New Forest West (UK Parliament constituency)

New Forest West County constituency

New Forest West shown within Hampshire, and Hampshire shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	Desmond Swayne
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Hampshire
EP constituency:	South East England

New Forest West 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.

The constituency covers the part of the New Forest which is not covered by its other constituency, New Forest East. Settlements include Fordingbridge, New Milton and Ringwood.

This constituency was created when the old New Forest constituency was divided for the 1997 general election.

General Election 2005: New Forest West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Desmond Swayne	26,004	56.4	+0.7
	Liberal Democrat	Murari Kaushik	8,719	18.9	−6.9
	Labour	Janice Hurne	7,590	16.5	+1.8
	UK Independence	Brian Lawrence	1,917	4.2	+0.5
	Green	Janet Richards	1,837	4.0	N/A
Majority			17,285	37.5
Turnout			46,067	66.5	+1.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.8

General Election 2001: New Forest West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Desmond Swayne	24,575	55.7	+5.2
	Liberal Democrat	Mike Bignell	11,384	25.8	-2.0
	Labour	Crada Onuegbu	6,481	14.7	+0.4
	UK Independence	Michael Clark	1,647	3.7	+0.6
Majority			13,191	29.9
Turnout			44,087	65.1	-9.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1997: New Forest West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Desmond Swayne	25,149	50.6
	Liberal Democrat	Bob Hale	13,817	27.8
	Labour	David Griffiths	7,092	14.3
	Referendum Party	Maureen Elliott	2,150	4.3
	UK Independence	M. Holmes	1,542	3.1
Majority			11,332
Turnout				74.8

Constituencies in South East England
Conservative	Aldershot \| Arundel and South Downs \| Ashford \| Aylesbury \| Banbury \| Basingstoke \| Beaconsfield \| Bexhill and Battle \| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton \| Bracknell \| Buckingham \| Canterbury \| Chesham and Amersham \| Chichester \| East Hampshire \| East Surrey \| East Worthing and Shoreham \| Eastbourne \| Epsom and Ewell \| Esher and Walton \| Fareham \| Faversham and Mid Kent \| Folkestone and Hythe \| Gosport \| Gravesham \| Guildford \| Havant \| Henley \| Horsham \| Isle of Wight \| Maidenhead \| Maidstone and The Weald \| Mid Sussex \| Mole Valley \| New Forest East \| New Forest West \| Newbury \| North East Hampshire \| North East Milton Keynes \| North Thanet \| North West Hampshire \| Reading East \| Reigate \| Runnymede and Weybridge \| Sevenoaks \| South West Surrey \| Spelthorne \| Surrey Heath \| Tonbridge and Malling \| Tunbridge Wells \| Wantage \| Wealden \| Windsor \| Witney \| Woking \| Wokingham \| Worthing West \| Wycombe
Labour	Brighton Kemptown \| Brighton Pavilion \| Chatham and Aylesford \| Crawley \| Dartford \| Dover \| Gillingham \| Hastings and Rye \| Hove \| Medway \| Milton Keynes South West \| Oxford East \| Portsmouth North \| Reading West \| Sittingbourne and Sheppey \| Slough \| Southampton Itchen \| Southampton Test \| South Thanet
Liberal Democrat	Eastleigh \| Lewes \| Oxford West and Abingdon \| Portsmouth South \| Romsey \| Winchester
South East European constituency: Conservative (4) \| UKIP (2) \| Liberal Democrats (2) \| Labour (1) \| Green (1)

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