Reigate (UK Parliament constituency)

Reigate
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Reigate in Surrey.
Location of Surrey within England.
County	Surrey
Electorate	72,043 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Reigate, Redhill
Current constituency
Created	1295, 1885
Member of parliament	Crispin Blunt (Conservative)
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Reigate /ˈraɪɡeɪt/ is a constituency^{[lower-alpha 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Crispin Blunt of the Conservative Party.^{[lower-alpha 2]}

Boundaries

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Reigate, the Sessional Division of Reigate, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Dorking and Godstone.

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Reigate, the Urban District of Dorking, and the Rural Districts of Dorking and Reigate.

1950-1974: The Municipal Borough of Reigate, and the Rural District of Godstone.

1974-1983: The Municipal Borough of Reigate, and the Urban District of Banstead.

1983-1997: The Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Chipstead Hooley and Woodmansterne, Horley East, Horley West, Kingswood with Burgh Heath, Reigate Central, Reigate East, Reigate North, Reigate North Central, Reigate North East, Reigate South Central, Reigate South East, Reigate South West, Salfords and Sidlow, and Tadworth and Walton.

1997-2010: The Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Banstead Village, Chipstead Hooley and Woodmansterne, Kingswood with Burgh Heath, Reigate Central, Reigate East, Reigate North, Reigate North Central, Reigate North East, Reigate South Central, Reigate South East, Reigate South West, Salfords and Sidlow, and Tadworth and Walton.

2010-present: The Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Banstead Village, Chipstead Hooley and Woodmansterne, Earlswood and Whitebushes, Kingswood with Burgh Heath, Meadvale and St John’s, Merstham, Preston, Redhill East, Redhill West, Reigate Central, Reigate Hill, Salfords and Sidlow, South Park and Woodhatch, and Tadworth and Walton.

The constituency is in Surrey bordering Greater London and is centered on the town of Reigate from which it takes its name. As shown by the map the constituency excludes most of the post town of Horley in the East Surrey seat and parts of Walton-on-the-Hill in the Epsom and Ewell seat but contains the remainder of the Reigate and Banstead district.^[1]

History

This constituency was first created with the first election of Burgesses to Parliament in 1295, electing two members. It continued to elect two members until 1832 when its representation was reduced to one member by the Great Reform Act.

In 1868 the constituency was disenfranchised for corruption, but was revived in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 when the East Surrey constituency was abolished. Since 1918 the seat has been held by a candidate in the Conservative Party with the exception of four months during which the anti-EU MP in 1997 before the election of that year joined the Referendum Party (UK). The Liberal Democrats including their two predecessor parties amassed their largest share of the vote in 2010. The largest opposition party has changed to the Liberal Democrats since the 2005 election.

In 1974, the seat saw major boundary changes which removed some of Eastern Surrey which was in the seat into the radically redesigned East Surrey seat and added the Banstead area to the seat. One of the three Green local councillors stood as the Green Party candidate for the first time the party has stood in 23 years at the 2010 general election.^[2]

