Gedling (UK Parliament constituency)

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Gedling
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Gedling in Nottinghamshire
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Location of Nottinghamshire within England
County Nottinghamshire
Electorate 70,886 (December 2010) [1]
Major settlements Arnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick, Gedling village and Woodthorpe
Current constituency
Created 1983
Member of Parliament Tom Randall (Conservative)
SeatsOne
Created from Carlton

Gedling is a constituency in Nottinghamshire created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Tom Randall of the Conservative Party. [n 1] [n 2] The seat (and its predecessor, Carlton) was a safely Conservative until the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1997, when it was won for Labour by Vernon Coaker. Labour held Gedling until 2019, when it was regained by the Conservative Party.

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Boundaries and profile

Gedling (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of present boundaries

1983–2010: The Borough of Gedling wards of Bonington, Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph, Carlton, Carlton Hill, Cavendish, Conway, Gedling, Killisick, Kingswell, Mapperley Plains, Netherfield, Oxclose, Phoenix, Porchester, Priory, St James, St Mary's, and Woodthorpe.

2010–present: The Borough of Gedling wards of Bonington, Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph, Carlton, Carlton Hill, Daybrook, Gedling, Killisick, Kingswell, Mapperley Plains, Netherfield and Colwick, Phoenix, Porchester, St James, St Mary's, Valley, and Woodthorpe.

Gedling is a substantial part of Greater Nottingham covering the most populated parts of the borough of the same name; it has mainly affluent, middle-income north eastern suburbs of Nottingham that include Arnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick and Gedling village, Woodthorpe and Mapperley Plains.

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be (as they existed on 1st December 2020):

The Borough of Gedling wards of: Bestwood St. Albans; Carlton; Carlton Hill; Cavendish; Colwick; Coppice; Daybrook; Dumbles; Ernehale; Gedling; Netherfield; Phoenix; Plains; Porchester; Redhill; Trent Valley; Woodthorpe. [2]

The constituency will gain some rural areas to the north, including the Dumbles ward, from the Sherwood constituency.

History

The constituency of Gedling was created in 1983, replacing the earlier Carlton constituency. Until 1997, it only elected candidates from the Conservative Party. The seat was represented by the former Carlton MP Sir Philip Holland until 1987, then for ten years by Andrew Mitchell, son of former Conservative MP David Mitchell. The Labour Party gained the seat in their landslide victory at the 1997 general election. At that election, the junior minister lost to Labour's Vernon Coaker, who retained the seat until the 2019 election.

Summary of results

The 2010 and 2015 results set the seat as marginal: first and second place were separated by less than 7%. At the 2005 general election, the Conservative candidate Anna Soubry (who was elected MP for nearby Broxtowe in 2010) caused controversy by revealing that she "was not proud" of the record of the area she was vying to represent, referring to crime levels in Nottingham [3] — the subsequent swing from Labour to Conservative was only 2.1%, compared with the national swing of 3.1%. The 2015 result gave the seat the 29th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [4]

Other parties

In 2015, UKIP fielded the other candidate to retain their deposit. The party's swing nationally was +9.5% in 2015, and reached 11.4% in Gedling. Liberal Democrat and Green Party candidates forfeited their deposits in 2015.

Turnout

Turnout has varied from 82.3% of the vote in 1992 to 63.9% in 2001 and 2005.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [5] Party
1983 Sir Philip Holland Conservative
1987 Andrew Mitchell Conservative
1997 Vernon Coaker Labour
2019 Tom Randall Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: Gedling
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tom Randall [6]
Labour Michael Payne [7]
Liberal Democrats Tad Jones [8]
Majority
Turnout
Swing

Elections in the 2010s

Election results for Gedling GedlingGraph.svg
Election results for Gedling
General election 2019: Gedling [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tom Randall 22,718 45.5 +2.7
Labour Vernon Coaker 22,03944.1−7.8
Liberal Democrats Anita Prabhakar2,2794.6+2.6
Brexit Party Graham Hunt1,8203.6New
Green Jim Norris1,0972.2+1.2
Majority6791.4N/A
Turnout 49,95369.9-2.6
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +5.2
General election 2017: Gedling
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 26,833 51.9 +9.6
Conservative Carolyn Abbott22,13942.8+6.7
UKIP Lee Waters1,1432.2−12.2
Liberal Democrats Robert Swift1,0522.0−2.0
Green Rebecca Connick5151.0−2.2
Majority4,6949.1+2.9
Turnout 51,68272.5+4.0
Labour hold Swing +1.4
General election 2015: Gedling [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 20,307 42.3 +1.2
Conservative Carolyn Abbott17,32136.1−1.2
UKIP Lee Waters6,93014.4+11.4
Liberal Democrats Robert Swift1,9064.0−11.3
Green Jim Norris1,5343.2New
Majority2,9866.2+2.4
Turnout 47,99868.5+0.6
Labour hold Swing +1.2
General election 2010: Gedling [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 19,821 41.1 −5.5
Conservative Bruce Laughton17,96237.3+0.3
Liberal Democrats Julia Bateman7,35015.3+1.5
BNP Stephen Adcock1,5983.3New
UKIP David Marshall1,4593.0+1.3
Majority1,8593.8-5.8
Turnout 48,19067.9+4.0
Labour hold Swing −2.9

Because of boundary changes, vote shares in 2010 are compared to notional results from 2005.

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Gedling [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 20,329 46.1 −5.0
Conservative Anna Soubry 16,51837.5−0.8
Liberal Democrats Raymond Poynter6,07013.8+3.2
UKIP Alan Margerison7411.7New
Veritas Deborah Johnson4110.9New
Majority3,8118.6-4.2
Turnout 44,06963.90.0
Labour hold Swing −2.1
General election 2001: Gedling [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 22,383 51.1 +4.3
Conservative Jonathan Bullock 16,78538.3−1.2
Liberal Democrats Tony Gillam4,64810.6+0.7
Majority5,59812.8+5.5
Turnout 43,81663.9−11.8
Labour hold Swing +2.7

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Gedling [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 24,390 46.8 +12.4
Conservative Andrew Mitchell 20,58839.5−13.7
Liberal Democrats Raymond Poynter5,1809.9−2.2
Referendum John Connor2,0063.9New
Majority3,8027.3N/A
Turnout 52,16475.7-6.6
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +13.1
General election 1992: Gedling [15] [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Mitchell 30,191 53.2 −1.3
Labour Vernon Coaker 19,55434.4+10.5
Liberal Democrats DG George6,86312.1−9.5
Natural Law AKL Miszeweka1680.3New
Majority10,63718.8−11.8
Turnout 56,77682.3+3.2
Conservative hold Swing −5.9

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Gedling [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Mitchell 29,492 54.5 +0.4
Labour Vernon Coaker 12,95323.9+3.3
SDP David Morton11,68421.6-3.4
Majority16,53930.6+1.5
Turnout 54,12979.1+3.7
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1983: Gedling [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Holland 27,207 54.1
SDP Adrian Berkeley12,54325.0
Labour John Peck10,33020.6
Independent J Szatter1860.4
Majority14,66429.1
Turnout 50,08075.4
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

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.

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