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.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 3.1 MPs 1660-1885 3.2 MPs 1885-present 4 Election results 5 See also

[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.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1885

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
Mar 1768		John Wrottesley			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		George Leveson-Gower, Earl Gower			Sir John Fenton Boughey
1815		Sir John Chetwode
1818		William Shepherd Kinnersley			Robert John Wilmot
1823		John Evelyn Denison
1826		Richardson Borradaile
1830					William Henry Miller
1831		Edmund Peel
1832		Sir Henry Pollard 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 Democrats	Trevor Johnson	7,528	18.9	+3.4
	UK Independence	David Nixon	1,436	3.6	+2.1
	British National	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 Democrats	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

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

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	Aldridge-Brownhills | Bromsgrove | Leominster | Lichfield | Ludlow | Meriden | Mid Worcestershire | North Shropshire | Rugby and Kenilworth | Shrewsbury and Atcham | South Staffordshire | Stone | Stratford-on-Avon | Sutton Coldfield | The Wrekin | West Worcestershire
Liberal Democrat	Birmingham Yardley | Hereford | Solihull
Health Concern	Wyre Forest
Independent	Birmingham, Ladywood
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) | Labour (2) | UKIP (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)