East Surrey (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK constituency East Surrey is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Claire Coutinho, a Conservative who formerly served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. The seat covers an affluent area in the English county of Surrey.

Since its creation in 1918, East Surrey has elected a Conservative MP at every general election. Before the 2024 general election, this Conservative victory took the form of an absolute majority (over 50% of the vote) at every general election, one of few seats that can make this claim, and is therefore regarded as a Conservative safe seat. Its greatest share of the vote for any opposition candidate was 33.75% in February 1974.

Boundaries

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Latter version of this area in its earlier existence (1867–1885) in darkest green, the stark dark/light split shows the preceding simpler East–west division of the county, dark shades being the former (1832–1867) version of that two-member area.

1832–1868: The Hundreds of Brixton, Kingston, Reigate, Tandridge and Wallington.

1868–1885: The Hundred of Tandridge, and so much of the Hundred of Wallington as included and lay to the east of the parishes of Croydon and Sanderstead, and so much of the Hundred of Brixton as included and lay to the east of the parishes of Streatham, Clapham and Lambeth.

For period to 1918 see completely new single-member Wimbledon and Reigate seats, also termed N.E. and S.E. Divisions of Surrey.

1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Caterham, and Coulsdon and Purley, and the Rural District of Godstone.

1950–1974: The Urban Districts of Caterham and Warlingham, and Coulsdon and Purley.

1974–1983: The Urban District of Caterham and Warlingham, and the Rural District of Godstone.

1983–1997: The District of Tandridge. (Equivalent to the above)

1997–2010: The District of Tandridge, and the Borough of Reigate and Banstead wards of Horley East and Horley West.

2010–2024: As above plus Horley Central.

2024–present: The Borough of Reigate and Banstead ward of Hooley, Merstham & Netherne, and the District of Tandridge.

Electorate reduced to bring it within the permitted range by transferring Horley to the new constituency of Dorking and Horley. To partly compensate, the Reigate and Banstead ward of Hooley, Merstham & Netherne was transferred from the Reigate constituency.

Constituency profile

East Surrey is a constituency in the inner Home counties. Until 2024 it combined the town of Horley with Surrey's District of Tandridge, which is made up of Caterham and commuter settlements, farming and retirement homes. Horley is one of two towns adjoining London Gatwick Airport and is part of Reigate and Banstead borough. The constituency area borders the London Borough of Croydon to the north, the county of Kent to the east, and the county of West Sussex to the south.

The northern part of the seat is inside the M25 motorway: Caterham, Whyteleafe and Warlingham form green-buffered, elevated commuter belt, with good rail connections to Central London and well connected by various modes of transport to Croydon. Elsewhere, the seat is more rural and includes a low part of the Greensand Ridge and features woodland and many golf courses.

The Conservatives have prevented any opposition party achieving more than 33.75% of the vote since 1974, even at the 1997 and 2001 United Kingdom general elections when opposition was greatest nationally in Conservative safe seats.

Most local wards are won by the Conservatives with the Liberal Democrats often picking up seats somewhere in the dual-council system, particularly in Whyteleafe or Caterham Valley. As is typical in seats of this kind, the Labour vote is typically very modest. The party finished in third place at each election between 1959 and 2015. In 2017 the party's candidate polled second, in a poorer showing for the Liberal Democrats and the party's "Corbyn Surge". In the 2019 election the Liberal Democrats retook second place and Labour fell to third. The area saw a majority vote in favour of Brexit in the 2016 EU Referendum. Conversely, the then MP Sam Gyimah opposed Brexit, especially Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, and later joined the Liberal Democrats after being suspended from the Tories.

History

Victorian dual-member constituency 1832–1885

The 13th century-created, dual-member constituency for the county took in over a third of today's Greater London and its population far exceeded the average for a county. It was recognised as needing or meriting four MPs, so division, under the Reform Act 1832.

The territory was incepted and absorbed two of Surrey's three rotten boroughs: Bletchingley and Gatton, which were abolished under the act. It overlapped the boroughs of:

• Reigate (its double representation halved, which kept a narrow franchise and completely abolished 1868).
• Lambeth, to be subdivided in 1885.
• Southwark, to be subdivided in 1885.

Often known as the Eastern Division of Surrey or Surrey Eastern, its enfranchised adult male property owners elected two MPs by bloc vote (a voter has a vote for each current vacancy). Notable outer reaches, clockwise from north, were Southwark, Rotherhithe, Addington, Lingfield, Charlwood, Buckland, Surrey, Cheam, Kingston upon Thames and Richmond (see map, top right).

