Gedling (UK Parliament constituency)

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Gedling
County constituency

Gedling shown within Nottinghamshire, and Nottinghamshire shown within England
Created: 1983
MP: Vernon Coaker
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: Nottinghamshire
EP constituency: East Midlands

Gedling 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] Boundaries

Part of the Greater Nottingham area, the constituency covers the most populated parts of the borough of Gedling, covering the mainly afluent north eastern suburbs of the Nottingham area including Arnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick and Gedling village Woodthorpe and Mapperley Plains.

It is a mostly middle-class residential area, with similar characteristics to the nearby Broxtowe constituency, on the opposite side of Nottingham.

The constituency is one of contrasts, Arnold itself along with its smaller neighbour of Daybrook are Labour the surrounding suburbs of Woodthorpe, Kingswell and Mapperley are staunchly Conservative.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary boundaries in Nottinghamshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made only minor changes to the existing constituencies to allow for population changes. The boundaries of the modified constituency to be fought at the next general election are:

  • From the Borough of Gedling - Bonington, Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph, Carlton, Carlton Hill, Daybrook, Gedling, Killisick, Kingswell, Mapperley Plains, Netherfield and Colwick, Phoenix, Porchester, St James, St Marys, Valley, and Woodthorpe.

[edit] History

The constituency of Gedling was created in 1983, replacing the earlier Carlton constituency. Until 1997, it was thought of as a safe seat for the Conservative Party, being represented by the former Carlton MP Sir Philip Holland until 1987, then by Andrew Mitchell, the son of former Conservative MP David Mitchell. The seat was gained by the Labour Party in their landslide victory at the 1997 general election. In that election, Mitchell (by then a junior minister) lost to Labour's Vernon Coaker, who has held the seat since then.

It is now considered to be a marginal constituency, fought between Labour and the Conservatives. In the 2005 general election, the Conservative candidate Anna Soubry caused controversy by revealing that she "was not proud" of the area she was intending to represent, referring to crime levels in the Nottingham area [1]. This statement is alleged to have contributed to her losing the election, with the swing to the Conservatives from Labour being less than in other areas. However, Labour and the Conservatives both gained a lower percentage of the vote in Gedling than in 2001, so the swing could even be considered to be from both of these parties to the Liberal Democrats and the two eurosceptic parties, UKIP and Veritas. Feeling within the local Labour Party was that Vernon Coaker was personally well-liked and not tied to 'New Labour' because he had fought the seat in 1987 and 1992 under the Neil Kinnock leadership, and that stopped him from losing large amounts of votes.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Gedling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
UK Independence Alan Margerison 741 1.7 N/A
Veritas Deborah Johnson 411 0.9 N/A
Majority 3,811 8.6
Turnout 44,069 63.9 0.0
Labour hold Swing
General Election 2001: Gedling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
Turnout 43,816 63.9 -11.8
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1997: Gedling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 24,390 46.8
Conservative Andrew Mitchell 20,588 39.5
Liberal Democrats Raymond Poynter 5,180 9.9
Referendum Party J Connor 2,006 3.9 N/A
Majority 3,802 7.3
Turnout 52,164 75.7 0.0
Labour gain from Conservative Swing Con to Lab 13%
General Election 1992: Gedling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Andrew Mitchell 30,191 53.2
Labour Vernon Coaker 19,554 34.4
Liberal Democrats DG George 6,863 12.1
Natural Law A Miszeweka 168 0.3 N/A
Majority 10,637 18.7
Turnout 56,776 82.3
Conservative hold Swing

[edit] See also

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)
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