Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

The ceremonial county of Shropshire, England (which comprises the local/unitary authorities of Shropshire Council and Telford and Wrekin), is divided into 5 Parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 4 county constituencies. As with all constituencies for the House of Commons in the modern age, each constituency elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system.

Constituencies[]

Conservative † Liberal Democrat ¤ Labour ‡

Constituency^{[nb 1]}	Electorate^[1]	Majority^[2]^{[nb 2]}
Ludlow CC	69,444	23,648	Philip Dunne †	Heather Kidd ¤
North Shropshire CC	83,258	5,925	Helen Morgan ¤	Neil Shastri-Hurst †
Shrewsbury and Atcham CC	82,238	11,217	Daniel Kawczynski †	Julie Buckley ‡
Telford BC	68,921	10,941	Lucy Allan †	Katrina Gilman ‡
The Wrekin CC	70,693	18,726	Mark Pritchard †	Dylan Harrison ‡

2010 boundary changes[]

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the 5 constituencies in Shropshire for the 2010 election, making only small changes to the boundary between Telford and The Wrekin to align with current local government wards.

Name	Boundaries 1997-2010	Boundaries 2010-present
Ludlow CC North Shropshire CC Shrewsbury and Atcham CC Telford BC The Wrekin 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 2021.^[3]

The commission has proposed retaining the current five constituencies in Shropshire, with minor boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries and to bring constituencies within the statutory range. It is proposed that Shrewsbury and Atcham reverts to its original name of Shrewsbury, while Ludlow and The Wrekin are renamed , and respectively.^[4]

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^[5]

2019[]

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Shropshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	155,225	60.3%	4.7%	5	0
Labour	66,798	25.9%	9.3%	0	0
Liberal Democrats	26,827	10.4%	4.6%	0	0
Greens	6,955	2.7%	0.6%	0	0
Others	1,713	0.7%	0.6%	0	0
Total	257,518	100.0		5

Percentage votes[]

Election year	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative¹	54.7	57.3	59.3	55.6	47.9	49.3	52.4	43.1	43.0	49.6	49.0	48.2	46.3	37.2	39.1	41.8	46.8	48.3	55.6	60.3
Labour	41.2	42.7	40.7	36.2	34.1	42.7	36.0	31.1	33.2	29.1	21.3	25.4	30.7	39.7	38.2	30.8	21.6	24.4	35.2	25.9
Liberal Democrat²	4.1	-	-	8.2	18.0	8.0	11.7	25.8	23.8	21.0	29.7	26.0	22.0	20.5	18.6	23.0	23.5	7.0	5.8	10.4
Green Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	*	*	0.8	4.0	2.1	2.7
UKIP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	4.4	16.3	1.2	*
Other	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2	0.1	0.3	1.0	2.7	4.1	4.4	3.0	-	0.1	0.7

¹Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

²1950-1979 – Liberal; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats[]

Election year	1950	1951	1955	1959	1964	1966	1970	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative¹	3	3	4	4	4	3	4	3	3	4	4	3	3	2	1	4	4	5	5	5
Labour	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	3	3	1	1	0	0	0
Liberal Democrat²	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Total	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5

¹Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

²1950-1979 – Liberal; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps[]

1950
1951
1955
1959
1964
1966
1970
Feb 1974
Oct 1974
1979
1983
1987
1992
1997
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017
2019
2021

Historical constituencies[]

Timeline of Parliamentary constituencies in the county, with historical (green) and extant (pink) constituencies.

Constituency	1290-1295	1295-1473	1473-1584	1584-1832	1832-1885	1885-1918	1918-1983	1983-1997	1997–present
Bishop's Castle				1584-1832
Bridgnorth		1295-1885
Ludlow			1473–present
Newport						1885-1918
North Shropshire					1832-1885			1983–present
Oswestry						1885-1983
Shrewsbury	1290-1983
Shrewsbury and Atcham								1983–present
Shropshire	1290-1832
South Shropshire					1832-1885
Telford									1997–present
Wellington						1885-1918
(Much) Wenlock	1290-1885
The Wrekin							1918–present

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 National Party

Constituency	1885	86	1886	1892	01	03	04	1906	08	12	13	17	18
Ludlow	More	→				Hunt				→		→	→
Newport	Bickersteth	→	Kenyon-Slaney						Stanier
Oswestry	Leighton				Ormsby-Gore		Bright	Bridgeman
Shrewsbury	Watson			Greene				Hill			Lloyd
Wellington (Salop)	Brown	→						Henry

1918 to 1945[]

Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Conservative Labour Liberal

Constituency	1918	20	20	22	1922	23	1923	1924	1929	1931	41
Ludlow	Stanier			I. Windsor-Clive		G. Windsor-Clive
Oswestry	Bridgeman								Leighton
Shrewsbury	Lloyd				Ryder		Sunlight	Ryder	Duckworth
The Wrekin	Henry	Palmer	Townshend		Button		Nixon	Oakley	Picton-Turbervill	Baldwin-Webb	Colegate

1945 to 1983[]

Conservative Labour

Constituency	1945	1950	1951	1955	60	61	1966	1970	Feb 74	1979
Ludlow	Corbett		Holland-Martin		More					Cockeram
Oswestry	Poole	Ormsby-Gore				Biffen
Shrewsbury	Langford-Holt
The Wrekin	Thomas			Yates			Fowler	Trafford	Fowler	Hawksley

1983 to present[]

Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats

Constituency	1983	1987	1997	2001	01	2005	2015	21
Ludlow	Cockeram	Gill		Green		Dunne
North Shropshire	Biffen		Paterson					Morgan
Shrewsbury and Atcham	Conway		Marsden		→	Kawczynski
The Wrekin	Hawksley	Grocott	Bradley			Pritchard
Telford			Grocott	Wright			Allan

Notes[]

^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References[]

^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ ^a ^b ^c "Constituencies A-Z – Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
^ "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
^ "West Midlands". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[1] BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.

[4] The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

[2] Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[:0-3] "Constituencies A-Z – Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

[5] "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 October 2021.

[6] "West Midlands". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

[7] Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[nb 1]

[1]

[2]

[nb 2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

v t Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
UK regions and nations	East (58) East Midlands (46) London (73) North East (29) North West (75) South East (84) South West (55) West Midlands (59) Yorkshire and the Humber (54) Northern Ireland (18) Scotland (59) Wales (40)
English counties	Avon Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cleveland Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Essex Gloucestershire Greater Manchester Hampshire Herefordshire and Worcestershire Hertfordshire Humberside Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire and Rutland Lincolnshire London Merseyside Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey East Sussex West Sussex Tyne and Wear Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire
Historic counties	Huntingdonshire Middlesex Westmorland
History of constituency boundaries in	Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Berkshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Essex Hertfordshire Norfolk Oxfordshire Suffolk
By years	(1801–1832) (1832–1868) (1868-85) (1885–1918) (1918–1945) (1950–1974) (1974–1983) (1983–1997) (1997 to present)