Romsey and Southampton North | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Hampshire |
Electorate | 67,696 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Dunbridge, Mottisfont, Romsey, Swaythling |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Caroline Nokes (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Romsey |
Romsey and Southampton North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Caroline Nokes for the Conservative Party. For the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer it is a county constituency.
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which created this constituency for the 2010 general election primarily as an extended Romsey constituency.
Romsey and Southampton North is formed from electoral wards:
The area includes Stockbridge, which was a rotten borough (rotten parliamentary borough) until the latter's abolition under the Great Reform Act of 1832.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the next general election, due by January 2025, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
The boundaries will be extended northwards to included rural areas to the south and west of Andover, transferred from North West Hampshire. The Valley Park ward is to be transferred to Eastleigh.
This section needs to be updated.(December 2021) |
The constituency takes in the bulk of a more affluent and older-population local government district with a fraction of a contrasting district: the net result is a working population whose income is close to the national average and lower than average reliance upon social housing. [4] At the end of 2012, the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 1.5% of the population claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, compared to the regional average of 2.4%. [5] The borough contributing to the bulk of the seat has a low 13.5% of its population without a car, 18.4% of the population without qualifications and a high 30.5% with Level 4 qualifications or above. In terms of tenure 70.4% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage as at the 2011 census in Test Valley district. [6]
Election | Member [7] | Party | |
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2010 | Caroline Nokes | Conservative | |
Sep 2019 | Independent [8] | ||
Oct 2019 | Conservative [9] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Caroline Nokes | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Geoff Cooper [11] | ||||
Labour | Christie Lambert | ||||
Green | Connor Shaw [12] | ||||
Reform UK | Harry Sheffield [13] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Caroline Nokes | 27,862 | 54.2 | -2.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Craig Fletcher | 16,990 | 33.1 | +11.8 | |
Labour | Claire Ransom | 5,898 | 11.5 | -7.7 | |
UKIP | Geoff Bentley | 640 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 10,872 | 21.1 | -14.7 | ||
Turnout | 51,390 | 75.3 | +0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -7.35 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Caroline Nokes | 28,668 | 57.1 | +2.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Catherine Royce | 10,662 | 21.3 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Darren Paffey | 9,614 | 19.2 | +7.3 | |
Green | Ian Callaghan | 953 | 1.9 | -2.7 | |
Justice & Anti-Corruption | Don Jerrard | 271 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 18,006 | 35.8 | -0.9 | ||
Turnout | 50,168 | 74.7 | +1.94 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.35 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Caroline Nokes | 26,285 | 54.4 | +4.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ben Nicholls | 8,573 | 17.7 | -23.6 | |
Labour | Darren Paffey | 5,749 | 11.9 | +5.5 | |
UKIP | Sandra James | 5,511 | 11.4 | +8.8 | |
Green | Ian Callaghan | 2,218 | 4.6 | New | |
Majority | 17,712 | 36.7 | +28.3 | ||
Turnout | 48,336 | 72.76 | +0.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +14.1 | |||
This constituency was contested for the first time at the 2010 general election. Liberal Democrat MP Sandra Gidley had been the MP for the predecessor seat of Romsey since 2000.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Caroline Nokes | 24,345 | 49.7 | +6.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sandra Gidley | 20,189 | 41.3 | −2.4 | |
Labour | Aktar Beg | 3,116 | 6.4 | -4.6 | |
UKIP | John Meropoulos | 1,289 | 2.6 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 4,156 | 8.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 48,939 | 72.6 | +6.2 | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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