Crawley | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Sussex |
Electorate | 74,207 (December 2019) [1] |
Major settlements | Crawley |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Henry Smith (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Horsham and Crawley and Mid Sussex [2] |
Crawley is a constituency [n 1] in West Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Henry Smith of the Conservative Party. [n 2]
The constituency covers the whole of the town and borough of Crawley in West Sussex, and London Gatwick Airport is a significant employment centre. Residents' health and wealth are around average for the UK. [3]
1983–1997: The Borough of Crawley, and the District of Mid Sussex wards of Balcombe, Copthorne and Worth, Crawley Down, Slaugham, and Turners Hill.
1997–present: The Borough of Crawley.
The Boundary Commission analysed population increase and recommended that changes to the constituency be made for the 2010 general election so the seat is now coterminous with the borough.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be unchanged. [4]
Before the 1983 general election, Crawley had been part of the Horsham & Crawley, Horsham, and Horsham & Worthing constituencies at times. Due to the growth of Crawley, which was a small town, into a substantial new town in the 1960s and 70s, the Boundary Commission took the decision to separate it from Horsham in 1983 and create a new seat.
Labour majorities in 1997 and 2001 on the size of majority yardstick, but not yet the longevity measure, suggested a safe seat. The seat saw the most marginal result in 2005 with a margin of only 37 votes. Psephologists and editors have long identified[ citation needed ] the marginality of most of the largest new towns and outer satellite cities in Southern England as to those seats with a workforce across diverse sectors (e.g. Bristol, Exeter, Gloucester, Milton Keynes, Hemel Hempstead, Reading, Southampton, Portsmouth, Dover). Few communities in these seats are rooted in Victorian villa toryism nor in Labour's heartlands that for decades depended on heavy industry (the main coalfields, the Lancashire Mill Towns, the Potteries/Black Country, steelworking, dockworking and shipbuilding areas).
In the 2010 election Conservative, Smith, won the seat having twice failed, by 5,928 votes. He gained a not unprecedented (averaged two-party) swing of 6.3%. [5] Smith's later majorities have been 6,526 in 2015; and 2,459 in 2017, elections where the Liberal Democrats, Scepanovic, along with the 2017 candidate for East Worthing and Shoreham in West Sussex lost their deposits by failing to attract 5% of the vote. In 2019, the Liberal Democrat Candidate, Khalil Yousuf increased the Liberal Democrat vote share by 45.2% against the last election, keeping their deposit.
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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1983 | Nicholas Soames | Conservative | |
1997 | Laura Moffatt | Labour | |
2010 | Henry Smith | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Zack Ali [7] | ||||
Labour | Peter Lamb [8] | ||||
Reform UK | Colin Thornback [9] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Henry Smith | 27,040 | 54.2 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Peter Lamb | 18,680 | 37.4 | -8.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Khalil Yousuf | 2,728 | 5.5 | +1.8 | |
Green | Iain Dickson | 1,451 | 2.9 | New | |
Majority | 8,360 | 16.8 | +11.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,899 | 67.2 | -1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.9 | |||
The Brexit Party announced Wayne Bayley as their candidate, but he was withdrawn as part of the UK-wide Brexit Party decision not to oppose sitting Conservative candidates. [11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Henry Smith [12] | 25,426 | 50.6 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Tim Lunnon | 22,969 | 45.7 | +12.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Marko Scepanovic | 1,878 | 3.7 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 2,457 | 4.9 | -8.5 | ||
Turnout | 50,273 | 68.5 | +2.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.25 | |||
The Green Party announced Richard Kail as their candidate, but he did not stand. UKIP also decided not to stand a candidate for the first time since 1997.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Henry Smith [12] | 22,829 | 47.0 | +2.2 | |
Labour | Chris Oxlade [12] | 16,303 | 33.6 | +1.3 | |
UKIP | Christopher Brown [14] | 6,979 | 14.4 | +11.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sarah Osborne [15] | 1,339 | 2.8 | -11.6 | |
Green | Guy Hudson [16] | 1,100 | 2.3 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 6,526 | 13.4 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 48,550 | 65.7 | +0.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.5 | |||
The Christian Peoples Alliance announced Katherine Mills as candidate, [17] but she did not stand.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Henry Smith | 21,264 | 44.8 | +5.8 | |
Labour | Chris Oxlade | 15,336 | 32.3 | −6.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Vincent | 6,844 | 14.4 | −1.1 | |
BNP | Richard Trower | 1,672 | 3.5 | +0.5 | |
UKIP | Chris French | 1,382 | 2.9 | +0.7 | |
Green | Phil Smith | 598 | 1.3 | New | |
Justice Party | Arshad Khan | 265 | 0.6 | +0.1 | |
Independent | Andrew Hubner | 143 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 5,928 | 12.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,504 | 65.3 | +6.9 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +6.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Laura Moffatt | 16,411 | 39.1 | −10.2 | |
Conservative | Henry Smith | 16,374 | 39.0 | +6.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rupert Sheard | 6,503 | 15.5 | +2.8 | |
BNP | Richard Trower | 1,277 | 3.0 | New | |
UKIP | Ronald Walters | 935 | 2.2 | −0.7 | |
Democratic Socialist Alliance - People Before Profit | Robin Burnham | 263 | 0.6 | New | |
Justice Party | Arshad Khan | 210 | 0.5 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 37 | 0.1 | -17.0 | ||
Turnout | 41,973 | 58.4 | +3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −8.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Laura Moffatt | 19,488 | 49.3 | −5.8 | |
Conservative | Henry Smith | 12,718 | 32.2 | +0.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Linda Seekings | 5,009 | 12.7 | +4.5 | |
UKIP | Brian Galloway | 1,137 | 2.9 | +2.3 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Claire Staniford | 383 | 1.0 | New | |
Justice Party | Arshad Khan | 271 | 0.7 | +0.2 | |
Socialist Labour | Karl Stewart | 260 | 0.7 | New | |
Socialist Alliance | Muriel Hirsch | 251 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 6,770 | 17.1 | −6.2 | ||
Turnout | 39,517 | 55.2 | −17.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Laura Moffatt | 27,750 | 55.1 | +14.7 | |
Conservative | Josephine Crabb | 16,043 | 31.8 | −12.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Harold De Souza | 4,141 | 8.2 | −6.3 | |
Referendum | Ronald Walters | 1,931 | 3.8 | New | |
UKIP | Eric Saunders | 322 | 0.6 | New | |
Justice Party | Arshad Khan | 230 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 11,707 | 23.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 50,417 | 72.9 | -6.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +13.4 | |||
This constituency underwent boundary changes between the 1992 and 1997 general
elections and thus change in share of vote is based on a notional calculation.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nicholas Soames | 30,204 | 48.8 | −0.7 | |
Labour | Laura Moffatt | 22,439 | 36.2 | +7.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gordon Seekings | 8,558 | 13.8 | −7.7 | |
Green | Mark Wilson | 766 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 7,765 | 12.6 | −7.9 | ||
Turnout | 61,967 | 79.2 | +2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Nicholas Soames | 29,259 | 49.5 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Paul Leo | 17,121 | 29.0 | +2.8 | |
SDP | David Simmons | 12,674 | 21.5 | −4.2 | |
Majority | 12,138 | 20.5 | -1.4 | ||
Turnout | 59,054 | 77.1 | +0.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nicholas Soames | 25,963 | 48.1 | ||
Labour | Leslie Allen | 14,149 | 26.2 | ||
SDP | Tom Forrester | 13,900 | 25.7 | ||
Majority | 11,814 | 21.9 | |||
Turnout | 54,012 | 76.4 | |||
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