Braintree (UK Parliament constituency)

Braintree
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Braintree in Essex.
Location of Essex within England.
County	Essex
Population	97,840 (2011 census) electorate = 72,064 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1974 (1974)
Member of parliament	James Cleverly (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Maldon
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East of England

97,840 (2011 census)

Braintree is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by James Cleverly of the Conservative Party.

1974-1983: The Urban Districts of Braintree and Bocking, and Witham, the Rural District of Braintree, and in the Rural District of Chelmsford the civil parishes of Boreham, Broomfield, Chignall, Good Easter, Great and Little Leighs, Great Waltham, Little Waltham, Mashbury, Pleshey, Roxwell, Springfield, and Writtle.

1983-1997: The District of Braintree wards of Black Notley, Bocking North, Bocking South, Braintree Central, Braintree East, Braintree West, Coggeshall, Cressing, Hatfield Peverel, Kelvedon, Panfield, Rayne, Terling, Three Fields, Witham Central, Witham Chipping Hill, Witham North, Witham Silver End and Rivenhall, Witham South, and Witham West, and the Borough of Chelmsford wards of Broomfield and Chignall, Good Easter Mashbury and Roxwell, Great and Little Leighs and Little Waltham, Great Waltham and Pleshey, and Writtle.

1997-2010: The District of Braintree wards of Black Notley, Bocking North, Bocking South, Braintree Central, Braintree East, Braintree West, Coggeshall, Cressing, Earls Colne, Gosfield, Hatfield Peveril, Kelvedon, Panfield, Rayne, Terling, Three Fields, Witham Central, Witham Chipping Hill, Witham North, Witham Silver End and Rivenhall, Witham South, and Witham West.

2010-present: The District of Braintree wards of Bocking Blackwater, Bocking North, Bocking South, Braintree Central, Braintree East, Braintree South, Bumpstead, Cressing and Stisted, Gosfield and Greenstead Green, Great Notley and Braintree West, Halstead St Andrews, Halstead Trinity, Hedingham and Maplestead, Panfield, Rayne, Stour Valley North, Stour Valley South, The Three Colnes, Three Fields, Upper Colne, and Yeldham.

The 2010 redistribution allowed a new Witham seat to be created and caused extension of this constituency out towards the Stour Valley, the border with Suffolk, and took in Bumpstead which shares a civil parish boundary with south-east Cambridgeshire.