Members of Parliament

MPs 1295–1660

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	John Aubyn	Richard atte Mere^[3]
1388 (Feb)	John Chaunce I	Thomas Ballard^[3]
1388 (Sep)	John Aubyn	William Bone^[3]
1390 (Jan)	John Aubyn	William Bone^[3]
1390 (Nov)
1391	Roger Chaunce I	William Bone^[3]
1393	John Aubyn	John Bavell^[3]
1394
1395	John Skinner	John Bavell^[3]
1397 (Jan)	John Skinner	John Bavell^[3]
1397 (Sep)	John Skinner	Richard atte Mere^[3]
1399	John Skinner	Roger Chaunce I^[3]
1401
1402	Richard Turner	Thomas Barber^[3]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	John Chaunce II	John Taylor^[3]
1407	John Chaunce II	Thomas Barber^[3]
1410
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)	John Skinner	Roger Chaunce II^[3]
1415	John Skinner	Walter Wrigge^[3]
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1417	John Knight	John Chaunce II^[3]
1419	John Pope	John Chaunce II^[3]
1420	John Pope	John Skinner^[3]
1421 (May)	John Pope	Walter Urry^[3]
1421 (Dec)	Robert Wanford	Roger Chaunce II^[3]
1432	Thomas Russell^[4]
1510–1523	No names known^[5]
1529	John Skinner I	Thomas Michell^[5]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	James Skinner	John Skinner II^[5]
1545	?
1547	Robert Richers	William More^[5]
1553 (Mar)	Robert Robotham	Henry Fisher^[5]
1553 (Oct)	Sir Thomas Saunders	Thomas Ingler^[5]
1554 (Apr)	Henry White	Robert Richers^[5]
1554 (Nov)	Robert Richers	James Skinner^[5]
1555	Thomas Windsor	Walter Haddon^[5]
1558	George Elsden	Thomas Banester^[5]
1559	William Howard	John Skinner^[6]
1562/3	Sir George Howard	William Howard^[6]
1571	William Howard	John Agmondesham I^[6]
1572	William Howard	John Skinner^[6]
1584	William Howard	Edmund Sanders^[6]
1586	William Howard	Edmund Sanders^[6]
1588	Julius Caesar	Thomas Lyfield^[6]
1593	William Howard	John Trevor^[6]
1597	Sir William Howard	Edward Howard^[6]
1601	Edward Howard	John Trevor
1604	Sir Edward Howard	Herbert Pelham
1614	Sir Edward Howard	John Suckling
1621	Thomas Glemham	Robert Lewis
1624	Sir Thomas Bludder	Robert Lewis
1625	Sir Thomas Bludder	Sir Roger James
1626	Sir Thomas Bludder	Sir William Monson
1628	Charles Cockayne	Sir Thomas Bludder
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned
1640 (Apr)	Edward Thurland	Sir Thomas Bludder
1640 (Nov)	William Lord Monson	George Evelyn
1645
1648
1653	Reigate not represented in Barebones Parliament
1654	Edward Bysshe	(one seat only)
1656	?John Goodwin	(one seat only)
1659	John Hele	Edward Thurland

MPs 1660–1832

Year		1st Party		2nd Party
1660	John Hele		Edward Thurland
1661	Roger James		Edward Thurland
1673			Sir John Werden
February 1679			Deane Goodwin
October 1679			Ralph Freeman
1680			Deane Goodwin
1681	Ralph Freeman		Deane Goodwin
1685	Sir John Werden		Sir John Parsons
January 1689	Roger James		Sir John Parsons
March 1689	Roger James		Thomas Vincent
1690	Sir John Parsons		John Parsons
1698	Stephen Hervey		Edward Thurland
1701	Stephen Hervey		Sir John Parsons
1707	James Cocks
1710	John Ward
1713	James Cocks
1717			William Jordan
1720			Thomas Jordan
1722			Sir Joseph Jekyll	Whig
1739			John Hervey
1741			Philip Yorke	Whig
June 1747	Charles Cocks^[8]		Philip Yorke	Whig
December 1747			Charles Yorke	Whig
1768			John Yorke
1784	William Bellingham		Edward Leeds
1787	William Bellingham		Reginald Pole-Carew
1789	The Lord Hood		Reginald Pole-Carew
1790	John Somers Cocks		Joseph Sydney Yorke	Tory
February 1806	Philip James Cocks		Joseph Sydney Yorke	Tory
November 1806	Edward Charles Cocks		Viscount Royston
1808	Edward Charles Cocks		James Cocks
1812	John Somers-Cocks	Tory	James Cocks
1818	Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke	Tory	James Somers Cocks
1823			James Cocks
April 1831			Joseph Yorke
July 1831	Charles Philip Yorke	Tory	Joseph Yorke

MPs 1832–1868

Representation reduced to one (1832)

Election		Member^[7]	Party
	1832	Viscount Eastnor I	Conservative
	1841 by-election	Viscount Eastnor II	Conservative
	1847	Thomas Somers-Cocks	Conservative
	1857	William Hackblock^{[lower-alpha 3]}	Liberal
	Feb. 1858 by-election	Henry Creswicke Rawlinson	Liberal
	Oct 1858 by-election	William John Monson	Liberal
	1863 by-election	Granville William Gresham Leveson-Gower	Liberal
1868		Constituency disenfranchised for corruption

MPs since 1885

Constituency revived (1885)

