Mole Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
Mole Valley | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Mole Valley in Surrey | |
![]() Location of Surrey within England | |
County | Surrey |
Electorate | 72,568 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Dorking, Leatherhead, Fetcham and Great Bookham |
1983–2024 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Dorking and Epsom & Ewell[2] |
Replaced by | Dorking and Horley |
Mole Valley is a former constituency in Surrey represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Sir Paul Beresford, a Conservative, until it was abolished in 2024, primarily replaced by Dorking and Horley.
Boundaries
[edit]1983–1997: The District of Mole Valley, and the Borough of Guildford ward of Tillingbourne.
1997–2024: The District of Mole Valley wards of Beare Green, Bookham North, Bookham South, Box Hill and Headley, Brockham, Betchworth and Buckland, Capel, Leigh and Newdigate, Charlwood, Dorking North, Dorking South, Fetcham East, Fetcham West, Holmwoods, Leatherhead North, Leatherhead South, Leith Hill, Mickleham, Westhumble and Pixham, Okewood, and Westcott; and the Borough of Guildford wards of Clandon and Horsley, Effingham, Lovelace, Send, and Tillingbourne.
The constituency was larger than the Mole Valley District of Surrey as it included five wards in the east of the Borough of Guildford, three of which are nearer to Woking than to Dorking. The largest town in the Mole Valley constituency was Dorking, the second largest was Leatherhead and there are many rural and semi-rural villages, generally within one hour's reach of London so properly classed as part of the London Commuter Belt.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat underwent boundary changes, adding the town of Horley, and losing Leatherhead. As a consequence, it was reformed as the new seat of Dorking and Horley, starting from the 2024 general election.[3]
History and constituency profile
[edit]The county constituency was created in 1983; much of the same area was covered by the Dorking constituency which preceded it. It was a Conservative safe seat in terms of length of party tenure and great size of its majorities. It has a majority adult demographic of affluent middle-class families living in commuter towns and villages speedily connected to business parks by road and central London by rail, it was one of a few seats to return a new candidate as Conservative MP who won a majority in excess of 10,000 in the 1997 Labour landslide; the main opposition since 1983 was the Liberal Democrats and their largest predecessor party, the Liberal Party.
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member[4] | Party | |
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1983 | Kenneth Baker | Conservative | |
1997 | Sir Paul Beresford | Conservative |
Elections
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Mole_Valley_election_results_83-19.png/400px-Mole_Valley_election_results_83-19.png)
Elections in the 2010s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Paul Beresford | 31,656 | 55.4 | ―6.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Kennedy | 19,615 | 34.4 | +15.1 | |
Labour | Brian Bostock | 2,965 | 5.2 | ―8.7 | |
Green | Lisa Scott-Conte | 1,874 | 3.3 | +0.7 | |
Independent | Robin Horsley | 536 | 0.9 | New | |
UKIP | Geoffrey Cox | 464 | 0.8 | ―1.6 | |
Majority | 12,041 | 21.0 | ―21.6 | ||
Turnout | 57,110 | 76.5 | +0.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―10.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Paul Beresford | 35,092 | 61.9 | +1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Kennedy | 10,955 | 19.3 | +4.8 | |
Labour | Marc Green | 7,864 | 13.9 | +5.6 | |
Green | Jacquetta Fewster | 1,463 | 2.6 | ―2.8 | |
UKIP | Judy Moore | 1,352 | 2.4 | ―8.8 | |
Majority | 24,137 | 42.6 | ―3.5 | ||
Turnout | 56,866 | 76.3 | +2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―1.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Paul Beresford[8] | 33,434 | 60.6 | +3.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Kennedy | 7,981 | 14.5 | ―14.2 | |
UKIP | Paul Oakley[9] | 6,181 | 11.2 | +6.1 | |
Labour | Leonard Amos[10] | 4,565 | 8.3 | +1.3 | |
Green | Jacquetta Fewster[11] | 2,979 | 5.4 | +3.8 | |
Majority | 25,453 | 46.1 | +17.3 | ||
