Hyndburn (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 53°46′05″N 2°22′55″W / 53.768°N 2.382°W
Hyndburn | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Hyndburn in Lancashire | |
![]() Location of Lancashire within England | |
County | Lancashire |
Electorate | 80,617 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Accrington and Haslingden |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Sara Britcliffe (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Accrington and Clitheroe |
Hyndburn is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Sara Britcliffe of the Conservative Party.[n 2]
History and profile[]
The seat was created in 1983, from parts of the former seats of Accrington and Clitheroe. In its ambit is much terraced (freehold) owner occupied housing[2] and surrounding villages, that may have helped to win the constituency for a Conservative in 1983, by 21 votes. The Conservative majority in 1983 was the second smallest achieved by any party in a seat in the United Kingdom at that election, only being beaten by the Conservatives 7 vote majority in Leicester South[3] In 1987, against the national trend, the Conservative vote share increased by 2.1% while Labour's vote share fell by 2.4%. Consequently the Conservatives increased their majority to 2,220 votes, a higher majority than it achieved in 31 other seats.[4]
Labour won it in 1992, and chose a new candidate for 2010, Graham Jones, who was elected.[5] Part of Labour's Red Wall, the seat was won by the Conservatives in 2019, with the twenty-four year old Tory candidate Sara Britcliffe ousting Jones with a swing of 9.9%.[6]
In January 1996, Hyndburn Conservatives deselected Hugh Neil, after a six-week investigation into alleged bogus claims that he made about his background. Neil claimed to have a doctorate from Manchester Business School and Harvard Business School, to have been an adviser to Keith Joseph, and to be a member of the Institute of Directors. He would have been the party's first black MP.[7]
Boundaries[]
1983-1997: The Borough of Hyndburn.
1997–present: The Borough of Hyndburn, and the Borough of Rossendale wards of Greenfield and Worsley.
A mostly Labour inclined seat[n 3], based around the East Lancashire town of Accrington, it also includes Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood, Oswaldtwistle, and Rishton in Hyndburn, and Haslingden in Rossendale.
Following its review of parliamentary representation in Lancashire in the 2000s, the Boundary Commission made minor alterations to the existing Hyndburn constituency. Two Haslingden wards from Rossendale district had been added to the constituency in 1997. The Commission rejected a proposal to rename the constituency "Hyndburn and Haslingden", following the Assistant Commissioner's view that;
- It is obviously right that constituency names should as far as possible reflect the geography and character of the constituency but equally they should be as succinct as reasonably possible[8]
Members of Parliament[]
Election | Member[9] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1983 | Ken Hargreaves | Conservative | |
1992 | Greg Pope | Labour | |
2010 | Graham Jones | Labour | |
2019 | Sara Britcliffe | Conservative |
Elections[]
Elections in the 2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sara Britcliffe | 20,565 | 48.5 | +8.0 | |
Labour | Graham Jones | 17,614 | 41.5 | −11.9 | |
Brexit Party | Gregory Butt | 2,156 | 5.1 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Adam Waller-Slack | 1,226 | 2.9 | +1.1 | |
Green | Katrina Brockbank | 845 | 2.0 | New | |
Majority | 2,951 | 7.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,406 | 59.8 | −2.0 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +9.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Graham Jones | 24,120 | 53.4 | +11.3 | |
Conservative | Kevin Horkin | 18,305 | 40.5 | +8.6 | |
UKIP | Janet Brown | 1,953 | 4.3 | −17.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Leslie Jones | 824 | 1.8 | -0.2 | |
Majority | 5,815 | 12.9 | +2.6 | ||
Turnout | 45,307 | 61.8 | -1.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Graham Jones | 18,076 | 42.1 | +1.0 | |
Conservative | Kevin Horkin | 13,676 | 31.9 | −1.9 | |
UKIP | Janet Brown | 9,154 | 21.3 | +17.8 | |
Green | Kerry Gormley | 1,122 | 2.6 | +1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alison Firth | 859 | 2.0 | −9.8 | |
Majority | 4,400 | 10.2 | +3.0 | ||
Turnout | 42,887 | 62.8 | −0.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Graham Jones | 17,531 | 41.1 | −4.6 | |
