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Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency)
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | |
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| Borough constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. |
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 Location of Staffordshire within England. |
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| County | Staffordshire |
| Electorate | 68,692 (December 2010)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1885 |
| Member of Parliament | Paul Farrelly (Labour) |
| Number of members | One |
| 1354–1885 | |
| Number of members | Two |
| Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | West MidlandsFri |
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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History
From its creation in 1354, Newcastle-under-Lyme returned two MPs to the House of Commons. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the constituency's representation was reduced to one member.
It is one of the most loyal Labour Party seats having not returned a non-Labour MP since 1922 when Josiah Wedgwood joined the Labour Party. However, at the 2010 General Election it came within 3% the smallest margin in a long time with a Conservative increase of +9.4% and a Labour decline of -7.4%.
Boundaries
The constituency includes most of the northerly parts of Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, primarily Newcastle-under-Lyme town plus Keele and Audley.
There are no planned alterations to the seat in boundary changes made in the rest of Staffordshire.
Members of Parliament
MPs 1353–1660
- Before 1354 No records [2]
- 1354 John Lagowe and Richard de Lavendene
- 1355 John de Blorton and Richard de Podmore
- 1358 Richard de Podmore and William de Homersley
- 1360 William Gent and Richard de Colclough
- 1361 William Gent and Richard de Podmore
- 1362 Richard de Podmore and Thomas de Wodhull
- 1363 Richard de Lavendene and John de Lylsull
- 1365 Thomas de Wodhull and Richard de Podmore
- 1366 Richard de Podmore and Thomas de Wodhull
- 1369 Richard de Lavendene, Roger Letys
- 1371 Roger Letys and Richard Lavendene
- 1372 Edmund Toly and Thomas Colclough
- 1373 Thomas de Wodhull and Roger del Castell
- 1377 Richard Buntable and Thomas Thicknesse
- 1377 Thomas de Podmore and Henry de Erdeleye
- 1378 Thomas de Podmore and William de Thykenes
- 1379 No records
- 1380 John Kene and William de Thykenes
- 1381-1382 Thomas Podmore and Thomas Hap
- 1382 Thomas Thykenesse and John Thykenesse
- 1382 William Thykenese and Henry de Kele
- 1383 Thomas de Thykenese and William de Brompton
- 1383 Thomas de Thykenes and Thomas de Podmore
- 1384 William Thiknes and Ralf de la Hogh
- 1384 John Colclough and William Colclough
- 1385 William Colclough and Ralf de la Hogh
- 1386 William Colclough and Ralf Hogh
- 1388 William Thikenes and John Kene
- 1388 William de Thikenes and Thomas de Thikenes
- 1390 John Colclough and William Colclough
- 1391 Thomas Thikenes and Ralf de la Hogh
- 1393 Ralf Hogh, John Cook
- 1394 No records
- 1395 William Colclough and Ralf Hogh
- 1397 William Colclough and Thomas Thicknes
- 1397-1398 No records
- 1399 Thomas Podmore and Thomas Thykenes
- 1402 John Joce and Thomas Joce
- 1406 Richard Fyton and William Lee II
- 1407 Hugh Colclough and John Tatenhale
- 1410 ? possibly John Delves was an MP representing the county or a borough
- 1411 Thomas Thikenes and William Bowyer
- 1413 (1) ? possibly Newport, or Robert Bapthorpe was an MP representing the county or a borough
- 1413 (2) William de Lee and Hugh Wyldeblood
- 1416 William Skytteby, Thomas Chamberleyn
- 1419 John Biddulph (Bedulf), John Miners
- 1420 Hugo de Stanford and John Hardhed
- 1421 John Biddulph (Bydulf)and Thomas Baron
- 1421 Hugh Stanford and Thomas Lee
- 1422 John Myners and Hugh Stanford
- 1423-1424 Hugh Stanford and William Sandbache
- 1425 John Wode and William Hextall
- 1426 Robert Wodehous and Henry Lilie
- 1427-1428 John Wode and Thomas Lee
- 1429-1430 William Egerton and William Hextall
- 1431 John atte Wode and Roger Legh
- 1432 James Leveson and John Wood[disambiguation needed
] - 1433 John Wood[disambiguation needed ] and Thomas Podmore
- 1435 Richard Bruyn and William Hextall
- 1437 Thomas Preston[disambiguation needed ] and Nicholas Repynghale
- 1442 John Nedham and William Cumberford of Cumberford
- 1447 John Nedham and John Cudworth
- 1449 John Nedham and Thomas Everdon
- 1449-1450 Ralf Wolseley and Thomas Mayne
- 1450-1451 Thomas Colclogh and Richard Mosley
- 1453-1434 Thomas Colcloghe and John Spenser
- 1455-1456 John Spenser and Richard Mosley
- 1467-1468 James Norys and Robert Hille
- 1472-1475 William Paston and John Wode
- 1477-1478 William Yonge and Reynold Bray
