Corby and East Northamptonshire | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Northamptonshire |
Electorate | 81,941 (2018) [1] |
Major settlements | Corby, Irthlingborough, Raunds, Thrapston and Oundle |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2023 |
Member of Parliament | Tom Pursglove (Conservative) |
Created from | Kettering and Wellingborough |
Corby and East Northamptonshire is a constituency [n 1] in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since May 2015 by Tom Pursglove of the Conservative Party. [n 2]
Prior to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the constituency was known as Corby. The 2024 general election will be the first general election that the 'Corby and East Northamptonshire' constituency will be contested following the boundary changes of 2023. [2]
From 1918 - 1974, the village and later New Town of Corby was part of the Peterborough constituency, a constituency that at that time consisted of the City and Soke of Peterborough, Corby, Oundle and Thrapston [3] . New boundary changes set in 1971 saw Corby transferred to the Kettering constituency for the next general election; Corby remained part of the Kettering constituency until 1983. The Parliamentary seat of 'Corby' was created due to population increases in the county for the 1983 general election. Since creation it has been a marginal seat alternating between Labour and the Conservative representatives with marginal majorities relative to national averages on all but two occasions, the 1997 Labour landslide and the 2012 by-election. The first Member of Parliament elected for the constituency in 1983 was William Powell, who represented the Conservatives for three sessions of Parliament until 1997. Labour then held the seat until 2010. On 6 August 2012, MP for the seat since 2010 Louise Mensch (formerly Louise Bagshawe) announced she was resigning, triggering a by-election held on 15 November 2012. Labour's Andy Sawford won, becoming the first Labour MP for the seat since Phil Hope was defeated in 2010, and only the second in the seat's history. This was Labour's first by-election win from a Conservative since the 1997 Wirral South by-election. At the 2015 general election Tom Pursglove standing for the Conservatives won with a small majority. He won again with a similar margin in 2017 and in 2019 Tom Pursglove took the seat for the third time, but with a majority of over 10,000, turning Corby into a non-marginal seat by Conservative Party standards.
1983–2010: The District of Corby, and the District of East Northamptonshire wards of Barnwell, Brigstock, Drayton, Forest, Irthlingborough, King's Cliffe, Lower Nene, Margaret Beaufort, Oundle, Raunds, Ringstead, Stanwick, Thrapston, Willibrook, and Woodford.
2010–2021: The Borough of Corby, and the District of East Northamptonshire wards of Barnwell, Dryden, Fineshade, Irthlingborough, King's Forest, Lower Nene, Lyveden, Oundle, Prebendal, Raunds Saxon, Raunds Windmill, Ringstead, Stanwick, Thrapston, and Woodford.
2021–2024: With effect from 1 April 2021, the Borough of Corby and the District of East Northamptonshire were abolished and absorbed into the new unitary authority of North Northamptonshire. [4] From that date, the constituency comprised the District of North Northamptonshire wards of Corby Rural, Corby West, Irthlingborough, Kingswood, Lloyds, Oakley, Oundle, Raunds and Thrapston.
The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the seats of Kettering and Wellingborough. It is named after the town of Corby in Northamptonshire, and also covers much of the local government district of East Northamptonshire, but excluding Rushden and Higham Ferrers which are in the Wellingborough constituency. The seat is a highly marginal contest between the Tories and Labour, with Labour's vote strongest in the town of Corby itself, against the solidly Conservative rural areas of East Northamptonshire. [5]
The constituency was sometimes informally called "Corby and East Northamptonshire", [6] but the 2007 Parliamentary Constituencies Order [7] and Whitaker's Almanack both make it clear that, until 2024, its official name was "Corby".
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency is as follows (as they existed on 1 April 2021):
Parts of the Corby Rural and Irthlingborough wards were transferred to Kettering, and Wellinborough and Rushden respectively.
