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Wansdyke (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Wansdyke County constituency |
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| Wansdyke shown within Avon (county), and Avon (county) shown within England | |
| Created: | 1983 |
| MP: | Dan Norris |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Somerset |
| EP constituency: | South West England |
Wansdyke 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.
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The constituency covers the part of Bath and North East Somerset that is not in the Bath constituency. It also contains four wards or parts of wards from South Gloucestershire Council. It is named after the former Wansdyke district. At the next general election 2009/2010 much of this constituency will change to North East Somerset (UK Parliament constituency).,[1]
- 1983 — 1997: Jack Aspinwall, Conservative
- 1997 — present: Dan Norris, Labour
| General Election 2005: Wansdyke | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Dan Norris | 20,686 | 40.6 | −6.2 | |
| Conservative | Chris Watt | 18,847 | 37.0 | +1.5 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Gail Coleshill | 10,050 | 19.7 | +5.3 | |
| UK Independence | Peter Sandell | 1,129 | 2.2 | +0.9 | |
| Independent | Geoffrey Parkes | 221 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,839 | 3.6 | |||
| Turnout | 50,933 | 72.4 | +2.5 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | −3.8 | |||
| General Election 2001: Wansdyke | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Dan Norris | 23,206 | 46.8 | +2.8 | |
| Conservative | Chris Watt | 17,593 | 35.5 | +0.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Gail Coleshill | 7,135 | 14.4 | -2.4 | |
| Green | Francis Hayden | 958 | 1.9 | N/A | |
| UK Independence | Peter Sandell | 655 | 1.3 | +0.5 | |
| Majority | 5,613 | 11.3 | |||
| Turnout | 49,547 | 69.9 | -9.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Wansdyke | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Dan Norris | 24,117 | 44.1 | 0 | |
| Conservative | Mark Prisk | 19,318 | 35.3 | 0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jeff Manning | 9,205 | 16.8 | 0 | |
| Referendum Party | K. Clinton | 1327 | 2.4 | 0 | |
| Independent | T. Hunt | 438 | 0.8 | 0 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | P. House | 225 | 0.4 | 0 | |
| Natural Law | S. Lincoln | 92 | 0.2 | 0 | |
| Majority | 4,799 | 8.7 | |||
| Turnout | 54,722 | 79.3 | 0 | ||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 0 | |||
- ^ Somerset North East: New Boundaries Calculation. Electoral Calculus: General Election Prediction. Retrieved on 2007-09-19.
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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 | |
| Labour |
Bristol East • Bristol North West • Bristol South • Exeter • Gloucester • Kingswood • North Swindon • Plymouth Devonport • Plymouth Sutton • South Dorset • South Swindon • Stroud • Wansdyke |
| South West England European constituency |
Conservative (3) • UKIP (2) • Liberal Democrats (1) • Labour (1) |