Turnout | 55,329 | 74.2 | ―0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +8.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Paul Beresford | 31,263 | 57.5 | +2.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alice Humphreys | 15,610 | 28.7 | ―1.8 | |
Labour | James Dove | 3,804 | 7.0 | ―3.7 | |
UKIP | Leigh Jones | 2,752 | 5.1 | +2.1 | |
Green | Rob Sedgwick | 895 | 1.6 | New | |
Majority | 15,653 | 28.8 | +4.5 | ||
Turnout | 54,324 | 74.8 | +3.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.3 |
Elections in the 2000s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Paul Beresford | 27,060 | 54.8 | +4.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nasser Butt | 15,063 | 30.5 | +1.5 | |
Labour | Farmida Bi | 5,310 | 10.7 | ―5.9 | |
UKIP | David Payne | 1,475 | 3.0 | +0.2 | |
Veritas | Roger Meekins | 507 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 11,997 | 24.3 | +2.8 | ||
Turnout | 49,415 | 72.5 | +3.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Paul Beresford | 23,790 | 50.5 | +2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Celia Savage | 13,637 | 29.0 | ―0.3 | |
Labour | Dan Redford | 7,837 | 16.6 | +1.8 | |
UKIP | Ronald Walters | 1,333 | 2.8 | +2.0 | |
ProLife Alliance | William Newton | 475 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 10,153 | 21.5 | +2.8 | ||
Turnout | 47,072 | 68.9 | −9.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.4 |
Elections in the 1990s
[edit]This constituency underwent boundary changes between the 1992 and 1997 general elections and thus change in share of vote is based on a notional calculation.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Paul Beresford | 26,178 | 48.0 | ―13.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Cooksey | 15,957 | 29.3 | +0.6 | |
Labour | Christopher Payne | 8,057 | 14.8 | +5.4 | |
Referendum | Nick Taber | 2,424 | 4.4 | New | |
Ind. Conservative | Richard Burley | 1,276 | 2.3 | New | |
UKIP | Ian Cameron | 435 | 0.8 | New | |
Natural Law | Judith Thomas | 197 | 0.4 | ―0.4 | |
Majority | 10,221 | 18.7 | −10.3 | ||
Turnout | 54,524 | 78.4 | −3.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―6.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Kenneth Baker | 32,549 | 59.3 | ―1.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael Watson | 16,599 | 30.3 | +0.4 | |
Labour | Tim Walsh | 5,291 | 9.6 | +0.3 | |
Natural Law | Judith Thomas | 442 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 15,950 | 29.0 | ―1.9 | ||
Turnout | 54,881 | 82.0 | +5.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―0.9 |
Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Kenneth Baker | 31,689 | 60.8 | ±0.0 | |
Liberal | Susan Thomas | 15,613 | 29.9 | ―0.8 | |
Labour | Christopher King | 4,846 | 9.3 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 16,076 | 30.9 | +0.8 | ||
Turnout | 52,148 | 77.0 | +2.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kenneth Baker | 29,691 | 60.8 | ||
Liberal | Susan Thomas | 14,973 | 30.7 | ||
Labour | Fanny Lines | 4,147 | 8.5 | ||
Majority | 14,718 | 30.1 | |||
Turnout | 48,811 | 75.0 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ "'Mole Valley', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – South East | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 3)
- ^ "Mole Valley Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated 2017" (PDF). Mole Valley District Council. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "UK ELECTION RESULTS: Mole Valley 2015".
- ^ "UK Polling Report".
- ^ "Leonard Amos PPC page". Labour Party (UK). Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ "Surrey Green Party | Mole Valley Green Party". Archived from the original on 12 January 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
Bibliography
[edit]- Election result, 2017 & 2015 (BBC)
- Election result, 2010 (BBC)
- Election result, 2005 (BBC)
- Election results, 1997 - 2001 (BBC)
- Election results, 1997 - 2001 Archived 21 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine (Election Demon)
- Election results, 1983 - 1992 (Election Demon)
- Election results, 1992 - 2010 (Guardian)
- Election result, 2010 (UKPollingReport)
External links
[edit]- Mole Valley UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
- Mole Valley UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK