dagenham and rainham Constituency Details


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CONSTITUENCY OVERVIEW

CONTROLLING PARTYLabour
ELECTORATE76,818 voters
AREA16 sq. miles


Dagenham and Rainham is a UK parliament constituency that is represented in the House of Commons by Jon Cruddas of the Labour party.

The Dagenham and Rainham constituency has a total population of 103,525, of which 76,818 are eligible (18+) to vote (74.2%).

Dagenham and Rainham ranks 428th in a list of the largest constituencies in the UK (geographical size), and 183th in a list of the largest constituencies by population size.

CONSTITUENCY MP

Jon Cruddas

Jon Cruddas

Jonathan Cruddas (born 7 April 1962) is a British Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2001, first for Dagenham and then for Dagenham and Rainham.

A graduate of Warwick University, Cruddas was first elected to Parliament in 2001. Having been critical of many aspects of the Blair Government, Cruddas stood for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party in 2007, being eliminated in the penultimate round of the contest. Unlike the other five candidates, he openly stated that he did not wish to become Deputy Prime Minister. He won the most votes in the first round of voting, obtaining 19.39% of the vote from both party members and party-affiliated organisations, and it is thought that the second-choice votes of the Cruddas supporters contributed to Harriet Harman's eventual victory. After his campaign, he was offered a position in the Cabinet by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, which he turned down.

Despite being touted by some media sources as a potential candidate for the Leadership of the Labour Party in the future, he ruled himself out of the 2010 leadership election, saying that he did not want the job but instead wanted to influence policy. In 2012, Cruddas was appointed to Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet, replacing Liam Byrne as Labour Party Policy Coordinator.

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Cruddas

MP DETAILS
AddressJon Cruddas MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Phone Number020 7219 4272
Political PartyLabour
Email Addressjon@dagenhamandrainhamlabour.org.uk
ConstituencyDagenham and Rainham
GenderMale
Date of Birth07/04/1962
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2015 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS

SHARE OF VOTES
24.4%
41.4%
1.7%
1.9 %
29.8%
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrat
Green Party
UKIP
ELECTION TURNOUT

Election turnout for the Dagenham And Rainham constituency in 2015 was 62.30%, lower than the average UK turnout at 66.1%.

2015 CANDIDATES

Candidate Party Gender Date of Birth LinkedIn Website
Denise CapstickLiberal DemocratFemale---
Jon CruddasLabourMale07 April 1962 (62)--
Julie MarsonConservativeFemale--http://www.juliemarson.co.uk/
Kate SimpsonGreenFemale---
Kim GandyEnglish DemocratsFemale---
Peter HarrisUK Independence PartyMale--http://peterharrisukip.com/
Terry LondonIndependentMale---
Tess CulnaneBritish National PartyFemale---

2010 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS

SHARE OF VOTES
34.33%
40.27%
8.6%
%
%
0.67%
11.2%
3.55%
Conservative
Labour
Liberal Democrat
Scottish National
Plaid Cymru
Green Party
BNP
UKIP
2005 GENERAL ELECTION WINNERS
Labour
VOTE COUNTS
PartyVotesShare
TOTALS
Turnout63.4%
2010 CANDIDATES
ConservativeJones, Simon
LabourCruddas, Jon
Liberal DemocratBourke, Joseph
GreenRosaman, Debbie
BNPBarnbrook, Michael
UKIPLitwin, Craig
ELECTION TURNOUT

Election turnout for the Dagenham And Rainham constituency in 2010 was 63.4%, higher than the average UK turnout at 65.1%.

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