The ceremonial county of Shropshire, England (which comprises the local/unitary authorities of Shropshire Council and Telford and Wrekin), is divided into 5 parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 4 county constituencies. As with all constituencies for the House of Commons in the modern age, each constituency elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system.
Constituencies
[edit]Conservative † Liberal Democrat ¤ Labour ‡
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate | Majority[nb 2] | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | Map | ||
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North Shropshire CC | 77,573 | 15,311 | Helen Morgan ¤ | Simon Baynes † | ![]() | ||
Shrewsbury CC | 76,599 | 11,355 | Julia Buckley ‡ | Daniel Kawczynski † | ![]() | ||
South Shropshire CC | 76,723 | 1,624 | Stuart Anderson † | Matthew Green ¤ | ![]() | ||
Telford BC | 73,808 | 8,102 | Shaun Davies ‡ | Alan Adams (Reform UK) |
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The Wrekin CC | 78,942 | 883 | Mark Pritchard † | Roh Yakobi ‡ | ![]() |
2010 boundary changes
[edit]Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the 5 constituencies in Shropshire for the 2010 election, making only small changes to the boundary between Telford and The Wrekin to align with current local government wards.
Name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Boundaries 2010-present |
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Proposed boundary changes
[edit]See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[1] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission has proposed retaining the current five constituencies in Shropshire, with minor boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries and to bring constituencies within the statutory range. It is proposed that Shrewsbury and Atcham reverts to its original name of Shrewsbury, while Ludlow is renamed South Shropshire.[2]
Results history
[edit]Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[3]
2024
[edit]The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Shropshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
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Labour | 66,943 | 27.5% | ![]() |
2 | ![]() |
Conservative | 65,156 | 26.8% | ![]() |
2 | ![]() |
Liberal Democrats | 55,257 | 22.7% | ![]() |
1 | ![]() |
Reform UK | 44,412 | 18.2% | new | 5 | 0 |
Greens | 10,680 | 4.4% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Others | 1,109 | 0.5% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Total | 243,557 | 100.0 | 5 |
2019
[edit]The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Shropshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
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Conservative | 155,225 | 60.3% | ![]() |
5 | 0 |
Labour | 66,798 | 25.9% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 26,827 | 10.4% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Greens | 6,955 | 2.7% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Others | 1,713 | 0.7% | ![]() |
0 | 0 |
Total | 257,518 | 100.0 | 5 |
Percentage votes
[edit]Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
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1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Conservative1 | 54.7 | 57.3 | 59.3 | 55.6 | 47.9 | 49.3 | 52.4 | 43.1 | 43.0 | 49.6 | 49.0 | 48.2 | 46.3 | 37.2 | 39.1 | 41.8 | 46.8 | 48.3 | 55.6 | 60.3 | 26.8 |
Labour | 41.2 | 42.7 | 40.7 | 36.2 | 34.1 | 42.7 | 36.0 | 31.1 | 33.2 | 29.1 | 21.3 | 25.4 | 30.7 | 39.7 | 38.2 | 30.8 | 21.6 | 24.4 | 35.2 | 25.9 | 27.5 |
Liberal Democrat2 | 4.1 | - | - | 8.2 | 18.0 | 8.0 | 11.7 | 25.8 | 23.8 | 21.0 | 29.7 | 26.0 | 22.0 | 20.5 | 18.6 | 23.0 | 23.5 | 7.0 | 5.8 | 10.4 | 22.7 |
Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.8 | 4.0 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 4.4 |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 4.4 | 16.3 | 1.2 | * | - |
Reform UK | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18.2 |
Other | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.0 | - | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 – Liberal; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
[edit]Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
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1974
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1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Conservative1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
Labour | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Liberal Democrat2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 – Liberal; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
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Historical constituencies
[edit]Timeline of parliamentary constituencies in the county, with historical (green) and extant (pink) constituencies.
Constituency | 1290-1295 | 1295-1473 | 1473-1584 | 1584-1832 | 1832-1885 | 1885-1918 | 1918-1983 | 1983-1997 | 1997–present |
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Bishop's Castle | 1584-1832 | ||||||||
Bridgnorth | 1295-1885 | ||||||||
Ludlow | 1473–present | ||||||||
Newport | 1885-1918 | ||||||||
North Shropshire | 1832-1885 | 1983–present | |||||||
Oswestry | 1885-1983 | ||||||||
Shrewsbury | 1290-1983 | ||||||||
Shrewsbury and Atcham | 1983–present | ||||||||
Shropshire | 1290-1832 | ||||||||
South Shropshire | 1832-1885 | ||||||||
Telford | 1997–present | ||||||||
Wellington | 1885-1918 | ||||||||
(Much) Wenlock | 1290-1885 | ||||||||
The Wrekin | 1918–present |
Historical representation by party
[edit]A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
1885 to 1918
[edit]Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist National Party
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 01 | 03 | 04 | 1906 | 08 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 18 |
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Ludlow | More | → | Hunt | → | → | → | |||||||||||
Newport | Bickersteth | → | Kenyon-Slaney | Stanier | |||||||||||||
Oswestry | Leighton | Ormsby-Gore | Bright | Bridgeman | |||||||||||||
Shrewsbury | Watson | Greene | Hill | Lloyd | |||||||||||||
Wellington (Salop) | Brown | → | Henry |
1918 to 1945
[edit]Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Conservative Labour Liberal
Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 1922 | 23 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 41 |
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Ludlow | Stanier | I. Windsor-Clive | G. Windsor-Clive | |||||||||
Oswestry | Bridgeman | Leighton | ||||||||||
Shrewsbury | Lloyd | Ryder | Sunlight | Ryder | Duckworth | |||||||
The Wrekin | Henry | Palmer | Townshend | Button | Nixon | Oakley | Picton-Turbervill | Baldwin-Webb | Colegate |
1945 to 1983
[edit]Constituency | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 60 | 61 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
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Ludlow | Corbett | Holland-Martin | More | Cockeram | |||||||||
Oswestry | Poole | Ormsby-Gore | Biffen | ||||||||||
Shrewsbury | Langford-Holt | ||||||||||||
The Wrekin | Thomas | Yates | Fowler | Trafford | Fowler | Hawksley |
1983 to present
[edit]Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 01 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 21 | 24 | 2024 |
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Ludlow / South Shropshire (2024) | Cockeram | Gill | Green | Dunne | Anderson | |||||||||
North Shropshire | Biffen | Paterson | Morgan | |||||||||||
Shrewsbury and Atcham / Shrewsbury (2024) | Conway | Marsden | → | Kawczynski | Buckley | |||||||||
The Wrekin | Hawksley | Grocott | Bradley | Pritchard | ||||||||||
Telford | Grocott | Wright | Allan | → | Davies |
See also
[edit]- List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (region)
- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
- Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Shropshire
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 1258-1270. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".