List of parliamentary constituencies in Humberside
Humberside was abolished in 1996 both as a county council and a ceremonial county, but the name Humberside continues to be used unofficially in subsequent boundary reviews as presented by the Boundary Commission for England to describe the area covered by the former county for the purpose of the rules which strongly deter cross-council constituencies (spanning more than one local authority within its area). The area covers the four unitary authorities of East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire The constituency boundaries used up to the 2005 United Kingdom general election were drawn up when it was a county. The area is divided into 10 parliamentary constituencies – 4 borough constituencies and 6 county constituencies.
Constituencies
[edit]† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat # Reform UK
| Constituency | Electorate | Majority[nb 1] | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverley and Holderness CC | 70,559 | 124 | Graham Stuart† | Margaret Pinder‡ |  | ||
| Bridlington and The Wolds CC | 74,438 | 3,125 | Charlie Dewhirst† | Sarah Carter‡ |  | ||
| Brigg and Immingham CC | 74,297 | 3,243 | Martin Vickers† | Najmul Hussain‡ |  | ||
| Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme CC (Part) | 70,133 | 2,311 | Lee Pitcher‡ | Nick Fletcher† |  | ||
| Goole and Pocklington CC | 78,287 | 3,572 | David Davis† | Liam Draycott‡ |  | ||
| Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes CC | 76,157 | 4,803 | Melanie Onn‡ | Oliver Freeston# |  | ||
| Kingston upon Hull East BC[nb 2] | 70,560 | 3,920 | Karl Turner‡ | Neil Hunter# |  | ||
| Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham BC[nb 2] | 75,280 | 10,769 | Diana Johnson‡ | Martin Baker# |  | ||
| Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice BC[nb 2] | 73,252 | 8,979 | Emma Hardy‡ | Julie Peck# |  | ||
| Scunthorpe CC | 74,263 | 3,542 | Nic Dakin‡ | Holly Mumby-Croft† |  | ||
Boundary changes
[edit]2024
[edit]See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
| Former name | Boundaries 2010–2024 | Current name | Boundaries 2024–present |
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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.[1] 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, and adopted by parliament, resulting in the new constituencies first being contested at the 2024 general election.
The commission opted to combine Humberside with South Yorkshire as a sub-region of the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, resulting in the creation of a new cross-county boundary constituency named Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme, which encompassed part of the former Brigg and Goole constituency. Seven existing constituencies would be abolished (Brigg and Goole, Cleethorpes, East Yorkshire, Great Grimsby, Haltemprice and Howden, Kingston upon Hull North and Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle) and replaced by six new seats wholly within the area (Bridlington and The Wolds, Brigg and Immingham, Goole and Pocklington, and Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes, Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham and Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice).[2][3][4]
The following constituencies were created:
Containing electoral wards from East Riding of Yorkshire
- Beverley and Holderness
- Bridlington and The Wolds
- Goole and Pocklington
- Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham (part)
- Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice (part)
Containing electoral wards from Kingston upon Hull
- Kingston upon Hull East
- Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham (part)
- Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice (part)
Containing electoral wards from North East Lincolnshire
- Brigg and Immingham (part)
Containing electoral wards from North Lincolnshire
- Brigg and Immingham (part)
- Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme CC (part also in the South Yorkshire metropolitan borough of Doncaster)
- Scunthorpe CC
2010
[edit]Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the 10 constituencies covering the former county of Humberside for the 2010 election, making minor changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards.
