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| Harwich County constituency |
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| Harwich shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England | |
| Created: | 1707 |
| MP: | Douglas Carswell |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Essex |
| EP constituency: | East of England |
Harwich is a parliamentary 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
The Harwich constituency, as it existed after 1997 included the towns of Clacton-on-Sea, Holland-on-Sea, Frinton-on-Sea, Walton-on-the-Naze and Harwich itself. It also included the villages of Beaumont-cum-Moze, Great Holland, Great Oakley, Jaywick, Kirby Cross, Kirby-le-Soken, Little Clacton, Little Oakley, Parkeston, Ramsey and Thorpe-le-Soken.
Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England have created a new constituency of Clacton, which is based on the current Harwich seat.
Harwich will be moved into a new constituency called Harwich and North Essex.
Members of Parliament
1660-1868
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| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| 1660 | Sir Capel Luckyn, Bt | Sir Henry Wright, Bt | ||||
| 1661 | Thomas King | |||||
| 1664 | Sir Capel Luckyn, Bt | |||||
| February 1679 | Sir Anthony Dean | Samuel Pepys | ||||
| August 1679 | Sir Philip Parker, Bt | Sir Thomas Middleton | ||||
| 1685 | Sir Anthony Dean | Samuel Pepys | ||||
| 1689 | Sir Thomas Middleton | John Eldred | ||||
| 1690 | The Viscount Newhaven | |||||
| 1695 | Sir Thomas Davall | |||||
| 1698 | Samuel Atkinson | |||||
| 1699 | Sir Thomas Middleton | |||||
| 1701 | Dennis Lydell | |||||
| 1702 | John Ellis | |||||
| May 1708 | Sir John Leake | Thomas Frankland | ||||
| December 1708 | Kenrick Edisbury | |||||
| 1713 | Carew Harvey Mildmay | Sir Thomas Davall | ||||
| May 1714 | Thomas Heath | |||||
| June 1714 | Benedict Calvert | |||||
| 1715 | Sir Philip Parker-a-Morley-Long, Bt | Thomas Heath | ||||
| 1722 | Humphrey Parsons | |||||
| 1727 | The Viscount Perceval | |||||
| 1734 | Carteret Leathes | Charles Stanhope | ||||
| 1741 | John Phillipson | Hill Mussenden | ||||
| 1747 | Viscount Coke | |||||
| 1753 | Wenman Coke | |||||
| 1756 | Viscount Duncannon | |||||
| 1758 | Thomas Sewell | |||||
| 1761 | Charles Townshend | John Roberts | ||||
| 1767 | Thomas Bradshaw | |||||
| 1768 | Edward Harvey | |||||
| 1772 | Charles Jenkinson | |||||
| 1774 | John Robinson | |||||
| 1778 | George North | |||||
| 1784 | Thomas Orde | Tory | ||||
| 1796 | Richard Hopkins | |||||
| 1799 | Henry Dillon-Lee | |||||
| 1802 | Thomas Myers | |||||
| January 1803 | John Hiley Addington | |||||
| April 1803 | James Adams | |||||
| 1806 | William Henry Fremantle | |||||
| March 1807 | James Adams | |||||
| May 1807 | William Huskisson | Tory | ||||
| 1812 | Nicholas Vansittart | |||||
| 1818 | Charles Bathurst | |||||
| 1823 | George Canning | Tory | John Charles Herries | Tory | ||
| 1826 | Nicholas Conyngham Tindal | Tory | ||||
| 1827 | Sir William Rae, Bt | |||||
| 1830 | George Robert Dawson | |||||
| 1832 | Christopher Thomas Tower | |||||
| 1835 | Francis Robert Bonham | |||||
| 1837 | Alexander Ellice | |||||
| 1841 | John Attwood | William Beresford | Conservative | |||
| 1847 | John Bagshaw | |||||
| 1848 | Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bt | Whig | ||||
| March 1851 | Henry Thoby Prinsep | |||||
| May 1851 | Robert Wigram Crawford | |||||
| April 1852 | Sir Fitzroy Kelly | Conservative | ||||
| May 1852 | Isaac Butt | Conservative | ||||
| July 1852 | George Montagu Warren Sandford | Conservative | David Waddington | |||
| 1853 | John Bagshaw | |||||
| March 1857 | George Drought Warburton | |||||
| December 1857 | Robert John Bagshaw | |||||
| March 1859 | Henry Jervis-White-Jervis | |||||
| May 1859 | Hon. William Campbell | |||||
| 1860 | Richard Thomas Rowley | |||||
| 1865 | John Kelk | |||||
| 1868 | Constituency reduced to one member | |||||
1868-present
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1868 | Representation reduced to one member | ||
| 1868 | Henry Jervis-White-Jervis | Conservative | |
| 1880 | Henry Whatley Tyler | Conservative | |
| 1885 | James Round | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Arthur Levy Lever | Liberal | |
| 1910 | Harry Newton | Conservative | |
| 1922 | Albert Ernest Hillary | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Sir Frederick Gill Rice | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Sir Percy John Pybus | Liberal | |
| 1931 | National Liberal | ||
| 1935 | Sir Stanley Holmes | National Liberal | |
| 1954 | Julian Ridsdale | National Liberal | |
| 1966 | Conservative | ||
| 1992 | Iain Sproat | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Ivan Henderson | Labour | |
| 2005 | Douglas Carswell | Conservative | |
Election results
| General Election 2005: Harwich | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Douglas Carswell | 21,235 | 42.1 | +1.9 | |
| Labour | Ivan Henderson | 20,315 | 40.3 | −5.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Keith Tully | 5,913 | 11.7 | +3.2 | |
| UKIP | Jeffrey Titford | 2,314 | 4.6 | −0.5 | |
| Respect | John Tipple | 477 | 0.9 | N/A | |
| Independent | Christopher Humphrey | 154 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 920 | 1.8 | |||
| Turnout | 50,408 | 62.6 | +0.5 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +3.6 | |||
| General Election 2001: Harwich | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Ivan Henderson | 21,951 | 45.6 | +6.9 | |
| Conservative | Iain Sproat | 19,355 | 40.2 | +3.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Peter Wilcock | 4,099 | 8.5 | -4.6 | |
| UKIP | Tony Finnegan-Butler | 2,463 | 5.1 | N/A | |
| Independent | Clive Lawrance | 247 | 0.5 | -1.9 | |
| Majority | 2,596 | 5.4 | |||
| Turnout | 48,115 | 62.1 | -8.4 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
See also
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