South Basildon and East Thurrock (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Basildon and East Thurrock
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
South Basildon and East Thurrock (UK Parliament constituency)
Boundaries since 2024
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Boundary of South Basildon and East Thurrock in the East of England
County Essex
Electorate 73,322 (2023) [1]
Major settlements Laindon, Pitsea, Stanford-le-Hope
Current constituency
Created 2010
Member of Parliament James McMurdock (Reform UK)
SeatsOne
Created from Basildon, Billericay and Thurrock [2]

South Basildon and East Thurrock is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by James McMurdock of Reform UK. [n 2]

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Constituency profile

The seat had a very similar proportion (4.0%) of jobseekers to the national average of 3.8%, based on The Guardian's November 2012 study. This is higher than the average for the Eastern counties of 3.1% but significantly lower than Bedford, Great Yarmouth, Peterborough, Luton South, Rochford and Southend East, and Thurrock seats. [3]

History

The seat was created for the 2010 general election following a review of the Parliamentary representation of Essex by the Boundary Commission for England. It was formed from the majority of the abolished constituency of Basildon, but excluding the centre of Basildon itself, together with the town of Pitsea from the abolished Billericay constituency.

Before 1974 the area came within the older version of the Billericay constituency and, for just five years before 1950, this area was the eastern part of the Thurrock seat – from 1885 to 1945 the area was within the South East Essex seat. From 1832 to 1885 the area was in the South Essex seat.

Its predecessor seat, Basildon, was a much-referenced bellwether seat, having consistently voted for the most successful party (in terms of number of seats) in each election since its 1974 creation. However, the boundaries of the new South Basildon and East Thurrock seat were considered much more favourable to the Conservatives than those of the old Basildon seat. [4] Accordingly, the seat was held with comfortable majorities by Stephen Metcalfe of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2024. However, at the 2024 general election, Metcalfe's vote fell by nearly 40% and he was relegated to third place, with James McMurdock of Reform UK (contesting the seat for the first time), capturing the seat with a 0.2% majority over Labour.

Boundaries

South Basildon and East Thurrock (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries 2010-2024

2010–2024

Despite its long name, this new constituency is to the greatest extent the successor to the Basildon constituency.

The Basildon constituency that existed after 1997 was never wholly within the Basildon district, nor even contained the whole of the Basildon urban area, but it extended south into the Thurrock council area to take in towns such as Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham.

This new seat retained all of the Thurrock wards, lost some areas around central Basildon, and replaced them with Pitsea to the east of Basildon. Additionally, the ward of East Tilbury was added from the Thurrock constituency.

Current

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency is as follows (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

The Borough of Basildon ward of Vange was transferred to Basildon and Billericay, and polling district DN in the Pitsea South East ward (equivalent to the civil parish of Bowers Gifford and North Benfleet) was added to Castle Point. To compensate, the Borough of Thurrock ward of Chadwell St Mary was transferred from Thurrock.

Members of Parliament

Basildon, Billericay and Thurrock prior to 2010

ElectionMember [7] Party
2010 Stephen Metcalfe Conservative
2024 James McMurdock Reform UK

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: South Basildon and East Thurrock
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Reform UK James McMurdock 12,178 30.8 N/A
Labour Jack Ferguson12,08030.5+6.9
Conservative Stephen Metcalfe 10,15925.7−39.7
Independent Neil Speight1,9284.9N/A
Green Elizabeth Grant1,7184.3+4.1
Liberal Democrats Dave Thomas1,0712.7−1.4
Independent Steven Burnett2750.7N/A
SDP Simon Breedon1400.4N/A
Majority980.2
Turnout 39,54954.7
Reform UK gain from Conservative Swing

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: South Basildon and East Thurrock [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stephen Metcalfe 29,973 66.2 +9.3
Labour Jack Ferguson10,05122.2−10.3
Independent Kerry Smith3,3167.3N/A
Liberal Democrats Michael Bukola1,9574.3+2.7
Majority19,92244.0+19.6
Turnout 45,29760.8−3.2
Conservative hold Swing +9.8
General election 2017: South Basildon and East Thurrock
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stephen Metcalfe 26,811 56.9 +13.5
Labour Byron Taylor15,32132.5+7.3
UKIP Peter Whittle 3,1936.8−19.7
Liberal Democrats Nath Banerji7321.6−1.4
Green Sim Harman6801.4N/A
BNP Paul Borg3830.8N/A
Majority11,49024.4+7.5
Turnout 47,17864.0−0.1
Conservative hold Swing +3.1
General election 2015: South Basildon and East Thurrock [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stephen Metcalfe 19,788 43.4 −0.5
UKIP Ian Luder [10] 12,09726.5+20.6
Labour Mike Le-Surf [11] 11,49325.2−5.8
Liberal Democrats Geoff Williams [12] 1,3563.0−10.4
Independent Kerry Smith [13] 4010.9N/A
Independent None of the Above X (Terry Marsh)2530.6+0.3
Independent Stuart Hooper [14] 2050.4N/A
Majority7,69216.9+4.0
Turnout 45,59364.1+1.9
Conservative hold Swing +2.6
General election 2010: South Basildon and East Thurrock [15] [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Conservative Stephen Metcalfe 19,624 43.9
Labour Co-op Angela Smith*13,85231.0
Liberal Democrats Geoff Williams5,97713.4
UKIP Kerry Smith2,6395.9
BNP Chris Roberts2,5185.6
Independent None of the Above X (Terry Marsh)1250.3
Majority5,77212.9
Turnout 44,73562.2
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

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References

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  6. ↑ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule I Part 2 Eastern region.
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  13. ↑ "Ex-UKIP candidate Kerry Smith 'to run as independent'". BBC News. 7 January 2015.
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