Shropshire North (UK Parliament Constituency) : Soft.lk - A Premium Software Developers - Meet one of the most powerful and intuitive POS systems for retail in Sri Lanka

21 Aug, 2019
By, Wikipedia

Shropshire North (UK Parliament Constituency)

North Shropshire is a constituency in the county of Shropshire, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Helen Morgan of the Liberal Democrats after a by-election on 16 December 2021. The former MP, Owen Paterson of the Conservatives, resigned his seat on 5 November 2021 when faced with suspension from the Commons for a breach of advocacy rules and the consequent possibility of a recall petition. The seat had previously been a safe seat for the Conservatives.

Boundaries

Context: 1832–1868. Extract from 1837 result: the central, doubly blue area.

1832–1885: The Hundreds of Oswestry, Pimhill, North Bradford and South Bradford, as well as the Liberty of Shrewsbury.

1983–1997: The District of North Shropshire, the Borough of Oswestry, and the District of The Wrekin wards of Church Aston, Edgmond, Ercall Magna, Newport East, Newport North, and Newport West.

1997–2024: The District of North Shropshire and the Borough of Oswestry.

2024–present: The County of Shropshire electoral districts of: Ellesmere Urban; Gobowen, Selattyn and Weston Rhyn; Llanymynech; Market Drayton East; Market Drayton West; Oswestry East; Oswestry South; Oswestry West; Prees; Ruyton and Baschurch; St. Martin’s; St. Oswald; Shawbury; The Meres; Wem; Whitchurch North; Whitchurch South; Whittington.

The boundaries will be reduced to bring the electorate within the permitted range by transferring the electoral districts of Cheswardine and Hodnet to The Wrekin.

The district councils of North Shropshire and Oswestry were abolished in 2009, but the constituency boundaries remained unaltered.

Constituency profile

The area is rural and north of Shrewsbury, west of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the Stoke-on-Trent conurbation, south of Cheshire and Wrexham, having five small towns (in size order): Oswestry, Market Drayton, Whitchurch, Wem and Ellesmere. Residents' health and wealth are similar to UK averages.

History

From its first creation in 1832 to the abolition of the first creation in 1885 the constituency covered approximately half of the county and elected two members, formally Knights of the Shire. In 1885 the county was (together with South Shropshire) divided between four constituencies: Ludlow, Newport, Oswestry and Wellington.

In 1983 the constituency was revived in a smaller form and elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Owen Paterson was appointed to be the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in May 2010 and from the September 2012 Cabinet reshuffle, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, until another reshuffle in June 2014. Paterson resigned in November 2021 for breaching Commons lobbying rules while working for two firms as a consultant. A by-election was held on 16 December 2021, triggered by the resignation and was won by Helen Morgan for the Liberal Democrats with a 34% swing. The swing was seventh largest in United Kingdom by-election history.

In December 2023, the Labour Party included the seat in its published list of 211 non-battleground seats, indicating they did not see it as necessary to win in order to gain a majority.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832–1885

Constituency created in 1832

Election	First member		Second member
1832	Sir Rowland Hill, Bt	Tory	John Cotes	Whig
1834		Conservative	John Cotes	Whig
1835		Conservative	William Ormsby-Gore	Conservative
1843 by-election	Viscount Clive	Conservative
1848 by-election	John Whitehall Dod	Conservative
1857	John Whitehall Dod	Conservative	Hon. Rowland Hill	Conservative
1859	John Ormsby-Gore	Conservative	Hon. Rowland Hill	Conservative
1865			Hon. Charles Cust	Conservative
1866 by-election			Hon. Adelbert Brownlow-Cust	Conservative
1867 by-election			Viscount Newport	Conservative
1876 by-election	Stanley Leighton	Conservative	Viscount Newport	Conservative
1885	Constituency abolished

MPs since 1983

Oswestry and Wrekin prior to 1983

	Member	Party
1983	John Biffen	Conservative
1997	Owen Paterson	Conservative
2021 by-election	Helen Morgan	Liberal Democrats

Elections

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Morgan	26,214	52.9	+42.5
	Conservative	Simon Baynes	10,903	22.0	−39.7
	Reform UK	Mark Whittle	7,687	15.5	N/A
	Labour	Natalie Rowley	3,423	6.9	−15.5
	Green	Craig Emery	1,234	2.5	−0.8
	Independent	Samuel Cladingbowl	133	0.3	N/A
Majority			15,311	30.9	N/A
Turnout			49,594	64.1	−3.8
Registered electors			77,573
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	41.3

2021 North Shropshire by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Morgan	17,957	47.2	+37.2
	Conservative	Neil Shastri-Hurst	12,032	31.6	−31.1
	Labour	Ben Wood	3,686	9.7	−12.4
	Green	Duncan Kerr	1,738	4.6	+1.4
	Reform UK	Kirsty Walmsley	1,427	3.8	New
	UKIP	Andrea Allen	378	1.0	New
	Reclaim	Martin Daubney	375	1.0	New
	Monster Raving Loony	Alan "Howling Laud" Hope	118	0.3	N/A
	Independent	Suzie Akers-Smith	95	0.2	New
	Heritage	James Elliot	79	0.2	New
	Rejoin EU	Boris Been Bunged	58	0.2	New
	Freedom Alliance	Earl Jesse	57	0.1	New
	Party Party	Russell Dean	19	0.1	New
	No description	Yolande Kenward	3	0.0	New
Majority			5,925	15.6	N/A
Turnout			38,022	46.3	−21.6
Rejected ballots			74	0.2
Registered electors			82,314
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	+34.2

