Brighton Pavilion (UK Parliament constituency) Labour Party began service as MP for thirteen years by winning the two subsequent elections. The Conservatives' share of the vote has declined at every election there since 1979. In July 2007, the Green Party selected Caroline Lucas to contest the seat, at which point she was neither Leader nor Principal Speaker for the party. In November 2009, Charlotte Vere was selected as the Conservative Party candidate at an open primary attended by local Conservative Party members and residents. In January 2010, the Liberal Democrats also selected a female candidate, Bernadette Millam. Labour had selected Nancy Platts, a local campaigner
Darlington (UK Parliament constituency) Darlington (UK Parliament constituency) Darlington is the parliamentary constituency for the market town of the same name in County Durham in the North East of England. It is currently represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Jenny Chapman of the Labour Party, who first became its MP in 2010, and is regarded as a semi-marginal Labour seat. The constituency was created for the 1868 election and covers the market town of Darlington in County Durham. The seat has been held by all three major parties in its long existence, but has been a marginal constituency between