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List of parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire

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The county of Northamptonshire is divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies - 2 borough constituencies and 5 county constituencies.

The location of Northamptonshire relative to England.

Constituencies

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Further information: 2024 United Kingdom general election

  Conservative †   Labour ‡

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament Nearest opposition Map
Corby and East Northamptonshire CC 78,770 6,331   Lee Barron ‡   Tom Pursglove †
 
Daventry CC 76,539 3,012   Stuart Andrew †   Marianne Kimani ‡
 
Kettering CC 79,360 3,900   Rosie Wrighting ‡   Philip Hollobone †
 
Northampton North BC 75,713 9,014   Lucy Rigby ‡   Dan Bennett †
 
Northampton South BC 71,512 4,071   Mike Readers ‡   Andrew Lewer †
 
South Northamptonshire CC 76,555 3,687   Sarah Bool †   Rufia Ashraf ‡
 
Wellingborough and Rushden CC 77,542 5,486   Gen Kitchen ‡   David Goss †
 

Boundary changes

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2024

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See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[3] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission proposed maintaining seven constituencies in Northamptonshire, as detailed below, with boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries following the reorganisation of local government authorities within the county and to bring the electorates within the statutory range. Corby was renamed Corby and East Northamptonshire, and Wellingborough renamed Wellingborough and Rushden.[4][5] These changes came into effect from the 2024 general election.

Containing electoral wards from North Northamptonshire

Containing electoral wards from West Northamptonshire

Results history

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Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]

2024

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The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Northamptonshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:[2]

Party Votes % Change from 2019 Seats Change from 2019
Labour 122,226 36.3%  7.2% 5  5
Conservative 100,203 29.8%  29.2% 2  5
Reform 61,502 18.3% New 0 New
Greens 23,170 6.9%  4.0% 0 0
Liberal Democrats 22,306 6.6%  1.8% 0 0
Others 6,894 2.0%  1.4 0 0
Total 336,331 100.0 7

2019

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The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Northamptonshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 216,229 59.0%  3.3% 7 0
Labour 106,611 29.1%  6.8% 0 0
Liberal Democrats 30,813 8.4%  4.3% 0 0
Greens 10,514 2.9%  1.2% 0 0
Others 2,276 0.6%  2.0% 0 0
Total 366,443 100.0 7

Percentage votes

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Election year 1974

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1974

(Oct)

1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019 2024
Labour 38.6 41.3 36.3 25.5 27.1 33.5 45.0 43.8 37.5 25.7 25.7 35.9 29.1 36.3
Conservative 39.1 40.6 50.2 49.0 51.7 51.8 40.4 41.2 43.1 47.4 50.6 55.7 59.0 29.8
Reform - - - - - - - - - - - - - 18.3
Green Party - - - - * * * * * 0.8 3.5 1.7 2.9 6.9
Liberal Democrat1 22.0 18.1 12.8 25.2 20.8 14.3 11.1 12.6 15.2 19.1 4.1 4.1 8.4 6.6
UKIP - - - - - - * * * 2.8 16.0 2.5 * -
Other 0.3 - 0.7 0.2 0.4 0.4 3.4 2.5 4.2 4.3 0.1 0.1 0.6 2.0

11974 & 1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

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Election year 1974

(Feb)

1974

(Oct)

1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019 2024
Labour 2 2 1 0 0 0 5 5 2 0 0 0 0 5
Conservative 3 3 4 6 6 6 1 1 4 7 7 7 7 2
Total 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7

Maps

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1885-1910

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1918-1945

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1950-1979

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1974-present

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The borders of Northamptonshire changed from 1974, with the Soke of Peterborough area becoming part of neighbouring Cambridgeshire.

Historical representation by party

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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

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  Conservative   Independent Liberal   Labour   Liberal   Liberal-Labour   Liberal Unionist   National Party

Constituency 1885 1886 89 91 1892 1895 1900 1906 Jan 1910 Dec 1910 17 18
Northampton Labouchère Paul Lees-Smith
Bradlaugh Manfield Drucker Shipman McCurdy
Northamptonshire East Channing Money →
Northamptonshire Mid Spencer Pender Spencer Manfield
Northamptonshire North Cecil Monckton Stopford-Sackville Nicholls Brassey
Northamptonshire South Knightley Guthrie Douglas-Pennant FitzRoy Grove FitzRoy → →
Peterborough Wentworth-FitzWilliam → Morton Purvis Greenwood

1918 to 1950

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  Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23)   Conservative   Co-operative   Labour   Speaker

Constituency 1918 1922 1923 1924 28 1929 1931 1935 40 43 1945
Daventry FitzRoy → R, Manningham-Buller
Kettering Waterson Parker Perry M. Manningham-Buller Perry Eastwood Profumo Mitchison
Northampton McCurdy Bondfield Holland Malone M. Manningham-Buller Summers Paget
Peterborough Brassey Horrabin Cecil Hely-Hutchinson Tiffany
Wellingborough Smith Shakespeare Cove Dallas James Lindgren

1950-1983

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  Conservative   Labour

Constituency 1950 1951 1955 1959 62 1964 1966 69 1970 Feb 1974 Oct 1974 1979
Kettering Mitchison de Freitas Homewood
Northampton / Northampton North (1974) Paget Colquhoun Marlow
Wellingborough Lindgren Hamilton Howarth Fry
Peterborough Nicholls Transferred to Huntingdon and Peterborough
Northamptonshire South / Daventry (1974) Manningham-Buller Jones Prentice
Northampton South Morris

1983-present

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  Conservative   Labour

Constituency 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 12 2015 2017 2019 24 2024
Corby / Corby & East Northants (2024) Powell Hope Mensch Sawford Pursglove Barron
Daventry Prentice Boswell Heaton-Harris Andrew
Kettering Freeman Sawford Hollobone
Northampton North Marlow Keeble Ellis Rigby
Northampton South Morris Clarke Binley Mackintosh Lewer Reader
Wellingborough / W & Rushden (2024) Fry Stinchcombe Bone Kitchen
South Northamptonshire Leadsom Bool

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
  2. ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

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  1. ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England - Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition - East Midlands". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  3. ^ "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  4. ^ "These are all of the proposed changes for Northamptonshire's parliamentary constituencies under electoral map shake-up". Northampton Chronicle & Echo. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  5. ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report". Boundary Commission for England. paras 157-182. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  6. ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
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