Worthing West | |
---|---|
Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | West Sussex |
Electorate | 74,468 (December 2010) |
Major settlements | Durrington, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative) |
Worthing West is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 1997 creation by Sir Peter Bottomley, a Conservative, who is the Father of the House of Commons. [n 2]
The constituency covers the central and western two-thirds portion of Worthing, plus the villages of Ferring, East Preston and Rustington in the district of Arun. The eastern parts of the town are in the East Worthing and Shoreham constituency.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The 2023 Boundary Review proposes to expand the area of the constituency to include the ward of Angmering & Findon while losing the wards of Rustington East and Rustington West. [2]
The seat was created in 1997 as Worthing and Shoreham were re-divided.
Before 1945, this exact land was in the Horsham and Worthing seat.
The MP since 1997 is the Conservative Sir Peter Bottomley. He represented the Woolwich West and related Eltham in south-east London from 1975 to 1997.
In the timing of the 2019 results this seat gave the Conservatives a majority, being the 326th counted up.
Election | Member [3] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1997 | Peter Bottomley | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley [4] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Morag Chugg [5] | ||||
Labour | Rebecca Cooper [6] | ||||
Reform UK | Edmund Rooke [7] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 30,475 | 55.8 | +0.4 | |
Labour | Rebecca Cooper | 15,652 | 28.6 | -4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jamie Bennett | 6,024 | 11.0 | +5.5 | |
Green | Joanne Paul | 2,008 | 3.7 | +0.7 | |
Independent | David Aherne | 489 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 14,823 | 27.2 | +5.0 | ||
Turnout | 54,648 | 69.5 | -0.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 30,181 | 55.4 | +3.9 | |
Labour | Rebecca Cooper | 18,091 | 33.2 | +17.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hazel Thorpe | 2,982 | 5.5 | -3.3 | |
UKIP | Mark Withers | 1,635 | 3.0 | -15.3 | |
Green | Benjamin Cornish | 1,614 | 3.0 | -2.8 | |
Majority | 12,090 | 22.2 | -11.0 | ||
Turnout | 54,614 | 70.2 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -6.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 26,124 | 51.5 | −0.2 | |
UKIP | Timothy Cross | 9,269 | 18.3 | +12.3 | |
Labour | Jim Deen | 7,955 | 15.7 | +3.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hazel Thorpe | 4,477 | 8.8 | −19.1 | |
Green | David Aherne | 2,938 | 5.8 | +3.8 | |
Majority | 16,855 | 33.2 | +9.4 | ||
Turnout | 50,763 | 67.1 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -6.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 25,416 | 51.7 | +4.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hazel Thorpe | 13,687 | 27.9 | +1.2 | |
Labour | Ian Ross | 5,800 | 11.8 | −7.4 | |
UKIP | John Wallace | 2,924 | 6.0 | +0.7 | |
Green | David Aherne | 996 | 2.0 | New | |
Christian | Stuart Dearsley | 300 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 11,729 | 23.8 | +2.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,123 | 64.7 | +2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 21,383 | 47.6 | +0.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Claire Potter | 12,004 | 26.7 | +0.2 | |
Labour | Antony Bignell | 8,630 | 19.2 | −2.3 | |
UKIP | Timothy Cross | 2,374 | 5.3 | +0.8 | |
Legalise Cannabis | Chris Baldwin | 515 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 9,379 | 20.9 | -0.1 | ||
Turnout | 44,906 | 62.6 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 20,508 | 47.5 | +1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | James Walsh | 11,471 | 26.5 | −4.6 | |
Labour | Alan Butcher | 9,270 | 21.5 | +5.3 | |
UKIP | Timothy Cross | 1,960 | 4.5 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 9,037 | 21.0 | +6.0 | ||
Turnout | 43,209 | 59.7 | −12.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Bottomley | 23,733 | 46.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Christopher Hare | 16,020 | 31.1 | ||
Labour | John Adams | 8,347 | 16.2 | ||
Referendum | Nick John | 2,313 | 4.5 | ||
UKIP | Timothy Cross | 1,029 | 2.0 | ||
Majority | 7,713 | 15.0 | |||
Turnout | 51,442 | 71.8 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Arun is a local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in Littlehampton. The district's other towns are Arundel and Bognor Regis. The district is named after the River Arun, which runs through the centre of the district. Parts of the district fall within the South Downs National Park.
Oxford West and Abingdon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Layla Moran, a Liberal Democrat.
South West Surrey is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Since 2005, the seat has been represented by Conservative MP Jeremy Hunt, the current chancellor of the Exchequer and the former Culture Secretary, Health Secretary and Foreign Secretary.
Arundel and South Downs is a constituency in West Sussex created in 1997 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Andrew Griffith of the Conservative Party.
Newport East is a constituency in the city of Newport, South Wales, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Jessica Morden of the Labour Party.
Daventry is a constituency in Northamptonshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Chris Heaton-Harris of the Conservative Party, who has served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 2022.
Fylde is a constituency in Lancashire which is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Mark Menzies, a Conservative.
Ribble Valley is a constituency in Lancashire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1992 by Nigel Evans, a Conservative. Evans has served as a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means since January 2020; he previously served as First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means from 2010 to 2013.
Havant is a constituency in Hampshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Alan Mak, a member of the Conservative Party. He is the first person of Chinese and East Asian origin to be elected to the House of Commons.
Eltham is a constituency in Greater London created in 1983 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Clive Efford of the Labour Party.
West Bromwich East is a constituency that is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Nicola Richards of the Conservative Party, who was first elected at the 2019 United Kingdom general election.
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton is a constituency in West Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Nick Gibb, a Conservative.
Crawley is a constituency in West Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Henry Smith of the Conservative Party.
Horsham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, centred on the eponymous town in West Sussex, its former rural district and part of another rural district. Its Member of Parliament (MP) was Francis Maude between 1997 and 2015; since then it has been Jeremy Quin, both of the Conservative Party.
Shoreham was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1974 to 1997.
Worthing Rural District was a rural district in West Sussex, England from 1933 to 1974. It comprised an area to the north, west and east, but did not include the borough of Worthing. Its area encompassed the land in southern Sussex between the Rivers Adur and Arun, with the exception of Arundel, Littlehampton and Worthing itself. The rural district had its council offices at 15 Mill Road, West Worthing, Worthing.