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

Constituencies

Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election

  Conservative †   Labour ‡

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest opposition[2] Map
Corby CC 86,153 10,268   Tom Pursglove †   Beth Miller ‡
Daventry CC 77,423 26,080   Chris Heaton-Harris †   Paul Joyce ‡
Kettering CC 73,164 16,765   Philip Hollobone †   Clare Pavitt ‡
Northampton North BC 58,768 5,507   Michael Ellis †   Sally Keeble ‡
Northampton South BC 62,163 4,697   Andrew Lewer †   Gareth Eales ‡
South Northamptonshire CC 90,842 27,761   Andrea Leadsom †   Gen Kitchen ‡
Wellingborough CC 80,765 6,436 (2024)   Gen Kitchen ‡   Helen Harrison †

2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to increase the number of seats which covered Northamptonshire from 6 to 7, with the creation of South Northamptonshire, resulting in major changes to Daventry and Northampton South.

Former name Boundaries 1997-2010 Current name Boundaries 2010–present
  1. Corby CC
  2. Daventry CC
  3. Kettering CC
  4. Northampton North BC
  5. South Northampton CC
  6. Wellingborough CC
Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire
Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire
  1. Corby CC
  2. Daventry CC
  3. Kettering CC
  4. Northampton North BC
  5. Northampton South BC
  6. South Northamptonshire CC
  7. Wellingborough CC
Proposed Revised constituencies in Northamptonshire
Proposed Revised constituencies in Northamptonshire

Proposed boundary changes

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 has proposed retaining the current number of 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. It is proposed that Corby is renamed Corby and East Northamptonshire, and Wellingborough renamed Wellingborough and Rushden.[4][5]

Containing electoral wards from North Northamptonshire

Containing electoral wards from West Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 216,229 59.0% Increase3.3% 7 0
Labour 106,611 29.1% Decrease6.8% 0 0
Liberal Democrats 30,813 8.4% Increase4.3% 0 0
Greens 10,514 2.9% Increase1.2% 0 0
Others 2,276 0.6% Decrease2.0% 0 0
Total 366,443 100.0 7

Percentage votes

Election year 1974

(Feb)

1974

(Oct)

1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
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
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
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
Green Party - - - - * * * * * 0.8 3.5 1.7 2.9
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

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 6 6 6 1 1 4 7 7 7 7
Labour 2 2 1 0 0 0 5 5 2 0 0 0 0
Total 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7

Maps

1885-1910

1918-1945

1950-1979

1983-present

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   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

  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

  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

  Conservative   Labour

Constituency 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 12 2015 2017 2019 24
Corby Powell Hope Mensch Sawford Pursglove
Northampton North Marlow Keeble Ellis
Kettering Freeman Sawford Hollobone
Northampton South Morris Clarke Binley Mackintosh Lewer
Wellingborough Fry Stinchcombe Bone Kitchen
Daventry Prentice Boswell Heaton-Harris
South Northamptonshire Leadsom

See also

Notes

  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

  1. ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
  2. ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  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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