Haltemprice and Howden is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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. It elects one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries & Local Government

The constituency covers a wide area stretching from the border of Hull

Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

 in the east to the outskirts of Goole

Goole

Goole is a town, civil parish and port located approximately inland on the confluence of the rivers Don and Ouse in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England...

 in the west and northwards to Holme-on-Spalding-Moor

Holme-on-Spalding-Moor

Holme-on-Spalding-Moor is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north east of Howden and south west of Market Weighton...

. The bulk of the population is centred in the villages of Willerby

Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire

Willerby is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that is located about west of Kingston upon Hull city centre. According to the 2001 UK census, Willerby parish had a population of 8,056....

, Kirk Ella

Kirk Ella

Kirk Ella is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England and is located around west of the city of Kingston upon Hull. Together with West Ella it forms the civil parish of Kirk Ella and West Ella....

, Anlaby

Anlaby

Anlaby is a village located just west of Kingston upon Hull, and is in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is bordered by Anlaby Common , Willerby, Kirk Ella and Hessle. It lies to the east of the B1232 road and on the B1231 road...

 and Cottingham

Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire

Cottingham is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies just to the north-west of the city of Kingston upon Hull...

. Rural Howdenshire forms the bulk of the geographical area of the constituency but provides only a small part of the total electorate.

The constituency includes many towns and villages along the A63

A63 road

The A63 is a major road in Yorkshire, England between Leeds and Hull.-Leeds – Howden:The route out to Selby is shadowed by the Leeds-Selby railway....

 corridor including, Brough

Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire

Brough , or Brough-on-Humber, is a small town in the civil parish of Elloughton-cum-Brough in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The town has a population of around 7,000.-Location:...

, Elloughton

Elloughton

Elloughton is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately to the west of Kingston upon Hull to the south of the A63 road. It lies on the southern end of the Yorkshire Wolds. It is conjoined with Brough that lies to the south east, with which it forms the civil...

, South Cave

South Cave

South Cave is a town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies approximately to the west of Hull city centre on the A1034 road just to the north of the A63 road. North Cave is approximately to the north west.- Overview :...

, North Ferriby

North Ferriby

North Ferriby is a village and civil parish in the Haltemprice area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.-Geography:It is situated on the north bank of the Humber Estuary, approximately to the west of Hull city centre. To the north, atop a hill, lies Swanland via the B1231. South Ferriby is...

, Swanland

Swanland

Swanland is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire in England. The village is about to the west of Kingston upon Hull city centre and north of the Humber Estuary on the B1231 road. To the east lies West Ella, to the west, separated by farmland, lies Melton and to the south...

, Gilberdyke

Gilberdyke

Gilberdyke is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately west of Hull city centre and east of Howden town centre.It lies a mile south of the M62 motorway on the B1230 road....

, Newport

Newport, East Riding of Yorkshire

Newport is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately east of the market town of Howden. It lies on the B1230 road to the south of the M62 motorway...

, Welton

Welton, East Riding of Yorkshire

Welton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north of the town of Brough on the north side of the A63 road to Kingston upon Hull....

 and Melton

Melton, East Riding of Yorkshire

Melton is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated about west of Kingston upon Hull city centre and lies to the north of the A63 road.With Welton and Wauldby, it forms the civil parish of Welton....

.

There are currently Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 Councillors in Howden, Howdenshire, Dale, South Hunsley, Cottingham North, Cottingham South, and Willerby and Kirk Ella Wards. The Lib Dems, who previously enjoyed a strong support in the constituency, suffered heavy losses in the 2011 local elections, losing their seats to the Conservatives in the Cottingham South and Willerby & Kirk Ella Wards. The Lib Dems now only hold one seat in the Tranby Ward (Anlaby & Anlaby Common), after losing the other seat there to Labour

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

; this being the first time a Labour Councillor had ever been elected in the constituency. Notedly, the seat was won by 19 year-old Josh Newlove, who recorded a 27% swing to Labour to seal the victory, just four years after the party came fourth in the same area.

The constituency saw only small boundary changes for the 2010 general election. The minor adjustments brought the constituencies of the East Riding into line with local government boundaries. Haltemprice and Howden lost the civil parish of Newbald

Newbald

Newbald is a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.It is situated approximately west of the market town of Beverley and covering an area of .The civil parish is formed by the village of North Newbald and the hamlet of South Newbald....

 to Beverley and Holderness and gained the civil parish of Woodmansey

Woodmansey

Woodmansey is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south east of Beverley on the A1174 road from Hull to Beverley....

 from Beverley and Holderness. The electoral impact of these changes is insignificant.

History

The constituency was created for the 1997 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1997

The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...

, covering an area previously part of the Beverley

Beverley (UK Parliament constituency)

Beverley has been the name of a parliamentary constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire for three separate periods. From medieval times until 1869, it was a parliamentary borough, consisting solely of the market town of Beverley, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons...

 and Boothferry

Boothferry (UK Parliament constituency)

Boothferry was a constituency in Humberside which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.-History:...

 constituencies. In 1997, it returned the Conservative David Davis

David Davis (British politician)

David Michael Davis is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden...

, who had previously been the member for Boothferry; he was re-elected in the 2001

United Kingdom general election, 2001

The United Kingdom general election, 2001 was held on Thursday 7 June 2001 to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. It was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media, as the Labour Party was re-elected with another landslide result and only suffered a net loss of 6 seats...

, 2005

United Kingdom general election, 2005

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, but with a majority of 66, reduced from 160....

 and 2010 general elections.

The area was placed as 10th most affluent in the country in the 2003 Barclays Private Clients survey.

2008 by-election

On 12 June 2008, a day after a vote on the extension of detention of terror suspects without charge, in an unexpected move, David Davis took the Chiltern Hundreds

Chiltern Hundreds

Appointment to the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham is a sinecure appointment which is used as a device allowing a Member of the United Kingdom Parliament to resign his or her seat...

, effectively resigning his seat as the constituency's MP. He stated this was in order to force a by-election, in which he intended to provoke a wider public debate on the single issue of the perceived erosion of civil liberties

Civil liberties

Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the freedom from slavery and forced labour, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to defend one's self, the right to own and bear arms, the right...

. Over the course of the following week, the campaign was launched on the theme of David Davis for Freedom.

Davis formally resigned as an MP on 18 June 2008, and the by-election took place on 10 July 2008, which Davis won.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...	David Davis David Davis (British politician) David Michael Davis is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Haltemprice and Howden...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s