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	35,444	62.7	+2.2
	Labour	Graeme Currie	12,495	22.1	−9.0
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Morgan	5,643	10.0	+4.7
	Green	John Adams	1,790	3.2	+0.1
	Shropshire Party	Robert Jones	1,141	2.0	New
Majority			22,949	40.6	+11.2
Turnout			56,513	67.9	−1.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.6

General election 2017: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	33,642	60.5	+9.0
	Labour	Graeme Currie	17,287	31.1	+11.2
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Thornhill	2,948	5.3	−0.7
	Green	Duncan Kerr	1,722	3.1	−1.8
Majority			16,355	29.4	−2.2
Turnout			55,599	69.0	+1.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.1

General election 2015: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	27,041	51.5	±0.0
	Labour	Graeme Currie	10,457	19.9	+1.8
	UKIP	Andrea Allen	9,262	17.6	+12.9
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Thornhill	3,184	6.0	−14.9
	Green	Duncan Kerr	2,575	4.9	+3.3
Majority			16,584	31.6	+1.0
Turnout			52,483	67.6	+0.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.9

Class War originally selected Al Derby as a candidate here, but he changed to Wolverhampton North East.

General election 2010: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	26,692	51.5	+1.9
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Croll	10,864	20.9	+1.2
	Labour	Ian McLaughlan	9,406	18.1	−7.8
	UKIP	Sandra List	2,432	4.7	−0.1
	BNP	Phil Reddall	1,667	3.2	New
	Green	Steve Boulding	808	1.6	New
Majority			15,828	30.6	+6.9
Turnout			51,869	65.7	+4.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.3

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	23,061	49.6	+1.0
	Labour	Sandra Samuels	12,041	25.9	−9.3
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Bourne	9,175	19.7	+6.9
	UKIP	Ian Smith	2,233	4.8	+2.3
Majority			11,020	23.7	+10.3
Turnout			46,510	61.4	−1.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.1

General election 2001: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	22,631	48.6	+8.4
	Labour	Mike Ion	16,390	35.2	−0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Ben Jephcott	5,945	12.8	−7.6
	UKIP	David Trevanion	1,165	2.5	New
	Independent	Russell Maxfield	389	0.8	New
Majority			6,241	13.4	+9.2
Turnout			46,520	63.1	−9.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	20,730	40.2
	Labour	Ian Lucas	18,535	36.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Stevens	10,489	20.4
	Referendum	Denis Allen	1,764	3.4	New
Majority			2,195	4.2
Turnout			51,518	72.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1992: Shropshire North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Biffen	32,443	50.5	−1.7
	Liberal Democrats	John Stevens	16,232	25.3	−2.1
	Labour	Bob Hawkins	15,550	24.2	+3.8
Majority			16,211	25.2	+0.4
Turnout			64,225	77.7	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.2

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Shropshire North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Biffen	30,385	52.2	−1.2
	Liberal	Gordon Smith	15,970	27.4	−4.2
	Labour	Bob Hawkins	11,866	20.4	+5.7
Majority			14,415	24.8	+3.0
Turnout			58,221	75.5	+2.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1983: Shropshire North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	John Biffen	28,496	53.4
	Liberal	David Evans	16,829	31.6
	Labour	Helen Jones	7,860	14.7
	Independent For Referendum	J.L. Phillimore	135	0.3
Majority			11,667	21.8
Turnout			53,320	72.7
	Conservative win (new seat)

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Stanley Leighton	Unopposed
	Conservative	George Bridgeman	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,729
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1870s

1876 North Shropshire by-election (1 seat)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stanley Leighton	2,737	50.3	*N/A*
	Conservative	Salusbury Kynaston Mainwaring	2,700	49.7	N/A
Majority			37	0.6	N/A
Turnout			5,437	74.1	N/A
Registered electors			7,342
	Conservative hold

Caused by Gore's elevation to the peerage, becoming Lord Harlech.

General election 1874: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Ormsby-Gore	Unopposed
	Conservative	George Bridgeman	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,557
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1868: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Ormsby-Gore	3,602	38.2	*N/A*
	Conservative	George Bridgeman	3,403	36.1	*N/A*
	Liberal	Richard George Jebb	2,412	25.6	N/A
Majority			991	10.5	N/A
Turnout			5,915 (est)	77.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			7,611
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

1867 North Shropshire by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Bridgeman	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Caused by Brownlow-Cust's elevation to the peerage, becoming 3rd Earl Brownlow.

1866 North Shropshire by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Adelbert Brownlow-Cust	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Caused by Cust's resignation.

