Cleethorpes is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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. It elects one Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is a marginal seat between Labour and the Conservatives. The current MP is Martin Vickers

Martin Vickers

Martin John Vickers is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Cleethorpes at the 2010 general election.-Early life:...

 of the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

, first elected at the 2010 general election.

Boundaries

The constituency includes the towns of Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes

Cleethorpes is a town and unparished area in North East Lincolnshire, England, situated on the estuary of the Humber. It has a population of 31,853 and is a seaside resort.- History :...

, Immingham

Immingham

Immingham is a town in North East Lincolnshire, located on the south bank of the Humber Estuary...

, and Barton-upon-Humber

Barton-upon-Humber

Barton-upon-Humber or Barton is a small town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England located on the south bank of the Humber Estuary, and at the end of the Humber Bridge. It lies east of Leeds, southwest of Hull and north northeast of the county town of Lincoln...

.

It is made up of 7 wards of North East Lincolnshire

North East Lincolnshire

North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, bordering the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire and the administrative county of Lincolnshire...

:
-Immingham (suburban / council estate mix, heavy industry)
-Wolds (rural / suburban mix)
-Waltham (suburban)
-Humberston & New Waltham (suburban)
-Haverstoe (suburban)
-Croft Baker (terrace / suburban mix)
-Sidney Sussex (terraced houses)

And 2 wards of North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. For ceremonial purposes it is part of Lincolnshire....

:
-Ferry (rural / suburban mix)
-Barton-upon-Humber (suburban / council estate mix)

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...	Shona McIsaac Shona McIsaac Shona McIsaac is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Cleethorpes from 1997 to 2010...	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	2010	Martin Vickers Martin Vickers Martin John Vickers is a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Cleethorpes at the 2010 general election.-Early life:...	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

Previously the Cleethorpes constituency was wholly within the Brigg and Cleethorpes

Brigg and Cleethorpes (UK Parliament constituency)

Brigg and Cleethorpes was a constituency on the south bank of the River Humber which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system....

 constituency.

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Developments

According to research conducted by Professor Colin Rallings

Colin Rallings

Colin Rallings is a British academic, Professor of Politics in the School of Sociology, Politics & Law at the University of Plymouth.With his colleague Michael Thrasher, Rallings has written extensively on electoral systems, results and British politics. He is Co-Director of the Local Government...

 and Michael Thrasher

Michael Thrasher

Michael Thrasher is a British academic, Professor of Politics in the School of Sociology, Politics & Law at the University of Plymouth.With his colleague Colin Rallings, Thrasher has written extensively on electoral systems, results and British politics. He is Co-Director of the Local Government...

, Cleethorpes will be Conservative target number 58 at the next General Election and Labour's 55th most vulnerable seat, requiring a 3.03% swing for it to change hands. It is the Liberal Democrats' 477th target.

The Conservative Party selected its parliamentary candidate in an 'open primary' on Wednesday 8 November. Applications were open to any member of the Conservative Party's priority list of approved candidates and to members of the standard list of approved candidates who claimed a local connection.

The two candidates in the final were Martin Vickers and Alan Lockwood. Martin Vickers won the selection in front of 100-130 people at Cleethorpes Constitutional Club.

Vickers is a councillor in Grimsby and fought the seat at the last General Election. He works as constituency agent to Edward Leigh

Edward Leigh

Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a British Conservative politician. He has sat in the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Gainsborough in Lincolnshire since 1997, and for its predecessor constituency of Gainsborough and Horncastle between 1983 and 1997...

MP and was not on the priority list.