Peter Bottomley
Contact details
Westminster
House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA
Tel: 020 7219 5060
Fax: 020 7219 1212
bottomleyp@parliament.uk
Constituency
Contact Westminster office
Biography
Electoral history
Contested Greenwich, Woolwich West February and October 1974 general elections. Member for Greenwich, Woolwich West 1975 by-election to 1983, for Eltham 1983-97, for Worthing West 1997-2010, for Worthing West (revised boundary) since 6 May 2010 general election
Parliamentary career
PPS to:
Cranley Onslow as Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1982-83,
Norman Fowler as Secretary of State for Health and Social Security 1983-84;
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State:
Department of Employment 1984-86,
Department of Transport (Minister for Roads and Traffic) 1986-89,
Northern Ireland Office (Agriculture, Environment) 1989-90;
PPS to Peter Brooke as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1990
Party groups
President, Conservative Trade Unionists 1978-80
Select committees
Member: Standards and Privileges 1997-2002,
Unopposed Bills (Panel) 1997-,
Constitutional Affairs 2003-05,
Ecclesiastical Committee,
Joint Committee on the Draft Defamation Bill 2011
International bodies
NATO Parliamentary Assembly;
Member, UK Delegation, Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly
Countries of interest
Southern Africa, El Salvador, USA
General Election 2010 - Worthing West
| Name |
Party |
Votes |
% |
| Bottomley, Peter |
Con |
25416 |
51.61% |
| Thorpe, Hazel |
Lib Dem |
13687 |
27.8% |
| Ross, Ian |
Lab |
5800 |
11.78% |
| Wallace, John |
UKIP |
2924 |
5.94% |
| Aherne, David |
Green |
996 |
2.03% |
| Dearsley, Stuart |
Christian |
300 |
0.61% |
| Result |
Con Hold (1.46% from Lib Dem to Con) |