Gedling | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Nottinghamshire |
Electorate | 70,886 (December 2010) [1] |
Major settlements | Arnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick, Gedling village and Woodthorpe |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Tom Randall (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Carlton |
Gedling is a constituency in Nottinghamshire created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Tom Randall of the Conservative Party. [n 1] [n 2] The seat (and its predecessor, Carlton) was safely Conservative until the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1997, when it was won for Labour by Vernon Coaker. Labour held Gedling until 2019, when it was regained by the Conservative Party. [2]
1983–2010: The Borough of Gedling wards of Bonington, Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph, Carlton, Carlton Hill, Cavendish, Conway, Gedling, Killisick, Kingswell, Mapperley Plains, Netherfield, Oxclose, Phoenix, Porchester, Priory, St James, St Mary's, and Woodthorpe.
2010–2024: The Borough of Gedling wards of Bonington, Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph, Carlton, Carlton Hill, Daybrook, Gedling, Killisick, Kingswell, Mapperley Plains, Netherfield and Colwick, Phoenix, Porchester, St James, St Mary's, Valley, and Woodthorpe.
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 December 2020):
The seat gained some rural areas to the north, including the Dumbles ward, from the Sherwood constituency.
Gedling is a substantial part of Greater Nottingham covering the most populated parts of the borough of the same name; it has mainly affluent, middle-income north eastern suburbs of Nottingham that include Arnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick, Gedling village, Woodthorpe and Mapperley Plains.
The constituency of Gedling was created in 1983, replacing the earlier Carlton constituency. Until 1997, it only elected candidates from the Conservative Party. The seat was represented by the former Carlton MP Sir Philip Holland until 1987, then for ten years by Andrew Mitchell, son of former Conservative MP David Mitchell. The Labour Party gained the seat in their landslide victory at the 1997 general election. At that election, the junior minister lost to Labour's Vernon Coaker, who retained the seat until the 2019 election.
The 2010 and 2015 results set the seat as marginal: first and second place were separated by less than 7%. At the 2005 general election, the Conservative candidate Anna Soubry (who was elected MP for nearby Broxtowe in 2010) caused controversy by revealing that she "was not proud" of the record of the area she was vying to represent, referring to crime levels in Nottingham [4] — the subsequent swing from Labour to Conservative was only 2.1%, compared with the national swing of 3.1%. The 2015 result gave the seat the 29th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority. [5]
In 2015, UKIP fielded the other candidate to retain their deposit. The party's swing nationally was +9.5% in 2015, and reached 11.4% in Gedling. Liberal Democrat and Green Party candidates forfeited their deposits in 2015.
Turnout has varied from 82.3% of the vote in 1992 to 63.9% in 2001 and 2005.
Election | Member [6] | Party | |
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1983 | Sir Philip Holland | Conservative | |
1987 | Andrew Mitchell | Conservative | |
1997 | Vernon Coaker | Labour | |
2019 | Tom Randall | Conservative | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tom Randall [7] | ||||
Labour | Michael Payne [8] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Tad Jones [9] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Swing | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tom Randall | 22,718 | 45.5 | +2.7 | |
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 22,039 | 44.1 | −7.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anita Prabhakar | 2,279 | 4.6 | +2.6 | |
Brexit Party | Graham Hunt | 1,820 | 3.6 | New | |
Green | Jim Norris | 1,097 | 2.2 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 679 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,953 | 69.9 | -2.6 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +5.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Vernon Coaker | 26,833 | 51.9 | +9.6 | |
Conservative | Carolyn Abbott | 22,139 | 42.8 | +6.7 | |
UKIP | Lee Waters | 1,143 | 2.2 | −12.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Swift | 1,052 | 2.0 | −2.0 | |
Green | Rebecca Connick | 515 | 1.0 | −2.2 | |
Majority | 4,694 | 9.1 | +2.9 | ||
Turnout | 51,682 | 72.5 | +4.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Vernon Coaker | 20,307 | 42.3 | +1.2 | |
Conservative | Carolyn Abbott | 17,321 | 36.1 | −1.2 | |
UKIP | Lee Waters | 6,930 | 14.4 | +11.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Swift | 1,906 | 4.0 | −11.3 | |
Green | Jim Norris | 1,534 | 3.2 | New | |
Majority | 2,986 | 6.2 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 47,998 | 68.5 | +0.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 19,821 | 41.1 | −5.5 | |
Conservative | Bruce Laughton | 17,962 | 37.3 | +0.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Julia Bateman | 7,350 | 15.3 | +1.5 | |
BNP | Stephen Adcock | 1,598 | 3.3 | New | |
UKIP | David Marshall | 1,459 | 3.0 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 1,859 | 3.8 | -5.8 | ||
Turnout | 48,190 | 67.9 | +4.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.9 | |||
Because of boundary changes, vote shares in 2010 are compared to notional results from 2005.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Vernon Coaker | 20,329 | 46.1 | −5.0 | |
Conservative | Anna Soubry | 16,518 | 37.5 | −0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Raymond Poynter | 6,070 | 13.8 | +3.2 | |
UKIP | Alan Margerison | 741 | 1.7 | New | |
Veritas | Deborah Johnson | 411 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 3,811 | 8.6 | -4.2 | ||
Turnout | 44,069 | 63.9 | 0.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Vernon Coaker | 22,383 | 51.1 | +4.3 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Bullock | 16,785 | 38.3 | −1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tony Gillam | 4,648 | 10.6 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 5,598 | 12.8 | +5.5 | ||
Turnout | 43,816 | 63.9 | −11.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.7 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Vernon Coaker | 24,390 | 46.8 | +12.4 | |
Conservative | Andrew Mitchell | 20,588 | 39.5 | −13.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Raymond Poynter | 5,180 | 9.9 | −2.2 | |
Referendum | John Connor | 2,006 | 3.9 | New | |
Majority | 3,802 | 7.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 52,164 | 75.7 | -6.6 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +13.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrew Mitchell | 30,191 | 53.2 | −1.3 | |
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 19,554 | 34.4 | +10.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | DG George | 6,863 | 12.1 | −9.5 | |
Natural Law | AKL Miszeweka | 168 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 10,637 | 18.8 | −11.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,776 | 82.3 | +3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andrew Mitchell | 29,492 | 54.5 | +0.4 | |
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 12,953 | 23.9 | +3.3 | |
SDP | David Morton | 11,684 | 21.6 | -3.4 | |
Majority | 16,539 | 30.6 | +1.5 | ||
Turnout | 54,129 | 79.1 | +3.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Philip Holland | 27,207 | 54.1 | ||
SDP | Adrian Berkeley | 12,543 | 25.0 | ||
Labour | John Peck | 10,330 | 20.6 | ||
Independent | J Szatter | 186 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 14,664 | 29.1 | |||
Turnout | 50,080 | 75.4 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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