General election 1865: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Ormsby-Gore	Unopposed
	Conservative	Charles Cust	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,315
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1859: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Ormsby-Gore	Unopposed
	Conservative	Rowland Hill	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,110
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1857: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Whitehall Dod	Unopposed
	Conservative	Rowland Hill	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,227
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1852: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	John Whitehall Dod	Unopposed
	Conservative	William Ormsby-Gore	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,685
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1840s

By-election, 16 February 1848: Shropshire North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Whitehall Dod	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Caused by Herbert's succession to the peerage, becoming 3rd Earl of Powis

General election 1847: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Edward Herbert	Unopposed
	Conservative	William Ormsby-Gore	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,876
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

By-election, 16 January 1843: Shropshire North
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Edward Herbert	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,876
	Conservative hold

Caused by Hill's succession to the peerage, becoming 2nd Viscount Hill

General election 1841: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rowland Hill	Unopposed
	Conservative	William Ormsby-Gore	Unopposed
Registered electors			5,075
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1837: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rowland Hill	Unopposed
	Conservative	William Ormsby-Gore	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,910
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1835: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rowland Hill	Unopposed
	Conservative	William Ormsby-Gore	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,653
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Whig

General election 1832: Shropshire North (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	Rowland Hill	2,981	41.7
	Whig	John Cotes (1799-1874)	2,117	29.6
	Tory	William Ormsby-Gore	2,045	28.6
Turnout			4,296	91.8
Registered electors			4,682
Majority			864	12.1
	Tory win (new seat)
Majority			72	1.0
	Whig win (new seat)

References

^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – West Midlands". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
^ "'Shropshire North', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
^ "The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 & 3 William IV. Cap. LXIV. An Act to settle and describe the Divisions of Counties, and the Limits of Cities and Boroughs, in England and Wales, in so far as respects the Election of Members to serve in Parliament". London: His Majesty's statute and law printers. 1832. pp. 300–383. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 8 West Midlands region.
^ "Shropshire North: Seat Details". Electoral Calculus. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
^ "David Cameron's right turn in cabinet reshuffle". The Guardian. 4 September 2012.
^ "Tory MP Owen Paterson resigns amid standards row". BBC News. BBC. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
^ McGuinness, Alan (17 December 2021). "North Shropshire: Liberal Democrats pull off shock win as Tory by-election defeat piles further pressure on Boris Johnson". Sky News. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ Belger, Tom (8 December 2023). "Labour selections: Full list of 211 'non-battleground' seats now open to applications". labourlist.org. Archived from the original on 9 December 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
^ Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. pp. 15–16. Retrieved 27 May 2019 – via Google Books.
^ "York Herald". 22 December 1832. p. 2. Retrieved 27 May 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Result of the Elections in Shropshire". Morning Post. 24 December 1832. p. 2. Retrieved 27 May 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "UK parliamentary election - 4 July 2024". Shropshire Council. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
^ "16-Dec-2021 By-election". UK Parliament. Archived from the original on 9 October 2024. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
^ "Shropshire North parliamentary constituency - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
^ "Shrewsbury & Atcham Parliamentary constituency". BBC News.
^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ "UK Polling Report". ukpollingreport.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 June 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
^ "Al Derby". Who Can I Vote For? by Democracy Club. 14 December 2021.
^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^ web.manager@shropshire.gov.uk. "Democracy – Shropshire Council" (PDF). www.shropshire.gov.uk.
^ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
^ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 446–447. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
^ "North Shropshire". York Herald. 7 January 1876. p. 6. Retrieved 19 January 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "North Shropshire Election". Wellington Journal. 14 November 1868. p. 4. Retrieved 17 March 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

Sources

UK Polling Report
Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 446–447. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

External links

North Shropshire UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
North Shropshire UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
North Shropshire UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK

v t e Constituencies in the West Midlands (57)
Labour (37)	Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham Erdington Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North Birmingham Ladywood Birmingham Northfield Birmingham Selly Oak Birmingham Yardley Burton and Uttoxeter Cannock Chase Coventry East Coventry North West Dudley Halesowen Lichfield Newcastle-under-Lyme North Warwickshire and Bedworth Nuneaton Redditch Rugby Shrewsbury Smethwick Stafford Stoke-on-Trent Central Stoke-on-Trent North Stoke-on-Trent South Stourbridge Tamworth Telford Tipton and Wednesbury Walsall and Bloxwich Warwick and Leamington West Bromwich Wolverhampton North East Wolverhampton South East Wolverhampton West Worcester
Conservative (15)	Aldridge-Brownhills Bromsgrove Droitwich and Evesham Hereford and South Herefordshire Kenilworth and Southam Kingswinford and South Staffordshire Meriden and Solihull East Solihull West and Shirley South Shropshire Staffordshire Moorlands Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge Sutton Coldfield The Wrekin West Worcestershire Wyre Forest
Liberal Democrats (2)	North Shropshire Stratford-on-Avon
Independent (2)	Birmingham Perry Barr Coventry South
Green Party (1)	North Herefordshire

52°51′N 2°48′W / 52.85°N 2.80°W / 52.85; -2.80

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_Shropshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&oldid=1255894100"

Categories:

Hidden categories: