List of parliamentary constituencies in Humberside
Humberside was abolished in 1996 both as a county council and a ceremonial county, but the name Humberside continues to be used unofficially in subsequent boundary reviews as presented by the Boundary Commission for England to describe the area covered by the former county for the purpose of the rules which strongly deter cross-council constituencies (spanning more than one local authority within its area). The area covers the four unitary authorities of East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire The constituency boundaries used up to the 2005 United Kingdom general election were drawn up when it was a county. The area is divided into 10 Parliamentary constituencies – 4 Borough constituencies and 6 County constituencies.
Constituencies
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat
Boundary changes
| Name | Former boundaries | Current boundaries |
|---|---|---|
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The Boundary Commission proposed retaining these 10 constituencies, with changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. These changes were implemented at the 2010 United Kingdom general election.
Proposed boundary changes
The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.
Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.
On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries.[3] Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020[4] was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.
The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[5] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
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 Humberside in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 231,091 | 55.7% |  7.1%
|
7 | 2
|
| Labour | 122,074 | 29.4% |  12.7%
|
3 | 2
|
| Liberal Democrats | 26,312 | 6.3% | 2.6%
|
0 | 0 |
| Brexit | 20,595 | 5.0% | new | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 10,275 | 2.5% | 1.4%
|
0 | 0 |
| Others | 4,322 | 1.1% | 3.4%
|
0 | 0 |
| Total | 414,669 | 100.0 | 10 |
Percentage votes
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 43.8 | 41.9 | 41.7 | 30.4 | 32.8 | 33.0 | 36.8 | 38.4 | 48.6 | 55.7 |
| Labour | 29.2 | 34.8 | 40.3 | 50.4 | 46.7 | 41.0 | 30.8 | 33.9 | 42.1 | 29.4 |
| Liberal Democrat1 | 26.8 | 23.1 | 17.4 | 15.8 | 17.1 | 20.8 | 22.5 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 6.3 |
| Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.7 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 2.5 |
| UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 4.5 | 18.0 | 3.2 | * |
| Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5.0 |
| Other | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| Labour | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Total | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
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1983 -
1987 -
1992
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1997 -
2001
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2005
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2010 -
2015
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2017
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2019
Historical representation by party
Data given here is for the East Riding of Yorkshire before 1983. 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
1918 to 1950
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Labour Liberal
1950 to 1983
1983 to present
See also
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.
- ^ a b c Many sources list the Kingston upon Hull constituencies as Hull, following the city council's own practice. However, the official names have not adopted the short form.
References
- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Commons Library.
- ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".