Conservative | Karen Buckley | 14,441 | 33.8 | +1.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Rankine | 5,033 | 11.8 | −2.6 | |
BNP | Andrew Eccles | 2,137 | 5.0 | −1.2 | |
UKIP | Granville Barker | 1,481 | 3.5 | +1.6 | |
CPA | Kevin Logan | 795 | 1.9 | New | |
Green | Kerry Gormley | 463 | 1.1 | New | |
English Democrat | Chris Reid | 413 | 1.0 | New | |
Independent | Craig Hall | 378 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 3,090 | 7.2 | -7.0 | ||
Turnout | 42,672 | 63.5 | +4.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.3 |
Elections in the 2000s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Greg Pope | 18,136 | 46.0 | −8.7 | |
Conservative | James Mawdsley | 12,549 | 31.8 | −1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bill Greene | 5,577 | 14.1 | +4.5 | |
BNP | Christian Jackson | 2,444 | 6.2 | New | |
UKIP | John Whittaker | 743 | 1.9 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 5,587 | 14.2 | -7.3 | ||
Turnout | 39,449 | 58.8 | +1.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Greg Pope | 20,900 | 54.7 | −0.9 | |
Conservative | Peter Britcliffe | 12,681 | 33.2 | +1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bill Greene | 3,680 | 9.6 | +1.0 | |
UKIP | John Tomlin | 982 | 2.6 | New | |
Majority | 8,219 | 21.5 | -2.2 | ||
Turnout | 38,243 | 57.5 | −14.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Greg Pope | 26,831 | 55.6 | +8.7 | |
Conservative | Peter Britcliffe | 15,383 | 31.9 | −11.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Les Jones | 4,141 | 8.6 | −1.3 | |
Referendum | Philip Congdon | 1,627 | 2.4 | New | |
Independent Anti-Corruption in Government (IAC) | James Brown | 290 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 11,548 | 23.7 | +19.7 | ||
Turnout | 48,272 | 72.3 | -11.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +9.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Greg Pope | 23,042 | 46.9 | +7.1 | |
Conservative | Ken Hargreaves | 21,082 | 42.9 | −1.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Yvonne Stars | 4,886 | 9.9 | −5.3 | |
Natural Law | Stephen Whittle | 150 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 1,960 | 4.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,160 | 83.9 | +3.4 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +4.3 |
Elections in the 1980s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ken Hargreaves | 21,606 | 44.4 | +2.2 | |
Labour | Keva Christopher Coombes | 19,386 | 39.8 | −2.4 | |
SDP | John Stark | 7,423 | 15.2 | +0.6 | |
Green | Frank Smith | 297 | 0.6 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 2,220 | 4.6 | +4.6 | ||
Turnout | 48,712 | 80.5 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ken Hargreaves | 19,405 | 42.2 | ||
Labour | Arthur Davidson | 19,384 | 42.2 | ||
SDP | John Bridgen | 6,716 | 14.6 | ||
Ecology | Frank Smith | 266 | 0.6 | ||
Independent | Paul Gateson | 169 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 21 | 0.0 | |||
Turnout | 45,940 | 77.4 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also[]
Notes and references[]
- Notes
- ^ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- ^ In local elections to date
- References
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on November 6, 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ "2011 census interactive maps". Archived from the original on January 29, 2016.
- ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons June 1983. London: Times Books Ltd. 1983. p. 282. ISBN 0-7230-0255-X.
- ^ The Times Guide to the House of Commons June 1987. London: Times Books Ltd. 1987. pp. 142 & 280. ISBN 0-7230-0298-3.
- ^ "Hyndburn Labour successor to Greg Pope announced". lancashiretelegraph.co.uk. 22 November 2009. Retrieved 7 July 2016.
- ^ Deborah Mattinson (2020). Beyond The Red Wall. p. 35.
- ^ "Tories deselect black candidate". heraldscotland.com. 17 January 1996. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
- ^ Commissioners Report, accessed 16 January 2006 Archived 14 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)
- ^ "Hyndburn Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Election Data 2017". Electoral Calculus. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- ^ "Hyndburn". BBC News. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ "Election 2010: Constituency: Hyndburn". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- Parliamentary constituencies in North West England
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1983
- Politics of Hyndburn