East Worthing and Shoreham | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Sussex |
Electorate | 75,466 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Shoreham-by-Sea |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Tom Rutland (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from |
East Worthing and Shoreham is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Tom Rutland of the Labour Party. [n 2]
1997–present: The District of Adur, and the Borough of Worthing wards of Broadwater, Gaisford, Offington, and Selden.
The constituency covers an eastern portion of Worthing, the town of Shoreham-by-Sea, Lancing and three nearby inland villages in the Adur valley, all communities within the county of West Sussex.
Under the Boundary Commission's fourth review, enacted in time for the 1997 election, the larger Shoreham portion of this constituency was taken from the disbanded Shoreham seat and the minor East Worthing portion had been in the disbanded Worthing seat.
Before 1974, the Shoreham seat had been a part of the Arundel and Shoreham seat.
Between 1945 and 1950, the whole area was in the Worthing seat and between 1918 and 1945 (on which the Boundary Commission was formed and carried out its first periodic review), in the Horsham and Worthing seat.
Although from 2001 to 2015 this was an unquestionably safe seat for the Conservative Party, its safety has significantly declined since then, especially in 2017 when Labour reduced the Conservative percentage majority to single figures. It has now succeeded Crawley as Labour's principal target seat in the county of West Sussex, though still requiring a substantial swing.
The competitive hustings in September 2007 of the local Labour Party selected Emily Benn, granddaughter of Tony Benn and niece of Hilary Benn, former Secretaries of State, then aged 17, to contest the 2010 general election, making her the youngest ever Labour parliamentary candidate: had she been elected, she would have been the youngest MP since the Reform Act 1832. Her father Stephen Benn is Viscount Stansgate, succeeding his father. [2]
Labour selected Latest TV newsreader Sophie Cook [3] to be its candidate in the 2017 general election. [4] Had she been elected, she would have been the United Kingdom's first transgender MP. Although she failed to win the seat, she achieved the best ever result of any non-Conservative Party candidate in any Worthing-based constituency, receiving 20,882 votes to the Conservatives' 25,988. [5]
Shoreham can be viewed with Worthing as less of an economic force than the neighbouring local government district, the City of Brighton and Hove, with a majority of houses with larger gardens, fewer listed buildings but Shoreham's large boat harbour facility an amenity for visitors, residents, – mooring and maintenance for people living close enough to the county, rival harbours being as far away as Chichester and Newhaven. [6] Much work is in the service sector, including a major presence of sharedealing and banking service and processing facilities in the borough (see Lancing, West Sussex) and a slightly greater proportion of people are retired compared to the national average (2.11% of the population greater, at 15.8%). [7]
Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.6% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian . [8]
Worthing and Shoreham prior to 1997
Election | Member [9] | Party | |
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1997 | Tim Loughton | Conservative | |
2024 | Tom Rutland | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Tom Rutland | 22,120 | 45.1 | +8.1 | |
Conservative | Leila Williams | 12,601 | 25.7 | −25.3 | |
Reform UK | Lionel Harman | 7,169 | 14.6 | N/A | |
Green | Debbie Woudman | 3,246 | 6.6 | +2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Batchelor | 3,180 | 6.5 | −1.3 | |
Independent | Frank Ward | 320 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Independent | John Greenshields | 273 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Independent | Ivana Forman | 169 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,519 | 19.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,078 | 65.7 | −4.7 | ||
Registered electors | 74,738 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 16.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Loughton | 27,107 | 51.0 | +2.1 | |
Labour | Lavinia O'Connor | 19,633 | 37.0 | –2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ashley Ridley | 4,127 | 7.8 | +3.0 | |
Green | Leslie Williams | 2,006 | 3.8 | +1.4 | |
Independent | Sophie Cook | 255 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 7,474 | 14.0 | +4.4 | ||
Turnout | 53,128 | 70.7 | +0.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 |
Sophie Cook withdrew from the 2019 election, but she remained on the ballot paper as this decision was made after the statement of persons nominated was released. [12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Loughton | 25,988 | 48.9 | −0.6 | |
Labour | Sophie Cook | 20,882 | 39.3 | +19.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Oli Henman | 2,523 | 4.7 | −2.0 | |
UKIP | Mike Glennon | 1,444 | 2.7 | −13.9 | |
Green | Leslie Williams | 1,273 | 2.4 | −2.8 | |
NHA | Carl Walker | 575 | 1.1 | −1.4 | |
Independent | Andy Lutwyche | 432 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,106 | 9.6 | −20.4 | ||
Turnout | 51,673 | 70.7 | +3.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -10.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tim Loughton | 24,686 | 49.5 | +1.0 | |
Labour | Tim Macpherson | 9,737 | 19.5 | +2.8 | |
UKIP | Mike Glennon | 8,267 | 16.6 | +10.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bob Smytherman | 3,360 | 6.7 | −18.8 | |
Green | James Doyle | 2,605 | 5.2 | +2.9 | |
NHA | Carl Walker | 1,243 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,949 | 30.0 | +7.0 | ||
Turnout | 49,898 | 67.2 | +1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tim Loughton | 23,458 | 48.5 | +4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Doyle | 12,353 | 25.5 | +1.2 | |
Labour | Emily Benn | 8,087 | 16.7 | −8.8 | |
UKIP | Mike Glennon | 2,984 | 6.2 | +1.5 | |
Green | Susan Board | 1,126 | 2.3 | N/A | |
English Democrat | Clive Maltby | 389 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,105 | 23.0 | +4.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,397 | 65.4 | +3.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tim Loughton | 19,548 | 43.9 | +0.7 | |
Labour | Daniel Yates | 11,365 | 25.5 | −3.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Doyle | 10,844 | 24.3 | +1.4 | |
UKIP | Richard Jelf | 2,109 | 4.7 | +1.9 | |
Legalise Cannabis | Christopher Baldwin | 677 | 1.5 | −0.6 | |
Majority | 8,183 | 18.4 | +4.2 | ||
Turnout | 44,543 | 61.6 | +1.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tim Loughton | 18,608 | 43.2 | +2.7 | |
Labour | Daniel Yates | 12,469 | 29.0 | +5.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Elgood | 9,876 | 22.9 | −7.7 | |
UKIP | James McCulloch | 1,195 | 2.8 | +1.0 | |
Legalise Cannabis | Christopher Baldwin | 920 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,139 | 14.2 | +4.3 | ||
Turnout | 43,068 | 59.7 | −13.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tim Loughton | 20,864 | 40.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Martin King | 15,766 | 30.6 | ||
Labour | Mark Williams | 12,335 | 23.9 | ||
Referendum | James McCulloch | 1,683 | 3.3 | ||
UKIP | Rosemary Jarvis | 921 | 1.8 | ||
Majority | 5,098 | 9.9 | |||
Turnout | 51,569 | 72.9 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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