North East Somerset (UK Parliament Constituency)
The seat was abolished following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. For the 2024 general election, the seat was subject to major boundary changes and has been reformed as North East Somerset and Hanham.
Boundaries
The constituency covered the part of Bath and North East Somerset District that was not in the Bath constituency and as such contained 18 whole electoral wards and two parishes of Newbridge ward of Bath and North East Somerset:
- Bathavon North – the Civil Parishes ('Parishes') of Batheaston, Bathford, Bathampton, Charlcombe, St Catherine and Swainswick
- Bathavon South – the Parishes of Camerton, Claverton, Combe Hay, Dunkerton, Englishcombe, Freshford, Hinton Charterhouse, Marksbury, Monkton Combe, Priston, Shoscombe, South Stoke and Wellow
- Chew Valley – the Parishes of Chew Magna, Chew Stoke, Compton Martin, Nempnett Thrubwell, Norton Malreward, Stanton Drew, Stowey-Sutton and Ubley
- Clutton and Farmborough – the Parishes of Chelwood, Clutton and Farmborough
- High Littleton – the Parishes of Farrington Gurney and High Littleton
- Keynsham North
- Keynsham South
- Keynsham East
- Mendip – the Parishes of Cameley, East Harptree, Hinton Blewett and West Harptree
- Midsomer Norton North
- Midsomer Norton Redfield
- Newbridge – the Parishes of Kelston and North Stoke
- Paulton – the Parish of Paulton
- Peasedown – the Parish of Peasedown St John
- Publow and Whitchurch – the Parishes of Publow and Whitchurch
- Radstock
- Saltford – the Parishes of Compton Dando, Corston, Newton St Loe and Saltford
- Timsbury – the Parish of Timsbury
- Westfield
- Origin of first boundaries
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which transferred all the electoral wards in Wandsyke constituency save for its four wards in South Gloucestershire to this new seat. To compensate the new seat gained the whole of the large wards in the valley of the City, Bathavon North, and the rest of Bathavon South, both from the Bath constituency.
Boundary changes
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to major boundary changes, with south-eastern areas, including the communities of Midsomer Norton, Radstock and Peasedown St John, being incorporated into the newly created constituency of Frome and East Somerset, and the Bathavon North ward transferred to Bath. To compensate, the boundaries will be extended northwards into the District of South Gloucestershire, adding the wards of Bitton and Oldland Common, Hanham, Longwell Green, and Parkwall and Warmley. As a consequence, the constituency will be renamed North East Somerset and Hanham, to be first contested at the 2024 general election.
Constituency profile
This area is marked by significant agriculture and green belts around almost all of its settlements, which consist largely of detached and semi-detached properties, with a low rate of unemployment and negligible social housing tenancy.
An unusually shaped seat that contained all the western part of the Bath and North East Somerset council area, and the rural outskirts of Bath in the east, meaning the Bath constituency was entirely surrounded by a thin belt of North East Somerset. The seat contained some contrasting areas. The northern parts of the seat, especially the town of Keynsham, are commuter areas for Bath and Bristol. To the west the seat is more rural, covering the patchwork of farmland and rural villages that make up the Chew Valley. The southern part around Midsomer Norton and Radstock is part of the old Somerset Coalfield. The last of the coal mines closed in the 1970s, to be replaced by light industry, but the close knit industrial heritage of the area remains.
North East Somerset is estimated to have voted to Leave the European Union by 51.6% in the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Jacob Rees-Mogg | Conservative | |
Elections
See North East Somerset and Hanham for 2024 general election, and onwards.
Elections in the 2010s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jacob Rees-Mogg | 28,360 | 50.4 | −3.2 | |
| Labour | Mark Huband | 13,631 | 24.2 | −10.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Nick Coates | 12,422 | 22.1 | +13.8 | |
| Green | Fay Whitfield | 1,423 | 2.5 | +0.2 | |
| Independent | Shaun Hughes | 472 | 0.8 | −0.3 | |
| Majority | 14,729 | 26.2 | +7.3 | ||
| Turnout | 56,308 | 76.4 | +0.7 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +3.6 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jacob Rees-Mogg | 28,992 | 53.6 | +3.8 | |
| Labour | Robin Moss | 18,757 | 34.7 | +9.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Manda Rigby | 4,461 | 8.3 | +0.4 | |
| Green | Sally Calverley | 1,245 | 2.3 | −3.2 | |
| Independent | Shaun Hughes | 588 | 1.1 | New | |
| Majority | 10,235 | 18.9 | −5.9 | ||
| Turnout | 54,043 | 75.7 | +2.0 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −3.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jacob Rees-Mogg | 25,439 | 49.8 | +8.5 | |
| Labour | Todd Foreman | 12,690 | 24.8 | −6.9 | |
| UKIP | Ernest Blaber | 6,150 | 12.0 | +8.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Wera Hobhouse | 4,029 | 7.9 | −14.4 | |
| Green | Katy Boyce | 2,802 | 5.5 | +4.2 | |
| Majority | 12,749 | 25.0 | +15.4 | ||
| Turnout | 51,110 | 73.7 | −2.3 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +7.65 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jacob Rees-Mogg | 21,130 | 41.3 | +2.2 | |
| Labour | Dan Norris* | 16,216 | 31.7 | −7.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Gail Coleshill | 11,433 | 22.3 | +2.7 | |
| UKIP | Peter Sandell | 1,754 | 3.4 | +1.2 | |
| Green | Michael Jay | 670 | 1.3 | +1.3 | |
| Majority | 4,914 | 9.6 | +9.2 | ||
| Turnout | 51,203 | 76.0 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
* Served in the 2005–2010 Parliament as MP for Wansdyke
The changes in vote share are compared to a notional calculation of the 2005 result. Although the Wansdyke seat had been held by Labour for 13 years, this seat was already notionally a Conservative seat by a margin of 0.4%. This means that, if the North East Somerset seat on its new boundaries had been contested in 2005, the Conservatives would have won by a few hundred votes.
See also
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Avon
- Wansdyke (abolished) – the predecessor constituency.
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.
- ^ Namely Bitton, Hanham, Longwell Green and Oldland Common
References
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- ^ "Somerset North East parliamentary constituency – Election 2019 – BBC News" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
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Sources
- UKPolling Report – Anthony Wells calculations of notional majorities.
External links
- North East Somerset UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
