South Northamptonshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2010 onwards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 2010 onwards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
South Northamptonshire is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Sarah Bool. 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.
South Northamptonshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Northamptonshire |
Electorate | 76,555 (2023)[1] |
Major settlements | Brackley, King's Sutton, Towcester |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Sarah Bool (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Daventry |
1950–1974 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Daventry and Kettering |
Replaced by | Daventry |
1832–1918 | |
Seats | 1832–1885: Two 1885–1918: One |
Created from | Northamptonshire |
Replaced by | Daventry |
This is a rural seat around Towcester and Brackley. There is a significant motorsport sector including the north half of Silverstone Circuit.[2] Incomes and house prices are above average for the UK.[3]
Before 2010, the constituency existed from 1832 to 1918, and from 1950 to 1974, however on different boundaries during each period. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election from 1832, until the representation was reduced in 1885 to one member elected by the first past the post system.
Three names feature prominently among the area's Commons members, the 3rd and 5th Earl Spencer (during their tenures as MP having a courtesy title only, Viscount Althorp – Althorp is a major country house in the seat, well known as the childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales); Edward Fitzroy (son of Lord Southampton), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943; and lastly, Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne who on accomplishment of a peerage sat for the final two years of his life as the historic equivalent of the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom with additional functions, the Lord Chancellor.
In the 19th century history of the seat the Cartwright family (with three members) lived in the stately home Aynhoe Park near Banbury.
The seat was abolished in 1918 to form the new constituency of Daventry, then recreated in 1950 caused by a relatively short-lived abolition of Daventry. In 1974 the constituency was almost wholly swallowed up by a reborn Daventry, which on wide boundaries saw substantial population growth.
This called for recreation in 2010 whereby most of the electoral wards were taken from the former version of the Daventry seat.
The constituency is bordered by Daventry and Northampton South to the north, Wellingborough to the north east, Milton Keynes North and Milton Keynes South to the south east, Buckingham to the south, Banbury to the south west and Kenilworth and Southam to the west.
1832–1885: The Hundreds of Kings Sutton, Chipping Warden, Greens Norton, Cleley, Towcester, Fawsley, Wymersley, Spelhoe, Nobottle Grove, and Guilsborough.[4]
1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Brackley and Towcester, and part of the Sessional Division of Daventry. (The part of the Sessional Division of Daventry included in South Northamptonshire excluded the parishes of Ashby St. Ledgers, Barby, Claycoton Crick, Elkington, Kilsby, Lilboume, Long Buckley, Stanford, Watford, West Haddon, Winwick, and Yelvertoft, which were assigned to Mid Northamptonshire). [5]
1950–1974: The Boroughs of Daventry and Brackley, and the Rural Districts of Brackley, Daventry, Northampton, and Towcester.
2010–2021: The District of South Northamptonshire wards of Astwell, Blakesley, Blisworth, Brackley East, Brackley South, Brackley West, Chase, Cogenhoe, Collingtree, Cosgrove, Courteenhall, Deanshanger, Grafton, Kings Sutton, Kingthorn, Little Brook, Middleton Cheney, Salcey, Silverstone, Steane, Tove, Towcester Brook, Towcester Mill, Wardoun, Washington, Whittlewood, and Yardley, and the Borough of Northampton wards of East Hunsbury, Nene Valley, and West Hunsbury.
2021–2024: With effect from 1 April 2021, the Borough of Northampton and the District of South Northamptonshire were abolished and absorbed into the new unitary authority of West Northamptonshire.[6] From that date, the constituency comprised the District of West Northamptonshire wards of Brackley, Bugbrooke (part), Deanshanger, Duston West and St. Crispin (part), East Hunsbury and Shelfleys, Hackleton and Grange Park, Middleton Cheney, Nene Valley, Silverstone, Sixfields (part), and Towcester and Roade.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency is as follows (as they existed on 1 April 2021):
The parts in the former Borough of Northampton were transferred to Northampton South. The constituency gained the part of the Irchester ward from Wellingborough and the remainder of the Bugbrooke ward from Daventry. A small part of Silverstone ward was transferred to Daventry.
