South Northamptonshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Northamptonshire |
Electorate | 87,516 (2018) [1] |
Major settlements | Brackley, King's Sutton, Towcester |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Andrea Leadsom (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Daventry |
1950–1974 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Daventry and Kettering |
Replaced by | Daventry |
1832–1918 | |
Seats | 1832–1885: Two 1885–1918: One |
Created from | Northamptonshire |
Replaced by | Daventry |
South Northamptonshire is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 recreation by Andrea Leadsom, a Conservative who served as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy until 13 February 2020. She was Leader of the House of Commons from 2017 to 2019, and Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2016 to 2017. [n 2] The seat of South Northamptonshire is considered a Conservative safe seat, having elected a Conservative MP at every election for 110 Years. Current Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom was re-elected in 2019 with an increased majority.
This is a rural seat around Towcester and Brackley but also includes the southern edge of Northampton. There is a significant motorsport sector including Silverstone. [2] Incomes and house prices are above average for the UK. [3]
Before 2010, the constituency existed from 1832 to 1918, and from 1950 to 1974, however on different boundaries during each period. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election from 1832, until the representation was reduced in 1885 to one member elected by the first past the post system.
Three names feature prominently among the area's Commons members, the 3rd and 5th Earl Spencer (during their tenures as MP having a courtesy title only, Viscount Althorp – Althorp is a major country house in the seat, well known as the childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales); Edward Fitzroy (son of Lord Southampton), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943; and lastly, Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne who on accomplishment of a peerage sat for the final two years of his life as the historic equivalent of the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom with additional functions, the Lord Chancellor.
In the 19th century history of the seat the Cartwright family (with three members) lived in the stately home Aynhoe Park near Banbury.
The seat was abolished in 1918 to form the new constituency of Daventry, then recreated in 1950 caused by a relatively short-lived abolition of Daventry. In 1974 the constituency was almost wholly swallowed up by a reborn Daventry, which on wide boundaries saw substantial population growth.
This called for recreation in 2010 whereby most of the electoral wards were taken from the former version of the Daventry seat.
The constituency is bordered by Daventry and Northampton South to the north, Wellingborough to the north east, Milton Keynes North and Milton Keynes South to the south east, Buckingham to the south, Banbury to the south west and Kenilworth and Southam to the west.
1832–1885: The Hundreds of Kings Sutton, Chipping Warden, Greens Norton, Cleley, Towcester, Fawsley, Wymersley, Spelhoe, Nobottle Grove, and Guilsborough. [4]
1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Brackley and Towcester, and part of the Sessional Division of Daventry. (The part of the Sessional Division of Daventry included in South Northamptonshire excluded the parishes of Ashby St. Ledgers, Barby, Claycoton Crick, Elkington, Kilsby, Lilboume, Long Buckley, Stanford, Watford, West Haddon, Winwick, and Yelvertoft, which were assigned to Mid Northamptonshire). [5]
1950–1974: The Boroughs of Daventry and Brackley, and the Rural Districts of Brackley, Daventry, Northampton, and Towcester.
2010–2021: The District of South Northamptonshire wards of Astwell, Blakesley, Blisworth, Brackley East, Brackley South, Brackley West, Chase, Cogenhoe, Collingtree, Cosgrove, Courteenhall, Deanshanger, Grafton, Kings Sutton, Kingthorn, Little Brook, Middleton Cheney, Salcey, Silverstone, Steane, Tove, Towcester Brook, Towcester Mill, Wardoun, Washington, Whittlewood, and Yardley, and the Borough of Northampton wards of East Hunsbury, Nene Valley, and West Hunsbury.
2021-present: The District of West Northamptonshire wards of Brackley, Bugbrooke (part), Deanshanger, Duston West and St. Crispin (part), East Hunsbury and Shelfleys, Hackleton and Grange Park, Middleton Cheney, Nene Valley, Silverstone, Sixfields (part) and Towcester and Roade.
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 1 April 2021):
The parts in the former Borough of Northampton are to be transferred to Northampton South. The constituency will gain the part of the Irchester ward from Wellingborough and the remainder of the Bugbrooke ward from Daventry. A small part of Silverstone ward will be transferred to Daventry.
Election | 1st Member [7] [8] | 1st Party | 2nd Member [7] | 2nd Party | ||
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1832 | Viscount Althorp | Whig [9] | William Ralph Cartwright | Tory [9] | ||
1834 | Conservative [9] | |||||
1835 | Sir Charles Knightley, Bt | Conservative [10] [9] | ||||
1846 by-election | Cpt. Richard Howard-Vyse [n 3] | Conservative | ||||
1852 | Rainald Knightley | Conservative | ||||
1857 | Viscount Althorp | Whig [11] [12] | ||||
1858 by-election | Col. Henry Cartwright | Conservative | ||||
1868 | Fairfax Cartwright | Conservative | ||||
1881 by-election | Pickering Phipps | Conservative | ||||
1885 | Redistribution of Seats Act: reduced to one member |
Year | Member [7] | Party | |
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1885 | Sir Rainald Knightley | Conservative | |
1892 | David Guthrie [n 4] | Liberal | |
1895 | Hon. Edward Douglas-Pennant | Conservative | |
1900 | Hon. Edward FitzRoy | Conservative | |
1906 | Archibald Grove | Liberal | |
1910 | Hon. Edward FitzRoy | Conservative | |
1917 | National Party | ||
1918 | Unionist | ||
1918 | Constituency abolished, but revived in 1950 |
Election | Member [7] | Party | Notes | |
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1950 | Reginald Manningham-Buller | Conservative | Resigned 1962 on being raised to the peerage | |
1962 by-election | Arthur Jones | Conservative | ||
February 1974 | Constituency abolished, but revived in 2010 |
Election | Member [7] | Party | |
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2010 | Andrea Leadsom | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform UK | Paul Hogan [14] | ||||
Conservative | Andrea Leadsom [15] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Stewart Tolley [16] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrea Leadsom | 41,755 | 62.4 | -0.1 | |
Labour | Gen Kitchen | 13,994 | 20.9 | -6.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Lofts | 7,891 | 11.8 | +6.2 | |
Green | Denise Donaldson | 2,634 | 3.9 | +1.8 | |
Independent | Josh Phillips | 463 | 0.7 | +0.2 | |
Independent | Stuart McCutcheon | 171 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 27,761 | 41.5 | +6.3 | ||
Turnout | 66,908 | 73.7 | -2.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.15 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrea Leadsom [18] | 40,599 | 62.5 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Sophie Johnson [19] | 17,759 | 27.3 | +10.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Lofts [20] | 3,623 | 5.6 | -0.3 | |
UKIP | Nigel Wickens | 1,363 | 2.1 | -11.4 | |
Green | Denise Donaldson | 1,357 | 2.1 | -1.6 | |
Independent | Josh Philips | 297 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 22,840 | 35.2 | -8.2 | ||
Turnout | 64,998 | 75.9 | +4.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.15 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrea Leadsom | 36,607 | 60.1 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Lucy Mills | 10,191 | 16.7 | -0.6 | |
UKIP | Roger Clark | 8,204 | 13.5 | +9.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Snowdon | 3,613 | 5.9 | -15.1 | |
Green | Damon Boughen | 2,247 | 3.7 | +2.6 | |
Majority | 26,416 | 43.4 | +9.2 | ||
Turnout | 60,862 | 71.1 | -1.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.75 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrea Leadsom | 33,081 | 55.2 | +3.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Scott Collins | 12,603 | 21.0 | +3.9 | |
Labour | Matthew May | 10,380 | 17.3 | -11.4 | |
UKIP | Barry Mahoney | 2,406 | 4.0 | +1.4 | |
English Democrat | Tony Tappy | 735 | 1.2 | New | |
Green | Marcus Rock | 685 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 20,478 | 34.2 | |||
Turnout | 59,890 | 73.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Jones | 29,070 | 51.16 | ||
Labour | Gordon Roberts | 21,131 | 37.18 | ||
Liberal | Peter Smout | 6,626 | 11.66 | New | |
Majority | 7,939 | 13.98 | |||
Turnout | 56,827 | 77.87 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Jones | 25,023 | 52.84 | ||
Labour | Graham Ridge | 22,332 | 47.16 | ||
Majority | 2,691 | 5.68 | |||
Turnout | 47,355 | 82.18 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Jones | 24,823 | 54.27 | ||
Labour | Ivor Wilde | 20,916 | 45.73 | ||
Majority | 3,907 | 8.54 | |||
Turnout | 45,739 | 83.04 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Jones | 14,921 | 41.15 | -15.83 | |
Labour | Ivor Wilde | 14,004 | 38.62 | -4.40 | |
Liberal | N. Picarda | 7,002 | 19.31 | New | |
Independent | P. Buchan | 332 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 917 | 2.53 | -11.43 | ||
Turnout | 36,259 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 24,226 | 56.98 | ||
Labour | Arthur Richardson | 18,292 | 43.02 | ||
Majority | 5,934 | 13.96 | |||
Turnout | 42,518 | 82.72 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 21,497 | 55.35 | ||
Labour | Ronald Lewis | 17,339 | 44.65 | ||
Majority | 4,158 | 10.70 | |||
