Epping Forest (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Epping Forest shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England | |
| Created: | 1974 |
| MP: | Eleanor Laing |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Essex |
| EP constituency: | East of England |
Epping Forest 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. Epping Forest replaced the older constituency of Epping in the February 1974 General Election. Also Epping Forest has had two different candidates for London Mayor standing, those being Steve Norris (Conservative) and Julian Leppert (BNP).
Boundaries
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Essex, the Boundary Commission for England has created a modified Epping Forest constituency with the following electoral wards:
- Broadley Common, Epping Upland and Nazeing, Buckhurst Hill East, Buckhurst Hill West, Chigwell Row, Chigwell Village, Epping Hemnall, Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common, Grange Hill, Loughton Alderton, Loughton Broadway, Loughton Fairmead, Loughton Forest, Loughton Roding, Loughton St John’s, Loughton St Mary’s, Theydon Bois, Waltham Abbey High Beach, Waltham Abbey Honey Lane, Waltham Abbey North East, Waltham Abbey Paternoster, and Waltham Abbey South West
Politcal geography
When Epping Forest was first created, it immediately become more Conservative as it lost the London wards the old Epping seat had and gained the more Conservative wards of Chigwell. During the Thatcher period the Labour Party's vote was crushed. Even though the Liberals managed to move into second place, their vote did little more than follow national trends and as soon as 1987 they lost votes far faster than would be expected when looking at national results.Labour almost took the seat in 1997 but since then Epping Forest has swung far quicker to the right than the country as a whole, and the majority the Conservatives got in 2005 would resemble a Tory national victory in the early 1990s, even though Labour won with a 66-seat majority in 2005.
Overall Results
| Election | Result | Majority | Swing | Compared to National |
| 2005 | Conservative hold | 14,358 (32.0%) | 6.1% from Labour to Conservative | swing to Conservatives 3.1% higher than national average |
| 2001 | Conservative hold | 8,426 (19.8%) | 5.0% from Labour to Conservative | swing to Conservatives 3.3% higher than national average |
| 1997 | Conservative hold | 5,252 (9.9%) | 13.3% from Conservative to Labour | swing to Labour 3.3% higher than national average |
| 1992 | Conservative hold | 20,188 (37.1%) | 2.7% from Conservative to Labour | swing to Labour 0.7% higher than national average |
| 1987 | Conservative hold | 21,513 (41.6%) | 4.9% from Liberal to Conservative 1.7% from Labour to Conservative | swing to Conservative (from Lib) 3.6% higher than national average swing to Conservative (from Lab) 1.7% opposite to national trend |
| 1983 | Conservative hold | 15,378 (31.8%) | 6.6% from Conservative to Liberal 4.6% from Labour to Conservative | swing to Liberal (from Con) equal with national average swing to Conservative (from Lab) 0.6% higher than national average |
| 1979 | Conservative hold | 15,453 (30.3%) | 8.0% from Labour to Conservative | swing to Conservative 2.7% higher than national average |
Members of Parliament
- 1974 – 1988: John Biggs-Davison, Conservative
- 1988 – 1997: Steven Norris, Conservative
- 1997 – "present": Eleanor Laing, Conservative
Election results
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1970s
Notional 1970 result
Boundary changes
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Epping
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Current Incumbent
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Chigwell
See also
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