Penrith and The Border | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Cumbria |
Electorate | 67,555 (December 2019) [1] |
Major settlements | Appleby-in-Westmorland, Brampton, Penrith and Wigton |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1950 |
Member of Parliament | Neil Hudson (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Penrith & Cockermouth and North Cumberland |
Penrith and The Border is a constituency [n 1] in Cumbria represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Neil Hudson, a Conservative. [n 2]
The seat is due to be abolished for the next general election. [2]
Penrith and The Border was first contested in 1950 since which it has to date been generally a safe Conservative seat and on rare occasions a marginal. The Conservatives came close to losing the seat in a 1983 by-election, when the former cabinet minister William Whitelaw became the leader of the House of Lords: the by-election took place a mere seven weeks after his success in the 1983 general election. Since that year the Liberal Democrats have come second behind the Conservatives until the 2015 general election when they came fourth. At the two subsequent general elections they have come third.
1950–1983: The Urban District of Penrith, and the Rural Districts of Alston with Garrigill, Border, Penrith, and Wigton.
1983–1997: The District of Eden wards of Alston Moor, Appleby, Appleby Bongate, Askham, Brough, Crosby Ravensworth, Dacre, Eamont, Greystoke, Hartside, Hesket, Kirkby Thore, Kirkoswald, Langwathby, Lazonby, Long Marton, Lowther, Penrith East, Penrith North, Penrith South, Penrith West, Skelton, Ullswater, and Warcop, the City of Carlisle wards of Arthuret, Brampton, Burgh, Dalston, Great Corby and Geltsdale, Hayton, Irthing, Lyne, St Cuthbert Without, Stanwix Rural, and Wetheral, and the District of Allerdale wards of Aspatria, Boltons, Marsh, Silloth, Tarns, Wampool, Warnell, Waver, and Wigton.
1997–2010: The District of Eden, the City of Carlisle wards of Arthuret, Brampton, Great Corby and Geltsdale, Hayton, Irthing, Lyne, Stanwix Rural, and Wetheral, and the District of Allerdale wards of Marsh, Wampool, Warnell, and Wigton.
2010–present: The District of Eden, the City of Carlisle wards of Brampton, Great Corby and Geltsdale, Hayton, Irthing, Longtown and Rockcliffe, Lyne, and Stanwix Rural, and the District of Allerdale wards of Warnell and Wigton.
The constituency was created in 1950 by merging part of Penrith and Cockermouth with North Cumberland. It was redrawn in 1983 by taking in most of the northern part of the old Westmorland constituency and in 1997 by taking in the Kirkby Stephen and Tebay areas of the pre-1997 Westmorland and Lonsdale constituency by doing so the constituency covered the entire district of Eden. The constituency also includes parts of Allerdale and Carlisle districts but has been losing parts of these areas to other seats at each boundary review.
Penrith and The Border is the largest constituency by area in England. Despite the name, it only includes part of the English border with Scotland. The neighbouring constituency of Hexham (together with Berwick-upon-Tweed) also takes in the border area. The name stems from the fact that when the constituency was first created it consisted of the Penrith Rural and Urban Districts, the Border Rural District and also the Alston with Garrigill Rural District.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be abolished for the next general election, with its contents distributed to three neighbouring constituencies: [2]
A heavily undulating, mostly farmed terrain dotted by market towns and historic villages, with wooded mountainsides and heath-covered tops, the constituency is focused on the Eden Valley between the Pennines and the Lake District, with the vale of the River Irthing above Carlisle. In the north towards Scotland are 8 of its 42 wards all beside or in the market town of Brampton which sits beside Hadrian's Wall.
The constituency tends to have modest incomes, [3] low unemployment [4] and a rate of dependency on social housing lower than urban centres. [5]
The seat was represented for nearly three decades by William Whitelaw, who served as a cabinet minister in various capacities during Conservative governments of the 1970s and 1980s and later joined the House of Lords.
His successor, the former Conservative Chief Whip and junior minister, David Maclean, sat as MP from 1983 to 2010, when he stood down due to the state of his health; he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996.
Maclean was succeeded by Rory Stewart in May 2010. In September 2019 Rory Stewart had the Conservative whip withdrawn and therefore sat as an Independent MP.
