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  Welwyn Hatfield - History
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Established February 28, 1974
Disbanded Still Active
Last ModifiedRBH July 07, 2023 01:47am
DescriptionThis is seen as Labour's eighth most vulnerable seat to the Tories, and requires a swing of just 1.4% for the health minister Melanie Johnson to lose her seat. She won it with a 10.6% majority from David Evans in 1997, but her vote plummeted in 2001. In this constituency lies Welwyn Garden City - the second garden city created after Letchworth - and Hatfield. Welwyn Garden City is full of cottages and tree-lined avenues, the dream of social reformer Ebenezer Howard. It was built with the needs of the people in mind - that they should be able to work and live close by, that their homes should be generous and good to live in, that there should be green spaces, shops and a strong sense of community. It could also claim to be the pharmaceutical capital of the United Kingdom, with Roche, SmithKline Beecham, Schering Plough and Serono all situated in Welwyn Garden City itself. The University of Hertfordshire is based here too. Hatfield was perhaps best known in historical times as one of the first watering holes north of London along the Great North road. Hatfield has links with the Salisbury family that go back many centuries. Lord Salisbury would often run the country from Hatfield House when prime minister. His descendent Lord Cranborne, an elected hereditary peer and former Leader of the Lords, continues the aristocratic connection today. The area is socially mixed and politically diverse, like most constituencies containing new towns.

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Date Type Results
Dec 31, 2024 General Election
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Date Type Results
Dec 12, 2019 General Election
 Grant Shapps(I)
27,394
52.63%
 Rosie Newbigging
16,439
31.58%
 Paul Zukowskyj
6,602
12.68%
 Oliver Sayers
1,618
3.11%
Jun 08, 2017 General Election
 Grant Shapps(I)
26,374
51.04%
 Anawar Miah
19,005
36.78%
 Nigel Quinton
3,836
7.42%
 Dean Milliken
1,441
2.79%
 Christianne Sayers
835
1.62%
 Melvyn Jones
178
0.34%
May 07, 2015 General Election
 Grant Shapps(I)
25,281
50.36%
 Anawar Miah
13,128
26.15%
 Arthur Stevens
6,556
13.06%
 Hugh Annand
3,140
6.25%
 Marc Scheimann
1,742
3.47%
 Michael Green
216
0.43%
 Richard Shattock
142
0.28%
May 06, 2010 General Election
 Grant Shapps(I)
27,894
56.96%
 Mike Hobday
10,471
21.38%
 Paul Zukowskyj
8,010
16.36%
 David Platt
1,643
3.35%
 Jill Weston
796
1.63%
 Nigel Parker
158
0.32%
May 05, 2005 General Election
 Grant Shapps
22,172
49.58%
 Melanie Johnson(I)
16,226
36.29%
 Sara Bedford
6,318
14.13%
Jun 07, 2001 General Election
 Melanie Johnson(I)
18,484
43.17%
 Grant Shapps
17,288
40.37%
 Daniel Cooke
6,021
14.06%
 Malcolm Biggs
798
1.86%
 Fiona Pinto
230
0.54%
May 01, 1997 General Election
 Melanie Johnson
24,936
47.08%
 David J. Evans(I)
19,341
36.51%
 Rodney Schwartz
7,161
13.52%
 Victor Cox
1,263
2.38%
 Helen Harrold
267
0.50%
Apr 09, 1992 General Election
 David J. Evans(I)
29,447
48.36%
 Ray A. Little
20,982
34.46%
 Robin G. Parker
10,196
16.75%
 Eva T. Lucas
264
0.43%
Jun 11, 1987 General Election
 David J. Evans
27,164
45.63%
 Lindsay Granshaw
16,261
27.32%
 Chris Pond
15,699
26.37%
 Bruce Dyson
401
0.67%
Jun 09, 1983 General Election
 Christopher Murphy(I)
27,498
47.70%
 Lindsay Granshaw
15,252
26.46%
 John France
14,898
25.84%
May 03, 1979 General Election
 Christopher Murphy
28,892
48.59%
 Helene Hayman(I)
25,418
42.75%
 J. Hurd
4,688
7.88%
 P. Ruddock
459
0.77%
Oct 10, 1974 General Election
 Hélène Middleweek
23,339
42.76%
 Robert Lindsay(I)
22,819
41.81%
 Paul H. Robinson
8,418
15.42%
Feb 28, 1974 General Election
 Robert Lindsay(I)
22,581
39.85%
 Christopher W. Sewell
21,166
37.35%
 Paul H. Robinson
12,923
22.80%

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