North East Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)

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North East Somerset
Former county constituency
for the House of Commons
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Location of North East Somerset in Somerset
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Location of Somerset within England
County Somerset
Electorate 70,070 (2018) [1]
Major settlements Chew Magna, Keynsham, Midsomer Norton and Radstock
2010–2024
SeatsOne
Created from Wansdyke (19 wards)
Bath constituency (two wards)
Replaced by North East Somerset and Hanham

North East Somerset was a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament from 2010 to 2024. For the whole of its existence its Member of Parliament (MP) was Jacob Rees-Mogg of the Conservative Party. [n 2]

Contents

The seat was abolished following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies. For the 2024 general election, the seat was subject to major boundary changes and has been reformed as North East Somerset and Hanham . [2]

Boundaries

North East Somerset (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries 2010–2024

The constituency covered the part of Bath and North East Somerset District that was not in the Bath constituency and as such contained 18 whole electoral wards and two parishes of Newbridge ward of Bath and North East Somerset:

Origin of first boundaries

Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which transferred all the electoral wards in Wandsyke constituency save for its four wards in South Gloucestershire to this new seat. [n 3] To compensate the new seat gained the whole of the large wards in the valley of the City, Bathavon North, and the rest of Bathavon South, both from the Bath constituency.

Abolition

The constituency was abolished by the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, effective as of the general election of July 2024. The majority of the constituency was transferred to a new North East Somerset and Hanham constituency that stretches northwards into the district of South Gloucestershire. South-eastern areas of the constituency, including the communities of Midsomer Norton, Radstock and Peasedown St John, were incorporated into the newly created constituency of Frome and East Somerset, and the Bathavon North ward transferred to Bath. [2]

Constituency profile

This area is marked by significant agriculture and green belts around almost all of its settlements, which consist largely of detached and semi-detached properties, [4] with a low rate of unemployment [5] and negligible social housing tenancy. [6]

An unusually shaped seat that contained all the western part of the Bath and North East Somerset council area, and the rural outskirts of Bath in the east, meaning the Bath constituency was entirely surrounded by a thin belt of North East Somerset. The seat contained some contrasting areas. The northern parts of the seat, especially the town of Keynsham, are commuter areas for Bath and Bristol. [7] To the west the seat is more rural, covering the patchwork of farmland and rural villages that make up the Chew Valley. The southern part around Midsomer Norton and Radstock is part of the old Somerset Coalfield. The last of the coal mines closed in the 1970s, [8] to be replaced by light industry, but the close knit industrial heritage of the area remains. [9]

North East Somerset is estimated to have voted to Leave the European Union by 51.6% in the 2016 referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. [10] [11] [12]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
2010 Jacob Rees-Mogg Conservative

Elections

See North East Somerset and Hanham for 2024 general election, and onwards.

Elections in the 2010s

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Candidates at the North East Somerset 2019 general election declaration
General election 2019: North East Somerset [13] [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg 28,360 50.4 −3.2
Labour Mark Huband13,63124.2−10.5
Liberal Democrats Nick Coates12,42222.1+13.8
Green Fay Whitfield1,4232.5+0.2
Independent Shaun Hughes4720.8−0.3
Majority 14,72926.2+7.3
Turnout 56,30876.4+0.7
Conservative hold Swing +3.6
General election 2017: North East Somerset [15] [16] [17] [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg 28,992 53.6 +3.8
Labour Robin Moss18,75734.7+9.9
Liberal Democrats Manda Rigby4,4618.3+0.4
Green Sally Calverley1,2452.3−3.2
Independent Shaun Hughes5881.1New
Majority 10,23518.9−5.9
Turnout 54,04375.7+2.0
Conservative hold Swing −3.0
General election 2015: North East Somerset [19] [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg 25,439 49.8 +8.5
Labour Todd Foreman12,69024.8−6.9
UKIP Ernest Blaber6,15012.0+8.6
Liberal Democrats Wera Hobhouse 4,0297.9−14.4
Green Katy Boyce [21] 2,8025.5+4.2
Majority 12,74925.0+15.4
Turnout 51,11073.7−2.3
Conservative hold Swing +7.65
General election 2010: North East Somerset [22] [23] [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg 21,130 41.3 +2.2
Labour Dan Norris*16,21631.7−7.0
Liberal Democrats Gail Coleshill11,43322.3+2.7
UKIP Peter Sandell1,7543.4+1.2
Green Michael Jay6701.3+1.3
Majority 4,9149.6+9.2
Turnout 51,20376.0
Conservative win (new seat)

*Served in the 2005–2010 Parliament as MP for Wansdyke

The changes in vote share are compared to a notional calculation of the 2005 result. Although the Wansdyke seat had been held by Labour for 13 years, this seat was already notionally a Conservative seat by a margin of 0.4%. This means that, if the North East Somerset seat on its new boundaries had been contested in 2005, the Conservatives would have won by a few hundred votes.

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.
  3. ↑ Namely Bitton, Hanham, Longwell Green and Oldland Common

References

  1. ↑ "England Parliamentary electorates 2010–2018". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  2. 1 2 "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – South West | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  3. ↑ 2010 post-revision map non-metropolitan areas and unitary authorities of England Archived 3 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Gov.UK
  4. ↑ "2011 census interactive maps". Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Unemployment statistics by constituency The Guardian
  6. ↑ Sillitoe, Neighbourhood Statistics – Neil (14 April 2008). "Detect browser settings".
  7. ↑ "Saltford & Keynsham Area Information". Eveleighs. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "Recreation at Haydon". Archived from the original on 8 July 2015. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Boyd, Lorna (2013). Radstock and Midsomer Norton Through Time. Amberley. ISBN   9781445615271.
  10. ↑ "Final estimates of the Leave vote share in the EU referendum". C. Hanretty (Google Docs). Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  11. ↑ "How did different constituencies vote in the 2016 EU referendum?". Full Fact. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  12. ↑ Hanretty, Chris (25 April 2017). "Final estimates of the Leave vote, or "Areal interpolation and the UK's referendum on EU membership"". Medium. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
  13. ↑ Godfrey, Will (14 November 2019). "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). Bath and North East Somerset Council. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  14. ↑ "Somerset North East parliamentary constituency – Election 2019 – BBC News" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  15. ↑ "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF). Bath and North East Somerset Returning Officer. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
  16. ↑ "Bath and NE Somerset Green Party – BaNES Greens: all female line up for election challenge". bath.greenparty.org.uk.
  17. ↑ "Manda Rigby for North East Somerset".
  18. ↑ "Somerset North East". BBC. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  19. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  20. ↑ "Somerset North East". BBC. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  21. ↑ "Katy Boyce". WhoCanIVoteFor?. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  22. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  23. ↑ "BBC NEWS – Election 2010 – Somerset North East". BBC News.
  24. ↑ "Somerset North East". Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2012.

Sources

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