Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency)

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Newcastle-under-Lyme
Borough constituency

Newcastle-under-Lyme shown within Staffordshire, and Staffordshire shown within England
Created: 1354
MP: Paul Farrelly
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: Staffordshire
EP constituency: West Midlands

Newcastle-under-Lyme is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

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[edit] History

From its creation in 1354, Newcastle-under-Lyme returned two MPs to the House of Commons. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the constituency's representation was reduced to one member.

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency includes most of the northerly parts of Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, primarily Newcastle-under-Lyme town plus Keele and Audley.

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1885

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Year 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1660 John Bowyer Samuel Terrick
1661 Sir Caesar Colclough Edward Mainwaring
1675 William Leveson-Gower
1679 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
1685 Edward Mainwaring William Sneyd
1689 Sir William Leveson-Gower John Lawton
1690 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
1692 Sir John Leveson-Gower, later 1st Lord Gower
1695 John Lawton
1698 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
1699 Sir Rowland Cotton
1702 John Crewe Offley
1705 Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
1706 Crewe Offley John Lawton
1710 William Burslem Rowland Cotton
Jan 1715 Henry Vernon
1715 Sir Brian Broughton Crewe Offley
1722 Thomas Leveson-Gower
1724 Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot
1727 Baptist Leveson-Gower John Ward
1734 John Lawton II
1740 Randle Wilbraham
1747 Viscount Parker
1754 John Waldegrave
1761 Henry Vernon II
1762 Sir Lawrence Dundas
1763 Thomas Gilbert
Mar 1768 John Wrottesley, later 8th Bt Alexander Forrester
1768 George Hay
1774 George Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton
1779 George Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham
1780 Sir Archibald Macdonald
1784 Richard Vernon
1790 John Leveson-Gower
1792 William Egerton
1793 Sir Francis Ford
1796 Edward Wilbraham Bootle
1802 Sir Robert Lawley
1806 James Macdonald
1812 Earl Gower Sir John Boughey
1815 Sir John Chetwode
1818 William Shepherd Kinnersley Robert John Wilmot
1823 John Denison
1826 Richardson Borradaile
1830 William Henry Miller
1831 Edmund Peel
1832 Sir Henry Willoughby
1835 Edmund Peel
1837 Spencer Horsey de Horsey
1841 Edmund Buckley John Quincey Harris
1842 John Campbell Colquhoun
1847 Samuel Christy William Jackson
1859 William Murray
1865 William Shepherd Allen Sir Edmund Buckley
1878 Samuel Rathbone Edge
1880 Charles Donaldson-Hudson
1885 representation reduced to one member

[edit] MPs 1885-present

Election Member Party
1885 William Shepherd Allen
1886 Douglas Harry Coghill
1892 William Allen
1900 Sir Alfred Seale Haslam
1906 Josiah Wedgwood Liberal
1918 Independent
1922 Labour
1942 John Mack Labour
1951 Stephen Swingler Labour
1969 John Golding Labour
1986 Llin Golding Labour
2001 Paul Farrelly Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Newcastle-under-Lyme
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paul Farrelly 18,053 45.4 -8.0
Conservative Jeremy Lefroy 9,945 25.0 -2.6
Liberal Democrat Trevor Johnson 7,528 18.9 +3.4
UK Independence David Nixon 1,436 3.6 +2.1
British National Party John Dawson 1,390 3.5 +3.5
Green Prof Andrew Dobson 918 2.3 +2.3
Veritas Marian Harvey-Lover 518 1.3 +1.3
Majority 8,108 20.4 -5.4
Turnout 39,788 61.6 +2.8
Labour hold Swing -2.7
General Election 2001: Newcastle-under-Lyme
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Paul Farrelly 20,650 53.4 -3.1
Conservative Michael Flynn 10,664 27.6 +6.1
Liberal Democrat Jerry Roodhouse 5,993 15.5 +1.5
Independent (politician) Robert Fyson 773 2.0 N/A
UK Independence Paul Godfrey 594 1.5 N/A
Majority 9,986 25.8
Turnout 38,674 58.8 -14.8
Labour hold Swing -4.6%

[edit] See also

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Constituencies in the West Midlands
Labour
Birmingham Edgbaston • Birmingham, Erdington • Birmingham Hall Green • Birmingham Hodge Hill • Birmingham Northfield • Birmingham Perry Barr • Birmingham Selly Oak • Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath • Burton • Cannock Chase • Coventry North East • Coventry North West • Coventry South • Dudley North • Dudley South • Halesowen and Rowley Regis • Newcastle-under-Lyme • North Warwickshire • Nuneaton • Redditch • Stafford • Staffordshire Moorlands • Stoke-on-Trent Central • Stoke-on-Trent North • Stoke-on-Trent South • Stourbridge • Tamworth • Telford • Walsall North • Walsall South • Warley • Warwick and Leamington • West Bromwich East • West Bromwich West • Wolverhampton North East • Wolverhampton South East • Wolverhampton South West • Worcester
Conservative
Liberal Democrat
Health Concern
Independent
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) • Labour (2) • UKIP (1) • Liberal Democrats (1)
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