- 1491-1492 Richard Harpur and Richard Blunt
- 1495-1496 ? Sir Reynold Bray
- 1497 County or a borough - ?Richard Wrottesley, ?Humphrey Peshale, ?Humphrey Swynnerton, ?Thomas Welles
- 1504 No records
- 1529-1536 John Persall and Richard Grey
- 1542-1544 Harry Broke and John Smith
- 1545-1547 Humphrey Wellys and Harry Broke
- 1547-1552 James Rolston and William Stamford
- 1552 James Rolston and William Layton (died). Alexander Walker in place of Layton
- 1553 Roger Fowke and John Smyth
- 1553 Roger Fowke and James Rolston
- 1554 James Rolleston and Francis Moore
- 1554-1555 Sir Ralph Bagnall and Richard Smyth
- 1555 Sir Richard Bagnall (properly Sir Nicholas Bagenal) and Richard Smyth
- 1558 Richard Hussey and Thomas Egerton
- 1559 Sir Nicholas Bagenal and Walter Blount
- 1563-1567 Sir Ralph Bagnall and John Long
- 1571 Sir Ralph Bagnall and Ralph Bourchier
- 1572-1583 Ralph Bourchier and Thomas Grimsdiche
- 1584-1585 Peter Warburton and Walter Chetwynd
- 1586-1587 James Colyer and Walter Chetwynd
- 1588-1589 Thomas Humphrey and Francis Angier
- 1593 John James and Thomas Fitzherbert
- 1597-1598 Sir Walter Leveson and John Bowyer
- 1601 Edward Mainwaring and Thomas Trentham
- 1603 Sir Walter Chetwynd and John Bowyer (replaced in by-election 1605 by Rowland Cotton)
- 1614 Edward Wymarke and Robert Needham
- 1621-1622 Sir John Davies and Edward Kerton
- 1624-1625 Sir Edward Vere and Richard Leveson
- 1625 Edward Mainwaring and John Keeling
- 1626 Sir John Skeffington, 2nd Baronet and John Keeling
- 1628-1629 Sir George Gresley and Sir Rowland Cotton
- 1629-1640 No Parliament summoned
- Apr 1640 Sir John Merrick (Country) and Richard Lloyd (Court)
- 1640-1643 Sir Richard Leveson (Royalist)
- 1640-1648 Sir John Merrick (Parl.)
- 1645-1648 Samuel Terrick (Parl.)
- 1653 Convention
- 1654-1655 Edward Keeling
- 1656-1658 John Bowyer (never sat)
- 1659 Edward Keeling and Tobias Bridge
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MPs 1660–1885
| Election | 1st Member[3] | 1st Party | 2nd Member[3] | 2nd Party | |||
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| 1660 | John Bowyer | Samuel Terrick | |||||
| 1661 | Sir Caesar Colclough | Edward Mainwaring | |||||
| 1675 | William Leveson-Gower | ||||||
| 1679 | Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt | ||||||
| 1685 | Edward Mainwaring | William Sneyd | |||||
| 1689 | Sir William Leveson-Gower | John Lawton | |||||
| 1690 | Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt | ||||||
| 1692 | Sir John Leveson-Gower, later 1st Lord Gower | ||||||
| 1695 | John Lawton | ||||||
| 1698 | Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt | ||||||
| 1699 | Sir Rowland Cotton | ||||||
| 1702 | John Crewe Offley | ||||||
| 1705 | Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt | ||||||
| 1706 | Crewe Offley | John Lawton | |||||
| 1710 | William Burslem | Rowland Cotton | |||||
| Jan 1715 | Henry Vernon | ||||||
| 1715 | Sir Brian Broughton | Crewe Offley | |||||
| 1722 | Thomas Leveson-Gower | ||||||
| 1724 by-election | Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot | ||||||
| 1727 | Baptist Leveson-Gower | John Ward | |||||
| 1734 | John Lawton II | ||||||
| 1740 by-election | Randle Wilbraham | ||||||
| 1747 | Viscount Parker | ||||||
| 1754 | John Waldegrave | ||||||
| 1761 | Henry Vernon II | ||||||
| 1762 by-election | Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt | ||||||
| 1763 by-election | Thomas Gilbert | ||||||
| Mar 1768 | John Wrottesley, later 8th Bt | Alexander Forrester | |||||
| May 1768 by-election | George Hay | ||||||
| 1774 | George Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton | ||||||
| 1779 by-election | George Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham | ||||||
| 1780 | Sir Archibald Macdonald | ||||||
| 1784 | Richard Vernon | ||||||
| 1790 | John Leveson-Gower | ||||||
| 1792 by-election | William Egerton | ||||||
| 1793 by-election | Sir Francis Ford | ||||||
| 1796 | Edward Wilbraham Bootle | ||||||
| 1802 | Sir Robert Lawley | ||||||
| 1806 | James Macdonald | ||||||
| 1812 | Earl Gower | Whig | Sir John Boughey, Bt | ||||
| 1815 by-election | Sir John Chetwode | ||||||
| 1818 | William Shepherd Kinnersley | Robert John Wilmot | Tory | ||||
| 1823 by-election | Evelyn Denison | ||||||
| 1826 | Richardson Borradaile | Tory | |||||
| 1830 | William Henry Miller | Whig | |||||
| 1831 | Edmund Peel | Tory | Tory | ||||
| 1832 | Sir Henry Willoughby | Tory | |||||
| 1834 | Conservative | Conservative | |||||
| 1835 | Edmund Peel | Conservative | |||||
| 1837 | Spencer Horsey de Horsey | Conservative | |||||
| 1841 | Edmund Buckley | Conservative | John Quincey Harris | Liberal | |||
| 1842 by-election | John Campbell Colquhoun | Liberal | |||||
| 1847 | Samuel Christy | Conservative | William Jackson | Liberal | |||
