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Tatton (UK Parliament constituency)

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Tatton constituency shown within Cheshire, and that county within England

Tatton 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.

The constituency is named for Tatton Park, a stately home and there is no place named Tatton. For local government purposes it is covered by the borough of Macclesfield

Contents

1 Boundaries

2 Member of Parliament

3 Election results2

4 Politics and history of the constituency

5 Notes

6 See also

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Boundaries

The constituency is in Cheshire, north-west England covering the towns of Knutsford and Wilmslow as well as a number of villages.

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Member of Parliament

Neil Hamilton 1983 - 1997
Martin Bell 1997 - 2001
George Osborne 2001 -
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Election results²

General Election 2005: Tatton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Osborne	21447	51.8	+3.7
	Labour	Justin Madders	9716	23.5	-3.8
	Liberal Democrats	Ainsley Arnold	9016	21.8	+3.2
	UKIP	Diane Bowler	996	2.14	+0.5
	Independent	Michael Gibson	239	0.6	+0.6
Majority				28.3	3.6
Turnout				64.6

General Election 2001: Tatton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Osborne	19,860	48.1	+10.7
	Labour	Conquest, S.G.	11,249	27.3
	Liberal Democrats	Ash, M.	7,685	18.6
	UKIP	Sheppard, M.B.B.	769	1.9
	Independent	Sharratt, P.N.	734	1.8
Majority			8,611	20.8
Turnout			40,297	63.5

General Election 1997: Tatton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Martin Bell	29,354	60.2
	Conservative	Neil Hamilton	18,277	37.5
	Independent Conservative	S Hill	295	0.6
	Independent Conservative	S Kinsey	184	0.4
	Miss Moneypenny's Glamorous One Party	B Penhaul	128	0.3
	Albion Party	J Muir	126	0.3
	Natural Law	M Kennedy	123	0.3
	Lord Byro versus the Scallywag Tories	D Bishop	116	0.2
	Independent Conservative	R Nicholas	113	0.2
	Juice Party	J Price	73	0.1
Majority			11077
Turnout				76.5

General Election 1992: Tatton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Neil Hamilton	31658	55.1
	Labour	Jon Kelly	15,798	27.5
	Liberal Democrats	Cathy Hancox	9597	16.7
	Feudal Party	M Gibson	410	0.7
Majority			15860
Turnout				80.8

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Politics and history of the constituency

Tatton shot to fame during the 1997 general election when the sitting MP lost his seat to an independent backed by the other two major parties.

Tatton was the constituency of disgraced former Tory member of Parliament, Neil Hamilton; who lost the seat in the 1997 election to independent candidate Martin Bell. Bell did not contest the seat at the 2001 election, and the seat was won by Conservative George Osborne with a majority of 20.9%¹.

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Notes

Note 1: From the 2005 BBC News election website, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/html/570.stm. The same source gives the parties 2001 share of votes cast as: Conservative 48.1%, Labour 27.3%, Lib Dem 18.6% and "other" 6.0%. Note 2: Data for the 1997 and 1992 results are taken from the Guardian (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/hoc/constituency/0,9338,-1360,00.html). Data for the 2005 election is from the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/flash_map/html/map05.stm).

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