Surrey Heath (UK Parliament constituency)

Surrey Heath
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Surrey Heath in Surrey.
Location of Surrey within England.
County	Surrey
Electorate	78,453 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Michael Gove (Conservative Party)
Created from	North West Surrey, Guildford and Woking
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Surrey Heath is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Michael Gove, a Conservative.

Surrey Heath occupies the northwest corner of the county. It has electoral wards:

The largest town is Camberley. The Boundary Commission made no boundary changes for Surrey Heath in the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies before the 2010 general election.

The large village of Ash with Ash Vale and smaller one of Tongham are , similar to Frimley and Frimley Green.

The constituency was created in 1997 from the most part of the seat of North West Surrey (which was abolished) and smaller parts of Woking and Guildford, seats which remain.

On the seat's creation, Nick Hawkins was elected to Parliament following the retirement of Surrey North West MP Michael Grylls who in 1992 achieved a majority of 28,392. One of Hawkins' opponents for selection was future Speaker, John Bercow. Bercow was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Buckingham constituency on the same day.

In 2004, the Conservative constituency association, then the richest in the country, deselected their MP Nick Hawkins in the hope of obtaining an MP of Cabinet calibre.