North Warwickshire and Bedworth (UK Parliament constituency)
North Warwickshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of North Warwickshire in Warwickshire | |
![]() Location of Warwickshire within England | |
County | Warwickshire |
Electorate | 70,544 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Atherstone, Bedworth, Coleshill and Polesworth |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Craig Tracey (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Meriden Nuneaton |
1832–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Created from | Warwickshire |
Replaced by | Nuneaton Rugby Stratford-on-Avon Tamworth |
North Warwickshire is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Craig Tracey, a Conservative.[n 2]
Members of Parliament
MPs 1832–1885
Election | 1st Member[2] | 1st Party | 2nd Member[2] | 2nd Party | ||
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1832 | rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Stratford Dugdale | Conservative | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bt | Conservative |
1843 by-election | rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Charles Newdigate Newdegate | Conservative | |||
1847 | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Richard Spooner | Conservative | |||
1864 by-election | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Bromley-Davenport | Conservative | |||
1884 by-election | style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Philip Muntz | Conservative | |||
1885 | Constituency abolished: see Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth |
MPs since 1983
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1983 | Francis Maude | Conservative |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 1992 | Mike O'Brien | Labour |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 2010 | Dan Byles | Conservative |
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | 2015 | Craig Tracey | Conservative |
Constituency profile
Warwickshire North has wards which are the most "working-class" (lowest average income) and industrial of the six constituencies in the county, politically frequently with the best returns locally for Labour candidates. In the 2010 election all six Warwickshire constituencies were won by the Conservative party, this constituency was the most marginal, falling on a substantial swing of 8.1% from Labour to the Conservatives (compared to a national swing of 5%).
Like much of the county, the area includes many rural villages which can today be classified as 'commuter' and 'retirement' south of the National Forest, south east of Tamworth and the small cathedral city of Lichfield and centred less than 10 miles (16 km) east of Birmingham which provides some work locally in the creative and international export sectors. Many towns and villages have a history of coal mining and heavy industry and with that a strong Labour vote.[3]
Settlements include Bedworth, just north of Coventry, and the historic market town of Atherstone.[n 3]
Boundaries
The constituency since 2010 has all but two wards of North Warwickshire.[n 4]
1832-1885: The Hundred of Hemlingford, the County of the City of Coventry, and the Rugby and Kirby Divisions of the Hundred of Knightlow.[4]
1983–2010: The Borough of North Warwickshire, and the Borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth wards of Exhall, Heath, Mount Pleasant, and Poplar.
2010–present: The Borough of North Warwickshire wards of Atherstone Central, Atherstone North, Atherstone South and Mancetter, Baddesley and Grendon, Coleshill North, Coleshill South, Curdworth, Dordon, Fillongley, Hurley and Wood End, Kingsbury, Newton Regis and Warton, Polesworth East, Polesworth West, and Water Orton, and the Borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth wards of Bede, Exhall, Heath, Poplar, and Slough.
History
History 1832–1885
The North Warwickshire constituency was created for the 1832 general election, when the Great Reform Act divided the former Warwickshire constituency into two new divisions: North Warwickshire and South Warwickshire.
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, North Warwickshire was abolished for the 1885 general election, when Warwickshire was divided into six new single-member constituencies: Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon, Nuneaton, Sutton Coldfield, Erdington and Tamworth.
History 1983–present
The current North Warwickshire county constituency was created for the 1983 general election, replacing outlying parts of the Meriden and Nuneaton constituencies. The seat was won by Francis Maude of the Conservative Party at the 1983 general election, who held it until 1992, when it was taken by Mike O'Brien of Labour. Labour held the seat comfortably until 2010.
On 8 March 2007, former Army Officer and polar explorer Dan Byles was selected at an open primary to contest North Warwickshire for the Conservative Party. At the 2010 general election, Byles won the seat off Mike O'Brien by just 54 votes, making him the Conservative Member of Parliament with the smallest majority in the country.
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Craig Tracey | 26,860 | 56.9 | ![]() | |
Labour | Julie Jackson | 18,350 | 38.9 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | James Cox | 1,028 | 2.2 | ![]() | |
Green | Keith Kondakor | 940 | 2.0 | ![]() | |
Majority | 8,510 | 18.0 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 47,178 | 63.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Craig Tracey | 20,042 | 42.3 | ![]() | |
Labour | Mike O'Brien | 17,069 | 36.0 | ![]() | |
UKIP | William Cash[6] | 8,256 | 17.4 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Alan Beddow | 978 | 2.1 | ![]() | |
Green | Ian Bonner | 894 | 1.9 | N/A | |
TUSC | Eileen Hunter | 138 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,973 | 6.3 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 47,377 | 67.2 | ![]() | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Daniel Byles | 18,993 | 40.2 | ![]() | |
Labour | Mike O'Brien | 18,939 | 40.1 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Martin | 5,481 | 11.6 | ![]() | |
BNP | Jason Holmes | 2,106 | 4.5 | ![]() | |
UKIP | Stephen Fowler | 1,335 | 2.8 | ![]() | |
English Democrat | David Lane | 411 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 54 | 0.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,265 | 67.4 | ![]() | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ![]() |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mike O'Brien | 22,561 | 48.1 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Ian Gibb | 15,008 | 32.0 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Jerry Roodhouse | 6,212 | 13.2 | ![]() | |
BNP | Michaela Mackenzie | 1,910 | 4.1 | N/A | |
UKIP | Ian Campbell | 1,248 | 2.7 | ![]() | |
Majority | 7,553 | 16.1 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 46,939 | 62.2 | ![]() | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mike O'Brien | 24,023 | 54.1 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Geoffrey Parsons | 14,384 | 32.4 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | William Powell | 5,052 | 11.4 | ![]() | |
UKIP | John Flynn | 950 | 2.1 | ![]() | |
Majority | 9,639 | 21.7 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 44,409 | 60.2 | ![]() | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mike O'Brien | 31,669 | 58.4 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Stephen Hammond | 16,902 | 31.2 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | William Powell | 4,040 | 7.4 | ![]() | |
Referendum | Roland Mole | 917 | 1.7 | N/A | |
UKIP | Christopher Cooke | 533 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Berties Party | Ian Moorecroft | 178 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,767 | 27.2 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 54,239 | 74.7 | ![]() | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mike O'Brien | 27,577 | 46.1 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Francis Maude | 26,124 | 43.6 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Noel R Mitchell | 6,161 | 10.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,453 | 2.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 59,862 | 82.8 | ![]() | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ![]() |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Francis Maude | 25,453 | 45.08 | ![]() | |
Labour | Mike O'Brien | 22,624 | 40.07 | ![]() | |
SDP | SJ Neale | 8,382 | 14.85 | ![]() | |
Majority | 2,829 | 5.01 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 56,459 | 79.87 | ![]() | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Francis Maude | 22,452 | 42.0 | N/A | |
Labour | JE Tomlinson | 19,867 | 37.1 | N/A | |
SDP | H Kerry | 11,207 | 20.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,585 | 4.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 53,526 | 78.0 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
See also
Notes
- ^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- ^ This saw considerable population expansion from 1995–2010
- ^ Arley and Whitacre and Hartshill, moved in 2010 to Nuneaton
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