Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency)

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Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough constituency
Newcastle-under-Lyme shown within Staffordshire, and Staffordshire shown within England
Created:	1354
MP:	Paul Farrelly
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Staffordshire
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Newcastle-under-Lyme is a 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.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 3.1 MPs 1660-1885 3.2 MPs 1885-present 4 Election results 4.1 Elections of the 2000s 4.2 Elections of the 1980s 5 See also 6 References

[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.

[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 1660-1885

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		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		Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot
1727		Baptist Leveson-Gower			John Ward
1734					John Lawton II
1740					Randle Wilbraham
1747					Viscount Parker
1754					John Waldegrave
1761		Henry Vernon II
1762		Sir Lawrence Dundas
1763					Thomas Gilbert
Mar 1768		John Wrottesley, later 8th Bt			Alexander Forrester
1768		George Hay
1774					George Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton
1779		George Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham
1780					Sir Archibald Macdonald
1784		Richard Vernon
1790		John Leveson-Gower
1792		William Egerton
1793					Sir Francis Ford
1796					Edward Wilbraham Bootle
1802		Sir Robert Lawley
1806		James Macdonald
1812		Earl Gower			Sir John Boughey
1815		Sir John Chetwode
1818		William Shepherd Kinnersley			Robert John Wilmot
1823		John Denison
1826		Richardson Borradaile
1830					William Henry Miller
1831		Edmund Peel
1832		Sir Henry Willoughby
1835		Edmund Peel
1837		Spencer Horsey de Horsey
1841		Edmund Buckley			John Quincey Harris
1842					John Campbell Colquhoun
1847		Samuel Christy-Miller			William Jackson
1859		William Murray
1865		William Shepherd Allen			Sir Edmund Buckley
1878					Samuel Rathbone Edge
1880					Charles Donaldson-Hudson
1885	representation reduced to one member

[edit] MPs 1885-present

Election		Member	Party
	1885	William Shepherd Allen	Liberal
	1886	Douglas Harry Coghill
	1892	William Allen	Liberal
	1900	Sir Alfred Seale Haslam
	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] Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Andrew Dobson
	Labour	Paul Farrelly
	Conservative	Robert Jenrick
	Liberal Democrat	Elizabeth Shenton

[edit] Elections of 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
	UK Independence	David Nixon	1,436	3.6	+2.1
	British National	John Dawson	1,390	3.5	N/A
	Green	Prof 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
	UK Independence	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 of the 1980s

• Resignation of John Golding on 24 June 1986, upon appointment as General Secretary of the National Communications Union.

17 July 1986 by-election: Newcastle-under-Lyme
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

• Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election, 1986
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

[edit] References

• Britain Votes/Europe Votes By-Election Supplement 1983-, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1985-)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

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