Haltemprice and Howden

Haltemprice and Howden
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Haltemprice and Howden in Humberside.
Location of Humberside within England.
County	East Riding of Yorkshire
Electorate	70,864 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	David Davis (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Beverley, Boothferry
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Haltemprice and Howden is a constituency in the East Riding of Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by David Davis, a Conservative and current Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. The seat mainly consists of suburbs of Hull that lie outside the city boundaries, including middle class areas like Willerby, Kirk Ella, Anlaby and Cottingham (which also includes most of the Halls of Residence for Hull University). Beyond that it stretches out westwards along the A63 to take in smaller, rural towns and villages like Bubwith and Howden itself. Overall, area is affluent and has one of the highest proportions of owner-occupiers in the country.

The Electoral Reform Society considers it to be historically the second safest seat in the country, after North Shropshire. Taking into account the previous seats roughly covering its boundaries, the Society considers that the seat has been held continuously by the Conservative Party since the 1837 general election.