Scarborough and Whitby | |
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County constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Scarborough and Whitby in North Yorkshire. |
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Location of North Yorkshire within England. |
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County | North Yorkshire |
Electorate | 76,078 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Scarborough and Whitby |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1997 |
Member of Parliament | Robert Goodwill (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Scarborough |
1918–1974 | |
Number of members | One |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Replaced by | Scarborough |
Created from | Scarborough and Whitby |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Scarborough and Whitby is a county 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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The constituency name has had two separate periods of existence. A Scarborough and Whitby division of the North Riding of Yorkshire was created by the Boundary Commission of 1917 and first elected a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election. This division took the entirety of the abolished Parliamentary borough of Scarborough, together with the majority of the previous Whitby division and a very small part of Cleveland division: the parishes of Westerdale and Commondale. It had a population, in the middle of 1914, of 72,979.[2] The Boundary Commission had initially recommended that the division simply be called 'Scarborough' but an amendment moved by the Government during enactment of their recommendations changed it to Scarborough and Whitby.[3]
The Initial Report of the Boundary Commission for England in 1947 made minor changes to the constituency, in line with local government changes which had abolished Guisborough Rural District in 1932 and absorbed it into Whitby Rural District. The new constituency again included the whole of Whitby Rural District, and so gained Hinderwell which was previously within Cleveland constituency. It had an electorate of 67,884 on 15 October 1946.[4] No change was made in the First Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission in 1954.[5]
The Second Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission, published in 1969, recommended that the constituency be divided. The recommendations came into effect at the February 1974 general election. The Scarborough constituency was then re-established, and Whitby joined with Guisborough, Loftus, Saltburn and Brotton to form Cleveland and Whitby.
By the beginning of the Third Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission, Cleveland had been created as a new county, which would normally prevent the Commission from recommending a constituency crossing the border. Several representations were made to the Commission to try to preserve Cleveland and Whitby constituency, but the Commission found itself unable to accept them and recommended putting Scarborough and Whitby together in a new Scarborough county constituency. This constituency did not include Pickering, which was placed in a new Ryedale constituency.[6] In the Fourth Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for England, published in 1995 and coming into effect at the 1997 general election, the Scarborough constituency was renamed as Scarborough and Whitby with no change in boundaries.[7]
When initially created in 1918 the constituency was defined as the whole of the Municipal Borough of Scarborough, the Urban Districts of Pickering, Scalby and Whitby, the Rural Districts of Scarborough and Whitby. It also included parts of two Rural Districts. Nine out of the eleven parishes within Pickering Rural District were included, namely Allerston, Ebberston, Kingthorpe, Levisham, Lockton, Marishes, Newton, Thornton Dale, and Wilton. Three of the nine parishes within Guisborough Rural District were also included: Commondale, Danby and Westerdale. As from 1950, the constituency was defined as the Municipal Borough of Scarborough, the Urban Districts of Pickering, Scalby and Whitby, the Rural Districts of Scarborough and Whitby.
The constituency in 1997 was defined as the following wards of the Borough of Scarborough: Ayton, Castle, Cayton, Central, Danby, Derwent, Eastfield, Eskdaleside, Falsgrave, Fylingdales, Lindhead, Mayfield, Mulgrave, Newby, Northstead, Scalby, Seamer, Streonshalh, Weaponness, and Woodlands.[8] No change was made to the boundaries by the Fifth Periodical Review published in 2007, although changes in ward boundaries meant that the definition of the constituency was changed. It was now defined as the following wards of the Borough of Scarborough: Castle, Cayton, Central, Danby, Derwent Valley, Eastfield, Esk Valley, Falsgrave Park, Fylingdales, Lindhead, Mayfield, Mulgrave, Newby, North Bay, Northstead, Ramshill, Scalby Hackness and Staintondale, Seamer, Stepney, Streonshalh, Weaponness, Whitby West Cliff, and Woodlands.[9]
The constituency covers the towns of Scarborough and Whitby. Both of these are seaside towns in North Yorkshire on the north-east coast of England. However, the constituency is largely rural and rural issues tend to influence voting preferences.
When the constituency was recreated in 1997, the Labour candidate, Lawrie Quinn, defeated John Sykes, the sitting Conservative MP - one of many unlikely gains for Labour in their landslide victory of that year. The current incumbent, Robert Goodwill, defeated Quinn in 2005 to regain the seat for the Conservatives.
Election | Member[10] | Party | |
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1918 | Sir Gervase Beckett, Bt. | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | Sidney Herbert | Conservative | |
1931 by-election | Sir Paul Latham | Conservative | |
1941 by-election | Sir Alexander Spearman | Conservative | |
1966 | Michael Shaw | Conservative | |
Feb 1974 | constituency abolished |
Election | Member[10] | Party | |
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1997 | Lawrie Quinn | Labour | |
2005 | Robert Goodwill | Conservative |
General Election 2010: Scarborough and Whitby[11] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Goodwill | 21,108 | 42.8 | +1.8 | |
Labour | Annajoy David | 12,978 | 26.3 | -12.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Tania Exley-Moore | 11,093 | 22.5 | +6.5 | |
UKIP | Michael James | 1,484 | 3.0 | +1.0 | |
BNP | Trisha Scott | 1,445 | 2.9 | +2.9 | |
Green | Dilys Cluer | 734 | 1.5 | -1.1 | |
Independent | Peter Popple | 329 | 0.7 | +0.7 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Juliet Boddington | 111 | 0.2 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 8,130 | 16.5 | |||
Turnout | 49,282 | 65.3 | +1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 6.9 |
General Election 2005: Scarborough and Whitby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Goodwill | 19,248 | 41.0 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Lawrence Quinn | 18,003 | 38.4 | -8.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Tania Exley-Moore | 7,495 | 16.0 | +7.6 | |
Green | Jonathan Dixon | 1,214 | 2.6 | +0.4 | |
UKIP | Paul Abbott | 952 | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 1,245 | 2.7 | |||
Turnout | 46.912 | 71.7 | +8.5 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | 5.1 |
General Election 2001: Scarborough and Whitby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Lawrence Quinn | 22,426 | 47.2 | +1.6 | |
Conservative | John Sykes | 18,841 | 39.6 | +3.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Thomas Pearce | 3,977 | 8.4 | -5.8 | |
Green | Jonathan Dixon | 1,049 | 2.2 | N/A | |
UKIP | John Jacob | 970 | 2.0 | N/A | |
ProLife Alliance | Theresa Murray | 260 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,585 | 7.6 | |||
Turnout | 47,523 | 63.2 | -8.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1997: Scarborough and Whitby | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Lawrence Quinn | 24,791 | 45.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | John Sykes | 19,667 | 36.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrat | Martin Allinson | 7,672 | 14.1 | N/A | |
Referendum Party | S. Murray | 2,191 | 4.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,124 | N/A | |||
Turnout | 54,321 | 71.6 | N/A | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 14.70 |