Castle Point (UK Parliament constituency)

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Castle Point Borough constituency
Castle Point shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Bob Spink
Party:	UK Independence (elected as Conservative)
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Castle Point is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

Covering the area of Canvey Island, it is normally a strong Conservative seat, although it fell to Labour once, in the 1997 landslide. Bob Spink re-won the seat in 2001, but subsequently defected to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) on 22 April 2008 (becoming the first and so far only seat that UKIP has held in the House of Commons).

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 History 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 5 References 6 See also

[edit] Boundaries

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England has created a Castle Point constituency based entirely within the boundaries of the district council of the same name

[edit] History

In March 2008, Bob Spink was deselected by the local Conservative Party association.After announcing he was leaving the Conservatives,Mr.Spink defected to the UK Independence Party in April 2008, and has now stated he will stand for them in the next General Election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Sir Bernard Braine	Conservative
	1987
	1992	Bob Spink	Conservative
	1997	Christine Butler	Labour
	2001	Bob Spink	Conservative
	2005
	2008		Independent Conservative
	2008		UK Independence

[edit] Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UK Independence	Bob Spink
	Labour	Julian Ware-Lane

General Election 2005: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bob Spink	22,118	48.3	+3.7
	Labour	Luke Akehurst	13,917	30.4	-11.7
	Liberal Democrat	James Sandbach	4,719	10.3	+2.5
	UK Independence	Neil Hamper	3,431	7.5	+4.3
	Green	Irene Willis	1,617	3.5	+3.5
Majority			8,201	17.9
Turnout			45,802	65.9	+7.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	7.7

General Election 2001: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bob Spink	17,738	44.6	+4.5
	Labour	Christine Butler	16,753	42.1	-0.3
	Liberal Democrat	Billy Boulton	3,116	7.8	-1.4
	UK Independence	Ron Hurrell	1,273	3.2	N/A
	Independent	Douglas Roberts	663	1.7	-1.0
	Truth Party	Nik Searle	223	0.6	N/A
Majority			985	2.5
Turnout			39,766	58.4	-13.7
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1997: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christine Butler	20,605	42.4	+18.4
	Conservative	Bob Spink	19,462	40.1	-15.5
	Liberal Democrat	M. Baker	4,477	9.2	-9.9
	Referendum Party	H. Maulkin	2,700	5.6
	Independent	L. D. Kendall	1,301	2.7
Majority			1,143	2.3
Turnout				72.1
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1992: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bob Spink	29,629	55.6
	Labour	D. Flack	12,799	24.0
	Liberal Democrat	A. Petchey	10,208	19.2
	Green	I. Willis	643	1.2
Majority			16,830	31.6
Turnout				80.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Castle Point
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bernard Braine	29,681	59.9
	Social Democrat	A. Bastow	10,433	21.1
	Labour	W. Deal	9,422	19.0
Majority			19,248	38.8
Turnout				74.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] References

1. ^ Castle Point, UKPollingReport

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex

Constituencies in the East of England
Conservative	Billericay | Braintree | Brentwood and Ongar | Broxbourne | Bury St Edmunds | Castle Point | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Epping Forest | Harwich | Hemel Hempstead | Hertford and Stortford | Hertsmere | Hitchin and Harpenden | Huntingdon | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Norfolk | North Essex | North East Bedfordshire | North East Cambridgeshire | North East Hertfordshire | North West Cambridgeshire | North West Norfolk | Peterborough | Rayleigh | Rochford and Southend East | Saffron Walden | Southend West | South Cambridgeshire | South East Cambridgeshire | South Norfolk | South Suffolk | South West Bedfordshire | South West Hertfordshire | South West Norfolk | St Albans | Suffolk Coastal | Welwyn Hatfield | West Chelmsford | West Suffolk
Labour	Basildon | Bedford | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Ipswich | Luton North | Luton South | Norwich North | Norwich South | Stevenage | Thurrock | Watford | Waveney
Liberal Democrat	Cambridge | Colchester | North Norfolk
East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)