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, Kingston upon 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.
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat
Constituency [nb 1] | Electorate [1] | Majority [2] [nb 2] | Member of Parliament [2] | Nearest opposition [2] | Map | ||
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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‡ |
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 |
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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 proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
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 the Isle of Axholme. Five current constituencies would be abolished (Brigg and Goole, Cleethorpes, East Yorkshire, Great Grimsby, and Haltemprice and Howden) and replaced by four new seats wholly within the area (Bridlington and The Wolds, Brigg and Immingham, Goole and Pocklington, and Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes). In addition, as a result of boundary changes, Kingston upon Hull North, and Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle would be renamed Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham, and Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice respectively. [4] [5] [6]
The following constituencies are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from East Riding of Yorkshire
Containing electoral wards from Kingston upon Hull
Containing electoral wards from North East Lincolnshire
Containing electoral wards from North Lincolnshire
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 [7]
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 |
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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 |
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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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
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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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
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.
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | 07 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 15 |
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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 |
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Labour Liberal
Constituency | 1918 | 19 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 26 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 39 | 1945 | 47 |
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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 |
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 54 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 66 | 1966 | 1970 | 71 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
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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 |
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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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 |
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