Northamptonshire prior to 1832
Election | 1st Member[8][9] | 1st Party | 2nd Member[8] | 2nd Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1832 | Viscount Althorp | Whig[10] | William Ralph Cartwright | Tory[10] | ||
1834 | Conservative[10] | |||||
1835 | Sir Charles Knightley, Bt | Conservative[11][10] | ||||
1846 by-election | Cpt. Richard Howard-Vyse[n 2] | Conservative | ||||
1852 | Rainald Knightley | Conservative | ||||
1857 | Viscount Althorp | Whig[12][13] | ||||
1858 by-election | Col. Henry Cartwright | Conservative | ||||
1868 | Fairfax Cartwright | Conservative | ||||
1881 by-election | Pickering Phipps | Conservative | ||||
1885 | Redistribution of Seats Act: reduced to one member |
Year | Member[8] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1885 | Sir Rainald Knightley | Conservative | |
1892 | David Guthrie[n 3] | Liberal | |
1895 | Hon. Edward Douglas-Pennant | Conservative | |
1900 | Hon. Edward FitzRoy | Conservative | |
1906 | Archibald Grove | Liberal | |
1910 | Hon. Edward FitzRoy | Conservative | |
1917 | National Party | ||
1918 | Unionist | ||
1918 | Constituency abolished, but revived in 1950 |
Daventry and Kettering prior to 1950
Election | Member[8] | Party | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1950 | Reginald Manningham-Buller | Conservative | Resigned 1962 on being raised to the peerage | |
1962 by-election | Arthur Jones | Conservative | ||
February 1974 | Constituency abolished, but revived in 2010 |
Daventry prior to 2010
Election | Member[8] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
2010 | Andrea Leadsom | Conservative | |
2024 | Sarah Bool | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sarah Bool | 19,191 | 35.7 | −27.5 | |
Labour | Rufia Ashraf | 15,504 | 28.9 | +8.1 | |
Reform UK | Paul Hogan | 8,962 | 16.7 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Stewart Tolley | 4,989 | 9.3 | −1.8 | |
Green | Emmie Williamson | 3,040 | 5.7 | +1.9 | |
Independent | Ian McCord | 1,556 | 2.9 | N/A | |
Workers Party | Mick Stott | 246 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Independent | Stuart Robert | 209 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,687 | 6.8 | −35.6 | ||
Turnout | 53,697 | 68.6 | −4.3 | ||
Registered electors | 78,233 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -17.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrea Leadsom | 41,755 | 62.4 | −0.1 | |
Labour | Gen Kitchen | 13,994 | 20.9 | −6.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Lofts | 7,891 | 11.8 | +6.2 | |
Green | Denise Donaldson | 2,634 | 3.9 | +1.8 | |
Independent | Josh Phillips | 463 | 0.7 | +0.2 | |
Independent | Stuart McCutcheon | 171 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 27,761 | 41.5 | +6.3 | ||
Turnout | 66,908 | 73.7 | −2.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.15 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrea Leadsom[18] | 40,599 | 62.5 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Sophie Johnson[19] | 17,759 | 27.3 | +10.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Lofts[20] | 3,623 | 5.6 | −0.3 | |
UKIP | Nigel Wickens | 1,363 | 2.1 | −11.4 | |
Green | Denise Donaldson | 1,357 | 2.1 | −1.6 | |
Independent | Josh Philips | 297 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 22,840 | 35.2 | −8.2 | ||
Turnout | 64,998 | 75.9 | +4.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.15 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrea Leadsom | 36,607 | 60.1 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Lucy Mills | 10,191 | 16.7 | −0.6 | |
UKIP | Roger Clark | 8,204 | 13.5 | +9.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Snowdon | 3,613 | 5.9 | −15.1 | |
Green | Damon Boughen | 2,247 | 3.7 | +2.6 | |
Majority | 26,416 | 43.4 | +9.2 | ||
Turnout | 60,862 | 71.1 | −1.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.75 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrea Leadsom | 33,081 | 55.2 | +3.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Scott Collins | 12,603 | 21.0 | +3.9 | |
Labour | Matthew May | 10,380 | 17.3 | −11.4 | |
UKIP | Barry Mahoney | 2,406 | 4.0 | +1.4 | |
English Democrat | Tony Tappy | 735 | 1.2 | New | |
Green | Marcus Rock | 685 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 20,478 | 34.2 | |||
Turnout | 59,890 | 73.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Jones | 29,070 | 51.16 | ||
Labour | Gordon Roberts | 21,131 | 37.18 | ||
Liberal | Peter Smout | 6,626 | 11.66 | New | |
Majority | 7,939 | 13.98 | |||
Turnout | 56,827 | 77.87 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Jones | 25,023 | 52.84 | ||
Labour | Graham Ridge | 22,332 | 47.16 | ||
Majority | 2,691 | 5.68 | |||
Turnout | 47,355 | 82.18 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Jones | 24,823 | 54.27 | ||
Labour | Ivor Wilde | 20,916 | 45.73 | ||
Majority | 3,907 | 8.54 | |||
Turnout | 45,739 | 83.04 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Jones | 14,921 | 41.15 | −15.83 | |
Labour | Ivor Wilde | 14,004 | 38.62 | −4.40 | |
Liberal | N. Picarda | 7,002 | 19.31 | New | |
Independent | P. Buchan | 332 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 917 | 2.53 | −11.43 | ||
Turnout | 36,259 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 24,226 | 56.98 | ||
Labour | Arthur Richardson | 18,292 | 43.02 | ||
Majority | 5,934 | 13.96 | |||
Turnout | 42,518 | 82.72 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 21,497 | 55.35 | ||
Labour | Ronald Lewis | 17,339 | 44.65 | ||
Majority | 4,158 | 10.70 | |||
Turnout | 38,836 | 81.56 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 21,282 | 53.59 | ||
Labour | Dennis Webb | 18,434 | 46.41 | ||
Majority | 2,848 | 7.18 | |||
Turnout | 39,716 | 85.90 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 18,612 | 47.62 | ||
Labour | Dennis Webb | 16,852 | 43.12 | ||
Liberal | Llewellyn Evans | 3,620 | 9.26 | ||
Majority | 1,760 | 4.50 | |||
Turnout | 39,084 | 87.10 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 2,522 | 34.4 | −0.3 | |
Conservative | Fairfax Cartwright | 2,505 | 34.2 | +1.3 | |
Liberal | Frederick John FitzRoy | 2,305 | 31.4 | −0.9 | |
Majority | 200 | 2.8 | +2.2 | ||
Turnout | 4,819 (est) | 76.0 (est) | −3.4 | ||
