North Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North Herefordshire
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of North Herefordshire in Herefordshire
Location of Herefordshire within England
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]}

Members of Parliament

Election		Member [2]	Party
	2010	Bill Wiggin	Conservative
2010		constituency replaced Leominster

Constituency profile

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]

Boundaries

Map of current boundaries

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]

• Backbury, Bircher, Bringsty, Bromyard, Burghill, Holmer and Lyde, Castle, Credenhill, Frome, Golden Cross with Weobley, Hagley, Hampton Court, Hope End, Kington Town, Ledbury, Leominster North, Leominster South, Mortimer, Old Gore, Pembridge and Lyonshall with Titley, Sutton Walls, Upton, Wormsley Ridge.

The village of Weobley (listed above) was a former borough constituency that was abolished as a 'rotten borough' in 1832.

Proposed

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 District of Herefordshire wards of: Arrow; Backbury; Bircher; Bishops Frome & Cradley; Bromyard Bringsty; Bromyard West; Castle; Credenhill; Hagley; Hampton; Holmer; Hope End; Kington; Ledbury North; Ledbury South; Ledbury West; Leominster East; Leominster North & Rural; Leominster South; Leominster West; Mortimer; Old Gore; Queenswood; Sutton Walls; Three Crosses; Weobley. ^[6]

The seat will be unchanged, except to align the boundaries with those of the revised local authority wards.

History

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]

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Next general election: North Herefordshire

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Ellie Chowns [8]
	Reform UK	Andrew Dye [9]
	Liberal Democrats	Cat Hornsey [10]
	Conservative	Bill Wiggin [11]
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: North Herefordshire ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

General election 2017: North Herefordshire. ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

General election 2015: North Herefordshire ^{[14] [15]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

General election 2010: North Herefordshire ^{[16] [17]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Notes

1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
2. As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

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2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2)
3. Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
4. "Local statistics - Office for National Statistics". www.ons.gov.uk.
5. Fifth periodical report – Volume 4 Mapping for the Non-Metropolitan Counties and the Unitary Authorities, The Stationery Office, 26 February 2007, ISBN   978-0-10-170322-2
6. "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 8 West Midlands region.
7. "Final recommendations for Parliamentary constituencies in the county of Herefordshire". Boundary Commission for England. 7 January 2004. Archived from the original on 2 November 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
8. "Full list of all Green Party candidates at the next general election". Bright Green. 17 September 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
9. "North Herefordshire Constituency". Reform UK . Retrieved 7 March 2024.
10. "Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidates". Mark Pack . Retrieved 7 March 2024.
11. "NEWS | Sir Bill Wiggin to stand for North Herefordshire at forthcoming election after being re-selected by the North Herefordshire Conservatives". Your Herefordshire. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
12. "Herefordshire North Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 13 December 2019.
13. "2017 general election candidates for Herefordshire confirmed". Worcester News. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
14. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
15. "Herefordshire North parliamentary constituency - Election 2017" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
16. "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
17. "Six candidates to stand in North Herefordshire parliamentary election". Herefordshire Council. 21 April 2010. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2010.

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