Cleethorpes (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cleethorpes
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Cleethorpes in the former county of Humberside
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Location of the former county of Humberside within England
County Lincolnshire
Electorate 72,187 (December 2019) [1]
Major settlements Cleethorpes, Barton-upon-Humber, Immingham, Humberston and Waltham
Current constituency
Created 1997
Member of Parliament Martin Vickers (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created from Brigg & Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes is a constituency created in 1997, [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Martin Vickers of the Conservative Party. [n 2]

Contents

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to boundary changes which will entail the loss of the centre of Cleethorpes to the new constituency of Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes, offset by the addition of the town of Brigg from the disappearing seat of Brigg and Goole. As a consequence, it will be renamed Brigg and Immingham , to be first contested at the next general election. [2]

Political history

Cleethorpes is historically considered as a bellwether seat, having been won by the party that went on to become the largest in the House of Commons at the seven elections contested from and including 1997 (Labour-won in 1997, 2001 and 2005 and Conservative-won in 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019). However, this status may be under threat in the future, as the Conservatives won by a margin of over 20,000 votes in 2019 - what is considered a safe seat. The seat also swung heavily out of step with the nation as a whole from 2010 onwards, including swinging towards the Conservatives moderately in 2017, an election where Labour made significant gains.

Constituency profile

The seat as it stands since the 2010-implemented boundary reforms forms a broad c-shape as it follows the estuarine south coast of the Humber estuary, ranging from silt to sand along its shore. It is a large part-rural, part-urban seat predominantly on flat alluvial clay in northern Lincolnshire. As well as the eponymous town itself, the constituency includes similarly commercial Barton-upon-Humber and industrial, container ship docks-hosting Immingham, as well as many smaller settlements. It surrounds on three sides the seat of Great Grimsby which covers the town of Grimsby and its short shoreline on the Humber; its other present neighbours are Brigg & Goole, Gainsborough and Louth & Horncastle seats.

The Labour vote tends to be stronger around Cleethorpes town itself, in the wards of Croft Baker and Sidney Sussex as well as in Immingham, while the Conservative vote is much stronger across Humberston, Waltham, the rural villages and in parts of Barton.

Boundaries

Cleethorpes (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of current boundaries

1997–2010: The Borough of North East Lincolnshire wards of Cleethorpes Park, Croft Baker, Haverstoe, Humberston, Immingham, and Wold Parishes, and the Borough of North Lincolnshire wards of Ferry and Wold.

2010–present: The Borough of North East Lincolnshire wards of Croft Baker, Haverstoe, Humberston and New Waltham, Immingham, Sidney Sussex, Waltham, and Wolds, and the Borough of North Lincolnshire wards of Barton and Ferry.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [3] Party
1997 Shona McIsaac Labour
2010 Martin Vickers Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Cleethorpes [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Martin Vickers 31,969 69.0 +11.9
Labour Ros James10,55122.8-12.6
Liberal Democrats Roy Horobin2,5355.5+3.2
Green Jodi Shanahan1,2842.8+1.8
Majority21,41846.2+24.5
Turnout 46,33962.9-2.6
Conservative hold Swing +12.25
General election 2017: Cleethorpes [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Martin Vickers 27,321 57.1 +10.5
Labour Peter Keith16,92135.4+6.3
UKIP Tony Blake2,0224.2-14.3
Liberal Democrats Roy Horobin1,1102.3-0.7
Green Loyd Emmerson4701.0-1.2
Majority10,40021.7+4.2
Turnout 47,84465.5+1.6
Conservative hold Swing +2.1
General election 2015: Cleethorpes [6] [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Martin Vickers 21,026 46.6 +4.5
Labour Peter Keith13,13329.1-3.5
UKIP Stephen Harness8,35618.5+11.4
Liberal Democrats Roy Horobin1,3463.0-15.2
Green Carol Thornton1,0132.2New
TUSC Malcolm Morland2150.5New
Majority7,89317.5+8.0
Turnout 45,08963.9-0.1
Conservative hold Swing +4.0
General election 2010: Cleethorpes [8] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Martin Vickers 18,939 42.1 +4.8
Labour Shona McIsaac 14,64132.6-10.8
Liberal Democrats Malcolm Morland8,19218.2+3.5
UKIP Stephen Harness3,1947.1+2.5
Majority4,2989.5N/A
Turnout 44,96664.0+2.4
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +7.8

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Cleethorpes [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Shona McIsaac 18,889 43.3 -6.3
Conservative Martin Vickers 16,24737.3+1.0
Liberal Democrats Geoff Lowis6,43714.8+2.8
UKIP William Hardie2,0164.6+2.5
Majority2,6426.0-7.3
Turnout 43,58961.6-0.4
Labour hold Swing -3.6
General election 2001: Cleethorpes [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Shona McIsaac 21,032 49.6 −2.0
Conservative Stephen Howd15,41236.3+2.9
Liberal Democrats Gordon Smith5,08012.0+0.6
UKIP Janet Hatton8942.1New
Majority5,62013.3-4.9
Turnout 42,41862.0−11.4
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Cleethorpes [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Shona McIsaac 26,058 51.6
Conservative Michael Brown 16,88233.4
Liberal Democrats Keith Melton5,74611.4
Referendum John Berry8943.5
Majority9,17618.2N/A
Turnout 49,58073.4
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ As with all existing 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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