List of parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire and Rutland
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The ceremonial county of Leicestershire (which includes the unitary authority of Leicester), is divided into 10 parliamentary constituencies - 3 borough constituencies and 7 county constituencies. One of these also includes the small historic county of Rutland, which was administratively a district of Leicestershire from 1974 to 1997. Since 1997, Rutland has been a separate unitary authority.
Constituencies
[edit]Conservative Labour Liberal Democrat Independent
Name[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
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Harborough, Oadby and Wigston CC | 74,810 | 2,378 | Neil O'Brien | Hajira Piranie | ![]() | ||
Hinckley and Bosworth CC | 75,683 | 5,408 | Luke Evans | Rebecca Pawle | ![]() | ||
Leicester East BC | 76,465 | 4,426 | Shivani Raja | Rajesh Agrawal | ![]() | ||
Leicester South BC | 71,007 | 979 | Shockat Adam | Jon Ashworth | ![]() | ||
Leicester West BC | 72,848 | 8,777 | Liz Kendall | Max Chauhan | ![]() | ||
Loughborough CC | 73,902 | 3,960 | Jeevun Sandher | Jane Hunt | ![]() | ||
Melton and Syston CC | 71,615 | 5,396 | Edward Argar | Zafran Khan | ![]() | ||
Mid Leicestershire CC | 76,173 | 2,201 | Peter Bedford | Robert Martin | ![]() | ||
North West Leicestershire CC | 75,373 | 1,012 | Amanda Hack | Craig Smith | ![]() | ||
Rutland and Stamford CC | 70,864 | 10,394 | Alicia Kearns | Joe Wood | ![]() | ||
South Leicestershire CC | 75,634 | 5,508 | Alberto Costa | Robert Parkinson | ![]() |
Historic constituencies
[edit]In the unreformed House of Commons, Leicestershire and Rutland were represented by two Knights of the Shire each, and the only parliamentary borough was Leicester, which sent two burgesses.
Under the Reform Act 1832, Leicestershire was split into two divisions, North and South, which each elected two members. The Reform Act 1885 redistributed these seats into four single-member divisions: Melton, or Eastern, Loughborough, or Mid, Harborough, or Southern, and Bosworth, or Western.
At the 1918 general election, the four divisions of the county were retained, and the borough of Leicester was split into three single-member constituencies, Leicester East, Leicester South, and Leicester West. From 1950 to 1974 Leicester had four constituencies, these being Leicester North East, Leicester North West, Leicester South East and Leicester South West: the three seat arrangement of South, East and West was reverted to thereafter.
Rutland constituted a constituency on its own until 1918, when it became part of the Rutland and Stamford constituency, with nearby Stamford in Lincolnshire.
In 1983, seats in Leicestershire were redrawn. Rutland was merged with Melton to form Rutland and Melton, with Loughborough, Bosworth, and Harborough remaining as seat names. The new North West Leicestershire constituency was created. A further constituency, Charnwood was created in the north for the 1997 election.
Boundary Changes
[edit]2010
[edit]In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Leicestershire retained its current constituencies, with minor changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries. Although virtually unchanged, Blaby was renamed South Leicestershire on the grounds that it does not match the borders of Blaby district, and the village of Blaby itself is not one of the major population centres.
Name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Boundaries 2010–2024 | |
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1 | Bosworth CC | ![]() | ![]() |
2 | Charnwood CC | ||
3 | Harborough CC | ||
4 | Leicester East BC | ||
5 | Leicester South BC | ||
6 | Leicester West BC | ||
7 | Loughborough CC | ||
8 | North West Leicestershire CC | ||
9 | Rutland and Melton CC | ||
10 | South Leicestershire CC (previously Blaby CC) |
2024
[edit]See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
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.[3] 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 recommendations were published on 28 June 2023 and in place for the 2024 General Election.
The commission has included Leicestershire and Rutland with Lincolnshire in a sub-region of the East Midlands region, creating one additional seat by re-establishing the constituency of Rutland and Stamford, which spans all three counties. As a consequence, Rutland and Melton is now abolished, being replaced by Melton and Syston, while a reconfigured Charnwood has been renamed Mid Leicestershire. Bosworth is renamed Hinckley and Bosworth and Harborough renamed Harborough, Oadby and Wigston.[4][5]
Name | Boundaries 2024-Present | |
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1 | Harborough, Oadby and Wigston CC | ![]() |
2 | Hinckley and Bosworth CC | |
3 | Leicester East BC | |
4 | Leicester South BC | |
5 | Leicester West BC | |
6 | Loughborough CC | |
7 | Melton and Syston CC | |
8 | Mid Leicestershire CC | |
9 | North West Leicestershire CC | |
10 | Rutland and Stamford CC | |
11 | South Leicestershire CC |
Results history
[edit]Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]
2024
[edit]The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Leicestershire and Rutland in the 2024 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 173,711 | 34.2% | ![]() | 7 | 0 |
Labour | 142,114 | 28.0% | ![]() | 3 | 0 |
Reform UK | 77,889 | 15.3% | ![]() | 0 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 49,343 | 9.7% | ![]() | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 34,014 | 6.7% | ![]() | 0 | 0 |
Others | 30,875 | 6.1% | ![]() | 1 | ![]() |
Total | 507,946 | 100.0 | 11 |
Percentage votes
[edit]Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 50.6 | 52.0 | 48.7 | 36.8 | 38.1 | 37.4 | 41.0 | 43.9 | 48.9 | 53.3 | 34.2 |
Labour | 25.3 | 27.3 | 33.0 | 43.8 | 41.5 | 36.1 | 27.6 | 30.6 | 40.1 | 32.1 | 28.0 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 22.7 | 20.2 | 17.1 | 15.1 | 17.0 | 20.8 | 23.3 | 8.0 | 6.6 | 9.8 | 9.7 |
