List of Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire and Rutland
The ceremonial county of Leicestershire (which includes the unitary authority of Leicester), is divided into 10 Parliamentary constituencies - 3 Borough constituencies and 7 County constituencies. One of these also includes the small historic county of Rutland, which was administratively a district of Leicestershire from 1974 to 1997. Since 1997, Rutland has been a separate unitary authority.
Constituencies[]
Conservative † Labour ‡ Liberal Democrat ¤
Name[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bosworth CC | 81,542 | 26,278 | Luke Evans † | Rick Middleton‡ | |||
Charnwood CC | 79,534 | 22,397 | Edward Argar† | Gary Godden‡ | |||
Harborough CC | 80,151 | 17,278 | Neil O'Brien† | Celia Hibbert‡ | |||
Leicester East BC | 78,433 | 6,019 | Claudia Webbe[nb 3] | Bhupendra Dave† | |||
Leicester South BC* | 77,708 | 22,675 | Jon Ashworth‡ | Natalie Neale† | |||
Leicester West BC | 64,940 | 4,212 | Liz Kendall‡ | Amanda Wright† | |||
Loughborough CC | 79,764 | 7,169 | Jane Hunt† | Stuart Brady‡ | |||
North West Leicestershire CC | 78,935 | 20,400 | Andrew Bridgen† | Terri Eynon‡ | |||
Rutland and Melton CC | 82,705 | 26,924 | Alicia Kearns† | Andy Thomas‡ | |||
South Leicestershire CC | 80,520 | 24,004 | Alberto Costa† | Tristan Koriya‡ |
Historic constituencies[]
In the unreformed House of Commons, Leicestershire and Rutland were represented by two Knights of the Shire each, and the only parliamentary borough was Leicester, which sent two burgesses.
Under the Reform Act 1832, Leicestershire was split into two divisions, North and South, which each elected two members. The Reform Act 1885 redistributed these seats into four single-member divisions: Melton, or Eastern, Loughborough, or Mid, Harborough, or Southern, and Bosworth, or Western.
At the 1918 general election, the four divisions of the county were retained, and the borough of Leicester was split into three single-member constituencies, Leicester East, Leicester South, and Leicester West. From 1950 to 1974 Leicester had four constituencies, these being Leicester North East, Leicester North West, Leicester South East and Leicester South West: the three seat arrangement of South, East and West was reverted to thereafter.
Rutland constituted a constituency on its own until 1918, when it became part of the Rutland and Stamford constituency, with nearby Stamford in Lincolnshire.
In 1983, seats in Leicestershire were redrawn. Rutland was merged with Melton to form Rutland and Melton, with Loughborough, Bosworth, and Harborough remaining as seat names. The new North West Leicestershire constituency was created. A further constituency, Charnwood was created in the north for the 1997 election.
2010 boundary changes[]
In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Leicestershire retained its current constituencies, with minor changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries. Although virtually unchanged, Blaby was renamed South Leicestershire on the grounds that it does not match the borders of Blaby district, and the village of Blaby itself is not one of the major population centres.
Name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Boundaries 2010–present | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Bosworth CC | ||
2 | Charnwood CC | ||
3 | Harborough CC | ||
4 | Leicester East BC | ||
5 | Leicester South BC | ||
6 | Leicester West BC | ||
7 | Loughborough CC | ||
8 | North West Leicestershire CC | ||
9 | Rutland and Melton CC | ||
10 | South Leicestershire CC
(previously Blaby CC) |
Proposed boundary changes[]
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021 and published their initial proposals on 8 June.[3]
The Commission has proposed retaining the current number of constituencies in Leicestershire, but there would be significant changes, with Rutland now being included with Stamford in Lincolnshire. Charnwood, Rutland and Melton, and South Leicestershire would be abolished and new constituencies of Mid Leicestershire, Melton and Syston, and Blaby, Oadby and Wigston created. As Leicester West would now include part of Blaby District, it is proposed that it is renamed Leicester West and Glenfield. The constituency of Harborough would be completely reconfigured to be coterminous with the District of Harborough and Bosworth would be renamed Hinckley and Bosworth.[4][5] The following seats are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Blaby
- (part)
- (part)
- (part)
Containing electoral wards from Charnwood
- Loughborough
- (part)
- Mid Leicestershire (part)
Containing electoral wards from Harborough
Containing electoral wards from Hinckley and Bosworth
- (part)
- Mid Leicestershire (part)
Containing electoral wards from Leicester
- Leicester East
- Leicester South
- Leicester West and Glenfield (part)
Containing electoral wards from Melton
- Melton and Syston (part)
Containing electoral wards from North West Leicestershire
- Hinckley and Bosworth (part)
- North West Leicestershire
Containing electoral wards from Oadby and Wigston
- Blaby, Oadby and Wigston (part)
Revised proposals will be published in late 2022 and the final report will be submitted in June 2023.
