Milton Keynes North (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 52°03′43″N 0°43′01″W / 52.062°N 0.717°W
Milton Keynes North | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Milton Keynes North in Buckinghamshire. | |
Location of Buckinghamshire within England. | |
County | Buckinghamshire |
Electorate | 81,226 (March 2011)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of parliament | Mark Lancaster (Conservative) |
Created from | North East Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes South West |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South East England |
Milton Keynes North is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Mark Lancaster, a Conservative.[n 2]
History
This constituency (and its counterpart, Milton Keynes South), came into being when the two Milton Keynes constituencies (Milton Keynes North East and Milton Keynes South West) were reconfigured following the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies with the aim of equalising the electorate as between the constituencies in the light of population growth that had occurred mainly in the Milton Keynes Urban Area. This constituency is the more rural of the two.
Mark Lancaster, who had been the incumbent for Milton Keynes North East, won the new constituency for the Conservatives in the 2010 general election and retained it in the 2015 general election.
Boundaries
The constituency takes up the majority of the area of the Borough of Milton Keynes and is one of the borough's two constituencies. Milton Keynes North has a larger rural area; the other, Milton Keynes South, covers a smaller area and is more urban.[2]
This seat has part or all of several Council electoral wards:
- Bradwell
- Broughton
- Central Milton Keynes
- Campbell Park & Old Woughton
- Monkston
- Newport Pagnell & Hanslope
- Newport Pagnell South
- Olney
- Stantonbury
- Wolverton
(Ward boundaries revised 2013).[3] The Borough ward boundaries do not necessarily coincide with the town and parish council areas.
Of these wards, Newport Pagnell North & Hanslope and Olney are more rural. The remainder are more urban.[3] Each ward returns three Councillors so their electorates are broadly equal.
Demographics
Milton Keynes North has a higher average income,[4] less social housing and less rented housing than the national average.[5]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[6] | Party | |
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2010 | Mark Lancaster | Conservative | |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Mark Lancaster | 30,307 | 47.5 | ||
Labour | Charlynne Pullen | 28,392 | 44.5 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Imogen Shepherd-Dubey | 2,499 | 3.9 | ||
UKIP | Jeff Wyatt | 1,390 | 2.2 | ||
Green | Alan Francis | 1,107 | 1.7 | ||
Christian Peoples | Venetia Sams | 169 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 1,915 | 3.0 | |||
Turnout | 64,044 | 71.79 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Mark Lancaster | 27,244 | 47.2 | +3.8 | |
Labour | Emily Darlington | 17,491 | 30.3 | +3.5 | |
UKIP | David Reilly | 6,852 | 11.9 | +8.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Paul Graham | 3,575 | 6.2 | -15.9 | |
Green | Jennifer Marklew | 2,255 | 3.9 | +2.5 | |
TUSC | Katie Simpson | 163 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Independent | David Mortimer | 112 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 9,753 | 16.9 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 57,692 | 66.4 | +0.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.15 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Mark Lancaster[11] | 23,419 | 43.5 | +7.3 | |
Labour Co-op | Andrew Pakes | 14,458 | 26.8 | −11.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Jill Hope | 11,894 | 22.1 | +1.4 | |
UKIP | Michael Phillips | 1,771 | 3.3 | +0.5 | |
BNP | Richard Hamilton | 1,154 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Green | Alan Francis | 733 | 1.4 | −0.8 | |
Christian Peoples | John Lennon | 206 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Monster Raving Loony | Matt "Bananamatt" Fensome | 157 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Anant Vyas | 95 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,961 | 16.6 | +18.3 | ||
Turnout | 54,292 | 65.8 | +2.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.2 |
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ 2010 post-revision map non-metropolitan areas and unitary authorities of England Archived 14 July 2013 at WebCite
- 1 2 Ward map (PDF) Archived 11 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Borough of Milton Keynes 2013
- ↑ "Local statistics - Office for National Statistics". neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk.
- ↑ 2011 census interactive maps Archived 29 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)
- ↑ "MK North Election results 2017". BBC. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ "Parliamentary 2015 - Milton Keynes Council". www.milton-keynes.gov.uk.
- ↑ "Milton Keynes Council – General Election results, Milton Keynes North, 2010". Archived from the original on 7 March 2012.
- ↑ Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament in the predecessor constituency of North East Milton Keynes