BRAINTREE (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Braintree' is a 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.
The seat normally elects Conservative MPs, but Labour won in their landslide victories at the 1997 and 2001 general elections.

Contents

Boundaries

Boundary review

Members of Parliament

Election results

See also

Boundaries

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England has created a modified Braintree constituency with the following electoral wards;

★ Bocking Blackwater, Bocking North, Bocking South, Braintree Central, Braintree East, Braintree South, Bumpstead, Cressing and Stisted, Gosfield and Greenstead Green, Great Notley and Braintree West, Halstead St Andrews, Halstead Trinity, Hedingham and Maplestead, Panfield, Rayne, Stour Valley North, Stour Valley South, The Three Colnes, Three Fields, Upper Colne and Yeldham.
This modified Braintree seat will be fought for the first time at the 2009 or 2010 UK general election

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	Feb 1974	Tony Newton	Conservative
	Oct 1974
	1979
	1983
	1987
	1992
	1997	Alan Hurst	Labour
	2001
	2005	Brooks Newmark	Conservative

Election results

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Essex