North Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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North Shropshire County constituency
North Shropshire shown within Shropshire, and Shropshire shown within England
Created:	1832, 1983
MP:	Owen Paterson
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Shropshire
EP constituency:	West Midlands

North Shropshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From its first creation in 1832 to the abolition of the first creation in 1885 it elected two Knights of the Shire. In 1885 it was - together with the constituency of South Shropshire - divided between four constituencies (Ludlow, Newport, Oswestry and Wellington).
In 1983 it was revived. It now elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1832-1885 2.2 from 1983 3 Election results 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the district of North Shropshire and the borough of Oswestry in Shropshire.

The constituency is rural and is north of Shrewsbury, west of Newcastle-under-Lyme and south of Cheshire. The towns of Wem, Whitchurch, Ellesmere, Oswestry, and Market Drayton are present.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1832-1885

• Constituency created in 1832

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1832	Hon. Sir Rowland Hill		John Cotes
		1835			William Ormsby-Gore
		1843	Viscount Clive
		1848	John Whitehall Dod
		1857			Hon. Rowland Clegg Hill
		1859	John Ralph Ormsby-Gore
		1865			Charles Henry Cust
		1866			Adelbert Wellington Cust
		1867			Viscount Newport
		1876	Stanley Leighton

• Constituency abolished in 1885

[edit] from 1983

• Constituency revived in 1983

• 1983 – 1997: John Biffen, Conservative
• 1997 – present: Owen Paterson, Conservative

• Constituency still existing

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	23,061	49.6	+1.0
	Labour	Sandra Samuels	12,041	25.9	−9.3
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Bourne	9,175	19.7	+6.9
	UK Independence	Ian Smith	2,233	4.8	+2.3
Majority			11,020	23.7
Turnout			46,510	61.4	−1.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+5.1

General Election 2001: North Shropshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	22,631	48.6	+8.4
	Labour	Mike Ion	16,390	35.2	-0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Ben Jephcott	5,945	12.8	-7.6
	UK Independence	David Trevanion	1,165	2.5
	Independent (politician)	Russell Maxfield	389	0.8
Majority			6,241	13.4
Turnout			46,520	63.1	-9.5

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

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)