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Falmouth and Camborne (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Falmouth and Camborne County constituency |
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| Falmouth and Camborne shown within Cornwall, and Cornwall shown within England | |
| Created: | 1950 |
| MP: | Julia Goldsworthy |
| Party: | Liberal Democrat |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Cornwall |
| EP constituency: | South West England |
Falmouth and Camborne 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.
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The constituency is in both the Carrick and Kerrier districts of Cornwall. The main towns within the constituency are, as the name suggests, Falmouth and Camborne. The seat has an industrial tradition, mostly in tin-mining, and has some surprisingly deprived areas, not like Cornwall's usual tourist image of the seaside postcard. It usually alternated between Tory and Labour representation, but in 2005, the Liberal Democrats leapt from a fairly distant third place in 2001 to win the seat from Labour on a large swing, which now means Cornwall is the only county in the UK to be served by a full slate of Lib-Dem MPs.
Following its review of parliamentary representation in Cornwall, the Boundary Commission for England has created a new constituency of Camborne and Redruth, which takes many electoral wards from this seat.
- Constituency created (1950)
- 1950 — 1966: Frank Hayman, Labour
- 1966 — 1970: John Dunwoody, Labour
- 1970 — 1992: David Mudd, Conservative
- 1992 — 1997: Sebastian Coe, Conservative
- 1997 — 2005: Candy Atherton, Labour
- 2005 — present: Julia Goldsworthy, Liberal Democrat
| General Election 2005: Falmouth and Camborne | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Julia Goldsworthy | 16,747 | 34.9 | +10.4 | |
| Labour | Candy Atherton | 14,861 | 31.0 | -8.6 | |
| Conservative | Ashley Crossley | 12,644 | 26.3 | -3.6 | |
| UK Independence | Michael Mahon | 1,820 | 3.8 | +1.0 | |
| Independent (politician) | David Mudd | 961 | 2.0 | +2.0 | |
| Liberal | Paul Holmes | 423 | 0.9 | -0.5 | |
| Mebyon Kernow | Hilda Wasley | 370 | 0.8 | -1.0 | |
| Veritas | Peter Gifford | 128 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
| Removal Of Tetramasts In Cornwall | Richard Smith | 61 | 0.1 | +0.1 | |
| Majority | 1,886 | 3.9 | |||
| Turnout | 48,015 | 67.1 | 2.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrat gain from Labour | Swing | 9.5 | |||
| General Election 2001: Falmouth and Camborne | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Candy Atherton | 18,532 | 39.6 | +5.7 | |
| Conservative | Nick Serpell | 14,005 | 29.9 | +1.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Julian Brazil | 11,453 | 24.5 | -0.7 | |
| UK Independence | John Browne | 1,328 | 2.8 | +2.2 | |
| Mebyon Kernow | Hilda Wasley | 853 | 1.8 | +1.4 | |
| Liberal | Paul Holmes | 649 | 1.4 | +0.4 | |
| Majority | 4,527 | 9.7 | |||
| Turnout | 46,820 | 64.3 | -10.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
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| Conservative |
Bournemouth East • Bournemouth West • Bridgwater • Christchurch • Cotswold • Devizes • East Devon • Forest of Dean • North Dorset • North Wiltshire • Poole • Salisbury • South West Devon • Tewkesbury • Tiverton and Honiton • Torridge and West Devon • Totnes • Wells • West Dorset • Westbury • Weston-super-Mare • Woodspring |
| Liberal Democrat |
Bath • Bristol West • Cheltenham • Falmouth and Camborne • Mid Dorset and North Poole • North Cornwall • North Devon • Northavon • Somerton and Frome • South East Cornwall • St Ives • Taunton • Teignbridge • Torbay • Truro and St Austell • Yeovil |
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| South West England European constituency |
Conservative (3) • UKIP (2) • Liberal Democrats (1) • Labour (1) |