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**Southend West**
Southend West; Borough constituency
	;
	Southend West shown within Essex, and Essex shown within England
Created:	1950
MP:	David Amess
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Essex
EP constituency:	East of England

Southend West is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Because four members of the Guinness family have held the seat (or its predecessor, Southend) it is often dubbed in the media "Guinness-on-Sea".^[1]

It is a safe Conservative seat currently represented by David Amess, previously MP for the more marginal seat of Basildon.

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It comprises a small part of the West of Southend-on-Sea, and includes Leigh-on-Sea and Westcliff-on-Sea. It is bounded to the North and East by Rochford and Southend East, to the North by Rayleigh, to the West by Castle Point, and to the South by the Thames estuary.

United Kingdom general election, 2010: Southend West ^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Amess
	BNP	Stewart Freeman
	Labour	Thomas Flynn
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Welch

General Election 2005: Southend West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Amess	18,408	46.2	-0.1
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Wexham	9,449	23.7	-1.2
	Labour	Jan Etienne	9,072	22.8	-2.3
	UKIP	Carole Sampson	1,349	3.4	-0.3
	Independent	Marimutu Velmurgan	745	1.9	N/A
	English Democrats	Jeremy Moss	701	1.8	N/A
	Max Power Party	Dan Anslow	106	0.3	N/A
Majority			8,959	22.5
Turnout			39,830	51.4	-6.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.5

General Election 2001: Southend West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Amess	17,313	46.3	+7.6
	Labour	Paul Fisher	9,372	25.1	+2.3
	Liberal Democrat	Richard de Ste Croix	9,319	24.9	-8.2
	UKIP	Brian Lee	1,371	3.7	+2.3
Majority			7,941	21.2
Turnout			37,375	58.0	-11.9
	Conservative hold		Swing