North Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Herefordshire
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of North Herefordshire in Herefordshire.
Location of Herefordshire within England.
County	Herefordshire
Electorate	66,711 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlements	Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury and Leominster
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Bill Wiggin (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Leominster
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

North Herefordshire is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Bill Wiggin, a Conservative.^{[n 2]}

History

Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which slightly altered this constituency for the 2010 general election to exclude those areas of the former county of Hereford and Worcester which are now in Worcestershire. This meant North Herefordshire being at its core a successor to Leominster constituency. The remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat.^[2]

Boundaries

This constituency contains a northern and central part of Herefordshire, including the towns of Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury and Leominster.

The constituency has the electoral wards:^[3]

• Backbury, Bircher, Bringsty, Bromyard, Burghill, Holmer and Lyde, Castle, Credenhill, Frome, Golden Cross with Weobley, Hagley, Hampton Court, Hope End, Kington Town, Ledbury, Leominster North, Leominster South, Mortimer, Old Gore, Pembridge and Lyonshall with Titley, Sutton Walls, Upton, Wormsley Ridge.

The village of Weobley (listed above) was a former borough constituency that was abolished as a 'rotten borough' in 1832.

Constituency profile

The seat has a substantially self-sufficient population, covered by civil parishes and with low rates of unemployment^[4] and social housing in each ward, with income levels concentrated towards the average in Britain.^[5]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[6]	Party
2010		constituency replaced Leominster
	2010	Bill Wiggin	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: North Herefordshire^[7][8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Bill Wiggin	26,716	55.6	+3.9
	UKIP	Jonathan Oakton	6,720	14.0	+8.3
	Liberal Democrat	Jeanie Falconer	5,768	12.0	-19.0
	Labour	Sally Prentice	5,478	11.4	+4.3
	Green	Daisy Blench	3,341	7.0	+3.7
Majority			19,996	41.6	+20.8
Turnout			42,545	72.0	+0.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 2010: North Herefordshire^[9][10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Bill Wiggin*	24,631	51.8	-0.7
	Liberal Democrat	Lucy Hurds	14,744	31.0	+6.9
	Labour	Neil Sabharwal	3,373	7.1	-8.4
	UKIP	Jonathan Oakton	2,701	5.7	+2.4
	Green	Felicity Norman	1,533	3.2	-1.5
	Independent	John King	586	1.2	+1.2
Majority			9,887	20.8
Turnout			47,568	71.5	+2.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	-3.8

* Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Notes and references

Notes

1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
2. 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.

References

1. "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
2. "Final recommendations for Parliamentary constituencies in the county of Herefordshire". Boundary Commission for England. 7 January 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
3. Fifth periodical report – Volume 4 Mapping for the Non-Metropolitan Counties and the Unitary Authorities, The Stationery Office, 26 February 2007, ISBN 0-10-170322-8
4. Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
5. 2001 Census
6. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
7. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000847
9. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
10. "Six candidates to stand in North Herefordshire parliamentary election". Herefordshire Council. 21 April 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2010.

Coordinates: 52°12′N 2°42′W / 52.2°N 2.7°W