the New Forest. The area is well connected to London Heathrow Airport, IT, telecommunications and logistics centres of the M3 and M4 corridors, and to the military towns of Aldershot and Sandhurst. Farnborough, with its civil, private aviation base with certain military uses, is also nearby, as is Blackbushe Airport. Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 1.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian. According to the British Election Study, it was the most right-wing seat in the UK as of 2014. Constituents on balance voted to leave the European Union in 2016 but an analysis of YouGov polling by Focaldata suggested support for remain rose from 48% then to 50.2% in August 2018. Until the 2019 general election, the constituency was seen as one of the Conservative Party's safest seats. This election saw an unexpected 16% swing to the Liberal Democrats' candidate Alasdair Pinkerton, polling the highest second place since the constituency's creation, with Labour recording the lowest share of the vote since the seat's creation. Surrey Heath is seen as the Liberal Democrats' 58th target seat, having taken the Conservatives from a majority of 35 on the local council to a majority of one at the 2019 election and pushed the Conservatives to the lowest number of councillors on Guildford Borough Council since its creation in 1973. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s See also List of parliamentary constituencies in Surrey Notes References Sources Election result, 2010 (BBC) Election result, 2005 (BBC) Election results, 1997 - 2001 (BBC) Election results, 1997 - 2001 (Election Demon) Election results, 1997 - 2010 (Guardian) Parliamentary constituencies in South East England Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997 Politics of Surrey