History
The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election. The area had previously been part of the constituency of Gosport and Fareham.
It is a safe Conservative seat, though it has some stark social divisions; the large council estate of Rowner, for example, is one of the most deprived areas in the United Kingdom.
Following an historic Open Primary election where the Conservative Party asked all members of the Constituency to take part in choosing the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, Caroline Dinenage was selected. At the general election on 6 May 2010, Caroline Dinenage was elected with 24,300 votes and a majority of 14,413.
Previously, the constituency had been represented since its creation by Sir Peter Viggers. He was told to step down by David Cameron after his infamous attempt to claim for a duck house during the MPs' expenses scandal.
Read more about this topic: Gosport (UK Parliament Constituency)
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun’s rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker’s body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers’ intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
“Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)