Green Party | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.4 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 6.7 |
UKIP | - | - | - | * | * | * | 2.6 | 14.4 | 1.8 | * | - |
Reform UK2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.8 | 15.3 |
Other | 1.4 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 4.3 | 3.4 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 6.1 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
2 2019- Brexit Party
* Included in Other
Seats
[edit]Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Conservative | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Labour | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 |
11983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
[edit]1885-1910
[edit]- 1885
- 1886
- 1892
- 1895
- 1900
- 1906
- Jan 1910
- Dec 1910
1918-1945
[edit]- 1918
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- 1929
- 1931
- 1935
- 1945
1950-1979
[edit]- 1950
- 1951
- 1955
- 1959
- 1964
- 1966
- 1970
- Feb 1974
- Oct 1974
- 1979
1983-present
[edit]- 1983
- 1987
- 1992
- 1997
- 2001
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2017
- 2019
- 2024
Historical representation by party
[edit]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]Conservative Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 88 | 91 | 1892 | 94 | 1895 | 1900 | 04 | 1906 | 06 | 07 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 13 | 16 |
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Bosworth | Ellis | C. McLaren | H. McLaren | |||||||||||||
Harborough | Paget | Tapling | Logan | Stanhope | Lehmann | Logan | Harris | |||||||||
Leicester | McArthur | Whitehead | Broadhurst | Thomasson | Crawshay-Williams | Hewart | ||||||||||
Picton | Hazell | Rolleston | MacDonald | |||||||||||||
Loughborough | Johnson-Ferguson | de Lisle | Johnson-Ferguson | Levy | ||||||||||||
Melton | J. Manners | H. Manners | E. Manners | C. Manners | Walker | Yate | ||||||||||
Rutland | Finch | Gretton |
1918 to 1950
[edit]From 1918 to 1983 Rutland was categorised with Lincolnshire.
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Coalition National Democratic & Labour Conservative Labour Liberal National Labour National Liberal (1931-68)
Constituency | 1918 | 22 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 27 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 33 | 1935 | 1945 |
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Bosworth | McLaren | Paget | Ward | Gee | Edge | → | Allen | |||||
Harborough | Fraser | Black | Winby | Stuart | Tree | Attewell | ||||||
Leicester East | Hewart | Banton | Evans | Banton | Loder | Wise | Lyons | Donovan | ||||
Leicester South | Blane | Reynolds | Allen | Waterhouse | Bowden | |||||||
Leicester West | Green | Hill | Pethick-Lawrence | Pickering | Nicolson | B. Janner | ||||||
Loughborough | Guest | Spears | Rye | Winterton | Kimball | Follick | ||||||
Melton | Yate | Everard | Nutting |
1950 to 1983
[edit]From 1918 to 1983 Rutland was categorised with Lincolnshire.
Conservative Labour Social Democratic
Constituency | 1950 | 50 | 1951 | 1955 | 56 | 57 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 67 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 | 81 |
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Bosworth | Allen | Wyatt | Butler | |||||||||||||
Harborough | Baldock | Farr | ||||||||||||||
Leicester NE / Leicester E (1974) | Donovan | Ungoed-Thomas | Bradley | → | ||||||||||||
Leicester SW / Leicester S (1974) | Bowden | Boardman | Marshall | |||||||||||||
Leicester NW / Leicester W (1974) | B. Janner | G. Janner | ||||||||||||||
Leicester South East | Waterhouse | Peel | ||||||||||||||
Loughborough | Follick | Cronin | Dorrell | |||||||||||||
Melton | Nutting | Pike | Latham | |||||||||||||
Blaby | Lawson |
1983 to present
[edit]Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats Reclaim
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 04 | 2005 | 2010 | 11 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 20 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 2024 |
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Blaby / South Leics (2010) | Lawson | Robathan | Costa | ||||||||||||||
Bosworth / Hinckley & Bosworth (2024) | Butler | Tredinnick | Evans | ||||||||||||||
Harborough / H., Oadby & Wigston ('24) | Farr | Garnier | O'Brien | ||||||||||||||
Leicester East | Bruinvels | Vaz | Webbe | → | Raja | ||||||||||||
Leicester South | Spencer | Marshall | Gill | Soulsby | Ashworth | Adam | |||||||||||
Leicester West | G. Janner | Hewitt | Kendall | ||||||||||||||
Loughborough | Dorrell | Reed | Morgan | Hunt | Sandher | ||||||||||||
Rutland & Melton / R. & Stamford ('24)1 | Latham | Duncan | Kearns | ||||||||||||||
North West Leicestershire | Ashby | Taylor | Bridgen | → | → | → | Hack | ||||||||||
Charnwood / Mid Leicestershire (2024) | Dorrell | Argar | Bedford | ||||||||||||||
Melton and Syston | Argar |
1includes parts of Lincolnshire
See also
[edit]- List of parliamentary constituencies in the East Midlands (region)
- East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)
- Leicestershire County Council
- Rutland County Council
Footnotes
[edit]References
[edit]- General
- "Boundary Commission for England: Fifth Periodical Report" (PDF). Boundary Commission for England. Crown Copyright. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
- Craig, Frederick Walter Scott (1972). Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972. Chichester, Sussex: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
- Specific
- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
- ^ a b c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ Moorhouse, Sam (16 November 2022). "Latest political changes planned for Leicestershire". LeicestershireLive. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". paras 110-137. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".