List of Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex

Constituencies

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal Democrat ¤   Green Party

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Electoral wards[3][4] Map
Bexhill and Battle CC 81,963 26,059   Huw Merriman Christine Bayliss ‡ Rother District Council: Battle Town, Central, Collington, Crowhurst, Darwell, Ewhurst and Sedlescombe, Kewhurst, Old Town, Rother Levels, Sackville, St Marks, St Michaels, St Stephens, Salehurst, Sidley, Ticehurst and Etchingham. Wealden District Council: Cross In Hand/Five Ashes, Heathfield East, Heathfield North and Central, Herstmonceux, Ninfield and Hooe with Wartling, Pevensey and Westham.
Brighton, Kemptown BC 69,833 8,061   Lloyd Russell-Moyle   Joe Miller † Brighton and Hove City Council: East Brighton, Moulsecoomb and Bevendean, Queen’s Park, Rottingdean Coastal, Woodingdean. Lewes District Council: East Saltdean and Telscombe Cliffs, Peacehaven East, Peacehaven North, Peacehaven West.
Brighton, Pavilion BC 79,057 19,940   Caroline Lucas   Adam Imanpour ‡ Brighton and Hove City Council: Hanover and Elm Grove, Hollingbury and Stanmer, Patcham, Preston Park, Regency, St Peter’s and North Laine, Withdean.
Eastbourne BC 79,307 4,331 Caroline Ansell   Stephen Lloyd ¤ Eastbourne Borough Council: Devonshire, Hampden Park, Langney, Meads, Old Town, Ratton, St Anthony’s, Sovereign, Upperton; Wealden District Council: Willingdon
Hastings and Rye CC 80,524 4,043   Sally-Ann Hart   Peter Chowney ‡ Hastings Borough Council: Ashdown, Baird, Braybrooke, Castle, Central St Leonards, Conquest, Gensing, Hollington, Maze Hill, Old Hastings, Ore, St Helens, Silverhill, Tressell, West St Leonards, Wishing Tree. Rother District Council: Brede Valley, Eastern Rother, Marsham, Rye.
Hove BC 74,313 17,044   Peter Kyle ‡   Robert Nemeth † Brighton and Hove City Council: Brunswick and Adelaide, Central Hove, Goldsmid, Hangleton and Knoll, North Portslade, South Portslade, Stanford, Westbourne, Wish.
Lewes CC 71,503 2,457   Maria Caulfield Oli Henman ¤ Lewes District Council: Barcombe and Hamsey, Chailey and Wivelsfield, Ditchling and Westmeston, Kingston, Lewes Bridge, Lewes Castle, Lewes Priory, Newhaven Denton and Meeching, Newhaven Valley, Newick, Ouse Valley and Ringmer, Plumpton, Streat, East Chiltington and St John (Without), Seaford Central, Seaford East, Seaford North, Seaford South, Seaford West. Wealden District Council: Alfriston, East Dean, Polegate North, Polegate South.
Wealden CC 82,998 25,655   Nus Ghani Chris Bowers ¤ Wealden District Council: Buxted and Maresfield, Chiddingly and East Hoathly,

Crowborough East, Crowborough Jarvis Brook, Crowborough North, Crowborough St. Johns, Crowborough West, Danehill/Fletching/Nutley, Forest Row, Framfield, Frant/Withyham, Hailsham Central and North, Hailsham East, Hailsham South and West, Hartfield, Hellingly, Horam, Mayfield, Rotherfield, Uckfield Central, Uckfield New Town, Uckfield North, Uckfield Ridgewood, Wadhurst.

Boundary changes

NamePre-2010 BoundariesPost-2010 Boundaries
  1. Bexhill and Battle CC
  2. Brighton, Kemptown BC
  3. Brighton, Pavilion BC
  4. Eastbourne BC
  5. Hastings and Rye CC
  6. Hove BC
  7. Lewes CC
  8. Wealden CC
Parliamentary constituencies in East Sussex
Proposed Revision

Current proposals by the Boundary Commission for England would retain these 8 constituencies, with changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. These changes will be implemented at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

Proposed boundary changes

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.

Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.