Results history[]
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]
2019[]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Leicestershire and Rutland in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 281,019 | 53.3% | 4.4% | 7 | 0 |
Labour | 169,475 | 32.1% | 8.0% | 3 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 51,606 | 9.8% | 3.2% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 18,705 | 3.5% | 1.4% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 4,050 | 0.8% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 2,835 | 0.5% | 1.8% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 527,690 | 100.0 | 10 |
Percentage votes[]
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 50.6 | 52.0 | 48.7 | 36.8 | 38.1 | 37.4 | 41.0 | 43.9 | 48.9 | 53.3 |
Labour | 25.3 | 27.3 | 33.0 | 43.8 | 41.5 | 36.1 | 27.6 | 30.6 | 40.1 | 32.1 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 22.7 | 20.2 | 17.1 | 15.1 | 17.0 | 20.8 | 23.3 | 8.0 | 6.6 | 9.8 |
Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.4 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 3.5 |
UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 2.6 | 14.4 | 1.8 | * |
Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.8 |
Other | 1.4 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats[]
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Labour | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Total | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps[]
1983
1987
1992
1997
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017
2019
Historical representation by party[]
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
1885 to 1918[]
Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 88 | 91 | 1892 | 94 | 1895 | 1900 | 04 | 1906 | 06 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 13 | 16 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bosworth | Ellis | C. McLaren | H. McLaren | ||||||||||||
Harborough | Paget | Tapling | Logan | Stanhope | Lehmann | Logan | Harris | ||||||||
Leicester | McArthur | Whitehead | Broadhurst | Thomasson | Crawshay-Williams | Hewart | |||||||||
Picton | Hazell | Rolleston | MacDonald | ||||||||||||
Loughborough | Johnson-Ferguson | de Lisle | Johnson-Ferguson | Levy | |||||||||||
Melton | J. Manners | H. Manners | E. Manners | C. Manners | Walker | Yate |
1918 to 1974[]
From 1918 to 1983 Rutland was categorised with Lincolnshire.
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Coalition National Democratic & Labour Conservative Labour Liberal National Labour National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 27 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 33 | 1935 | 1945 | 1950 | 50 | 1951 | 1955 | 56 | 57 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 67 | 1970 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bosworth | McLaren | Paget | Ward | Gee | Edge | → | Allen | Wyatt | Butler | |||||||||||||||
Harborough | Fraser | Black | Winby | Stuart | Tree | Attewell | Baldock | Farr | ||||||||||||||||
Leicester East / Leicester NE (1950) | Hewart | Banton | Evans | Banton | Loder | Wise | Lyons | Donovan | Ungoed-Thomas | Bradley | ||||||||||||||
Leicester South / Leicester SW (1950) | Blane | Reynolds | Allen | Waterhouse | Bowden | Boardman | ||||||||||||||||||
Leicester West / Leicester NW (1950) | Green | Hill | Pethick-Lawrence | Pickering | Nicolson | B. Janner | G. Janner | |||||||||||||||||
Leicester South East | Waterhouse | Peel | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Loughborough | Guest | Spears | Rye | Winterton | Kimball | Follick | Cronin | |||||||||||||||||
Melton | Yate | Everard | Nutting | Pike |
1974 to present[]
Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Social Democratic
Constituency | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 81 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 04 | 2005 | 2010 | 11 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 20 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blaby / South Leicestershire (2010) | Lawson | Robathan | Costa | ||||||||||||||
Bosworth | Butler | Tredinnick | Evans | ||||||||||||||
Harborough | Farr | Garnier | O'Brien | ||||||||||||||
Leicester East | Bradley | → | Bruinvels | Vaz | Webbe | → | |||||||||||
Leicester South | Boardman | Marshall | Spencer | Marshall | Gill | Soulsby | Ashworth | ||||||||||
Leicester West | G. Janner | Hewitt | Kendall | ||||||||||||||
Loughborough | Cronin | Dorrell | Reed | Morgan | Hunt | ||||||||||||
Melton / Rutland and Melton (1983) | Latham | Duncan | Kearns | ||||||||||||||
North West Leicestershire | Ashby | Taylor | Bridgen | ||||||||||||||
Charnwood | Dorrell | Argar |
See also[]
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in the East Midlands (region)
- East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)
- Leicestershire County Council
- Rutland County Council
Footnotes[]
References[]
- General
- "Boundary Commission for England: Fifth Periodical Report" (PDF). Boundary Commission for England. Crown Copyright. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
- Craig, Frederick Walter Scott (1972). Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972. Chichester, Sussex: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
- Specific
- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ Martin, Dan (8 June 2021). "Radical plans to redraw Leicestershire's political map unveiled". Leicestershire Live. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ 2023 review - East Midlands Boundary Commission for England
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
- Lists of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in England
- Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire
- Parliamentary constituencies in Rutland
- Leicestershire-related lists
- Rutland-related lists