- Meon Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
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Coordinates: 50°54′00″N 1°01′26″W / 50.900°N 1.024°W
Meon Valley County constituency for the House of Commons 
Boundary of Meon Valley in Hampshire for the 2010 general election.
Location of Hampshire within England.County Hampshire Electorate 71,291 (December 2010)[1] Current constituency Created 2010 Member of Parliament George Hollingbery (Conservative) Number of members One Created from East Hampshire, Havant, Winchester Overlaps European Parliament constituency South East England Meon Valley is a new county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, created for the 2010 general election. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system voting.
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Boundaries
This seat has been formed by the Boundary Commission for England as an extra constituency in Hampshire, with electoral wards from East Hampshire, Havant and Winchester districts.
- From East Hampshire - the wards of Clanfield and Finchdean, Horndean Catherington and Lovedean, Horndean Downs, Horndean Hazleton and Blendworth, Horndean Kings, Horndean Murray and Rowlands Castle
- From Havant - the wards of Cowplain, Hart Plain and Waterloo
- From Winchester - the wards of Bishops Waltham, Boarhunt and Southwick, Cheriton and Bishops Sutton, Denmead, Droxford, Soberton and Hambledon, Owslebury and Curdridge, Shedfield, Swanmore and Newtown, Upper Meon Valley, Whiteley and Wickham
The wards included are largely from parts of the former Winchester and East Hampshire parliamentary seats with some 600 voters from the Havant constituency which is otherwise unchanged. The largest towns in the constituency are Waterlooville and Horndean.
When created, the seat was seen as a likely Conservative-Liberal Democrat marginal, taking in territory from the Liberal Democrat-held Winchester and Conservative-held East Hampshire. Estimates were that the Conservative majority if the seat had existed in 2005 would have been around 2,000 votes. At the 2010 election however, the seat saw one of the largest Liberal Democrat to Conservative swings (9.4%), and the Conservative candidate George Hollingbery was elected with a majority of over 12,000. A similar swing was recorded in the neighbouring Winchester seat, which was a Conservative gain. It would now take a swing of almost 12% for the LibDems to gain Meon Valley.
Members of Parliament
Election Member [2] Party 2010 George Hollingbery Conservative Elections
Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2010: Meon Valley[3] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative George Hollingbery 28,818 56.2 +10.4 Liberal Democrat Liz Leffman 16,693 32.6 −8.4 Labour Howard Linsley 3,266 6.4 −4.2 UKIP Steve Harris 1,490 2.9 +0.4 English Democrats Pat Harris 582 1.1 N/A Animal Protection Sarah Coats 255 0.5 N/A Independent Graeme Quar 134 0.3 N/A Majority 12,125 23.7 +18.8 Turnout 51,238 72.7 +1.5 Conservative hold Swing +9.4 See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)
- ^ BBC Election Results
Categories:- Parliamentary constituencies in Hampshire
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 2010
- Havant (borough)
- Politics of Winchester
- East Hampshire
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