Newark (UK Parliament constituency)

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Newark County constituency
Newark shown within Nottinghamshire, and Nottinghamshire shown within England
Created:	1673
MP:	Patrick Mercer
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Nottinghamshire
EP constituency:	East Midlands

Newark is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since 1885, it has elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 History 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers large parts of the Newark and Sherwood district in the east of Nottinghamshire, including the towns of Newark-on-Trent and Southwell, and the villages of Collingham and Sutton-on-Trent. It also covers the south-east of the Bassetlaw district, including Retford and Markham Moor.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Nottinghamshire, the Boundary Commission for England have modified the existing Newark constituency to be fought at the next general election. The Newark constituency will lose the town of Retford to the Bassetlaw constituency (although it will still cover a smaller part of the Bassetlaw district), but will gain the area around Bingham from the Rushcliffe constituency.

The electoral wards used in the formation of this modified seat are:

• From the district of Bassetlaw - East Markham, Rampton, and Tuxford and Trent
• From the district of Newark and Sherwood - Balderton North, Balderton West, Beacon, Bridge, Castle, Caunton, Collingham and Meering, Devon, Farndon, Lowdham, Magnus, Muskham, Southwell East, Southwell North, Southwell West, Sutton-on-Trent, Trent and Winthorpe
• From the borough of Rushcliffe - Bingham East, Bingham West, Cranmer, Oak and Thoroton.

[edit] History

Newark was the last borough seat to be created in the Unreformed House of Commons in 1673, prior to the Reform Act of 1832. It returned two representatives to Parliament from 1673 until 1885. The future Prime Mininster, W.E. Gladstone, began his elected career as Member of Parliament for Newark from 1832 until 1845, later moving to other constituencies.

More recently, the Labour Party held Newark from 1950 until 1979, when it was taken by the Conservatives' Richard Alexander. Alexander lost his seat during Labour's landslide victory at the 1997 general election. The victorious Labour candidate, Fiona Jones, was convicted of electoral fraud and expelled from the House of Commons in 1999 over misrepresented election expenses. The conviction was later overturned upon appeal, and she returned to Parliament. However, Jones lost her seat at the 2001 general election to Patrick Mercer of the Conservatives, who has held it since.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election	MP	Party	MP	Party
1673	Henry Savile		Sir Paul Neile
1677			Sir Richard Rothwell
Feb 1679	Robert Leke		Sir Robert Markham
Aug 1679	Sir Richard Rothwell
1685	Henry Savile		Philip Darcy
1689	William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax		Nicholas Saunderson
1693			Sir Francis Molyneux
1695	Sir George Markham
1698	James Saunderson
1700			John Rayner
Jan 1701	Sir George Markham
Nov 1701	Sir Matthew Jenison		James Saunderson
1705	John Digby
1708	Richard Sutton
1710	Sir Thomas Willoughby		Richard Newdigate
1712	Richard Sutton
1715			Conyers Darcy
1722			James Pelham
1738	Lord William Manners
1741			Job Staunton Charlton
1754	John Manners
1761			Thomas Thoroton
1768			John Shelley
1774	George Manners-Sutton		Henry Clinton
1780	Lord George Manners-Sutton
1783	John Manners-Sutton
1784			Constantine John Phipps
1790			William Crosbie
1796	Thomas Manners-Sutton		Mark Wood
1802			Sir Charles Morice Pole
1805	Henry Willoughby
1806			Stapleton Cotton
1814			George Hay Dawkins-Pennant
1818			Sir William Henry Clinton
1829			Michael Thomas Sadler	Tory
Feb 1831	William Farnworth Handley
May 1831			Thomas Wilde
1832			William Ewart Gladstone	Liberal
1835	Thomas Wilde
1841	Lord John James Robert Manners
1846			John Stuart
1847	John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton	Conservative
1852			Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon
1857	Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton		John Handley
1859	Grosvenor Hodgkinson
1865			Lord Arthur Pelham-Clinton
1868			Edward Denison
1870			Samuel Boteler Bristow
1874	Thomas Earp
1880			William Newman Nicholson
1885	Representation reduced to one member
	Charles William Sydney Pierrepont	Conservative
1895	Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton	Conservative
1898	Charles William Sydney Pierrepont	Conservative
1900	Charles Glynne Earle Welby	Conservative
1906	John Ralph Starkey	Conservative
1922	William Cavendish-Bentinck	Conservative
1943	Sidney Shephard	Conservative
1950	George Deer	Labour
1964	Edward Stanley Bishop	Labour
1979	Richard Alexander	Conservative
1997	Fiona Jones	Labour
2001	Patrick Mercer	Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Newark
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Mercer	21,946	48.0	+1.5
	Labour	Jason Reece	15,482	33.9	−3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart Thompstone	7,276	15.9	+2.7
	UK Independence	Charlotte Creasy	992	2.2	N/A
Majority			6,464	14.1
Turnout			45,696	63.2	−0.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.6

General Election 2001: Newark
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patrick Mercer	20,983	46.5	+7.1
	Labour	Fiona Jones	16,910	37.5	-7.8
	Liberal Democrats	David Harding-Price	5,970	13.2	+1.8
	Independent	Donald Haxby	822	1.8	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Ian Thomson	462	1.0	N/A
Majority			4,073	9.0
Turnout			45,147	63.5	-10.8
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1997: Newark
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fiona Jones	23,496	45.2
	Conservative	Richard Alexander	20,480	39.4
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Harris	5,960	11.5
	Referendum Party	G. Creedy	2,035	3.9	N/A
Majority			3,016
Turnout				74.5
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

General Election 1992: Newark
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Alexander	28,494	50.4
	Labour	Dave Barton	20,265	35.8
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Harris	7,342	13.0
	Green	P. Wood	435	0.8
Majority			8,229
Turnout				82.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Nottinghamshire

Constituencies in the East Midlands
Labour	Amber Valley | Ashfield | Bassetlaw | Bolsover | Broxtowe | Corby | Derby North | Derby South | Erewash | Gedling | High Peak | Leicester East | Leicester South | Leicester West | Lincoln | Loughborough | Mansfield | Northampton North | North East Derbyshire | North West Leicestershire | Nottingham East | Nottingham North | Nottingham South | Sherwood | South Derbyshire
Conservative	Blaby | Boston and Skegness | Bosworth | Charnwood | Daventry | Gainsborough | Grantham and Stamford | Harborough | Kettering | Louth and Horncastle | Newark | Northampton South | Rushcliffe | Rutland and Melton | Sleaford and North Hykeham | South Holland and The Deepings | Wellingborough | West Derbyshire
Liberal Democrat	Chesterfield
East Midlands European constituency: Conservative (2) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)