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Encyclopedia > South West Surrey

Surrey South West 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
5 External Links

Boundaries

It covers the Waverley district of Surrey and including the towns of Farnham, Godalming and Haslemere. Waverley is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. It is divided into a number of districts - Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking, and borders on Hampshire, Berkshire, Greater London, Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex. ... Farnham is the name of more than one place in the United Kingdom: Farnham, Dorset Farnham, Essex Farnham, North Yorkshire Farnham, Suffolk Farnham, Surrey Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire Farnham is also a place name used in the United States of America: Farnham, New York This is a disambiguation... Godalming is a town in the Waverley district of the county of Surrey, England, seven kilometres south of Guildford. ... Haslemere is a town in southern England, with a population of nearly 14,000. ...

Member of Parliament

The Right Honourable Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (27 January 1921-10 March 1984) was a Conservative politician and Member of Parliament. ... The general election of June 9, 1983 gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the second most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Right Honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley (born March 12, 1948 née Garnett) is a British Conservative Party politician. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. ... Barring a change in the law, the next general election in the United Kingdom must be held some time before June 30, 2006. ...

Election results

General Election 2005: Surrey South West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jeremy Hunt 26,420 50.4 +5.1
Liberal Democrats Simon Cordon 20,709 39.5 -4.1
Labour Tom Sleigh 4,150 7.9 -0.8
UKIP Timothy Clark 958 1.8 -0.6
Veritas Glenn Platt 172 0.3 N/A
Majority 5,711 10.9
Turnout 71.8
Conservative hold Swing +4.6
General Election 2001: Surrey South West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Virginia Bottomley 22,462 45.3 +0.7
Liberal Democrats Simon Cordon 21,601 43.6 +3.8
Labour Martin Whelton 4,321 8.7 -0.7
UKIP Timothy Clark 1,208 2.4 +1.7
Majority 861 1.7
Turnout 49,592 70.3 -7.2
Conservative hold Swing

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 centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... 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 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. ... Veritas is a United Kingdom political party, formed in 2005 as a split from the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). ... 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. ... The Right Honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley (born March 12, 1948 née Garnett) is a British Conservative Party politician. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... 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 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

It came into being at the 1983 general election, largely replacing the former Farnham constituency. It has been consistently won by the Conservative Party but by decreasing majorities, a mere 861 votes in 2001, leaving it the Liberal Democrat's third target constituency by swing required. The seat was held by Virginia Bottomley from the 1984 by-election until her retirement at the 2005 UK general election. The general election of June 9, 1983 gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the second most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... The Right Honourable Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley (born March 12, 1948 née Garnett) is a British Conservative Party politician. ... 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. ...


External Links

  • UK Constituency Maps (http://www.election-maps.co.uk)
  • BBC Vote 2001 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/561.stm)
  • BBC Election 2005 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/561.stm)

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