Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency)

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Newcastle-under-Lyme
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire.
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Location of Staffordshire within England.
County Staffordshire
Electorate 68,692 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created 1885 (1885)
Member of Parliament Paul Farrelly (Labour)
Number of members One
1354 (1354)–1885 (1885)
Number of members Two
Type of constituency Borough constituency
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency West MidlandsFri

Newcastle-under-Lyme is a borough 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.

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[edit] History

From its creation in 1354, Newcastle-under-Lyme returned two MPs to the House of Commons. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the constituency's representation was reduced to one member.

It is one of the most loyal Labour Party seats having not returned a non-Labour MP since 1922 when Josiah Wedgwood joined the Labour Party. However, at the 2010 General Election it came within 3% the smallest margin in a long time with a Conservative increase of +9.4% and a Labour decline of -7.4%.

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency includes most of the northerly parts of Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, primarily Newcastle-under-Lyme town plus Keele and Audley.

There are no planned alterations to the seat in boundary changes made in the rest of Staffordshire.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1353–1660

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[edit] MPs 1660–1885

Election 1st Member[3] 1st Party 2nd Member[3] 2nd Party
1660 John Bowyer Samuel Terrick
1661 Sir Caesar Colclough Edward Mainwaring
1675 William Leveson-Gower
1679 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
1685 Edward Mainwaring William Sneyd
1689 Sir William Leveson-Gower John Lawton
1690 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
1692 Sir John Leveson-Gower, later 1st Lord Gower
1695 John Lawton
1698 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
1699 Sir Rowland Cotton
1702 John Crewe Offley
1705 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
1706 Crewe Offley John Lawton
1710 William Burslem Rowland Cotton
Jan 1715 Henry Vernon
1715 Sir Brian Broughton Crewe Offley
1722 Thomas Leveson-Gower
1724 by-election Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot
1727 Baptist Leveson-Gower John Ward
1734 John Lawton II
1740 by-election Randle Wilbraham
1747 Viscount Parker
1754 John Waldegrave
1761 Henry Vernon II
1762 by-election Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt
1763 by-election Thomas Gilbert
Mar 1768 John Wrottesley, later 8th Bt Alexander Forrester
May 1768 by-election George Hay
1774 George Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton
1779 by-election George Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham
1780 Sir Archibald Macdonald
1784 Richard Vernon
1790 John Leveson-Gower
1792 by-election William Egerton
1793 by-election Sir Francis Ford
1796 Edward Wilbraham Bootle
1802 Sir Robert Lawley
1806 James Macdonald
1812 Earl Gower Sir John Boughey, Bt
1815 by-election Sir John Chetwode
1818 William Shepherd Kinnersley Robert John Wilmot Tory
1823 by-election Evelyn Denison
1826 Richardson Borradaile Tory
1830 William Henry Miller Whig
1831 Edmund Peel Tory Tory
1832 Sir Henry Willoughby Tory
1834 Conservative Conservative
1835 Edmund Peel Conservative
1837 Spencer Horsey de Horsey Conservative
1841 Edmund Buckley Conservative John Quincey Harris Liberal
1842 by-election John Campbell Colquhoun Liberal
1847 Samuel Christy Conservative William Jackson Liberal
1859 William Murray Conservative
1865 William Shepherd Allen Liberal Sir Edmund Buckley, Bt Conservative
1878 by-election Samuel Rathbone Edge Liberal
1880 Charles Donaldson-Hudson Conservative
1885 representation reduced to one member by the Redistribution of Seats Act

[edit] MPs since 1885

Election Member[3] Party
1885 William Shepherd Allen Liberal
1886 Douglas Harry Coghill Liberal Unionist
1892 William Allen Liberal
1900 Sir Alfred Seale Haslam Liberal Unionist
1906 Josiah Wedgwood Liberal
1918 Independent
1922 Labour
1942 John Mack Labour
1951 Stephen Swingler Labour
1969 John Golding Labour
1986 Llin Golding Labour
2001 Paul Farrelly Labour

[edit] Elections

[edit] Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Newcastle-under-Lyme[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paul Farrelly 16,393 38.0 -7.4
Conservative Robert Jenrick 14,841 34.4 +9.4
Liberal Democrat Nigel Jones 8,466 19.6 +0.7
UKIP David Nixon 3,491 8.1 +4.5
Majority 1,552 3.6
Turnout 43,191 62.2 +4.0
Labour hold Swing -8.4

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Newcastle-under-Lyme
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paul Farrelly 18,053 45.4 -8.0
Conservative Jeremy Lefroy 9,945 25.0 -2.6
Liberal Democrat Trevor Johnson 7,528 18.9 +3.4
UKIP David Nixon 1,436 3.6 +2.1
BNP John Dawson 1,390 3.5 N/A
Green Andrew Dobson 918 2.3 N/A
Veritas Marian Harvey-Lover 518 1.3 N/A
Majority 8,108 20.4 -5.4
Turnout 39,788 61.6 +2.8
Labour hold Swing -2.7
General Election 2001: Newcastle-under-Lyme
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paul Farrelly 20,650 53.4 -3.1
Conservative Michael Flynn 10,664 27.6 +6.1
Liberal Democrat Jerry Roodhouse 5,993 15.5 +1.5
Independent Robert Fyson 773 2.0 N/A
UKIP Paul Godfrey 594 1.5 N/A
Majority 9,986 25.8
Turnout 38,674 58.8 -14.8
Labour hold Swing -4.6%

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Newcastle-under-Lyme[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Llin Golding 25,652 47.9 +7.4
Conservative AD Brierley 15,813 29.6 +1.7
Liberal Democrat AL Thomas 11,727 21.9 −9.0
Natural Law RJM Lines 314 0.6 N/A
Majority 9,839 18.4 +8.8
Turnout 53,506 80.8 +3.7
Labour hold Swing +2.9

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election, 1986
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Llin Golding 16,819 40.8 -1.2
Liberal Alan Thomas 16,020 38.8 +17.2
Conservative James Nock 7,863 19.0 -17.4
Monster Raving Loony David Sutch 277 0.7 N/A
Independent John Gaskell 115 0.3 N/A
Independent James Parker 83 0.2 N/A
Independent David Brewster 70 0.2 N/A
Majority 799 2.0 -3.6
Turnout 41,247 62.2 -15.1
Labour hold Swing
Registered electors 66,353

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 
  2. ^ "Tamworth Parliamentary Borough 1275-1832". The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia. http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/view.php?id=207. Retrieved 26 October 2010. 
  3. ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
  4. ^ ukpollingreport
  5. ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i14.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06. 

[edit] Sources

  • Britain Votes/Europe Votes By-Election Supplement 1983-, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1985-)
Constituencies in the West Midlands (59)
Conservative (33)
Labour (24)
Liberal Democrats (2)

Coordinates: 53°02′N 2°18′W / 53.04°N 2.30°W / 53.04; -2.30

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