List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire
The non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire is divided into 7 Parliamentary constituencies – 1 Borough constituency and 6 County constituencies.
Constituencies[]
† Conservative ‡ Labour
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boston and Skegness CC | 69,381 | 25,621 | Matt Warman† | Ben Cook‡ | |||
Gainsborough CC | 76,343 | 22,967 | Sir Edward Leigh† | Perry Smith‡ | |||
Grantham and Stamford CC | 81,502 | 26,003 | Gareth Davies† | Kathryn Salt‡ | |||
Lincoln BC | 74,942 | 3,514 | Karl McCartney† | Karen Lee‡ | |||
Louth and Horncastle CC | 79,634 | 28,868 | Victoria Atkins† | Ellie Green‡ | |||
Sleaford and North Hykeham CC | 94,761 | 32,564 | Dr Caroline Johnson† | Linda Edwards-Shea‡ | |||
South Holland and The Deepings CC | 75,975 | 30,838 | John Hayes† | Mark Popple‡ |
2010 boundary changes[]
In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Lincolnshire retained its current constituencies, with minor changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.
Name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Boundaries 2010–present |
---|---|---|
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 2021.[3]
The Commission has proposed including Rutland with Lincolnshire (currently considered with Leicestershire and part of the constituency of Rutland and Melton), re-establishing the constituency of Rutland and Stamford. Consequently, Grantham and Stamford is renamed Grantham, and South Holland and The Deepings is renamed South Lincolnshire.[4][5] The following seats are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Boston
- Boston and Skegness (part)
- South Lincolnshire (part)
Containing electoral wards from East Lyndsey
- Boston and Skegness (part)
- Louth and Horncastle
Containing electoral wards from Lincoln
- Lincoln (part)
Containing electoral wards from North Kesteven
- Grantham (part)
- Lincoln (part)
- Sleaford and North Hykeham
Containing electoral wards from Rutland
- Rutland and Stamford (part)
Containing electoral wards from South Holland
- South Lincolnshire (part)
Containing electoral wards from South Kesteven
- Grantham (part)
- Rutland and Stamford (part)
Containing electoral wards from West Lyndsey
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 Lincolnshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 246,959 | 67.2% | 5.6% | 7 | 1 |
Labour | 76,583 | 20.8% | 7.7% | 0 | 1 |
Liberal Democrats | 28,389 | 7.7% | 3.6% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 6,815 | 1.9% | 0.5% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 1,079 | 0.3% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 7,614 | 2.1% | 2.3% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 367,439 | 100.0 | 7 |
Percentage votes[]
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 53.2 | 53.8 | 53.5 | 42.4 | 46.2 | 46.8 | 49.8 | 51.6 | 61.6 | 67.2 |
Labour | 15.1 | 18.5 | 25.8 | 36.9 | 35.7 | 29.5 | 19.4 | 20.1 | 28.5 | 20.8 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 31.4 | 27.4 | 19.8 | 17.5 | 16.1 | 17.4 | 20.2 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 7.7 |
Green Party | – | * | * | * | * | * | 0.2 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
UKIP | – | – | – | * | * | * | 4.7 | 19.4 | 3.5 | * |
Brexit Party | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.3 |
Other | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 2.1 |
11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats[]
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps[]
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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 Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 87 | 90 | 1892 | 93 | 94 | 1895 | 98 | 1900 | 1906 | 07 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 17 |
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Boston | Ingram | Farmer-Atkinson | Ingram | Garfit | Faber | Dixon | |||||||||||||
Brigg | Meysey-Thompson | → | Waddy | Richardson | Reckitt | Sheffield | Gelder | ||||||||||||
Gainsborough | Bennett | Eyre | Bennett | Bainbridge | Ormsby-Gore | Renton | → | Bentham | |||||||||||
Grantham | Mellor | Low | Lopes | Priestley | |||||||||||||||
Grimsby | Heneage | → | Josse | Heneage | Doughty | → | Wing | Doughty | → | Tickler | |||||||||
Horncastle | Stanhope | de Eresby | Weigall | ||||||||||||||||
Lincoln | Ruston | → | Kerans | Crosfield | Seely | Roberts | |||||||||||||
Louth | Otter | Heath | Perks | Brackenbury | Davies | ||||||||||||||
Sleaford | Chaplin | Lupton | Royds | ||||||||||||||||
Spalding | Finch-Hatton | Stewart | Pollock | Mansfield | McLaren | Peel | |||||||||||||
Stamford | Lawrance | Cust | Younger | Joicey-Cecil | Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby |
1918 to 1950[]
Conservative Independent Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931–68)
Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 21 | 1922 | 23 | 1923 | 24 | 1924 | 29 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 33 | 1935 | 37 | 42 | 1945 | 48 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brigg | McLean | Sheffield | Quibell | Hunter | Quibell | Williamson | Mallalieu | |||||||||||
Gainsborough | Molson | Winfrey | Crookshank | |||||||||||||||
Grantham | Royds | R. Pattinson | Warrender | Kendall | ||||||||||||||
Grimsby | Tickler | Sutcliffe | Womersley | Younger | ||||||||||||||
Holland with Boston | Royce | Dean | Blindell | → | Butcher | |||||||||||||
Horncastle | Weigall | Hotchkin | S. Pattinson | Haslam | Maitland | |||||||||||||
Lincoln | Davies | Taylor | Liddall | Deer | ||||||||||||||
Louth | Brackenbury | T. Wintringham | M. Wintringham | Heneage | Osborne | |||||||||||||
Rutland and Stamford | Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | Dixon | Smith-Carington | de Eresby |
1950 to 1983[]
Conservative Labour Lincoln Democratic Labour National Liberal (1931–68)
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 56 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 69 | 1970 | 73 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 77 | 1979 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brigg / Brigg and Scunthorpe (1974) | Mallalieu | Ellis | Brown | ||||||||||||
Gainsborough | Crookshank | Kimball | |||||||||||||
Grantham | Smith | Godber | Hogg | ||||||||||||
Grimsby | Younger | Crosland | Mitchell | ||||||||||||
Holland with Boston | Butcher | Body | |||||||||||||
Horncastle | Maitland | Tapsell | |||||||||||||
Lincoln | de Freitas | Taverne | → | Jackson | Carlisle | ||||||||||
Louth | Osborne | Archer | Brotherton | ||||||||||||
Rutland and Stamford | Conant | Lewis |
1983 to present[]
Conservative Independent Labour
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 07 | 2010 | 2015 | 16 | 2017 | 19 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Holland with Boston / Boston and Skegness (1997) | Body | Simmonds | Warman | ||||||||||
Gainsborough and Horncastle / Gainsborough (1997) | Leigh | ||||||||||||
Stamford and Spalding / Grantham and Stamford (1997) | Lewis | J. Davies | → | Boles | → | G. Davies | |||||||
Lincoln | Carlisle | Merron | McCartney | Lee | McCartney | ||||||||
East Lindsey / Louth and Horncastle (1997) | Tapsell | Atkins | |||||||||||
Grantham / Sleaford and North Hykeham (1997) | Hogg | Phillips | Johnson | ||||||||||
South Holland and The Deepings | Hayes |
See also[]
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in the East Midlands (region)
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside for those covering North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire unitary authorities.
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "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 2020-04-22.
- ^ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ Cooper, Ben (2021-06-08). "Lincolnshire and Rutland will form a new electoral region". LincolnshireLive. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
- ^ 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
- Politics of Lincolnshire
- Lincolnshire-related lists