Maldon (UK Parliament constituency)

Maldon
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Maldon in Essex for the 2010 general election.
Location of Essex within England.
County	Essex
Electorate	69,539 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	John Whittingdale (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Maldon and East Chelmsford
1885–1983
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Replaced by	Colchester South and Maldon and Rochford
Created from	East Essex, Maldon
1332–1885
Number of members	two to 1868, one from 1868 to 1885
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Maldon
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East of England

Maldon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by John Whittingdale, a Conservative.

Its previous incarnation was a constituency existing between 1332 (36 years after the Model Parliament) and 1983.

This seat is a successor to the Maldon and East Chelmsford constituency which existed from 1997 to 2010.

1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Maldon, the Sessional Divisions of Hinckford South (Braintree Bench) and Witham, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Hinckford South (Halstead Bench), Lexden, and Winstree.

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Maldon, the Urban Districts of Braintree, Burnham-on-Crouch, and Witham, the Rural District of Maldon, and the Rural District of Braintree (including the detached part of the civil parish of Inworth which was wholly surrounded by the civil parishes of Great Braxted and Kelvedon).

1950-1955: The Municipal Borough of Maldon, the Urban Districts of Braintree and Bocking, Burnham-on-Crouch, and Witham, the Rural District of Maldon, and part of the Rural District of Braintree.

1955-1974: The Municipal Borough of Maldon, the Urban Districts of Braintree and Bocking, Burnham-on-Crouch, and Witham, the Rural District of Maldon, and part of the Rural District of Braintree as altered by the County of Essex (Braintree and Lexden and Winstree Rural Districts) Confirmation Order 1955.

1974-1983: The Municipal Borough of Maldon, the Urban District of Burnham-on-Crouch, and the Rural Districts of Maldon and Rochford.

2010-present: The District of Maldon wards of Althorne, Burnham-on-Crouch North, Burnham-on-Crouch South, Heybridge East, Heybridge West, Maldon East, Maldon North, Maldon South, Maldon West, Mayland, Purleigh, Southminster, and Tillingham, and the Borough of Chelmsford wards of Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield, Little Baddow, Danbury and Sandon, Rettendon and Runwell, South Hanningfield, Stock and Margaretting, South Woodham Chetwood and Collingwood, and South Woodham Elmwood and Woodville.

Following the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, Parliament radically altered some constituencies and created new ones to allow for changes in population. The majority of the former Maldon and East Chelmsford constituency formed the basis of this new seat for 2010. The constituency included Maldon, and lost the Chelmsford parts . To compensate, wards in and around South Woodham Ferrers were added from the former Rayleigh constituency, and Margaretting was added from the former West Chelmsford constituency.