Harborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Harborough
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Harborough in Leicestershire for the 2010 general election.
Location of Leicestershire within England.
County	Leicestershire
Electorate	78,753 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1885 (1885)
Member of Parliament	Edward Garnier (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	South Leicestershire
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East Midlands

Harborough is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The constituency is named for Market Harborough, seat of the Harborough local government district. The constituency excludes eastern suburbs of Leicester which are in the district, and includes the district of Oadby and Wigston.

In boundary changes in 1974, the constituency lost a large amount of its territory to the new seat of Blaby.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Leicestershire, the Boundary Commission for England has made only minor changes to the existing constituency arrangement. The modified constituency will be formed by the following electoral wards;

• The entire borough of Oadby and Wigston
• From Harborough Bosworth, Fleckney, Glen, Kibworth, Lubenham, Market Harborough-Great Bowden and Arden, Market Harborough-Little Bowden, Market Harborough-Logan, and Market Harborough-Welland

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Thomas Tertius Paget	Liberal
	1886	Thomas Keay Tapling	Conservative
	1891 by-election	John William Logan	Liberal
	1904 by-election	Philip James Stanhope	Liberal
	1906	Rudolph Chambers Lehmann	Liberal
	Dec. 1910	John William Logan	Liberal
	1916 by-election	Percy Alfred Harris	Liberal
	1918	Sir Keith Alexander Fraser	Coalition Conservative
	1923	John Wycliffe Black	Liberal
	1924	Lewis Phillips Winby	Conservative
	1929	The Earl Castle Stewart	Unionist
	1933 by-election	Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree	Conservative
	1945	Humphrey Attewell	Labour
	1950	John Baldock	Conservative
	1959	Sir John Farr	Conservative
	1992	Edward Garnier	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Harborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Garnier	26,894	49.0	+6.1
	Liberal Democrat	Zuffar Haq	17,017	31.0	-3.6
	Labour	Kevin McKeever	6,981	12.7	-6.6
	BNP	Geoff Dickens	1,715	3.1	+3.1
	UKIP	Marietta King	1,462	2.7	-0.5
	English Democrats	David Ball	568	1.0	+1.0
	Independent	Jeff Stephenson	228	0.4	+0.4
Majority			9,877	18.0
Turnout			54,865	70.4	+6.3

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Harborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Garnier	20,536	42.9	−1.8
	Liberal Democrat	Jill Hope	16,644	34.7	+1.3
	Labour	Peter Evans	9,222	19.2	−0.8
	UKIP	Marietta King	1,520	3.2	+1.2
Majority			3,892	8.1
Turnout			47,922	64.3	+1.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	−1.6

General Election 2001: Harborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Garnier	20,748	44.7	+2.9
	Liberal Democrat	Jill Hope	15,496	33.4	+3.9
	Labour	Raj Jethwa	9,271	20.0	-5.2
	UKIP	David Knight	912	2.0	N/A
Majority			5,252	11.3
Turnout			46,427	63.3	-11.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Harborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Garnier	34,280	54.6	−4.9
	Liberal Democrat	MA Cox	20,737	33.0	+5.3
	Labour	Ms. C Mackay	7,483	11.9	−1.0
	Natural Law	AP Irwin	328	0.5	+0.5
Majority			13,543	21.6	−10.2
Turnout			62,828	82.1	+2.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−5.1

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire and Rutland

Sources

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 

External links

• Harborough Conservative Association
• Harborough Liberal Democrats
• Edward Garnier QC MP
• Kevin McKeever (Labour Parliamentary Candidate)