Gosport (UK Parliament constituency)

Gosport
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Gosport in Hampshire.
Location of Hampshire within England.
County	Hampshire
Electorate	72,845 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1974 (1974)
Member of parliament	Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Gosport & Fareham
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Gosport /ˈɡɒspɔːrt/ is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Caroline Dinenage of the Conservative Party.

1974-1983: The Municipal Borough of Gosport.

1983-present: The Borough of Gosport, and the Borough of Fareham wards of Hill Head and Stubbington.

The constituency centres on Peel Common, Chalk Common and the River Alver that run north-south — its largest settlement is arguably the eastern town of Gosport. Gosport post town comprises several distinct villages and neighbourhoods on the south coast of England in Hampshire whereas the constituency comprises the whole of Gosport Borough (including Lee-on-the-Solent and Alverstoke) and includes Stubbington and Hill Head from the neighbouring Fareham Borough.

Gosport has to date been a Conservative safe seat - an area with a majority of privately owned properties that has a minority of poor residents — two large housing estates in the south and east of Rowner for example are according to the 2001 census predominantly social housing and contain two of the most deprived output areas in terms of income and unemployment in the United Kingdom however is not of uniform characterisation. Rowner has a central conservation area of expensive housing and touches immediately to the west the Lee on Solent Golf Club, Grange Farm Museum, the West of the Alder Nature Reserve and the Wild Grounds Nature reserve. Beside its bowling green, allotments and recreation ground lies Grade I-architecture St Mary's Church. Unlike the generally expensive west of the borough, Rowner resembles central Gosport and Bridgemary in presenting a diverse picture retaining scenic and generally more rural surroundings than the City of Portsmouth with some areas of deprivation.