North Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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North Somerset in Somerset
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Location of Somerset within England.
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County | Somerset |
Electorate | 78,223 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Clevedon, Nailsea and Portishead |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of parliament | Liam Fox (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Woodspring |
1950–1983 | |
Replaced by | Woodspring |
Created from | Frome |
1885–1918 | |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South West England |
North Somerset is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Liam Fox, a Conservative.[n 2]
Contents
History
Earlier versions of the seat existed between 1885–1918 and 1950–1983.
- First creation
Parliament passed the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 creating the larger constituency of North Somerset from the 1885 general election, which was later abolished for the 1918 general election.
- Second creation
North Somerset was re-established for the 1950 general election, and abolished again for the 1983 general election.
The seat is currently represented by Liam Fox, former Secretary of State for Defence.
- Third creation
Following the review of parliamentary representation in the North Somerset district by the Boundary Commission for England, the former Woodspring constituency has been renamed as North Somerset without substantial boundary changes from its predecessor.[2]
Boundaries
1950-1974: The Urban Districts of Keynsham, Norton Radstock, and Portishead, the Rural Districts of Bathavon and Clutton, and part of the Rural District of Long Ashton.
1974-1983: The Urban Districts of Keynsham, Norton Radstock, and Portishead, the Rural Districts of Bathavon and Clutton, and in the Rural District of Long Ashton the civil parishes of Abbots Leigh, Backwell, Barrow Gurney, Brockley, Clapton-in-Gordano, Dundry, Easton-in-Gordano, Flax Bourton, Long Ashton, Nailsea, North Weston, Portbury, Tickenham, Walton-in-Gordano, Weston-in-Gordano, Winford, and Wraxall.
2010-present: The District of North Somerset wards of Backwell, Clevedon Central, Clevedon East, Clevedon North, Clevedon South, Clevedon Walton, Clevedon West, Clevedon Yeo, Easton-in-Gordano, Gordano, Nailsea East, Nailsea North and West, Pill, Portishead Central, Portishead Coast, Portishead East, Portishead Redcliffe Bay, Portishead South and North Weston, Portishead West, Winford, Wraxall and Long Ashton, Wrington, and Yatton.
Constituency profile
This is essentially the old Woodspring seat with a new name. A coastal strip between the Severn Estuary and the M5 motorway includes the towns of Clevedon and Portishead, while inland from the motorway is the town of Nailsea and a predominantly rural area dotted with villages. This is a fairly affluent constituency with average incomes and low proportion of unemployment claimants[3] — about a third of the population commute to work, mostly in Bristol and Bath.[4] The old seat returned Conservative MPs; Fox won the new constituency by nearly 15 percentage points over the Liberal Democrats in 2010.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1885–1918
Election | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Evan Henry Llewellyn | Conservative | |
1892 | Courtenay Warner | Liberal | |
1895 | Evan Henry Llewellyn | Conservative | |
1906 | William Henry Bateman Hope | Liberal | |
January 1910 | Joseph King | Liberal | |
1918 | constituency abolished |
MPs 1950–1983
Election | Member | Party | |
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1950 | constituency recreated | ||
1950 | Sir Ted Leather | Conservative | |
1964 | Paul Dean | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Woodspring |
MPs since 2010
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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2010 | Liam Fox | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Liam Fox | 31,540 | 53.5 | +4.2 | |
Labour | Greg Chambers | 8,441 | 14.3 | +3.2 | |
UKIP | Ian Kealey[7] | 7,669 | 13.0 | +9.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Marcus Kravis | 7,486 | 12.7 | -23.0 | |
Green | David Derbyshire | 3,806 | 6.5 | +6.5 | |
Majority | 23,099 | 39.2 | |||
Turnout | 58,942 | 73.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Liam Fox | 28,549 | 49.3 | +7.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Brian Mathew | 20,687 | 35.7 | +5.5 | |
Labour | Steve Parry-Hearn | 6,448 | 11.1 | -10.6 | |
UKIP | Sue Taylor | 2,257 | 3.9 | +1.4 | |
Majority | 7,862 | 13.6 | |||
Turnout | 57,941 | 75.0 | +3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.0 |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Paul Dean | 43,173 | 54.34 | ||
Labour | AJ Smith | 22,122 | 27.84 | ||
Liberal | D Sanders | 12,898 | 16.23 | ||
Ecology | R Carder | 1,254 | 1.58 | ||
Majority | 21,051 | 26.50 | |||
Turnout | 82.24 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Paul Dean | 32,146 | 44.88 | ||
Labour | HR White | 22,671 | 31.65 | ||
Liberal | JM Bourne | 16,428 | 22.93 | ||
United Democratic | JK Polling | 387 | 0.54 | ||
Majority | 9,475 | 13.23 | |||
Turnout | 80.43 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Paul Dean | 34,576 | 46.09 | ||
Labour | HR White | 22,421 | 29.89 | ||
Liberal | JM Bourne | 18,023 | 24.02 | ||
Majority | 12,155 | 16.20 | |||
Turnout | 85.06 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Paul Dean | 38,975 | 58.1 | ||
Labour | John T Mitchard | 28,121 | 41.9 | ||
Majority | 10,854 | 16.2 | |||
Turnout | 67,096 | 79.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Paul Dean | 28,824 | 46.4 | ||
Labour | Brian Tilley | 26,526 | 42.7 | ||
Liberal | Mark E Willies | 6,745 | 10.9 | ||
Majority | 2,298 | 3.7 | |||
Turnout | 62,095 | 85.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Paul Dean | 27,814 | 46.4 | ||
Labour | DT White | 23,896 | 39.8 | ||
Liberal | Mark E Willies | 8,253 | 13.8 | ||
Majority | 3,918 | 6.5 | |||
Turnout | 59,963 | 85.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather | 30,432 | 56.3 | ||
Labour | E Fraser Wilde | 23,649 | 43.7 | ||
Majority | 6,783 | 12.5 | |||
Turnout | 54,081 | 85.5 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather | 26,985 | 54.2 | ||
Labour | David R Llewellyn | 22,802 | 45.8 | ||
Majority | 4,183 | 8.4 | |||
Turnout | 54,081 | 85.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather | 27,465 | 52.4 | ||
Labour | Robert J Hurst | 24,917 | 47.6 | ||
Majority | 2,548 | 4.9 | |||
Turnout | 88.5 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather | 23,953 | 45.6 | ||
Labour | Xenia Field | 23,050 | 43.8 | ||
Liberal | Albert Ernest Whitcher | 5,573 | 10.6 | ||
Majority | 903 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 87.7 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
See also
Notes and references
- 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.
- References
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- Parliamentary constituencies in South West England
- Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1885
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1918
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 2010
- Politics of North Somerset