The ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, (which includes the unitary authority of Nottingham), is divided into 11 Parliamentary constituencies - three Borough constituencies and eight County constituencies.
Constituencies
| Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashfield CC | 78,204 | 5,733 | Lee Anderson† | Jason Zadrozny (Ashfield Independents) | ) | ||
| Bassetlaw CC | 80,024 | 14,013 | Brendan Clarke-Smith† | Keir Morrison‡ | ) | ||
| Broxtowe CC | 73,052 | 5,331 | Darren Henry † | Greg Marshall‡ | ) | ||
| Gedling CC | 71,366 | 679 | Tom Randall † | Vernon Coaker‡ | ) | ||
| Mansfield CC | 77,131 | 16,306 | Ben Bradley† | Sonya Ward‡ | ) | ||
| Newark CC | 75,850 | 21,816 | Robert Jenrick† | James Baggaley‡ | ) | ||
| Nottingham East BC | 66,262 | 17,393 | Nadia Whittome‡ | Victoria Stapleton† | ) | ||
| Nottingham North BC | 66,495 | 4,490 | Alex Norris‡ | Jack Tinley† | ) | ||
| Nottingham South BC | 79,485 | 12,568 | Lillian Greenwood‡ | Jane Hunt† | ) | ||
| Rushcliffe CC | 77,047 | 7,643 | Ruth Edwards† | Cheryl Pidgeon‡ | ) | ||
| Sherwood CC | 77,888 | 16,186 | Mark Spencer† | Mike Pringle‡ | ) | ||
Boundary changes
| Name | Old boundaries | 2010 General Election |
|---|---|---|
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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 Nottinghamshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 258,794 | 47.4% |  3.5% | 8 | 3 |
| Labour | 204,011 | 37.4% |  10.6% | 3 | 3 |
| Liberal Democrats | 33,604 | 6.2% | 3.3% | 0 | 0 |
| Brexit | 15,728 | 2.9% | new | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 10,375 | 1.9% | 0.9% | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 23,241 | 4.2% | 0.0% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 545,753 | 100.0 | 11 |
Percentage votes
| Election year | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 39.6 | 35.6 | 45.0 | 45.1 | 46.0 | 42.7 | 30.5 | 34.0 | 33.1 | 35.9 | 36.7 | 43.9 | 47.4 |
| Labour | 46.9 | 47.3 | 42.8 | 32.2 | 34.7 | 44.4 | 54.3 | 50.9 | 44.5 | 37.0 | 39.7 | 48.0 | 37.4 |
| Liberal Democrat1 | 13.0 | 16.3 | 11.5 | 21.9 | 18.6 | 12.1 | 10.9 | 13.1 | 16.2 | 19.2 | 4.7 | 2.9 | 6.2 |
| Green Party | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.6 | 3.7 | 1.0 | 1.9 |
| UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 3.4 | 14.9 | 2.9 | * |
| Brexit Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.9 |
| Other | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 6.3 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 4.3 |
11974 & 1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
| Election year | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| Labour | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 |
| Total | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
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Historical representation by party
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
Conservative Liberal Liberal-Labour Liberal Unionist
| Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 90 | 1892 | 1895 | 98 | 00 | 1900 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 12 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bassetlaw | Beckett-Denison | Milner | Newnes | Hume-Williams | |||||||||
| Mansfield | Foljambe | Williams | Markham | C. H. Seely | |||||||||
| Newark | Pierrepont | Finch-Hatton | Pierrepont | Welby | Starkey | ||||||||
| Nottingham East | Morley | Bond | Cotton | Morrison | Rees | ||||||||
| Nottingham South | Williams | Wright | Cavendish-Bentinck | Richardson | Cavendish-Bentinck | ||||||||
| Nottingham West | C. Seely | Broadhurst | C. Seely | Yoxall | |||||||||
| Rushcliffe | Ellis | Jones | |||||||||||
1918 to 1950
Conservative Labour Liberal National Labour
| Constituency | 1918 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 27 | 1929 | 30 | 31 | 1931 | 34 | 1935 | 40 | 41 | 43 | 1945 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broxtowe | Spencer | → | Cocks | |||||||||||||
| Mansfield | Carter | Bennett | Varley | Brown | Taylor | |||||||||||
| Nottingham West | Hayday | Caporn | Hayday | O'Brien | ||||||||||||
| Bassetlaw | Hume-Williams | MacDonald | → | Bellenger | ||||||||||||
| Nottingham South | H. Cavendish-Bentinck | Knight | → | Markham | Smith | |||||||||||
| Nottingham Central | Atkey | Berkeley | Bennett | O'Connor | Sykes | de Freitas | ||||||||||
| Nottingham East | Rees | Houfton | Birkett | Brocklebank | Birkett | Gluckstein | Harrison | |||||||||
| Rushcliffe | Betterton | Assheton | Paton | |||||||||||||
| Newark | Starkey | W. Cavendish-Bentinck | Shephard | |||||||||||||
1950 to 1983
| Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 53 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 68 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 77 | 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broxtowe / Ashfield (1955) | Cocks | Warbey | Marquand | Smith | Haynes | ||||||||
| Bassetlaw | Bellenger | Ashton | |||||||||||
| Mansfield | Taylor | Concannon | |||||||||||
| Nottingham East / Nottingham North (1955) | Harrison | Whitlock | |||||||||||
| Newark | Deer | Bishop | Alexander | ||||||||||
| Nottingham North West / Nottingham West (1955) | O'Brien | Tapsell | English | ||||||||||
| Nottingham Central / Nottingham East (1974) | Winterbottom | Cordeaux | Dunnett | ||||||||||
| Nottingham South | Smith | Keegan | Clark | Perry | Fowler | ||||||||
| Rushcliffe | Redmayne | Gardner | Clarke | ||||||||||
| Carlton | Pickthorn | Holland | |||||||||||
| Beeston | Lester | ||||||||||||
1983 to present
Change UK Conservative Independent Labour
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 13 | 14 | 2015 | 2017 | 19 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mansfield | Concannon | Meale | Bradley | ||||||||||
| Ashfield | Haynes | Hoon | De Piero | Anderson | |||||||||
| Bassetlaw | Ashton | Mann | Clarke-Smith | ||||||||||
| Nottingham North | Ottaway | Allen | Norris | ||||||||||
| Nottingham East | Knowles | Heppell | Leslie | → | Whittome | ||||||||
| Nottingham South | Brandon-Bravo | Simpson | Greenwood | ||||||||||
| Gedling | Holland | Mitchell | Coaker | Randall | |||||||||
| Sherwood | Stewart | Tipping | Spencer | ||||||||||
| Broxtowe | Lester | Palmer | Soubry | → | Henry | ||||||||
| Newark | Alexander | Jones | Mercer | → | Jenrick | ||||||||
| Rushcliffe | Clarke | → | Edwards | ||||||||||
See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in the East Midlands (region)
Notes
References
- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (2020-01-28). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
- ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
- ^ "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 2020-04-20.
- ^ "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
- ^ "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 2021-01-08.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (2020-04-17). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".