Hull East

Boundary changes: Gains part of Sutton and Holderness wards from Hull North, loses part of Bransholme West.

Profile: Officially Kington Upon Hull East, Hull East covers most of the East Yorkshire port of Hull east of the river Hull, except for the Bransholme estate. The seat includes Hull`s vast working docks on the Humber esturary and the now redeveloped residential Victoria Docks, alongside the Millenium Commission funded aquarium, The Deep. Away from the prestige dockside developments, the seat is largely working class with a large proportion of council housing. It includes Sutton Ings, Stoneferry, Summergangs, Southcoates, Marfleet and Longhill.

At a Parliamentary level Hull East is solidly Labour. It has returned a Labour MP since 1935, and since the war has been represented by only two men – Harry Pursey and John Prescott, both former seamen. At a local level Labour`s long dominance has been broken in recent years – the floatation of Kingston Communications, Hull council`s municipal telephone company, briefly made Hull City Council the richest local authority in the UK. The sale reciepts though were rapidly spent, followed by the rapid ejection of the Labour party from control of the council. After several year in no overall control the Liberal Democrats acheived a majority on the council in 2007.

Current MP: Karl Turner (Labour) Born Hull. Educated at Bransholme High School. Former antiques dealer. Barrister specialising in criminal law.

2010 election candidates:
Christine Mackay (Conservative) health scientist.
Karl Turner (Labour) Born Hull. Educated at Bransholme High School. Former antiques dealer. Barrister specialising in criminal law.
Jeremy Wilcock (Liberal Democrat) Works at University of Hull business unit. Contested Selby 2001, Vale of York 2005.
Mike Hookem (UKIP)
Michael Burton (English Democrat)
Joe Uttley (National Front)