North Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency)
North Herefordshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of North Herefordshire in Herefordshire.
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Location of Herefordshire within England.
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County | Herefordshire |
Electorate | 66,711 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury and Leominster |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of parliament | Bill Wiggin (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Leominster |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | West Midlands |
North Herefordshire is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Bill Wiggin, a Conservative.[n 2]
Contents
History
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which slightly altered this constituency for the 2010 general election to exclude those areas of the former county of Hereford and Worcester which are now in Worcestershire. This meant North Herefordshire being at its core a successor to Leominster constituency. The remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat.[2]
Boundaries
This constituency contains a northern and central part of Herefordshire, including the towns of Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury and Leominster.
The constituency has the electoral wards:[3]
- Backbury, Bircher, Bringsty, Bromyard, Burghill, Holmer and Lyde, Castle, Credenhill, Frome, Golden Cross with Weobley, Hagley, Hampton Court, Hope End, Kington Town, Ledbury, Leominster North, Leominster South, Mortimer, Old Gore, Pembridge and Lyonshall with Titley, Sutton Walls, Upton, Wormsley Ridge.
The village of Weobley (listed above) was a former borough constituency that was abolished as a 'rotten borough' in 1832.
Constituency profile
The seat has a substantially self-sufficient population, covered by civil parishes and with low rates of unemployment[4] and social housing in each ward, with income levels concentrated towards the average in Britain.[5]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[6] | Party | |
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2010 | constituency replaced Leominster | ||
2010 | Bill Wiggin | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 26,716 | 55.6 | +3.9 | |
UKIP | Jonathan Oakton | 6,720 | 14.0 | +8.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Jeanie Falconer | 5,768 | 12.0 | -19.0 | |
Labour | Sally Prentice | 5,478 | 11.4 | +4.3 | |
Green | Daisy Blench | 3,341 | 7.0 | +3.7 | |
Majority | 19,996 | 41.6 | +20.8 | ||
Turnout | 42,545 | 72.0 | +0.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bill Wiggin* | 24,631 | 51.8 | -0.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Lucy Hurds | 14,744 | 31.0 | +6.9 | |
Labour | Neil Sabharwal | 3,373 | 7.1 | -8.4 | |
UKIP | Jonathan Oakton | 2,701 | 5.7 | +2.4 | |
Green | Felicity Norman | 1,533 | 3.2 | -1.5 | |
Independent | John King | 586 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 9,887 | 20.8 | |||
Turnout | 47,568 | 71.5 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.8 |
- * Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament
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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- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ 2001 Census
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000847
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- Articles with dead external links from October 2010
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
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- EngvarB from October 2013
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- Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (region)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 2010
- Politics of Herefordshire