The area was split in two, doubling representation, under the Second Reform Act, starting from the 1868 general election; the area was still under-represented, as shown by the setting up of a net increase of 14 metropolitan seats in 1885.

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 went much further than the 1832 Act towards equal representation around the country. It here reflected growth in the county's population. Thus for elections from 1885 dual-member West, Mid Surrey and East Surrey dissipatedTemplate:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler to allow the creation of 16 rather than just 2 metropolitan Surrey seats (Lambeth and Southwark which saw subdivision) and these "county" seats:

1. The North-Western or Chertsey Division (usually recorded as Chertsey, Surrey N.W. or North-West) – included Woking and Egham
2. The South-Western or Guildford Division (as style shown above) – included Godalming, Farnham and surrounds
3. The South-Eastern or Reigate Division (as style shown above) – included Dorking sessional division save for two parishes in No. 4.
4. The Mid or Epsom Division (as style shown above) – included Kingston's southern and eastern sessional division components
5. The Kingston Division (invariably Kingston or Kingston-upon-Thames) – included Richmond
6. The North-Eastern or Wimbledon Division (as style shown above) – included sessional division of Croydon except its core and north in the Metropolis; plus Caterham, Chelsham, Farley, Warlingham.

Seat created in 1918

In 1918 the constituency was re-established in dwarf form, taking rural and nascent very suburban parts of South East Surrey ("Reigate") and North East Surrey ("Wimbledon"), and for the first time electing only one MP. It covered from the south of Croydon to the Kent and West Sussex borders. It was to remain centred on Lingfield, Oxted, Limpsfield, Godstone, Caterham and Woldingham.

In 1950 East Surrey lost Addington parish on the eastern fringe of Croydon to the 1918-formed Croydon South seat, and its southern half to Reigate. In 1974 the north-west of the area became part of Croydon South, reflecting the 1965 transfer of Purley and Coulsdon to the London Borough of Croydon in the new Greater London which then replaced the London County Council. The seat regained essentially the same land as it had lost to Reigate in 1950. Its MP until 1974, William Clark, won the new Croydon South in that year's February election. Clark's successor, Geoffrey Howe, later became Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832–1885

Election	First member		1st Party	Main home	Second member		2nd Party	Main home
1832	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	John Ivatt Briscoe	Whig	Botleys, Chertsey	rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	Aubrey Beauclerk	Radical	St Leonards Lodge (Leonardslee), Horsham, Sussex and Ardglass Castle, County Down
1835	rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	Richard Alsager	Conservative	Unknown house, Upper Tooting
1837	rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |				Henry Kemble	Conservative	Grove Hill, Camberwell
1841 by-election	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	Edmund Antrobus	Conservative	Antrobus Hall, Cheshire and Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire
1847	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	Peter Locke King	Whig	Brooklands, Weybridge and 38 Dover Street, St James's	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	Thomas Alcock	Whig	Ringwood Lodge, Redhill/Reigate
1859	rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |		Liberal		style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |		Liberal
1865	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |				Charles Buxton	Liberal	Foxwarren Park in West Surrey
1871 by-election	rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |				James Watney	Conservative	Haling Park, Beddington, Croydon and Thorney House, Palace Gate, Kensington
1874	style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	William Grantham	Conservative	100 Eaton Square, Westminster and Barcombe Place, Sussex
1885	Constituency abolished

MPs since 1918

Election		Member	Party
Constituency recreated
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1918	Sir Stuart Coats	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1922	James Galbraith	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1935	Charles Emmott	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1945	Michael Astor	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1951	Charles Doughty	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1970	William Clark	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	February 1974	Geoffrey Howe	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1992	Peter Ainsworth	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	2010	Sam Gyimah	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	September 2019		Liberal Democrats
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	2019	Claire Coutinho	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

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General election 2024: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Tom Bowell	10,052	20.4
		Claire Malcomson	8,833	18.0
		Chris Scott	8,380	17.0
		Shasha Khan	2,957	6.0
		Judy Moore	1,145	2.3
		Martin Hogbin	327	0.7
Majority			7,450	15.2
Turnout			49,196	67.1
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	hold		Swing	−16.0

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	31,063	60.3
	Liberal Democrats	10,498	20.4
	Labour	6,787	13.2
	Green	1,534	3.0
	Others	1,593	3.1
Turnout		51,475	70.4
Electorate		73,145

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General election 2019: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Alexander Ehmann	11,584	19.4
		Frances Rehal	8,247	13.8
		Joseph Booton	2,340	3.9
		Helena Windsor	1,374	2.3
		Martin Hogbin	521	0.9
Majority			24,040	40.3
Turnout			59,690	72.1
	hold		Swing

