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Coordinates: 50°48′22″N 1°37′44″W / 50.806°N 1.629°W / 50.806; -1.629

New Forest West
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of New Forest West in Hampshire.
Location of Hampshire within England.
County	Hampshire
Electorate	68,987 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1997 (1997)
Member of Parliament	Desmond Swayne (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	New Forest
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

New Forest West 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.

Contents

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Elections
5 See also
6 Notes and references
7 Sources

Boundaries

The constituency covers the part of the New Forest which is not covered by its other constituency, New Forest East. Settlements include Lymington, Fordingbridge, New Milton and Ringwood.

History

This constituency was created when the old New Forest constituency was divided for the 1997 general election.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member ^[2]	Party
	1997	Desmond Swayne	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: New Forest West^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Desmond Swayne	27,980	58.8	+2.9
	Liberal Democrat	Mike Plummer	11,084	23.3	+4.1
	Labour	Janice Hurne	4,666	9.8	-6.7
	UKIP	Martin Lyon	2,783	5.9	+1.7
	Green	Janet Richards	1,059	2.2	-1.8
Majority			16,896	35.5
Turnout			47,572	69.6	+3.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.6

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: New Forest West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Desmond Swayne	26,004	56.4	+0.7
	Liberal Democrat	Murari Kaushik	8,719	18.9	-6.9
	Labour	Janice Hurne	7,590	16.5	+1.8
	UKIP	Brian Lawrence	1,917	4.2	+0.5
	Green	Janet Richards	1,837	4.0	N/A
Majority			17,285	37.5	+7.6
Turnout			46,067	66.5	+1.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.8

General Election 2001: New Forest West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Desmond Swayne	24,575	55.7	+5.1
	Liberal Democrat	Mike Bignell	11,384	25.8	-2.0
	Labour	Crada Onuegbu	6,481	14.7	+0.4
	UKIP	Michael Clark	1,647	3.7	+0.6
Majority			13,191	29.9	+7.1
Turnout			44,087	65.0	-9.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.6

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: New Forest West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Desmond Swayne	25,149	50.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Bob Hale	13,817	27.8	N/A
	Labour	Dave Griffiths	7,092	14.3	N/A
	Referendum Party	Maureen Elliott	2,150	4.3	N/A
	UKIP	Michael Holmes	1,542	3.1	N/A
Majority			11,332	22.8	N/A
Turnout			49,750	74.7	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notes and references

^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)^{[self-published source?]}^{[better source needed]}
^ "New Forest West". YourNextMP. http://www.yournextmp.com/seats/new_forest_west. Retrieved 6 April 2010.

Sources

Election result, 2005 (BBC)
Election results, 1997 - 2001 (BBC)
Election results, 1997 - 2001 (Election Demon)
Election results, 1997 - 2005 (Guardian)

v t e Constituencies in South East England (84)

Conservative (74)	Aldershot Arundel and South Downs Ashford Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Beaconsfield Bexhill and Battle Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Bracknell Brighton Kemptown Canterbury Chatham and Aylesford Chesham and Amersham Chichester Crawley Dartford Dover East Hampshire East Surrey East Worthing and Shoreham Epsom and Ewell Esher and Walton Fareham Faversham and Mid Kent Folkestone and Hythe Gillingham and Rainham Gosport Gravesham Guildford Hastings and Rye Havant Henley Horsham Hove Isle of Wight Maidenhead Maidstone and The Weald Meon Valley Mid Sussex Milton Keynes North Milton Keynes South Mole Valley Newbury New Forest East New Forest West North East Hampshire North Thanet North West Hampshire Oxford West and Abingdon Portsmouth North Reading East Reading West Reigate Rochester and Strood Romsey and Southampton North Runnymede and Weybridge Sevenoaks Sittingbourne and Sheppey South Thanet South West Surrey Spelthorne Surrey Heath Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells Wantage Wealden Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worthing West Wycombe

Labour (4)	Oxford East Slough Southampton Itchen Southampton Test

Liberal Democrats (4)	Eastbourne Eastleigh Lewes Portsmouth South

Green (1)	Brighton Pavilion

Speaker (1)	Buckingham

South East England European constituency: Conservative (4) UKIP (2) Liberal Democrats (2) Green (1) Labour (1)

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