North Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)

NorthShropshire
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of NorthShropshire in Shropshire.
Location of Shropshire within England.
County	Shropshire
Electorate	77,673 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	1983 (1983)
Member of Parliament	Owen Paterson (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Oswestry
1832 (1832)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Oswestry
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

North Shropshire (or Shropshire North) 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.

The present MP is Owen Paterson, who has held the seat since 1997, and was appointed to be the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in May 2010.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
- 2.1 MPs 1832–1885
- 2.2 MPs since 1983
3 Elections
4 See also
5 Notes and references
6 Sources

Boundaries

The constituency is coextensive with that of the North area of Shropshire Council, which is the same as the former districts of North Shropshire and Oswestry.

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.

No boundary changes occurred to this constituency with the latest review of boundaries in England, despite the large population (estimated at 100,400 for mid-2007).

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832–1885

Constituency created in 1832

	First member^[1]	First party	Second member^[1]	Second party
1832	Sir Rowland Hill, Bt	Tory	John Cotes	Whig
1834		Conservative	John Cotes	Whig
1835		Conservative	William Ormsby-Gore	Conservative
1843 by-election	Viscount Clive	Conservative
1848 by-election	John Whitehall Dod	Conservative
1857	John Whitehall Dod	Conservative	Hon. Rowland Hill	Conservative
1859	John Ormsby-Gore	Conservative	Hon. Rowland Hill	Conservative
1865			Hon. Charles Cust	Conservative
1866 by-election			Hon. Adelbert Brownlow-Cust	Conservative
1867 by-election			Viscount Newport	Conservative
1876 by-election	Stanley Leighton	Conservative	Viscount Newport	Conservative
1885	Constituency abolished

MPs since 1983

Election		Member^[1]	Party
	1983	John Biffen	Conservative
	1997	Owen Paterson	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: North Shropshire^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Paterson	26,692	51.5	+1.9
	Liberal Democrat	Ian Croll	10,864	20.9	+1.2
	Labour	Ian McLaughlan	9,406	18.1	-7.8
	UKIP	Sandra List	2,432	4.7	-0.1
	BNP	Phil Reddall	1,667	3.2	+3.2
	Green	Steve Boulding	808	1.6	+1.6
Majority			15,828	30.5
Turnout			51,869	65.7	+2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.3

Elections in the 2000s

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 Democrat	Steve Bourne	9,175	19.7	+6.9
	UKIP	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 Democrat	Ben Jephcott	5,945	12.8	-7.6
	UKIP	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

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Shropshire North^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Biffen	32,443	50.5	−1.7
	Liberal Democrat	HJ Stevens	16,232	25.3	−2.2
	Labour	RJ Hawkins	15,550	24.2	+3.8
Majority			16,211	25.2	+0.5
Turnout			64,225	77.7	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.2

Notes and references

^ ^a ^b ^c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
^ http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/democracy.nsf/viewAttachments/NBIP-84QFBJ/$file/Statement%20of%20Persons%20Nominated%20-%20North%20Shropshire.pdf
^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.

Sources

UK Polling Report
Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 446–447. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.

Constituencies in the West Midlands (59)

Conservative (33)	Aldridge-Brownhills Bromsgrove Burton Cannock Chase Dudley South Halesowen and Rowley Regis Hereford and South Herefordshire Kenilworth and Southam Lichfield Ludlow Meriden Mid Worcestershire North Herefordshire North Shropshire North Warwickshire Nuneaton Redditch Rugby Shrewsbury and Atcham South Staffordshire Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stone Stourbridge Stratford-on-Avon Sutton Coldfield Tamworth The Wrekin Warwick and Leamington West Worcestershire Wolverhampton South West Worcester Wyre Forest

Labour (24)	Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, Erdington Birmingham, Hall Green Birmingham, Hodge Hill Birmingham, Ladywood Birmingham, Northfield Birmingham, Perry Barr Birmingham, Selly Oak Coventry North East Coventry North West Coventry South Dudley North Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke-on-Trent Central Stoke-on-Trent North Stoke-on-Trent South Telford Walsall North Walsall South Warley West Bromwich East West Bromwich West Wolverhampton North East Wolverhampton South East

Liberal Democrats (2)	Birmingham, Yardley Solihull

West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (2) UKIP (2) Labour (1) Liberal Democrats (1)