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General election 2017: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Hitesh Tailor	11,396	19.2
		David Lee	6,197	10.5
		Andy Parr	2,973	5.0
		Helena Windsor	2,227	3.8
		Benedict Southworth	1,100	1.9
Majority			23,914	40.4
Turnout			59,203	74.9
	hold		Swing	−2.6

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General election 2015: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Helena Windsor	9,553	17.0
		Matt Wilson	6,627	11.8
		David Lee	5,189	9.2
		Nicola Dodgson	2,159	3.8
		Sandy Pratt	364	0.6
Majority			22,658	40.4
Turnout			56,103	70.4
	hold		Swing	−4.7

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General election 2010: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		David Lee	14,133	25.9
		Matt Rodda	4,925	9.0
		Helena Windsor	3,770	6.9
		Martin Hogbin	422	0.8
		Sandy Pratt	383	0.7
Majority			16,874	30.8
Turnout			54,640	71.1
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

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General election 2005: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Jeremy Pursehouse	11,738	23.8
		James Bridge	7,288	14.8
		Tony Stone	2,158	4.4
		Winston Matthews	410	0.8
Majority			15,921	32.4
Turnout			49,253	66.6
	hold		Swing	+2.1

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General election 2001: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Jeremy Pursehouse	11,503	24.4
		Jo Tanner	8,994	19.1
		Tony Stone	1,846	3.9
Majority			13,203	28.1
Turnout			47,049	63.3
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

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General election 1997: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Belinda Ford	12,296	22.5
		David Ross	11,573	21.2
		Michael Sydney	2,656	4.9
		Tony Stone	569	1.0
		Susan Bartrum	173	0.3
Majority			15,093	27.6
Turnout			54,656	74.6
	hold		Swing

This constituency underwent boundary changes between the 1992 and 1997 general elections and thus change in share of vote is based on a notional calculation.

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General election 1992: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Robert L. Tomlin	12,111	25.4
		Gill M. Roles	5,075	10.6
		Ian T. Kilpatrick	819	1.7
Majority			17,656	36.9
Turnout			47,772	82.3
	hold		Swing	−1.2

Elections in the 1980s

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General election 1987: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Michael Anderson	11,000	23.9
		Michael Davis	4,779	10.4
		David Newell	1,044	2.3
Majority			18,126	39.5
Turnout			45,949	77.2
	hold		Swing

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General election 1983: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Susan Liddell	11,836	27.3
		Hugh Pincott	4,249	9.8
Majority			15,436	35.6
Turnout			43,357	74.1
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

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General election 1979: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Susan Liddell	8,866	19.71
		Graham Harries	7,398	16.45
		D. Smith	452	1.00
Majority			19,400	43.13
Turnout			44,982	78.42
	hold		Swing

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General election October 1974: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Kenneth Vaus	12,382	29.20
		David Allonby	7,797	18.39
Majority			9,845	23.21
Turnout			42,406	76.17
	hold		Swing

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General election February 1974: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Kenneth Vaus	15,544	33.75
		David Allonby	6,946	15.08
Majority			8,019	17.41
Turnout			46,053	83.58
	hold		Swing

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General election 1970: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Percy W. Meyer	11,749	20.36
		Michael D. Simmons	10,186	17.65
Majority			24,024	41.63
Turnout			57,708	73.08
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

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General election 1966: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Michael R Lane	16,407	28.96
		Cyril Shaw	9,347	16.50
Majority			14,493	25.58
Turnout			56,654	79.33
	hold		Swing

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General election 1964: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Michael R Lane	16,049	28.21
		James Stewart Cook	9,020	15.85
Majority			15,778	27.73
Turnout			56,896	79.22
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

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General election 1959: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Kenneth Vaus	10,376	18.27
		James C Hunt	10,102	17.79
Majority			25,934	45.67
Turnout			56,788	81.13
	hold		Swing

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General election 1955: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Jean Graham Hall	12,567	25.21
Majority			24,709	49.58
Turnout			49,843	76.47
	hold		Swing

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General election 1951: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Nathan Whine	14,056	27.02
Majority			23,910	45.96
Turnout			52,052	81.30
	hold		Swing

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General election 1950: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Nathan Whine	12,499	23.28
		Wendy Wills	8,484	15.80
Majority			20,212	37.64
Turnout			53,694	87.17
	hold		Swing

Election in the 1940s

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General election 1945: Surrey Eastern

