East Sussex
| East Sussex | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County |
| Region: | South East England |
| Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area | Ranked 33rd 1,792 km² Ranked 30th 1,709 km² |
| Admin HQ: | Lewes |
| GB-ESX | |
| ONS code: | 21 |
| NUTS 3: | UKJ22 |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop. | Ranked 28th 744,142 415 / km² Ranked 26th 494,258 |
| Ethnicity: | 96.5% White 1.0% S.Asian |
| Politics | |
| East Sussex County Council http://www.eastsussexcc.gov.uk/ | |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| Members of Parliament | |
| Norman Baker, Gregory Barker, Ivor Caplin, Michael Foster, Charles Hendry, David Lepper, Desmond Turner, Nigel Waterson | |
| Districts | |
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The county town of East Sussex is Lewes. The county of Sussex was divided into an eastern and western administrative regions, with separate county councils in 1888 but it remained a single county until 1974 when the new counties of East Sussex and West Sussex were created. The Mid Sussex region (including Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath) was transferred to the administrative county of West Sussex. In 1997, Brighton & Hove became a self administered unitary authority and was eventually granted city status in 2000.
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