At the December 2019 general election, Neil Hudson of the Conservative Party became the new MP.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Neil Hudson | 28,875 | 60.4 | ±0.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Sarah Williams | 10,356 | 21.7 | ―4.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Severn | 5,364 | 11.2 | +3.4 | |
Green | Ali Ross | 2,159 | 4.5 | +2.3 | |
CumbriaFirst | Jonathan Davies | 1,070 | 2.2 | New | |
Majority | 18,519 | 38.7 | +4.5 | ||
Turnout | 47,824 | 71.7 | +0.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rory Stewart | 28,078 | 60.4 | +0.7 | |
Labour | Lola McEvoy | 12,168 | 26.2 | +11.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Neil Hughes | 3,641 | 7.8 | ―0.7 | |
UKIP | Kerryanne Wilde | 1,142 | 2.5 | ―9.7 | |
Green | Doug Lawson | 1,029 | 2.2 | ―3.1 | |
Independent | Jonathan Davies | 412 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 15,910 | 34.2 | ―11.1 | ||
Turnout | 46,470 | 71.0 | +3.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―5.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rory Stewart | 26,202 | 59.7 | +6.3 | |
Labour | Lee Rushworth | 6,308 | 14.4 | +1.5 | |
UKIP | John Stanyer | 5,353 | 12.2 | +9.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Neil Hughes | 3,745 | 8.5 | ―20.0 | |
Green | George Burrow | 2,313 | 5.3 | New | |
Majority | 19,894 | 45.3 | +20.4 | ||
Turnout | 43,921 | 67.4 | ―2.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rory Stewart | 24,071 | 53.4 | +2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Thornton | 12,830 | 28.5 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Barbara Cannon | 5,834 | 12.9 | ―6.1 | |
UKIP | John Stanyer | 1,259 | 2.8 | +0.3 | |
BNP | Chris Davidson | 1,093 | 2.4 | New | |
Majority | 11,241 | 24.9 | ―0.6 | ||
Turnout | 45,087 | 69.9 | +3.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―0.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Maclean | 24,046 | 51.3 | ―3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kenneth Walker | 12,142 | 25.9 | +4.1 | |
Labour | Michael Boaden | 8,958 | 19.1 | +0.6 | |
UKIP | William Robinson | 1,187 | 2.5 | +0.4 | |
Legalise Cannabis | Mark Gibson | 549 | 1.2 | ―0.8 | |
Majority | 11,904 | 25.4 | ―7.7 | ||
Turnout | 46,882 | 66.1 | +1.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―3.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Maclean | 24,302 | 54.9 | +7.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kenneth Walker | 9,625 | 21.8 | ―4.9 | |
Labour | Michael Boaden | 8,177 | 18.5 | ―3.1 | |
UKIP | Thomas Lowther | 938 | 2.1 | New | |
Legalise Cannabis | Mark Gibson | 870 | 2.0 | New | |
Independent | John Moffat | 337 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 14,677 | 33.1 | +12.2 | ||
Turnout | 44,249 | 64.5 | ―9.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Maclean | 23,300 | 47.6 | ―11.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kenneth Walker | 13,067 | 26.7 | ―2.3 | |
Labour | Margaret Meling | 10,576 | 21.6 | +10.6 | |
Referendum | Charles Pope | 2,018 | 4.1 | New | |
Majority | 10,233 | 20.9 | ―8.8 | ||
Turnout | 48,961 | 73.6 | ―3.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―4.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Maclean | 33,808 | 57.5 | ―2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kenneth Walker | 15,359 | 26.1 | ―2.6 | |
Labour | John Metcalfe | 8,871 | 15.1 | +4.1 | |
Green | Robert A. Gibson | 610 | 1.0 | New | |
Natural Law | Ian Docker | 129 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 18,449 | 31.4 | ―0.2 | ||
Turnout | 58,777 | 79.7 | +2.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―0.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Maclean | 33,148 | 60.3 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | David Ivison | 15,782 | 28.7 | +0.8 | |
