North Herefordshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Herefordshire |
Electorate | 66,711 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury and Leominster |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of Parliament | Bill Wiggin (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Leominster |
North Herefordshire is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Bill Wiggin, a Conservative. [n 2]
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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2010 | Bill Wiggin | Conservative | |
2010 | constituency replaced Leominster |
The seat has a substantially self-sufficient population, covered by civil parishes and with low rates of unemployment [3] and social housing in each ward, with income levels concentrated towards the average in Britain. [4]
This constituency contains a northern and central part of Herefordshire, including the towns of Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury and Leominster.
The constituency has the electoral wards: [5]
The village of Weobley (listed above) was a former borough constituency that was abolished as a 'rotten borough' in 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 seat will be unchanged, except to align the boundaries with those of the revised local authority wards.
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which slightly altered this constituency for the 2010 general election to exclude those areas of the former county of Hereford and Worcester which are now in Worcestershire. This meant North Herefordshire being at its core a successor to Leominster constituency. The remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat. [7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Ellie Chowns [8] | ||||
Reform UK | Andrew Dye [9] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Cat Hornsey [10] | ||||
Conservative | Bill Wiggin [11] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 32,158 | 63.0 | 1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phillip Howells | 7,302 | 14.3 | 2.6 | |
Labour | Joe Wood | 6,804 | 13.3 | 5.6 | |
Green | Ellie Chowns | 4,769 | 9.3 | 3.8 | |
Majority | 24,856 | 48.7 | 5.6 | ||
Turnout | 51,033 | 72.6 | 1.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 0.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 31,097 | 62.0 | 6.4 | |
Labour | Roger Page | 9,495 | 18.9 | 7.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jeanie Falconer | 5,874 | 11.7 | 0.3 | |
Green | Ellie Chowns | 2,771 | 5.5 | 1.5 | |
Independent | Sasha Norris | 577 | 1.1 | New | |
Independent | Arthur Devine | 363 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 21,602 | 43.1 | 1.5 | ||
Turnout | 50,177 | 74.1 | 2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 0.6 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 26,716 | 55.6 | 3.8 | |
UKIP | Jonathan Oakton | 6,720 | 14.0 | 8.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jeanie Falconer | 5,768 | 12.0 | 19.0 | |
Labour | Sally Prentice | 5,478 | 11.4 | 4.3 | |
Green | Daisy Blench | 3,341 | 7.0 | 3.8 | |
Majority | 19,996 | 41.6 | 20.8 | ||
Turnout | 42,545 | 72.0 | 0.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 24,631 | 51.8 | 0.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lucy Hurds | 14,744 | 31.0 | 6.9 | |
Labour | Neil Sabharwal | 3,373 | 7.1 | 8.4 | |
UKIP | Jonathan Oakton | 2,701 | 5.7 | 2.4 | |
Green | Felicity Norman | 1,533 | 3.2 | 1.5 | |
Independent | John King | 586 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 9,887 | 20.8 | 7.6 | ||
Turnout | 47,568 | 71.5 | 2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 3.8 | |||
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