Turnout | 38,836 | 81.56 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 21,282 | 53.59 | ||
Labour | Dennis Webb | 18,434 | 46.41 | ||
Majority | 2,848 | 7.18 | |||
Turnout | 39,716 | 85.90 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 18,612 | 47.62 | ||
Labour | Dennis Webb | 16,852 | 43.12 | ||
Liberal | Llewellyn Evans | 3,620 | 9.26 | ||
Majority | 1,760 | 4.50 | |||
Turnout | 39,084 | 87.10 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 2,522 | 34.4 | −0.3 | |
Conservative | Fairfax Cartwright | 2,505 | 34.2 | +1.3 | |
Liberal | Frederick John FitzRoy | 2,305 | 31.4 | −0.9 | |
Majority | 200 | 2.8 | +2.2 | ||
Turnout | 4,819 (est) | 76.0 (est) | −3.4 | ||
Registered electors | 6,338 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Fairfax Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 6,029 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Fairfax Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 6,093 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Cartwright's death caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Pickering Phipps | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 6,093 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 4,074 | 50.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Maurice Fitzgerald | 4,012 | 49.6 | New | |
Majority | 62 | 0.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,086 | 83.9 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 9,636 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 4,003 | 52.1 | +1.7 | |
Liberal | James Carmichael | 3,687 | 47.9 | −1.7 | |
Majority | 316 | 4.2 | +3.4 | ||
Turnout | 7,690 | 79.8 | −4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 9,636 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | David Guthrie | 3,930 | 50.3 | +2.4 | |
Conservative | Thomas Leslie-Melville-Cartwright | 3,882 | 49.7 | −2.4 | |
Majority | 48 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,812 | 84.4 | +4.6 | ||
Registered electors | 9,251 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +2.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Douglas-Pennant | 4,553 | 57.8 | +8.1 | |
Liberal | David Guthrie | 3,324 | 42.2 | −8.1 | |
Majority | 1,229 | 15.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,877 | 86.2 | +1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 9,134 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edward FitzRoy | 4,174 | 56.9 | −0.9 | |
Liberal | Archibald Grove | 3,166 | 43.1 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 1,008 | 13.8 | −1.8 | ||
Turnout | 7,340 | 81.8 | −4.4 | ||
Registered electors | 8,976 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Archibald Grove | 4,136 | 52.0 | +8.9 | |
Conservative | Charles Douglas-Pennant | 3,814 | 48.0 | −8.9 | |
Majority | 322 | 4.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 7,950 | 88.1 | +6.3 | ||
Registered electors | 9,023 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +8.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward FitzRoy | 4,565 | 53.6 | +5.6 | |
Liberal | Frederick Kellaway | 3,955 | 46.4 | −5.6 | |
Majority | 610 | 7.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 8,520 | 91.7 | +3.6 | ||
Registered electors | 9,290 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +5.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edward FitzRoy | 4,340 | 53.1 | −0.5 | |
Liberal | Arthur Augustus Thomas | 3,827 | 46.9 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 513 | 6.2 | −1.0 | ||
Turnout | 8,167 | 87.9 | −3.8 | ||
Registered electors | 9,290 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.5 | |||
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Tory | William Ralph Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Whig | John Spencer | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,425 | ||||
Tory win (new seat) | |||||
Whig win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Conservative | William Ralph Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Charles Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,463 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Whig |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Ralph Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Charles Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,626 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Ralph Cartwright | 2,436 | 42.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Charles Knightley | 2,324 | 40.9 | N/A | |
Whig | Henry FitzRoy | 925 | 16.3 | New | |
Majority | 1,399 | 24.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,305 (est) | 72.0 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 4,589 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Cartwright resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Howard-Vyse | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Charles Knightley | 2,272 | 39.2 | −1.7 | |
Conservative | Richard Howard-Vyse | 2,064 | 35.6 | −7.2 | |