Registered electors | 6,338 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Fairfax Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 6,029 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Fairfax Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 6,093 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Cartwright's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Pickering Phipps | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 6,093 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 4,074 | 50.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Maurice Fitzgerald | 4,012 | 49.6 | New | |
Majority | 62 | 0.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,086 | 83.9 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 9,636 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 4,003 | 52.1 | +1.7 | |
Liberal | James Carmichael | 3,687 | 47.9 | −1.7 | |
Majority | 316 | 4.2 | +3.4 | ||
Turnout | 7,690 | 79.8 | −4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 9,636 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | David Guthrie | 3,930 | 50.3 | +2.4 | |
Conservative | Thomas Leslie-Melville-Cartwright | 3,882 | 49.7 | −2.4 | |
Majority | 48 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,812 | 84.4 | +4.6 | ||
Registered electors | 9,251 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +2.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Douglas-Pennant | 4,553 | 57.8 | +8.1 | |
Liberal | David Guthrie | 3,324 | 42.2 | −8.1 | |
Majority | 1,229 | 15.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,877 | 86.2 | +1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 9,134 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward FitzRoy | 4,174 | 56.9 | −0.9 | |
Liberal | Archibald Grove | 3,166 | 43.1 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 1,008 | 13.8 | −1.8 | ||
Turnout | 7,340 | 81.8 | −4.4 | ||
Registered electors | 8,976 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Archibald Grove | 4,136 | 52.0 | +8.9 | |
Conservative | Charles Douglas-Pennant | 3,814 | 48.0 | −8.9 | |
Majority | 322 | 4.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,950 | 88.1 | +6.3 | ||
Registered electors | 9,023 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +8.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward FitzRoy | 4,565 | 53.6 | +5.6 | |
Liberal | Frederick Kellaway | 3,955 | 46.4 | −5.6 | |
Majority | 610 | 7.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,520 | 91.7 | +3.6 | ||
Registered electors | 9,290 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward FitzRoy | 4,340 | 53.1 | −0.5 | |
Liberal | Arthur Augustus Thomas | 3,827 | 46.9 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 513 | 6.2 | −1.0 | ||
Turnout | 8,167 | 87.9 | −3.8 | ||
Registered electors | 9,290 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.5 |
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tory | William Ralph Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Whig | John Spencer | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,425 | ||||
Tory win (new seat) | |||||
Whig win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Ralph Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Charles Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,463 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Whig |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Ralph Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Charles Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,626 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Ralph Cartwright | 2,436 | 42.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Charles Knightley | 2,324 | 40.9 | N/A | |
Whig | Henry FitzRoy | 925 | 16.3 | New | |
Majority | 1,399 | 24.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,305 (est) | 72.0 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 4,589 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Cartwright resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Howard-Vyse | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Charles Knightley | 2,272 | 39.2 | −1.7 | |
Conservative | Richard Howard-Vyse | 2,064 | 35.6 | −7.2 | |
Whig | Anthony Henley[31] | 1,460 | 25.2 | +8.9 | |
Majority | 604 | 10.4 | −14.2 | ||
Turnout | 3,628 (est) | 76.7 (est) | +4.7 | ||
Registered electors | 4,729 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Howard-Vyse | 1,833 | 47.9 | +12.3 | |
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 1,833 | 47.9 | +8.7 | |
Whig | John Houghton[32] | 164 | 4.3 | −20.9 | |
Majority | 1,669 | 43.6 | +33.2 | ||
Turnout | 1,997 (est) | 43.7 (est) | −33.0 | ||
Registered electors | 4,568 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +11.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whig | John Spencer | 2,107 | 37.4 | +33.1 | |
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 1,932 | 34.3 | −13.6 | |
Conservative | Richard Howard-Vyse | 1,593 | 28.3 | −19.6 | |
Majority | 514 | 9.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,870 (est) | 82.8 (est) | +39.1 | ||
Registered electors | 4,675 | ||||
Whig gain from Conservative | Swing | +33.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −15.1 |
Spencer succeeded to the peerage, becoming 5th Earl Spencer and causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Henry Cartwright | 1,983 | 51.1 | −11.5 | |
Whig | Anthony Henley[33] | 1,899 | 48.9 | +11.5 | |
Majority | 84 | 2.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,882 | 83.0 | +0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 4,675 | ||||
Conservative gain from Whig | Swing | −11.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Henry Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,955 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 2,206 | 34.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Henry Cartwright | 2,092 | 32.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | Frederick FitzRoy | 2,054 | 32.3 | New | |
Majority | 38 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,203 (est) | 79.4 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 5,293 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
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