| 1859 | William Murray | Conservative | |||||
| 1865 | William Shepherd Allen | Liberal | Sir Edmund Buckley, Bt | Conservative | |||
| 1878 by-election | Samuel Rathbone Edge | Liberal | |||||
| 1880 | Charles Donaldson-Hudson | Conservative | |||||
| 1885 | representation reduced to one member by the Redistribution of Seats Act | ||||||
MPs since 1885
| Election | Member[3] | Party | |
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| 1885 | William Shepherd Allen | Liberal | |
| 1886 | Douglas Harry Coghill | Liberal Unionist | |
| 1892 | William Allen | Liberal | |
| 1900 | Sir Alfred Seale Haslam | Liberal Unionist | |
| 1906 | Josiah Wedgwood | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Independent | ||
| 1922 | Labour | ||
| 1942 | John Mack | Labour | |
| 1951 | Stephen Swingler | Labour | |
| 1969 | John Golding | Labour | |
| 1986 | Llin Golding | Labour | |
| 2001 | Paul Farrelly | Labour | |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
| General Election 2010: Newcastle-under-Lyme[4] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Paul Farrelly | 16,393 | 38.0 | -7.4 | |
| Conservative | Robert Jenrick | 14,841 | 34.4 | +9.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Nigel Jones | 8,466 | 19.6 | +0.7 | |
| UKIP | David Nixon | 3,491 | 8.1 | +4.5 | |
| Majority | 1,552 | 3.6 | |||
| Turnout | 43,191 | 62.2 | +4.0 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -8.4 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
| General Election 2005: Newcastle-under-Lyme | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Paul Farrelly | 18,053 | 45.4 | -8.0 | |
| Conservative | Jeremy Lefroy | 9,945 | 25.0 | -2.6 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Trevor Johnson | 7,528 | 18.9 | +3.4 | |
| UKIP | David Nixon | 1,436 | 3.6 | +2.1 | |
| BNP | John Dawson | 1,390 | 3.5 | N/A | |
| Green | Andrew Dobson | 918 | 2.3 | N/A | |
| Veritas | Marian Harvey-Lover | 518 | 1.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 8,108 | 20.4 | -5.4 | ||
| Turnout | 39,788 | 61.6 | +2.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -2.7 | |||
| General Election 2001: Newcastle-under-Lyme | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Paul Farrelly | 20,650 | 53.4 | -3.1 | |
| Conservative | Michael Flynn | 10,664 | 27.6 | +6.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Jerry Roodhouse | 5,993 | 15.5 | +1.5 | |
| Independent | Robert Fyson | 773 | 2.0 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Paul Godfrey | 594 | 1.5 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,986 | 25.8 | |||
| Turnout | 38,674 | 58.8 | -14.8 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -4.6% | |||
Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Newcastle-under-Lyme[5] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Llin Golding | 25,652 | 47.9 | +7.4 | |
| Conservative | AD Brierley | 15,813 | 29.6 | +1.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | AL Thomas | 11,727 | 21.9 | −9.0 | |
| Natural Law | RJM Lines | 314 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,839 | 18.4 | +8.8 | ||
| Turnout | 53,506 | 80.8 | +3.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | +2.9 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
- Resignation of John Golding on 24 June 1986, upon appointment as General Secretary of the National Communications Union.
| Newcastle-under-Lyme by-election, 1986 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Llin Golding | 16,819 | 40.8 | -1.2 | |
| Liberal | Alan Thomas | 16,020 | 38.8 | +17.2 | |
| Conservative | James Nock | 7,863 | 19.0 | -17.4 | |
| Monster Raving Loony | David Sutch | 277 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Independent | John Gaskell | 115 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Independent | James Parker | 83 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Independent | David Brewster | 70 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 799 | 2.0 | -3.6 | ||
| Turnout | 41,247 | 62.2 | -15.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
| Registered electors | 66,353 | ||||
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ "Tamworth Parliamentary Borough 1275-1832". The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia. http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/view.php?id=207. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
- ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)[self-published source?][better source needed]
- ^ ukpollingreport
- ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i14.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
Sources
- Britain Votes/Europe Votes By-Election Supplement 1983-, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1985-)
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