Telford | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Shropshire |
Electorate | 65,938 (December 2010) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Lucy Allan (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | The Wrekin |
Telford is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since May 2015 by Lucy Allan, a Conservative, who defeated David Wright, the former Labour Party MP for the seat. [n 2]
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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1997 | Bruce Grocott | Labour | |
2001 | David Wright | Labour | |
2015 | Lucy Allan | Conservative |
The constituency is generally urban and covers Telford New Town. There is a significant technology sector. [3] Residents are slightly poorer than the UK average. [4]
Telford is made up of several old industrial towns to the north of the River Severn and on the eastern flanks of the Wrekin (including Madeley, Dawley and the small townships in the Ironbridge Gorge) and numerous New Town developments including Woodside. However, not all of the Telford New Town developments are in the constituency; the northern parts and some western areas (including the town of Wellington) which pre-dates Telford, are in The Wrekin constituency.
All of the constituency is covered by Telford and Wrekin Council.
2010–present: The Borough of Telford and Wrekin wards of Brookside, Cuckoo Oak, Dawley Magna, Horsehay and Lightmoor, Ironbridge Gorge, Ketley and Oakengates, Lawley and Overdale, Madeley, Malinslee, Priorslee, St George's, The Nedge, Woodside, Wrockwardine Wood, and Trench.
1997–2010: The District of The Wrekin wards of Brookside, Cuckoo Oak, Dawley Magna, Hollinswood/Randlay, Ironbridge (The Gorge), Ketley Bank, Langley, Lawley, Madeley, Malinslee, Priorslee, Stirchley, Wombridge, Woodside, and Wrockwardine Wood.
Boundary changes to realign the constituency boundaries to fit with the borough's most recent ward revisions resulted in the addition of Ketley (from the constituency of The Wrekin) for the 2010 general election.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
Minor change to align the boundaries with those of revised wards and to bring the electorate within the permitted range.
Following a further local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, [6] [7] the constituency will now comprise the following wards of the Borough of Telford and Wrekin from the next general election:
Created from the more rural Wrekin constituency for the 1997 general election, Telford was continuously held by the Labour Party, with a change in candidate in 2001, until the 2015 general election when the Conservatives took the seat from David Wright. Bruce Grocott was its first-ever MP, serving for the first four years. In 2010 Wright's majority fell to a marginal figure of 981 votes, and he lost in 2015 by 730 votes [9] – one of the small number of Conservative gains from Labour in that election, which in turn helped to give the Conservatives an overall parliamentary majority. The seat was retained by Lucy Allan in 2017 with an almost identical majority of 720, and again by Ms Allan in December 2019 with a majority of 10,941, one of the most significant Conservative marginal seat holds in that election. [10]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | John Adams [11] | ||||
Conservative | Hannah Campbell [12] | ||||
Labour | Shaun Davies [13] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Lucy Allan | 25,546 | 59.7 | +11.0 | |
Labour | Katrina Gilman | 14,605 | 34.1 | –13.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Shana Roberts | 2,674 | 6.2 | +4.1 | |
Majority | 10,941 | 25.6 | +25.0 | ||
Turnout | 42,825 | 62.1 | –4.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +12.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Lucy Allan | 21,777 | 48.7 | +9.1 | |
Labour | Kuldip Sahota | 21,057 | 47.1 | +9.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Susan King | 954 | 2.1 | -0.2 | |
Green | Luke Shirley | 898 | 2.0 | –0.3 | |
Majority | 720 | 1.6 | –0.2 | ||
Turnout | 44,686 | 66.3 | +4.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | –0.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Lucy Allan | 16,094 | 39.6 | +3.3 | |
Labour | David Wright | 15,364 | 37.8 | –0.9 | |
UKIP | Denis Allen | 7,330 | 18.0 | +12.1 | |
Green | Peter Hawkins | 930 | 2.3 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Croll | 927 | 2.3 | –13.2 | |
Majority | 730 | 1.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40,645 | 61.4 | –2.1 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +2.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Wright | 15,974 | 38.7 | –9.5 | |
Conservative | Tom Biggins | 14,996 | 36.3 | +3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phillip Bennion | 6,399 | 15.5 | +1.4 | |
UKIP | Denis Allen | 2,428 | 5.9 | +1.2 | |
BNP | Phil Spencer | 1,513 | 3.7 | New | |
Majority | 978 | 2.4 | –13.4 | ||
Turnout | 41,313 | 63.5 | +4.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –6.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Wright | 16,506 | 48.3 | –6.3 | |
Conservative | Stella Kyriazis | 11,100 | 32.5 | +5.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Jenkins | 4,941 | 14.4 | +1.5 | |
UKIP | Tom McCartney | 1,659 | 4.9 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 5,406 | 15.8 | –11.4 | ||
Turnout | 34,206 | 57.7 | +5.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | –5.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | David Wright | 16,854 | 54.6 | –3.2 | |
Conservative | Andrew Henderson | 8,471 | 27.4 | 0.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sallyann Wiggin | 3,983 | 12.9 | +1.1 | |
UKIP | Nicola Brookes | 1,098 | 3.6 | New | |
Socialist Alliance | Michael Jeffries | 469 | 1.5 | New | |
Majority | 8,383 | 27.2 | –3.2 | ||
Turnout | 30,875 | 52.0 | –13.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Bruce Grocott | 21,456 | 57.8 | ||
Conservative | Bernard Gentry | 10,166 | 27.4 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Nathaniel Green | 4,371 | 11.8 | ||
Referendum | Christopher Morris | 1,119 | 3.0 | ||
Majority | 11,290 | 30.4 | |||
Turnout | 37,112 | 65.6 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
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