On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries.[5] Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020[6] was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[7] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[8]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising East Sussex in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 197,728 44.2% 0.1% 5 1
Labour 121,935 27.3% 4.9% 2 0
Liberal Democrats 75,754 16.9% 2.8% 0 1
Greens 45,128 10.1% 2.3% 1 0
Brexit 4,738 1.1% new 0 0
Others 1,898 0.4% 1.2% 0 0
Total 447,181 100.0 8

Percentage votes

Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 58.4 57.8 52.8 39.4 39.6 39.8 40.9 42.3 44.3 44.2
Labour 13.6 15.2 17.5 29.2 30.2 25.4 20.1 22.9 32.2 27.3
Liberal Democrat1 27.2 26.3 27.5 24.0 24.0 26.3 28.0 12.9 14.1 16.9
Green Party - * * * * * 5.7 10.1 7.8 10.1
UKIP - - - * * * 2.8 11.6 1.3 *
Brexit Party - - - - - - - - - 1.1
Other 0.9 0.7 2.1 7.4 6.2 8.6 2.4 0.3 0.3 0.4

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative 8 8 8 3 3 3 5 6 4 5
Labour 0 0 0 4 4 4 0 1 2 2
Liberal Democrat1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 0
Greens 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Total 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

Historic representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

The Local Government Act 1972 moved the District of Mid Sussex into West Sussex from East Sussex. This change was put into effect in the Parliamentary constituency boundaries for the 1983 boundary changes.

1885 to 1918

  Conservative   Liberal

Constituency 1885 1886 86 89 1892 93 1895 1900 03 05 1906 08 Jan 1910 10 Dec 1910 11 14
Brighton (Two members) Smith Robertson Loder Villiers Tryon
Marriott Vernon-Wentworth Ridsdale Rice Gordon Thomas-Stanford
East Grinstead Gregory Gathorne-Hardy Goschen Corbett Cautley
Eastbourne Field Hogg Beaumont Gwynne
Hastings Brassey Noble Lucas-Shadwell Freeman-Thomas H. du Cros A. du Cros
Lewes Aubrey-Fletcher Campion
Rye Brookfield Hutchinson Courthope

1918 to 1950

  Conservative

Constituency 1918 21 1922 1923 24 1924 25 1929 1931 32 35 1935 36 37 40 41 44 1945
Brighton (Two members) Tryon Erskine Marlowe
Thomas-Stanford Rawson Teeling
East Grinstead Cautley Clarke
Eastbourne Gwynne Lloyd Hall Marjoribanks Slater Taylor
Hastings Lyon Percy Hely-Hutchinson Cooper-Key
Lewes Campion T. P. Beamish Loder T. P. Beamish T. V. Beamish
Rye Courthope Cuthbert

1950 to 1983

  Conservative   Labour

Constituency 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 65 1966 69 1970 73 Feb 1974 Oct 1974 1979
Brighton Kemptown Johnson James Hobden Bowden
Brighton Pavilion Teeling Amery
East Grinstead Clarke Emmet Johnson Smith
Eastbourne Taylor Gow
Hastings Cooper-Key Warren
Hove Marlowe Maddan Sainsbury
Lewes Beamish Rathbone
Rye Irvine
Sussex Mid Renton

1983 to present

  Conservative   Green   Independent   Labour   Liberal Democrats

Constituency 1983 1987 90 1992 1997 01 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 18 19 2019
Brighton Kemptown Bowden Turner Kirby Russell-Moyle
Brighton Pavilion Amery Spencer Lepper Lucas
Hastings and Rye Warren Lait Foster Rudd Hart
Hove Sainsbury Caplin Barlow Weatherley Kyle
Lewes Rathbone Baker Caulfield
Eastbourne Gow Bellotti Waterson Lloyd Ansell Lloyd Ansell
Bexhill and Battle Wardle Barker Merriman
Wealden Johnson Smith Hendry Ghani

See also

Notes

  1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

  1. Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  3. "The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4". Office of Public Sector Information. Crown copyright. 13 June 2007. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  4. Boundary Commission for England pp. 1004–1007
  5. "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
  6. "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
  7. "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  8. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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