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Encyclopedia > Hexham (UK Parliament constituency)

Hexham 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

The constituency comprises the town of Hexham in Northumberland. See also Hexham, New South Wales. ... For other places with this name, see Northumberland Northumberland is a county in England, on the border with Scotland. ...


Member of Parliament

  • 1992 – present: Peter Atkinson
    This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hexham_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&action=edit).

1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Atkinson (born 19 January 1943) is a British Member of Parliament for Hexham. ...

Election results

General Election 2005: Hexham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Atkinson 17,605 42.4 -2.2
Labour Kevin Graham 12,585 30.3 -8.3
Liberal Democrats Andrew Duffield 10,673 25.7 +10.7
English Democrats Party Ian Riddell 521 1.3 +1.3
Imperial Party Thomas Davison 129 0.3 +0.3
Majority 5,020 12.1
Turnout 41,513 68.8 -2.1
Conservative hold Swing +3.0
General Election 2001: Hexham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Atkinson 18,917 44.6 +5.8
Labour Paul Brannen 16,388 38.6 +0.4
Liberal Democrats Philip Latham 6,380 15.0 -2.4
UKIP Alan Patterson 728 1.7 -0.8
Majority 2,529 6.0
Turnout 42,413 70.9 -6.6
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1997: Hexham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Majority
Turnout
Candidate Party Votes Share
Peter Atkinson Conservative Party 17,701 38.8%
Ian McMinn Labour Party 17,479 38.3%
Philip Carr Liberal Democrats 7,959 17.4%
Robert Waddell Referendum Party 1,362 3.0%
David C Lott UKIP 1,170 2.6%

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on 5 May 2005, just over three weeks after the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April by Queen Elizabeth II, at the request of the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right in the United Kingdom. ... Peter Atkinson (born 19 January 1943) is a British Member of Parliament for Hexham. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... The English Democrats Party, previously the English National Party, is a political party in England, which seeks the establishment of a new Parliament for England with at least the same powers as those granted to the Scottish Parliament. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the 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 right in the United Kingdom. ... Peter Atkinson (born 19 January 1943) is a British Member of Parliament for Hexham. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... 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 right in the United Kingdom. ... The 1 May 1997 UK general election brought the first change in UK Government for 18 years. ... The Referendum Party were a single-issue party in the United Kingdom formed to contest the 1997 General Election. ...

Politics and history of the constituency

 

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