The county of Northamptonshire is divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies - 2 borough constituencies and 5 county constituencies.
Conservative † Labour ‡
Constituency [nb 1] | Electorate [1] | Majority [2] [nb 2] | Member of Parliament [2] | Nearest opposition [2] | Map | ||
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Corby CC | 86,153 | 10,268 | Tom Pursglove † | Beth Miller ‡ | |||
Daventry CC | 77,423 | 26,080 | Chris Heaton-Harris † | Paul Joyce ‡ | |||
Kettering CC | 73,164 | 16,765 | Philip Hollobone † | Clare Pavitt ‡ | |||
Northampton North BC | 58,768 | 5,507 | Michael Ellis † | Sally Keeble ‡ | |||
Northampton South BC | 62,163 | 4,697 | Andrew Lewer † | Gareth Eales ‡ | |||
South Northamptonshire CC | 90,842 | 27,761 | Andrea Leadsom † | Gen Kitchen ‡ | |||
Wellingborough CC | 80,765 | 6,436 (2024) | Gen Kitchen ‡ | Helen Harrison † | |||
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to increase the number of seats which covered Northamptonshire from 6 to 7, with the creation of South Northamptonshire, resulting in major changes to Daventry and Northampton South.
Former name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Current name | 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 retaining the current number of constituencies in Northamptonshire, as detailed below, with boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries following the reorganisation of local government authorities within the county and to bring the electorates within the statutory range. It is proposed that Corby is renamed Corby and East Northamptonshire, and Wellingborough renamed Wellingborough and Rushden. [4] [5]
Containing electoral wards from North Northamptonshire
Containing electoral wards from West Northamptonshire
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019 [6]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Northamptonshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
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Conservative | 216,229 | 59.0% | 3.3% | 7 | 0 |
Labour | 106,611 | 29.1% | 6.8% | 0 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 30,813 | 8.4% | 4.3% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 10,514 | 2.9% | 1.2% | 0 | 0 |
Others | 2,276 | 0.6% | 2.0% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 366,443 | 100.0 | 7 |
Election year | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative | 39.1 | 40.6 | 50.2 | 49.0 | 51.7 | 51.8 | 40.4 | 41.2 | 43.1 | 47.4 | 50.6 | 55.7 | 59.0 |
Labour | 38.6 | 41.3 | 36.3 | 25.5 | 27.1 | 33.5 | 45.0 | 43.8 | 37.5 | 25.7 | 25.7 | 35.9 | 29.1 |
Liberal Democrat 1 | 22.0 | 18.1 | 12.8 | 25.2 | 20.8 | 14.3 | 11.1 | 12.6 | 15.2 | 19.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 8.4 |
Green Party | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.8 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 2.9 |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 2.8 | 16.0 | 2.5 | * |
Other | 0.3 | - | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
11974 & 1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Election year | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Labour | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
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.
Conservative Independent Liberal Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour Liberal Unionist National Party
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 89 | 91 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 17 | 18 |
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Northampton | Labouchère | Paul | Lees-Smith | |||||||||
Bradlaugh | Manfield | Drucker | Shipman | McCurdy | ||||||||
Northamptonshire East | Channing | Money | → | |||||||||
Northamptonshire Mid | Spencer | Pender | Spencer | Manfield | ||||||||
Northamptonshire North | Cecil | Monckton | Stopford-Sackville | Nicholls | Brassey | |||||||
Northamptonshire South | Knightley | Guthrie | Douglas-Pennant | FitzRoy | Grove | FitzRoy | → | → | ||||
Peterborough | Wentworth-FitzWilliam | → | Morton | Purvis | Greenwood |
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Co-operative Labour Speaker
Constituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 28 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 40 | 43 | 1945 |
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Daventry | FitzRoy | → | R, Manningham-Buller | ||||||||
Kettering | Waterson | Parker | Perry | M. Manningham-Buller | Perry | Eastwood | Profumo | Mitchison | |||
Northampton | McCurdy | Bondfield | Holland | Malone | M. Manningham-Buller | Summers | Paget | ||||
Peterborough | Brassey | Horrabin | Cecil | Hely-Hutchinson | Tiffany | ||||||
Wellingborough | Smith | Shakespeare | Cove | Dallas | James | Lindgren |
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 69 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
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Kettering | Mitchison | de Freitas | Homewood | |||||||||
Northampton / Northampton North (1974) | Paget | Colquhoun | Marlow | |||||||||
Wellingborough | Lindgren | Hamilton | Howarth | Fry | ||||||||
Peterborough | Nicholls | Transferred to Huntingdon and Peterborough | ||||||||||
Northamptonshire South / Daventry (1974) | Manningham-Buller | Jones | Prentice | |||||||||
Northampton South | Morris |
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 12 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 24 |
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Corby | Powell | Hope | Mensch | Sawford | Pursglove | |||||||
Northampton North | Marlow | Keeble | Ellis | |||||||||
Kettering | Freeman | Sawford | Hollobone | |||||||||
Northampton South | Morris | Clarke | Binley | Mackintosh | Lewer | |||||||
Wellingborough | Fry | Stinchcombe | Bone | Kitchen | ||||||||
Daventry | Prentice | Boswell | Heaton-Harris | |||||||||
South Northamptonshire | Leadsom |
Daventry is a constituency in Northamptonshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Chris Heaton-Harris of the Conservative Party, who has served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 2022.
Kettering is a constituency in Northamptonshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Philip Hollobone, a Conservative.
Wellingborough is a constituency in Northamptonshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The seat is currently held by Labour MP Gen Kitchen, after the recall of MP Peter Bone in December 2023 which resulted in a by-election in February 2024.