Labour | John Hutton | 6,075 | 11.0 | ―2.3 | |
Majority | 17,366 | 31.6 | +1.5 | ||
Turnout | 55,005 | 77.5 | +4.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Maclean | 17,530 | 46.0 | ―12.8 | |
Liberal | Michael Young | 16,978 | 44.6 | +16.7 | |
Labour | Lindsay Williams | 2,834 | 7.4 | ―5.9 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 412 | 1.1 | New | |
Retired Naval Officer | Eric Morgan | 150 | 0.4 | New | |
Death off Roads: Freight on Rail | Helen Anscomb | 72 | 0.2 | New | |
Independent Socialist | John Connell | 69 | 0.2 | New | |
New Britain | Peter Smith | 35 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 552 | 1.4 | ―28.5 | ||
Turnout | 38,080 | 55.9 | ―17.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ―14.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Whitelaw | 29,304 | 58.8 | ―2.4 | |
Liberal | Michael Young | 13,883 | 27.9 | +11.4 | |
Labour | Lindsay Williams | 6,612 | 13.3 | ―9.1 | |
Majority | 15,421 | 30.9 | ―8.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,799 | 73.1 | ―3.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Whitelaw | 26,940 | 61.2 | ||
Labour | L.R. West | 9,844 | 22.4 | ||
Liberal | B. Wates | 7,257 | 16.5 | ||
Majority | 17,096 | 38.8 | |||
Turnout | 44,041 | 77.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Whitelaw | 23,547 | 58.06 | ||
Labour | Joseph Norman David Weedall | 9,791 | 24.14 | ||
Liberal | Joseph Pease | 7,215 | 17.79 | ||
Majority | 13,756 | 33.92 | |||
Turnout | 40,553 | 72.93 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Whitelaw | 26,433 | 60.12 | ||
Labour | Joseph Norman David Weedall | 9,095 | 20.69 | ||
Liberal | Peter Alexander | 8,202 | 18.66 | ||
Independent | William Hesmondalgh | 235 | 0.53 | New | |
Majority | 17,338 | 39.43 | |||
Turnout | 43,965 | 79.79 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Whitelaw | 23,800 | 58.95 | ||
Labour | R. Longworth | 10,256 | 25.40 | ||
Liberal | William Jackson | 6,316 | 15.64 | ||
Majority | 13,544 | 33.55 | |||
Turnout | 40,372 | 74.39 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Whitelaw | 20,982 | 52.69 | ||
Labour | Kate M.A. Roberts | 12,081 | 30.34 | ||
Liberal | John R. Howe | 6,757 | 16.97 | ||
Majority | 8,901 | 22.35 | |||
Turnout | 39,820 | 78.66 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Whitelaw | 21,288 | 51.78 | ||
Labour | Kate M.A. Roberts | 10,490 | 25.59 | ||
Liberal | William Jackson | 9,279 | 22.63 | ||
Majority | 10,738 | 26.19 | |||
Turnout | 41,057 | 80.64 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Whitelaw | 23,551 | 58.2 | +0.7 | |
Labour | Bernard P. Atha | 9,342 | 23.1 | +0.1 | |
Liberal | Brian G. Ashmore | 7,602 | 18.8 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 14,209 | 35.1 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 40,495 | 79.1 | +1.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Whitelaw | 22,791 | 57.52 | ||
Labour Co-op | Thomas L MacDonald | 9,119 | 23.02 | ||
Liberal | Frederick James Sleath | 7,342 | 18.53 | ||
Ind. Conservative | William Brownrigg | 368 | 0.93 | ||
Majority | 13,672 | 34.50 | |||
Turnout | 39,620 | 77.88 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Scott | 23,274 | 54.07 | ||
Labour | John Rafferty | 10,759 | 24.99 | ||
Liberal | Stafford Vaughan Stepney Howard | 8,857 | 20.57 | ||
Ind. Conservative | William Brownrigg | 158 | 0.37 | New | |
Majority | 12,515 | 29.08 | |||
Turnout | 43,048 | 83.47 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Donald Scott | 21,214 | 48.23 | ||
Liberal | Wilfrid Roberts | 12,333 | 28.04 | ||
Labour | C.J. Taylor | 10,441 | 23.74 | ||
Majority | 8,881 | 20.19 | |||
Turnout | 43,988 | 85.26 | |||
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