Kingston upon Hull North (UK Parliament constituency)

Kingston upon Hull North
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Kingston upon Hull North in Humberside.
Location of Humberside within England.
County	1950-1974 East Riding of Yorkshire 1983-1996 Humberside 1996- East Riding of Yorkshire
Electorate	62,286 (February 2000)
Current constituency
Created	1983 (1983)
Member of Parliament	Diana Johnson (Labour)
Number of members	One
Created from	Hull Central
1950 (1950)–1974 (1974)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Hull Central
Created from	Hull North West
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Kingston upon Hull North (usually just Hull North) is a borough 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.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
- 2.1 MPs 1950-1974
- 2.2 MPs since 1983
3 Elections
4 See also
5 Notes and references

Boundaries

This constituency covers the northern part of Hull. A diverse constituency, it includes the large social housing estates of Bransholme, North Hull and Orchard Park, as well as some of the city's most desirable housing areas in the Avenues, Newland Park and Beverley High Road areas. A seat with a large student population, Hull North has the University at its centre, and many students live in the Newland Avenue and Beverley Road communities. A large new housing development in the north of the seat called Kingswood is also rapidly changing the constituency's demographic profile.

Kingston upon Hull North includes the Hull City Council wards of Avenue, Beverley, Bransholme East, Bransholme West, Bricknell, Kings Park, Newland, Orchard Park and Greenwood, and University.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1950-1974

	Member ^[1]	Party
1950	Austen Hudson	Conservative
1959	Michael Coulson	Conservative
1964	Henry Solomons	Labour
1966 by-election	Kevin McNamara	Labour
Feb 1974	Constituency abolished (McNamara became MP for Hull Central)

MPs since 1983

Election		Member ^[1]	Party
	1983	Kevin McNamara	Labour
	2005	Diana Johnson	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Kingston upon Hull North^[2]^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Diana Johnson	13,044	39.2	-13.1
	Liberal Democrat	Denis Healy	12,403	37.3	+11.3
	Conservative	Victoria Aitken	4,365	13.1	-0.2
	BNP	John Mainprize	1,443	4.3	+1.6
	UKIP	Paul Barlow	1,358	4.1	+4.1
	Green	Martin Deane	478	1.4	-1.6
	English Democrats	Michael Cassidy	200	0.6	+0.6
Majority			641	1.9	-22.9
Turnout			33,291	52.0	+5.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-12.2

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Kingston upon Hull North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Diana Johnson	15,364	51.9	-5.3
	Liberal Democrat	Denis Healy	8,013	27.1	+7.3
	Conservative	Lydia Rivlin	3,822	12.9	-4.2
	Green	Martin Deane	858	2.9	N/A
	BNP	Brian Wainwright	766	2.6	N/A
	Veritas	Tineke Robinson	389	1.3	N/A
	Northern Progress	Chris Veasey	193	0.7	N/A
	Legalise Cannabis	Carl Wagner	179	0.6	-1.0
Majority			7,351	24.8
Turnout			29,584	47.3	+1.8
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2001: Kingston upon Hull North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin McNamara	16,364	57.2	-8.7
	Liberal Democrat	Simone Butterworth	5,643	19.7	+5.1
	Conservative	Paul Charlson	4,902	17.1	+2.1
	UKIP	Tineka Robinson	655	2.3	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Roger Smith	490	1.7	N/A
	Legalise Cannabis	Paul Wagner	478	1.7	+1.7
	Independent	Christopher Veasey	101	0.4	N/A
Majority			10,721	37.5
Turnout			28,633	45.5	-11.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Hull North^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin McNamara	26,619	55.9	+4.7
	Conservative	BG Coleman	11,235	23.6	−3.7
	Liberal Democrat	AP Meadowcroft	9,504	20.0	−1.5
	Natural Law	GP Richardson	254	0.5	+0.5
Majority			15,384	32.3	+8.5
Turnout			47,612	66.7	−3.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.2

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Hull North^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin McNamara	21,365	42.47
	Conservative	C Hayward	15,337	30.49
	SDP–Liberal Alliance	TA Smith	13,381	26.6
	Nationalist Party	Robert Tenney	222	0.44
Majority			6,028	11.98
Turnout			50,301	67.48

Notes and references

^ ^a ^b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)
^ "Kingston upon Hull North". http://www.yournextmp.com/seats/kingston_upon_hull_north. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
^ "UK > England > Yorkshire & the Humber > Hull North". Election 2010. BBC. 7 May 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/election2010/results/constituency/c45.stm. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
^ http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge83/i11.htm

Constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber (54)

Labour (31)	Barnsley Central Barnsley East Batley and Spen Bradford South Bradford West Don Valley Doncaster Central Doncaster North Great Grimsby Halifax Hemsworth Huddersfield Hull East Hull North Hull West and Hessle Leeds Central Leeds East Leeds North East Leeds West Morley and Outwood Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford Penistone and Stocksbridge Rother Valley Scunthorpe Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Sheffield Central Sheffield Heeley Sheffield South East Wakefield Wentworth and Dearne York Central

Conservative (19)	Beverley and Holderness Brigg and Goole Calder Valley Cleethorpes Colne Valley Dewsbury East Yorkshire Elmet and Rothwell Haltemprice and Howden Harrogate and Knaresborough Keighley Pudsey Richmond (Yorks) Scarborough and Whitby Selby and Ainsty Shipley Skipton and Ripon Thirsk and Malton York Outer

Liberal Democrats (3)	Bradford East Leeds North West Sheffield Hallam

Independent (1)	Rotherham

Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency: Liberal Democrats (2) Conservative (1) Labour (1) UKIP (1) British National Party (1)