List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire
The county of Northamptonshire is divided into 7 Parliamentary constituencies - 2 Borough constituencies and 5 County constituencies.
Constituencies[]
Conservative † Labour ‡
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Corby CC | 86,153 | 10,268 | Tom Pursglove † | Beth Miller ‡ | |||
Daventry CC | 77,423 | 26,080 | Chris Heaton-Harris † | Paul Joyce ‡ | |||
Kettering CC | 73,164 | 16,765 | Philip Hollobone † | Clare Pavitt ‡ | |||
Northampton North BC | 58,768 | 5,507 | Michael Ellis † | Sally Keeble ‡ | |||
Northampton South BC | 62,163 | 4,697 | Andrew Lewer † | Gareth Eales ‡ | |||
South Northamptonshire CC | 90,842 | 27,761 | Andrea Leadsom † | Gen Kitchen ‡ | |||
Wellingborough CC | 80,765 | 18,540 | Peter Bone † | Andrea Watts ‡ |
2010 boundary changes[]
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to increase the number of seats which covered Northamptonshire from 6 to 7, with the creation of South Northamptonshire, resulting in major changes to Daventry and Northampton South.
Former name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Current name | Boundaries 2010–present |
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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 retaining the current number of constituencies in Northamptonshire, as detailed below, with boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries following the reorganisation of local government authorities within the county and to bring the electorates within the statutory range. It is proposed that Corby is renamed Corby and East Northamptonshire, and Wellingborough is renamed Wellingborough and Raunds.[4][5]
Containing electoral wards from North Northamptonshire
- Corby and East Northamptonshire
- Daventry (part)
- Kettering
- South Northamptonshire (part)
Containing electoral wards from West Northamptonshire
- Daventry (part)
- Northampton North
- Northampton South
- South Northamptonshire (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 Northamptonshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 216,229 | 59.0% | 3.3% | 7 | 0 |
Labour | 106,611 | 29.1% | 6.8% | 0 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 30,813 | 8.4% | 4.3% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 10,514 | 2.9% | 1.2% | 0 | 0 |
Others | 2,276 | 0.6% | 2.0% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 366,443 | 100.0 | 7 |
Percentage votes[]
Election year | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 39.1 | 40.6 | 50.2 | 49.0 | 51.7 | 51.8 | 40.4 | 41.2 | 43.1 | 47.4 | 50.6 | 55.7 | 59.0 |
Labour | 38.6 | 41.3 | 36.3 | 25.5 | 27.1 | 33.5 | 45.0 | 43.8 | 37.5 | 25.7 | 25.7 | 35.9 | 29.1 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 22.0 | 18.1 | 12.8 | 25.2 | 20.8 | 14.3 | 11.1 | 12.6 | 15.2 | 19.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 8.4 |
Green Party | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.8 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 2.9 |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 2.8 | 16.0 | 2.5 | * |
Other | 0.3 | - | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
11974 & 1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats[]
Election year | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Labour | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Maps[]
Feb 1974
Oct 1974
1979
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 Independent Liberal Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour Liberal Unionist National Party
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 89 | 91 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 17 | 18 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Northampton | Labouchère | Paul | Lees-Smith | |||||||||
Bradlaugh | Manfield | Drucker | Shipman | McCurdy | ||||||||
Northamptonshire East | Channing | Money | → | |||||||||
Northamptonshire Mid | Spencer | Pender | Spencer | Manfield | ||||||||
Northamptonshire North | Cecil | Monckton | Stopford-Sackville | Nicholls | Brassey | |||||||
Northamptonshire South | Knightley | Guthrie | Douglas-Pennant | FitzRoy | Grove | FitzRoy | → | → | ||||
Peterborough | Wentworth-FitzWilliam | → | Morton | Purvis | Greenwood |
1918 to 1950[]
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Co-operative Labour Speaker
Constituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 28 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 40 | 43 | 1945 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Daventry | FitzRoy | → | R, Manningham-Buller | ||||||||
Kettering | Waterson | Parker | Perry | M. Manningham-Buller | Perry | Eastwood | Profumo | Mitchison | |||
Northampton | McCurdy | Bondfield | Holland | Malone | M. Manningham-Buller | Summers | Paget | ||||
Peterborough | Brassey | Horrabin | Cecil | Hely-Hutchinson | Tiffany | ||||||
Wellingborough | Smith | Shakespeare | Cove | Dallas | James | Lindgren |
1950-1983[]
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 69 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kettering | Mitchison | de Freitas | Homewood | |||||||||
Northampton / Northampton North (1974) | Paget | Colquhoun | Marlow | |||||||||
Wellingborough | Lindgren | Hamilton | Howarth | Fry | ||||||||
Peterborough | Nicholls | Transferred to Huntingdon and Peterborough | ||||||||||
Northamptonshire South / Daventry (1974) | Manningham-Buller | Jones | Prentice | |||||||||
Northampton South | Morris |
1983-present[]
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 12 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Corby | Powell | Hope | Mensch | Sawford | Pursglove | ||||||
Northampton North | Marlow | Keeble | Ellis | ||||||||
Kettering | Freeman | Sawford | Hollobone | ||||||||
Northampton South | Morris | Clarke | Binley | Mackintosh | Lewer | ||||||
Wellingborough | Fry | Stinchcombe | Bone | ||||||||
Daventry | Prentice | Boswell | Heaton-Harris | ||||||||
South Northamptonshire | Leadsom |
See also[]
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 2020-04-23.
- ^ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ "These are all of the proposed changes for Northamptonshire's parliamentary constituencies under electoral map shake-up". www.northamptonchron.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
- ^ 2023 review - East Midlands Boundary Commission for England
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires
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