Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency) Haltemprice and Howden (UK Parliament constituency) 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 who was also Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union until his resignation from that role on 8 July 2018. 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
UK Parliamentary by-elections the 1967 Hamilton by-election. In some cases, an MP or MPs may deliberately trigger a by-election to make a political point, as when all the sitting Unionist MPs in Northern Ireland resigned together in 1986 or as occurred in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008. For a list of by-election results since 2010, see: List of United Kingdom by-elections For a list of exceptional results and records in the history of by-elections in the United Kingdom, see: United Kingdom by-election records UK Parliamentary by-elections A parliamentary by-election occurs in the United Kingdom following a vacancy arising in the House of