	Member^[7]	Party
1885	Sir James John Trevor Lawrence	Conservative
1892	Henry Cubitt	Conservative
1906	Harry Cunningham Brodie	Liberal
Jan 1910	Lt Col Richard Hamilton Rawson	Conservative
1917	Lt Col Richard Hamilton Rawson	National Party
1918	Sir George Kynaston Cockerill	Coalition Conservative
1922	Sir George Kynaston Cockerill	Conservative
1931	Sir Gordon Touche	Conservative
1950	John Vaughan-Morgan	Conservative
1970	Geoffrey Howe	Conservative
Feb 1974	Sir George Gardiner	Conservative
1997	Sir George Gardiner	Referendum Party
1997	Crispin Blunt	Conservative

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Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Reigate^[10]^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Crispin Blunt	29,151	56.8	+3.4
	UKIP	Joe Fox	6,817	13.3	+9.1
	Labour	Ali Aklakul	6,578	12.8	+1.5
	Liberal Democrat	Anna Tarrant	5,369	10.5	−15.7
	Green	Jonathan Essex	3,434	6.7	+4.5
Majority			22,334	43.5
Turnout			51,349	69.9	+0.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 2010: Reigate^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Crispin Blunt	26,688	53.4	+4.8
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Kulka	13,097	26.2	+3.1
	Labour	Robert Hull	5,672	11.3	−10.2
	UKIP	Joseph Fox	2,089	4.2	−0.3
	BNP	Keith Brown	1,345	2.7	N/A
	Green	Jonathan Essex	1,087	2.2	N/A
Majority			13,591	27.2	+1.4
Turnout			49,978	69.8	+5.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.9

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Reigate^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Crispin Blunt	20,884	49.0	+1.2
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Kulka	9,896	23.2	+2.1
	Labour	Samuel Townend	8,896	20.9	−6.6
	UKIP	Jeremy Wraith	1,921	4.5	+1.8
	English Democrat	Harold Green	600	1.4	N/A
	Independent	Michael Selby	408	1.0	N/A
Majority			10,988	25.8
Turnout			42,605	64.8	+4.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	−0.5

General Election 2001: Reigate^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Crispin Blunt	18,875	47.8	+4.0
	Labour	Simon Charleton	10,850	27.5	−0.3
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Kulka	8,330	21.1	+1.1
	UKIP	Stephen Smith	1,062	2.7	+2.1
	Reform UK	Harold Green	357	0.9	N/A
Majority			8,025	20.3
Turnout			39,474	60.2	−14.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.2

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Reigate^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Crispin Blunt	21,123	43.8	−13.7
	Labour	Andrew Howard	13,382	27.8	+10.3
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Samuel	9,615	20.0	-4.1
	Referendum	Sir George Arthur Gardiner	3,352	7.0	N/A
	Independent	Richard Higgs	412	0.9	N/A
	UKIP	Stephen Smith	290	0.6	N/A
Majority			7,741	16.0
Turnout			48,174	74.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	−12.0

This constituency underwent boundary changes between the 1992 and 1997 general elections and thus change in share of vote is based on a notional calculation. George Gardiner changed party from the Conservative Party to the Referendum following his deselection by the local Conservative association.

General Election 1992: Reigate^[16]^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir George Arthur Gardiner	32,220	57.1	−2.2
	Liberal Democrat	B Newsome	14,566	25.8	+1.4
	Labour	Mrs H Young	9,150	16.2	+1.9
	Social Democratic	M. Bilcliff	513	0.9	+0.9
Majority			17,654	31.3	−3.6
Turnout			56,449	78.5	+6.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.8

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Reigate^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	George Arthur Gardiner	30,925	59.3	+0.3
	Social Democratic	Elizabeth Pamplin	12,752	24.4	-2.5
	Labour	Robin Paul Spencer	7,460	14.3	+2.2
	Green	Graham Frederick Brand	1,026	2.0	0.0
Majority			18,173	34.9
Turnout			52,163	72.5	-0.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.4

