List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

Last updated March 30, 2022

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, 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

† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat

Constituency^{[nb 1]}	Electorate^[1]	Majority^[2]^{[nb 2]}
Beverley and Holderness CC	79,696	20,448	Graham Stuart†	Chloe Hopkins‡
Brigg and Goole CC	65,939	21,951	Andrew Percy†	Majid Khan‡
Cleethorpes CC	73,689	21,418	Martin Vickers†	Ros James‡
East Yorkshire CC	80,923	22,786	Greg Knight†	Catherine Minnis‡
Great Grimsby BC	61,409	7,331	Lia Nici†	Melanie Onn‡
Haltemprice and Howden CC	71,083	20,329	David Davis†	George Ayre‡
Kingston upon Hull East BC ^{[nb 3]}	65,745	1,239	Karl Turner‡	Rachel Storer†
Kingston upon Hull North BC ^{[nb 3]}	64,515	7,593	Diana Johnson‡	Holly Whitbread†
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle BC ^{[nb 3]}	60,192	2,856	Emma Hardy‡	Scott Bell†
Scunthorpe CC	61,955	6,451	Holly Mumby-Croft†	Nic Dakin‡

2010 boundary changes

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–present
Beverley and Holderness CC Brigg and Goole CC Cleethorpes CC East Yorkshire CC Great Grimsby BC Haltemprice and Howden CC Kingston upon Hull East BC Kingston upon Hull North BC Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle BC Scunthorpe CC	Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside	Proposed Revision

Proposed boundary changes

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 and published their initial proposals on 8 June 2021.^[3]

The commission has proposed that Humberside be combined 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 Axholme. Six current constituencies would be abolished (Beverley and Holderness, Brigg and Goole, Cleethorpes, East Yorkshire, Great Grimsby, and Haltemprice and Howden) and replaced by five new seats wholly within the area (Beverley and The Wolds, Bridlington and Holderness, Goole and Haltemprice, Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes, and South Humber).^[4]^[5]^[6]

The following constituencies are proposed:

Containing electoral wards from East Riding of Yorkshire

Containing electoral wards from Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull East CC (part)
Kingston upon Hull North BC
Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from North East Lincolnshire

Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes BC
South Humber CC (part)

Containing electoral wards from North Lincolnshire

Doncaster East and Axholme CC (part also in the South Yorkshire metropolitan borough of Doncaster)
Scunthorpe CC
South Humber CC (part)

Revised proposals will be published in late 2022 and the final report will be submitted in June 2023.

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019^[7]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Humberside in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	231,091	55.7%	7.1%	7	2
Labour	122,074	29.4%	12.7%	3	2
Liberal Democrats	26,312	6.3%	2.6%	0	0
Brexit	20,595	5.0%	new	0	0
Greens	10,275	2.5%	1.4%	0	0
Others	4,322	1.1%	3.4%	0	0
Total	414,669	100.0		10

Percentage votes

Election year	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	43.8	41.9	41.7	30.4	32.8	33.0	36.8	38.4	48.6	55.7
Labour	29.2	34.8	40.3	50.4	46.7	41.0	30.8	33.9	42.1	29.4
Liberal Democrat ¹	26.8	23.1	17.4	15.8	17.1	20.8	22.5	5.4	3.7	6.3
Green Party	-	*	*	*	*	*	0.7	3.1	1.1	2.5
UKIP	-	-	-	*	*	*	4.5	18.0	3.2	*
Brexit Party	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5.0
Other	0.2	0.2	0.6	3.3	3.4	5.2	4.7	1.2	1.3	1.1

¹1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
Conservative	5	4	4	3	3	3	5	5	5	7
Labour	4	5	5	7	7	7	5	5	5	3
Total	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

¹1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

1983
1987
1992
1997
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017
2019

Historical representation by party

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

Conservative Liberal

Constituency	1885	1886	1892	1895	1900	1906	07	11	15
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

Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Labour Liberal

Constituency	1918	19	1922	1923	1924	26	1929	1931	1935	39	1945	47
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

Conservative Labour

Constituency	1950	54	1955	1959	1964	66	1970	71	1979
Beverley / Howden (1955)	Odey		Bryan
Bridlington	Wood								Townend
Goole	Jeger							Marshall
Haltemprice	Law	Wall
Kingston upon Hull Central / Kingston upon Hull West (1955)	Hewitson				Johnson
Kingston upon Hull East	Pursey						Prescott
Kingston upon Hull North / Kingston upon Hull Central (1974)	Hudson			Coulson	Solomons	McNamara

1983 to present

Conservative Labour

Constituency	1983	1987	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019
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			Vickers
Glanford and Scunthorpe / Scunthorpe (1997)	Hickmet	Morley				Dakin			Mumby-Croft
Great Grimsby	Mitchell						Onn		Nici
Kingston upon Hull East	Prescott					Turner
Kingston upon Hull North	McNamara				D. Johnson
Kingston upon Hull West / & Hessle (1997)	Randall		A. Johnson					Hardy
Brigg and Goole			Cawsey			Percy

Notes

↑ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
↑ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
1 2 3 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.

Related Research Articles

The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a county in Northern England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west and North Lincolnshire to the south. The coastal towns of Bridlington and Hornsea are popular with tourists from inland areas, and the port city of Kingston upon Hull is an economic, transport and tourism centre which also receives much sea freight from around the world. The current East Riding of Yorkshire came into existence in 1996 after the abolition of the County of Humberside and the ancient market town of Beverley is where the councils administrative HQ is situated. The landscape is mainly rural, consisting of rolling hills, valleys and flat plains with many small villages and some towns scattered amid the Yorkshire Wolds. Major settlements include Kingston upon Hull, Beverley, Bridlington and Goole. At the 2011 United Kingdom census, its population was 334,179.

North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in Lincolnshire, England, with a population of 167,446 in the 2011 census. The borough includes the towns of Scunthorpe, Brigg, Haxey, Crowle, Epworth, Bottesford, Kirton in Lindsey and Barton-upon-Humber. North Lincolnshire is part of the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Humberside was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996. It was composed of land from either side of the Humber Estuary, created from portions of the East Riding of Yorkshire, West Riding of Yorkshire, and the northern part of Lindsey, Lincolnshire. The county council's headquarters was County Hall at Beverley, inherited from East Riding County Council. Its largest settlement and only city was Kingston upon Hull. Other notable towns included Goole, Beverley, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Bridlington. The county stretched from Wold Newton in its northern tip to a different Wold Newton at its most southern point.

Beverley and Holderness (UK Parliament constituency) Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom

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Cleethorpes (UK Parliament constituency) Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom

Cleethorpes is a constituency created in 1997, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Martin Vickers of the Conservative Party.

Brigg and Goole (UK Parliament constituency) Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom

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Boothferry (UK Parliament constituency) Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983–1997

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References

↑ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Commons Library.
1 2 3 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
↑ "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
↑ "'Boundary changes are back to bad old days of Humberside'". GrimsbyLive. 9 June 2021. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 22 November 2021.
↑ Mutch, Michael (7 June 2021). "New constituency map could see MPs defeated and communities divided". HullLive. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
↑ "Yorkshire and the Humber | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
↑ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".

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[1] BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.

[4] The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

[hull-5] 1 2 3 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.

[2] Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Commons Library.

[:0-3] 1 2 3 "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.

[6] "2023 Review | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 October 2021.

[7] "'Boundary changes are back to bad old days of Humberside'". GrimsbyLive. 9 June 2021. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 22 November 2021.

[8] Mutch, Michael (7 June 2021). "New constituency map could see MPs defeated and communities divided". HullLive. Retrieved 22 November 2021.

[9] "Yorkshire and the Humber | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 November 2021.

[10] Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".

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