History
It was not until the 1950 general election, when major boundary changes occurred in Brighton, that Hove acquired a parliamentary seat of its own, having previously been in the former two-seat Brighton constituency. Hove was a safe Conservative seat until the 1997 general election, when Labour's landslide parliamentary victory and success on the East Sussex coast (Brighton Kemptown, Brighton Pavilion, Hastings and Rye) gave Hove a Labour member of parliament.
Labour retained the seat, though with narrow majorities, at the 2001 and 2005 general elections. (The 2005 election saw a surge in the third place Liberal Democrat vote.) The Conservatives regained the seat at the 2010 general election.
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