| Boston and Skegness County constituency |
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| Boston and Skegness shown within Lincolnshire, and Lincolnshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1997 |
| MP: | Mark Simmonds |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Lincolnshire |
| EP constituency: | East Midlands |
Boston and Skegness is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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Boundaries
Boston and Skegness shares a boundary with Louth and Horncastle to the north, Sleaford and North Hykeham to the west and South Holland and The Deepings to the south.
Following a Boundary Commission review in 2001, the constituency boundaries will change at the
History
Boston and Skegness was created in 1997, from parts of the (then) Holland with Boston and East Lindsey constituencies. Parts of the more rural south were separated from the former, to create South Holland and The Deepings. It is a safe seat for the Conservative Party. Despite this its first MP Sir Richard Body, only held the seat at the 1997 general election with a wafer thin majority, in part attributed to his own popularity locally. This was due to him having previously been the MP for the former county division of Holland with Boston from 1966 to 1997.
After retiring from Parliament Body left the Conservatives and joined the UK Independence Party. UKIP came third in Boston and Skegness in the 2005 election, with one of its strongest showings in the country.
Body was succeeded by Mark Simmonds at the 2001 general election. The seat remained a marginal between the Conservatives and Labour Party until 2005, when Simmonds was re-elected with a substantially increased majority. After his re-election Simmonds was made Shadow Minister for International Development, before being promoted to a Shadow Health Minister in July 2007.
Members of Parliament
Before 1997, see Holland with Boston
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1997 | Sir Richard Body | Conservative | |
| 2001 | Mark Simmonds | Conservative | |
Election results
| Confirmed candidates for the |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Paul Kenny | ||||
| UKIP | Christopher Pain | ||||
| Conservative | Mark Simmonds | ||||
| General Election 2005: Boston and Skegness | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Mark Simmonds | 19,329 | 46.2 | +3.3 | |
| Labour | Paul Kenny | 13,422 | 32.1 | −9.5 | |
| UKIP | Richard Horsnell | 4,024 | 9.6 | +7.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Alan Riley | 3,649 | 8.7 | −3.7 | |
| BNP | Wendy Russell | 1,025 | 2.4 | N/A | |
| Green | Marcus Petz | 420 | 1.0 | −0.3 | |
| Majority | 5,907 | 14.1 | |||
| Turnout | 41,869 | 58.8 | +0.5 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +6.4 | |||
| General Election 2001: Boston and Skegness | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Mark Simmonds | 17,298 | 42.9 | +0.5 | |
| Labour | Elaine Bird | 16,783 | 41.6 | +0.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Duncan Moffatt | 4,994 | 12.4 | -4.2 | |
| UKIP | Cyril Wakefield | 717 | 1.8 | N/A | |
| Green | Mark Harrison | 521 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 515 | 1.3 | |||
| Turnout | 40,313 | 58.4 | -10.6 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -0.1 | |||
| General Election 1997: Boston and Skegness | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Richard Body | 19,750 | 42.4 | N/A | |
| Labour | Philip McCauley | 19,103 | 41.0 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jim Dodsworth | 7,721 | 16.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 647 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 46,574 | 68.9 | N/A | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
See also
References
- ^ Boston and Skegness, UKPollingReport
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