Scunthorpe (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Scunthorpe in Humberside.
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Location of Humberside within England.
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County | North Lincolnshire |
Electorate | 61,445 (April 2015)[1] |
Major settlements | Scunthorpe and Bottesford |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of parliament | Nic Dakin (Labour) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Glanford & Scunthorpe |
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European Parliament constituency | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Scunthorpe is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Nic Dakin, a member of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Contents
Boundaries
The constituency includes the whole of Scunthorpe, Bottesford, Yaddlethorpe, Messingham, Manton, Kirton-in-Lindsey, Redbourne, Hibaldstow, Cadney and the hamlets and communities within these parishes.
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which slightly altered this constituency[n 3] for the 2010 general election since which it has electoral wards:
- Ashby, Bottesford, Brumby, Crosby and Park, Froddingham, Kingsway with Lincoln Gardens, Ridge and Town In North Lincolnshire
History
Although there was talk in a local newspaper in the 1930s that the town of Scunthorpe should have a parliamentary constituency named after it, it was only after the boundary reviews implemented in 1997 that a constituency of this name was created. Previous incarnations of a constituency containing the steel town and small towns and villages around it had been called (going backwards in time) Glanford and Scunthorpe, Brigg and Scunthorpe, and Brigg.
Constituency profile
Results to date indicate that the constituency has changed since creation from a safe seat for the Labour Party created at the incoming election for Prime Minister Tony Blair to somewhat of a marginal majority area for the party.
- In statistics
The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of a local government district with: a working population whose income is below the national average and slightly higher than average reliance upon social housing.[2] At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 5.7% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 4.7%.[3] The borough contributing to the seat had a middling 20.7% of its population without a car, 26.2% of the population without qualifications and 19.5% with level 4 qualifications or above. In terms of tenure 69.5% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage as at the 2011 census across the district.[4]
Members of Parliament
Nic Dakin was elected in the 2010 general election with a lower share of the vote than achieved under the Blair Ministry by his predecessor, with 39.5% of the votes.
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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1997 | Elliot Morley | Labour | |
2010 | Nic Dakin | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nic Dakin | 15,393 | 41.7 | +2.1 | |
Conservative | Jo Gideon | 12,259 | 33.2 | +0.5 | |
UKIP | Stephen Howd | 6,329 | 17.1 | +12.6 | |
Independent | Des Comerford | 1,097 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Green | Martin Dwyer | 887 | 2.4 | +1.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Simon Dodd | 770 | 2.1 | -16.2 | |
Independent | Paul Elsom | 206 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,134 | 8.5 | |||
Turnout | 36,941 | 57.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nic Dakin | 14,640 | 39.5 | -12.5 | |
Conservative | Caroline Johnson | 12,091 | 32.6 | +5.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Neil Poole | 6,774 | 18.3 | +1.2 | |
UKIP | Jane Collins | 1,686 | 4.6 | +0.5 | |
BNP | Douglas Ward | 1,447 | 3.9 | +3.9 | |
Green | Natalie Hurst | 396 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
Majority | 2,549 | 6.9 | |||
Turnout | 37,034 | 58.7 | +4.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -9.2 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Elliot Morley | 17,355 | 53.1 | -6.7 | |
Conservative | Julian Sturdy | 8,392 | 25.7 | -3.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Neil Poole | 5,556 | 17.0 | +7.6 | |
UKIP | David Baxendale | 1,361 | 4.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,963 | 27.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,664 | 54.3 | -2.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.7% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Elliot Morley | 20,096 | 59.8 | -0.6 | |
Conservative | Bernard Theobald | 9,724 | 28.9 | +2.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Bob Tress | 3,156 | 9.4 | +1.0 | |
Independent | Michael Cliff | 347 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Independent | David Patterson | 302 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,372 | 30.9 | |||
Turnout | 33,625 | 56.3 | -12.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.6% |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Elliot Morley | 25,107 | 60.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Martyn Fisher | 10,934 | 26.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Gordon Smith | 3,497 | 8.4 | N/A | |
Referendum | Paul Smith | 1,637 | 3.9 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | Brian Hopper | 399 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,173 | 34.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 41,574 | 68.8 | N/A | ||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
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.
- ↑ Ridge before 2010 was partly in this constituency, it is since 2010 wholly in the constituency.
- References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2001 Census
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ 2011 census interactive maps
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- EngvarB from October 2013
- Use dmy dates from October 2013
- Pages with broken file links
- Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1997
- North Lincolnshire
- Scunthorpe