Mid Sussex

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Mid Sussex District
Shown within West Sussex
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	South East England
Historic County:	Sussex (East)
Admin. County:	West Sussex
Area: - Total	Ranked 146th 334.02 km²
Admin. HQ:	Haywards Heath
ONS code:	45UG
Demographics
Population: - Total (2006 est.) - Density	Ranked 148th 129,100 387 / km²
Ethnicity:	97.4% White
Politics
Mid Sussex District Council http://www.midsussex.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MPs:	Nick Herbert, Francis Maude, Nicholas Soames

Mid Sussex is a local government district in the English county of West Sussex. It contains the towns of East Grinstead, Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill.

The district was created on April 1, 1974, and replaced the urban districts of Cuckfield, Burgess Hill, and East Grinstead and nearly all of Cuckfield Rural District. These districts had previously been under East Sussex.

On a recent Channel 4 television programme, Mid Sussex was classed as the sixteenth best district to live in in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Civil parishes

Within the District are the following civil parishes:

[edit] Local politics

Mid Sussex is a Conservative constituency, with the current Member of Parliament (MP) Nicholas Soames, being the grandson of Winston Churchill. In the 2005 general election, the Conservatives represented by Soames won 48.0% of the popular vote, a 1.8% increase, the Liberal Democrats represented by Serena Tierney took 36.1% of votes, a 5.0% increase, the Labour Party with Robert Fromant managed 12.7% of the vote, a 6.1% decrease, and the United Kingdom Independence Party candidate Harold Piggott received 3.2%, a 0.7% increase. The turnout for Mid Sussex was 49 494 people, accounting for 68.6% of the population of Mid Sussex eligible to vote. This was a 3.7% increase.