| Name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Boundaries 2010–2024 |
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Results history
[edit]Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[5]
2024
[edit]The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Humberside in the 2024 general election were as follows:[nb 3]
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 135,391 | 37.4% |  8.0%
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6 | 3
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| Conservative | 99,980 | 27.6% |  28.1%
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| Reform | 82,716 | 22.9% | 17.9%
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0 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 22,406 | 6.2% | 0.1%
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0 | 0 |
| Greens | 15,676 | 4.3% | 1.8%
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0 | 0 |
| Others | 5,807 | 1.6% | 0.5%
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0 | 0 |
| Total | 361,976 | 100.0 | 10 |
Percentage votes
[edit]| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 29.2 | 34.8 | 40.3 | 50.4 | 46.7 | 41.0 | 30.8 | 33.9 | 42.1 | 29.4 | 37.4 |
| Conservative | 43.8 | 41.9 | 41.7 | 30.4 | 32.8 | 33.0 | 36.8 | 38.4 | 48.6 | 55.7 | 27.6 |
| Reform1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5.0 | 22.9 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 26.8 | 23.1 | 17.4 | 15.8 | 17.1 | 20.8 | 22.5 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 6.3 | 6.2 |
| Green Party | – | * | * | * | * | * | 0.7 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 4.3 |
| UKIP | – | – | – | * | * | * | 4.5 | 18.0 | 3.2 | * | |
| Other | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.6 |
1As the Brexit Party in 2019 21983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
[edit]| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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| Labour | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| Conservative | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
| Total | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
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Historical representation by party
[edit]Data given here is for the East Riding of Yorkshire before 1983. 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
[edit]| Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | 07 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 15 |
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| Buckrose | C. Sykes | Holden | White | ||||||||
| Holderness | Bethell | A. Wilson | |||||||||
| Howdenshire | Duncombe | Wilson-Todd | Harrison-Broadley | Jackson | |||||||
| Kingston upon Hull Central | King | M. Sykes | |||||||||
| Kingston upon Hull East | Saunders | Grotrian | Smith | Firbank | Ferens | ||||||
| Kingston upon Hull West | C. H. Wilson | C. H. W. Wilson | G. Wilson | ||||||||
1918 to 1950
[edit]Coalition Liberal (1918–22) / National Liberal (1922–23) Conservative Labour Liberal
| Constituency | 1918 | 19 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 26 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 39 | 1945 | 47 |
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| Buckrose | Moreing | Gaunt | A. Braithwaite | Wadsworth | ||||||||
| Holderness | Wilson | Bowdler | Savery | G. Braithwaite | ||||||||
| Howdenshire | Jackson | Carver | Glossop | Odey | ||||||||
| Kingston upon Hull Central | Sykes | Kenworthy | → | Barton | Windsor | Hewitson | ||||||
| Kingston upon Hull East | Murchison | Lumley | Muff | Nation | Muff | Pursey | ||||||
| Kingston upon Hull North West | Ward | Mackay | ||||||||||
| Kingston upon Hull South West | Entwistle | Grotrian | Arnott | Law | Smith | |||||||
1950 to 1983
[edit]| Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 54 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 66 | 1966 | 1970 | 71 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
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| Beverley / Howden (1955) | Odey | Bryan | |||||||||||
| Bridlington | Wood | Townend | |||||||||||
| Goole | Jeger | Marshall | |||||||||||
| Haltemprice | Law | Wall | |||||||||||
| Kingston upon Hull Central / K.u.H. West ('55) | Hewitson | Johnson | |||||||||||
| Kingston upon Hull East | Pursey | Prescott | |||||||||||
| Kingston upon Hull N / K.u.H. Central (1974) | Hudson | Coulson | Solomons | McNamara | |||||||||
1983 to 2010
[edit]| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 |
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| Beverley / Beverley and Holderness (1997) | Wall | Cran | Stuart | |||
| Boothferry / Haltemprice and Howden (1997) | Bryan | Davis | ||||
| Bridlington / East Yorkshire (1997) | Townend | Knight | ||||
| Brigg and Cleethorpes / Cleethorpes (1997) | Brown | McIsaac | ||||
| Glanford and Scunthorpe / Scunthorpe (1997) | Hickmet | Morley | ||||
| Great Grimsby | Mitchell | |||||
| Kingston upon Hull East | Prescott | |||||
| Kingston upon Hull North | McNamara | D. Johnson | ||||
| Kingston upon Hull West / & Hessle (1997) | Randall | A. Johnson | ||||
| Brigg and Goole | Cawsey | |||||
2010 to present
[edit]| Constituency | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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| Beverley and Holderness | Stuart | ||||
| Haltemprice and Howden / Goole & Pocklington (2024) | Davis | ||||
| East Yorkshire / Bridlington & The Wolds (2024) | Knight | Dewhirst | |||
| Cleethorpes / Brigg & Immingham (2024) | Vickers | ||||
| Scunthorpe | Dakin | Mumby-Croft | Dakin | ||
| Great Grimsby / Great Grimsby & Cleethorpes (2024) | Mitchell | Onn | Nici | Onn | |
| Kingston upon Hull East | Turner | ||||
| Kingston upon Hull North / K.u.H. North & Cottingham (2024) | D. Johnson | ||||
| Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle / K.u.H. W & Haltemprice ('24) | A. Johnson | Hardy | |||
| Brigg and Goole | Percy | N/A | |||
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
- ^ a b c Many sources list the Kingston upon Hull constituencies as Hull, following the city council's own practice. However, the official names have not adopted the short form.
- ^ Doncaster East and The Isle of Axholme is a cross-county constituency. As the results of UK general elections are not disclosed on a sub-constituency level, the constituency's vote shares have been omitted
References
[edit]- ^ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ Young, Angus (8 November 2022). "Big changes set for MPs' constituencies in Hull and East Riding". HullLive. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- ^ "'Boundary changes are back to bad old days of Humberside'". GrimsbyLive. 9 June 2021. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 1345–1393. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".