Election | Member [9] | Party | |
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1983 | William Powell | Conservative | |
1997 | Phil Hope | Labour | |
2010 | Louise Bagshawe | Conservative | |
2012 by-election | Andy Sawford | Labour | |
2015 | Tom Pursglove | Conservative | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Lee Barron [10] | ||||
Green | Lee Forster [11] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Chris Lofts [12] | ||||
Reform UK | Edward McDonald [13] | ||||
Workers Party | Callan Page [14] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tom Pursglove | 33,410 | 55.2 | +6.0 | |
Labour | Beth Miller | 23,142 | 38.3 | -6.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Stanbra | 3,923 | 6.5 | +3.9 | |
Majority | 10,268 | 16.9 | +12.4 | ||
Turnout | 60,475 | 70.2 | -2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +6.25 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tom Pursglove | 29,534 | 49.2 | +6.4 | |
Labour | Beth Miller | 26,844 | 44.7 | +6.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Stanbra | 1,545 | 2.6 | 0.0 | |
UKIP | Sam Watts | 1,495 | 2.5 | −11.2 | |
Green | Steven Scrutton | 579 | 1.0 | −1.4 | |
Majority | 2,690 | 4.5 | +0.2 | ||
Turnout | 59,637 | 72.8 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tom Pursglove | 24,023 | 42.8 | +0.6 | |
Labour Co-op | Andy Sawford | 21,611 | 38.5 | -0.1 | |
UKIP | Margot Parker | 7,708 | 13.7 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Harris | 1,458 | 2.6 | -11.9 | |
Green | Jonathan Hornett | 1,374 | 2.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,412 | 4.3 | +0.7 | ||
Turnout | 56,174 | 70.4 | +1.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Andy Sawford | 17,267 | 48.4 | +9.8 | |
Conservative | Christine Emmett | 9,476 | 26.6 | −15.6 | |
UKIP | Margot Parker | 5,108 | 14.3 | New | |
Liberal Democrats | Jill Hope | 1,770 | 5.0 | −9.5 | |
BNP | Gordon Riddell | 614 | 1.7 | −3.0 | |
English Democrat | David Wickham | 432 | 1.2 | New | |
Green | Jonathan Hornett | 378 | 1.1 | New | |
Independent | Ian Gillman | 212 | 0.6 | New | |
Cannabis Law Reform | Peter Reynolds | 137 | 0.4 | New | |
Elvis Loves Pets | David Bishop | 99 | 0.3 | New | |
Independent | Mr Mozzarella | 73 | 0.2 | New | |
Young People's Party | Rohen Kapur | 39 | 0.1 | New | |
Democracy 2015 | Adam Lotun | 35 | 0.1 | New | |
United People's Party | Christopher Scotton | 25 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 7,791 | 21.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 35,665 | 44.8 | -24.4 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative | Swing | +12.57 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Louise Bagshawe | 22,886 | 42.2 | +2.3 | |
Labour Co-op | Phil Hope | 20,935 | 38.6 | −4.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Portia Wilson | 7,834 | 14.5 | +1.7 | |
BNP | Roy Davies | 2,525 | 4.7 | New | |
Majority | 1,951 | 3.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 54,180 | 69.2 | +3.6 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour Co-op | Swing | +3.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Phil Hope | 20,913 | 43.1 | −6.2 | |
Conservative | Andrew Griffith | 19,396 | 40.0 | +2.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Radcliffe | 6,184 | 12.7 | +2.6 | |
UKIP | Ian Gillman | 1,278 | 2.6 | +0.8 | |
Socialist Labour | Steven Carey | 499 | 1.0 | −0.6 | |
Independent | John Morris | 257 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 1,517 | 3.1 | -9.0 | ||
Turnout | 48,527 | 65.6 | +0.6 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | -4.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Phil Hope | 23,283 | 49.3 | −6.1 | |
Conservative | Andrew Griffith | 17,583 | 37.2 | +3.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kevin Scudder | 4,751 | 10.1 | +2.6 | |
UKIP | Ian Gillman | 855 | 1.8 | +0.9 | |
Socialist Labour | Andrew Dickson | 750 | 1.6 | New | |
Majority | 5,700 | 12.1 | -9.9 | ||
Turnout | 47,222 | 65.0 | −12.9 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | -5.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Phil Hope | 29,888 | 55.4 | +11.5 | |
Conservative | William Powell | 18,028 | 33.4 | −11.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Hankison | 4,045 | 7.5 | −2.7 | |
Referendum | Sebastian Riley-Smith | 1,356 | 2.5 | New | |
UKIP | Ian Gillman | 507 | 0.9 | New | |
Natural Law | Jane Bence | 133 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 11,860 | 22.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 53,957 | 77.9 | −5.0 | ||
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative | Swing | +11.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Powell | 25,203 | 44.5 | +0.2 | |
Labour | Harry Feather | 24,861 | 43.9 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Melvyn Roffe | 5,792 | 10.2 | −4.6 | |
Liberal | Judith I. Wood | 784 | 1.4 | New | |
Majority | 342 | 0.6 | −2.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,640 | 82.9 | +3.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Powell | 23,323 | 44.3 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Harry Feather | 21,518 | 40.9 | +4.8 | |
Liberal | Terrence Whittington | 7,805 | 14.8 | −5.5 | |
Majority | 1,805 | 3.4 | −3.1 | ||
Turnout | 52,646 | 79.6 | +2.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.5 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Powell | 20,827 | 42.6 | ||
Labour | William Homewood | 17,659 | 36.1 | ||
Liberal | Terrence Whittington | 9,905 | 20.3 | ||
Ecology | Rosy J. Stanning | 505 | 1.0 | ||
Majority | 3,168 | 6.5 | |||
Turnout | 48,896 | 77.5 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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