.4
Conservative hold Swing

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... Peter Michael Ainsworth (born 16 November 1956) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or Democratic Socialist political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced you-kip) is a right-wing political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. ... Legalise Cannabis Alliance Emblem The Legalise Cannabis Alliance (LCA) is a political party registered in the United Kingdom with the cannabis leaf image as its emblem. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... Peter Michael Ainsworth (born 16 November 1956) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for East Surrey. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or Democratic Socialist political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced you-kip) is a right-wing political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ...

Politics and history of the constituency


  Results from FactBites:
 
East Surrey (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (335 words)
East Surrey is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency covers the eastern section of the county of Surrey, including the entirety of the Tandridge district and the town of Horley, which is located in the Reigate and Banstead district.
In 1950, Surrey East lost Addington parish on the fringe of Croydon into the newly-formed Croydon South seat and its southern half to Reigate constituency.
Eastbourne: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (2526 words)
Eastbourne is a medium-sized town in East Sussex, on the south coast of England, with a population, according to the 2001 Census, of around 90,000.
Encouraged by the growing appreciation of the seaside sparked by Richard Russell's assertion of its medicinal benefits some decades earlier, these were to oversee the creation of "the empress of watering places".
In the 1990s, however, both growth and controversy accelerated rapidly as a new plan was launched to develop the area known as the "Crumbles", a shingle bank on the coast to the east of the town centre.
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