Whig | Anthony Henley [31] | 1,460 | 25.2 | +8.9 | |
Majority | 604 | 10.4 | −14.2 | ||
Turnout | 3,628 (est) | 76.7 (est) | +4.7 | ||
Registered electors | 4,729 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −3.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Howard-Vyse | 1,833 | 47.9 | +12.3 | |
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 1,833 | 47.9 | +8.7 | |
Whig | John Houghton [32] | 164 | 4.3 | −20.9 | |
Majority | 1,669 | 43.6 | +33.2 | ||
Turnout | 1,997 (est) | 43.7 (est) | −33.0 | ||
Registered electors | 4,568 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +11.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | John Spencer | 2,107 | 37.4 | +33.1 | |
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 1,932 | 34.3 | −13.6 | |
Conservative | Richard Howard-Vyse | 1,593 | 28.3 | −19.6 | |
Majority | 514 | 9.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,870 (est) | 82.8 (est) | +39.1 | ||
Registered electors | 4,675 | ||||
Whig gain from Conservative | Swing | +33.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −15.1 | |||
Spencer succeeded to the peerage, becoming 5th Earl Spencer and causing a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Henry Cartwright | 1,983 | 51.1 | −11.5 | |
Whig | Anthony Henley [33] | 1,899 | 48.9 | +11.5 | |
Majority | 84 | 2.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,882 | 83.0 | +0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 4,675 | ||||
Conservative gain from Whig | Swing | −11.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Henry Cartwright | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 4,955 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rainald Knightley | 2,206 | 34.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Henry Cartwright | 2,092 | 32.9 | N/A | |
Liberal | Frederick FitzRoy | 2,054 | 32.3 | New | |
Majority | 38 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,203 (est) | 79.4 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 5,293 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
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East Hunsbury is a large residential area in the south of Northampton, England, situated around 3 miles (5 km) from the town centre and 1 mile (2 km) from junction 15 of the M1 motorway. For administrative purposes it is part of the unitary authority of West Northamptonshire. It is part of the Hunsbury conglomeration, which also includes West Hunsbury on the west side of Towcester Road. Shelfleys is the original name for the area of Northampton currently referred to as West Hunsbury. The name of West Hunsbury still appears on maps for the district as Shelfleys. Merefield is the corresponding name for East Hunsbury, together with the name "Blacky More" for the eastern part of East Hunsbury. All three names are still on local direction signs in Northampton, although older references are no longer in use by the local people living there. The areas developed in the 1980s and 1990s as part of the expansion of Northampton. The Northampton loop of the West Coast Main Line railway running between Northampton and London Euston runs under East and West Hunsbury via the Hunsbury Hill Tunnel emerging near Hill Farm Rise which follows the original course of Towcester Road prior to the 1980s. Ventilation shafts are visible in the housing estate in Yeoman Meadow. East Hunsbury was awarded ‘Best Large Village’ in 2019 by NorthantsAcre.
Kislingbury is a village in Northamptonshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) west of Northampton town centre, and close to junctions 15A and 16 of the M1 motorway.
West Northamptonshire is a unitary authority area covering part of the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England, created in 2021. By far the largest settlement in West Northamptonshire is the county town of Northampton. Its other significant towns are Daventry, Brackley and Towcester; the rest of the area is predominantly agricultural villages though it has many lakes and small woodlands and is passed through by the West Coast Main Line and the M1 and M40 motorways. The district includes the site of the Roman town of Bannaventa, and the grade I listed Althorp House and its estate.
Slapton is a small village in Northamptonshire, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Towcester and the same from Silverstone. It is close to the A43 road which links the M40 motorway junction 10 with the M1 junction 15A at Northampton. Central London is about 60 miles south of M40 junction 10. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100 and was included in the civil parish of Whilton.
Genevieve Victoria Kitchen is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wellingborough in Northamptonshire since she won the 2024 Wellingborough by-election on 15 February 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she was a member of Newham London Borough Council in Greater London from 2018 to 2022.