Leigh and West Leigh wards in Southend could be joined up with Castle Point at the next General Election.

The Boundary Commission for England was publishing its proposals today.

Under the plans, Leigh and West Leigh wards would be in the Castle Point constituency at the next General Election.

Southend West would obviously lose the two Leigh seats and the constituency would also gain St Luke's ward, Victoria and Milton wards.

David Amess is the sitting Tory MP for Southend West and Rebecca Harris represents Castle Point.

The proposals are now out for consultation.

The Boundary Commission report said: "We therefore propose including two wards from the Borough of Southend-on- Sea (Leigh and West Leigh), because there are continuous development and close transport links between Leigh and the Borough of Castle Point.

"This also avoids dividing the Borough of Castle Point between constituencies.

"We propose to include three wards of the Borough of Southend-on-Sea (Milton, St Luke’s, and Victoria) in our Southend West constituency.

"This requires the inclusion of the towns of Hawkwell and Hockley in an enlarged Rochford and Southend East constituency."

Basildon, Rayleigh, Wickford, Rochford and Southend East constituencies will only see minor changes.

Rochford and Southend East will be enlarged to include Hawkwell and Hockley.

Pitsea North West, Pitsea South East, and Vange have been included in the Rayleigh and Wickford seat as well as Rettendon and Runwell ward.

The Basildon and Thurrock East constituency will have six wards in Basildon including the town of Basildon, and five wards from Thurrock, including Corringham and Stanford-le-Hope.

The Thurrock seat will remain unchanged.

BILLERICAY could be joined with Chelmsford and Great Dunmow as part of the boundary changes.

A new Billericay and Great Dunmow constituency could be created, which would contain four wards from Basildon, six wards from Chelmsford and five wards from Uttlesford.