General Election 1983: Reigate^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George Gardiner	29,932	59.0
	Social Democratic	Elizabeth Pamplin	13,625	26.9
	Labour	Bryan A. Symons	6,114	12.1
	Ecology	David R. Newell	1,029	2.0
Majority			16,307	32.1
Turnout			50,700	72.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General Election 1979: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George Gardiner	33,767	59.8
	Labour	N. Grant	12,454	22.1
	Liberal	J. Speyer	10,257	18.2
Majority			21,313	37.7
Turnout			56,478	78.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election October 1974: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George Gardiner	27,769	50.70
	Labour	MG Ormerod	14,185	25.90
	Liberal	AC Bryan	12,554	22.92
	People Power	Mervyn Taggart	266	0.49
Majority			13,584	24.80
Turnout				75.30
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election February 1974: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	George Gardiner	30,131	50.22
	Liberal	AC Bryan	16,071	26.78
	Labour	MG Ormerod	13,547	22.58
	Independent Democrat	Mervyn Taggart	254	0.42
Majority			14,060	23.43
Turnout				83.34
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1970: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe	28,462	53.86
	Labour	Michael P Farley	15,433	29.20
	Liberal	Kenneth S Vaus	8,952	16.94
Majority			13,029	24.65
Turnout			52,847	73.88
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General Election 1966: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sir John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan	24,163	47.37
	Labour	John Edward Anthony Samuels	16,649	32.64
	Liberal	Anthony A Stowell	10,197	19.99
Majority			7,514	14.73
Turnout			51,009	80.09
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1964: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sir John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan	24,380	48.35
	Labour	Charles James Garnsworthy	14,991	29.73
	Liberal	Anthony A Stowell	11,058	21.93
Majority			9,389	18.62
Turnout			50,429	79.74
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General Election 1959: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan	26,966	54.34
	Labour	Charles James Garnsworthy	14,465	29.14
	Liberal	Mrs. Agnes H Scott	8,205	16.53
Majority			12,501	25.19
Turnout			49,636	82.36
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1955: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan	27,210	61.68
	Labour	Charles James Garnsworthy	16,903	38.32
Majority			10,307	23.36
Turnout			44,113	78.75
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1951: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan	24,137	55.92
	Labour	Charles James Garnsworthy	14,287	33.10
	Liberal	Allan Stanley Batham	4,740	10.98
Majority			9,850	22.82
Turnout				83.34
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1950: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan	23,027	53.66
	Labour	Charles James Garnsworthy	13,931	32.46
	Liberal	Allan Stanley Batham	5,953	13.87
Majority			9,096	21.20
Turnout				85.12
	Conservative hold		Swing

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Gordon Cosmo Touche	27,419	57.07
	Labour	Charles James Garnsworthy	20,623	42.93
Majority			6,796	14.15
Turnout				72.92
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1935: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Gordon Cosmo Touche	30,341	73.84
	Labour	Leonard Lewis	10,748	26.16
Majority			19,593	47.68
Turnout				69.90
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1931: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Gordon Cosmo Touche	33,934	82.75
	Labour	Percy Henry Collick	7,076	17.25
Majority			26,858	65.49
Turnout			41,010	75.14
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1929: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Sir George Kynaston Cockerill	20,851	54.3	-22.3
	Liberal	Harold James Hamblen	9,532	24.8	n/a
	Labour	Percy Henry Collick	8,012	20.9	-2.5
Majority			11,319	29.5	-23.7
Turnout			38,395	74.8	+0.8
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1924: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	George Kynaston Cockerill	19,877		n/a
	Labour	William Graham	6,061		n/a
Majority					n/a
Turnout					n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1923: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	George Kynaston Cockerill	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

General Election 1922: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	George Kynaston Cockerill	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1910s

George Cockerill

General Election 1918: Reigate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Unionist	Brig-Gen. George Kynaston Cockerill	unopposed	n/a	n/a
	Unionist hold		Swing	n/a

H.W. Goldberg

General Election December 1910: Reigate ^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Hamilton Rawson	7,710	59.7
	Liberal	Herbert Walter Goldberg	5,194	40.3
Majority			2,516	19.4
Turnout				82.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Notes and references

Notes

↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
↑ Hackblock died either 1 or 8 January 1858.^[9]

References

↑ Open Street Map
↑ Reigate and Banstead
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/russell-thomas-ii
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
1 2 3 4 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 1)
↑ Created a baronet in 1772.
↑ "General News". Bury Times. 9 January 1858. p. 4 – via British Newspapers Online.
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000893
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)

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Constituencies in South East England (84)

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Labour (4)	Hove Oxford East Slough Southampton Test

Green (1)	Brighton Pavilion

Speaker (1)	Buckingham

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