What is Hastings and Rye (UK Parliament constituency)?
{{Infobox UK constituency main |name = Hastings and Rye |parliament = uk |map1 = HastingsRye2007 |map2 = EnglandEastSussex |map_entity = [[East Sussex]] |map_year = |year = 1983 |abolished = |type = County |elects_howmany = One |previous = [[Hastings (UK Parliament constituency)|Hastings]], [[Rye (UK Parliament constituency)|Rye]] |next = |electorate = 80,524 (December 2019)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3521/election-history |title=Election history of Hastings and Rye |website=members.parliament.uk |access-date=26 October 2022}}</ref> |mp = [[Sally-Ann Hart]] |party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] |towns = [[Hastings]], [[Ore, Sussex|Ore]], [[Rye, Sussex|Rye]], [[St Leonards-on-Sea]], [[Winchelsea]] |region = England |county = [[East Sussex]] |european = South East England }} '''Hastings and Rye''' is a [[List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies|constituency of the UK Parliament]] {{#tag:ref|A [[county constituency]] (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)|group= n}} in [[East Sussex]]. It was created in 1983. Since then it has been held by the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|Party]], apart from 1997 to 2010 when it held by Michael Foster for the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|Party]]. Between 2010 and 2019 it was represented by [[Amber Rudd]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm|title=Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England|date=4 March 2011|work=2011 Electorate Figures|publisher=Boundary Commission for England|access-date=13 March 2011|archive-date=6 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106204053/http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{#tag:ref|As with all constituencies, the constituency elec