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Henry Edward Weaver	17,708	30.36
		Donald Phillip Owen	9,495	16.28
Majority			13,409	23.00
Turnout			58,320	74.50
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1939–40:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Charles Emmott
• Labour:

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General election 1935: Surrey Eastern

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Henry Edward Weaver	9,025	21.09
Majority			24,751	57.82
Turnout			42,801	66.54
	hold		Swing

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General election 1931: Surrey Eastern

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Mont Follick	4,236	11.15
Majority			29,535	77.70
Turnout			38,007	71.40
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1920s

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General election 1929: Surrey East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Ida Swinburne	7,435	23.1
		Robert Oscar Mennell	5,152	16.0
Majority			12,143	37.8
Turnout			32,345
	hold		Swing

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General election 1924: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Robert Oscar Mennell	3,249	16.9
Majority			12,750	66.2
Turnout			19,248	70.7
	hold		Swing	N/A

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General election 1923: Surrey East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	hold

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General election 1922: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Marjorie Pease	3,667	22.7
Majority			8,831	54.6
Turnout			16,165	64.5
	hold		Swing

Elections in the 1910s

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Elections in the 1880s

General election 1918: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Guy Hayler	1,830	17.2
Majority			6,965	65.6
Turnout			10,625	47.1
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General election 1880: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William F Robinson	5,978	21.3
		George Webb Medley	5,928	21.2
Majority			2,028	7.3
Turnout			14,008 (est)	73.8 (est)
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
	hold		Swing	+0.5
	hold		Swing	−0.6

Elections in the 1870s

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General election 1874: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Peter King	4,292	21.9
		John Peter Gassiot	4,015	20.5
Majority			1,658	8.5
Majority			1,287	6.6
Turnout			9,780 (est)	67.6 (est)
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+5.6
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+5.6

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By-election, 26 August 1871: East Surrey (1 seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Granville Leveson-Gower	2,749	41.3
Majority			1,163	17.4
Turnout			6,661	51.4
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+12.4

• Caused by Buxton's death.

Elections in the 1860s

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General election 1868: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Hardman	3,537	23.4
		James Lord	3,459	22.9
Majority			404	2.7
Turnout			7,550 (est)	69.1 (est)
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
	hold		Swing	+1.4
	hold		Swing	+0.9

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General election 1865: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Henry Peek	3,333	24.7
		William Brodrick	3,226	23.9
Majority			91	0.7
Turnout			6,739 (est)	68.0 (est)
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
	hold		Swing	−11.2
	hold		Swing	−11.6

Elections in the 1850s

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General election 1859: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Anthony Cleasby	2,050	25.9
Majority			876	11.0
Turnout			4,990 (est)	67.9 (est)
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
	hold		Swing	N/A
	hold		Swing	N/A

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General election 1857: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
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General election 1852: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Edmund Antrobus	2,064	22.9
		Anthony Cleasby	1,928	21.4
Majority			436	4.9
Turnout			4,500 (est)	68.0 (est)
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
	hold		Swing	N/A
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Elections in the 1840s

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General election 1847: East Surrey (2 seats)

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General election 1841: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
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By-election, 8 February 1841: East Surrey

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Thomas Alcock	1,436	35.3
Majority			1,199	29.4
Turnout			4,071	65.4
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
	hold		Swing	+10.7

• Caused by Alsager's death.

Elections in the 1830s

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General election 1837: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Peter King	1,865	23.3
		John Angerstein	1,823	22.7
Majority			290	3.6
Turnout			3,937	71.2
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
	hold		Swing	−0.3
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	−0.4

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General election 1835: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		John Ivatt Briscoe	1,200	29.3
Turnout			2,753	77.8
Registered electors			Template:Ifnumber
Majority			378	9.2
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+13.4
Majority			124	3.0
	hold		Swing	+6.1

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General election 1832: East Surrey (2 seats)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
		John Ivatt Briscoe		42.4
		Aubrey Beauclerk		29.8
		Thomas Jeffreys Allen		21.5
		John Lainson		6.3
Turnout			2,211	70.2
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	win (new seat)

See also

• 2005 United Kingdom general election result in Surrey
• List of parliamentary constituencies in Surrey
• List of parliamentary constituencies in the South East England (region)

Sources

• Election result, 2010 BBC News
• Election result, 2005 BBC News
• Election results, 1997 – 2001 BBC News
• Election results, 1997 – 2001 Template:Webarchive Election Demon
• Election results, 1983 – 1992 Template:Webarchive Election Demon
• Election results, 1992 – 2010 The Guardian
• Election results, 1945 – 1979 Politics Resources

External links

• East Surrey UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
• East Surrey UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
• East Surrey UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK