Northavon (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 51°36′14″N 2°31′05″W / 51.604°N 2.518°W / 51.604; -2.518

Northavon
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Northavon in Avon for the 2005 general election.
Location of Avon within England.
County	1983–1996 Avon 1996–2010 South Gloucestershire
Major settlements	Thornbury, Yate, Chipping Sodbury
1983–2010
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Thornbury and Yate, Filton and Bradley Stoke
Created from	South Gloucestershire^[1]

Northavon was, from 1983 until 2010, a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

History

The constituency was established in 1983. Held initially by the Conservative Party, it was gained narrowly by the Liberal Democrats in 1997, then swung heavily in their favour in 2001 and was held again in 2005.

Boundaries

1983-1997: The District of Northavon wards of Almondsbury, Alveston, Badminton, Charfield, Chipping Sodbury, Dodington North, Frampton Cotterell Central, Frampton Cotterell East, Frampton Cotterell West, Hawkesbury, Iron Acton, Marshfield, Oldbury-on-Severn, Olveston, Patchway Callicroft, Patchway Coniston, Patchway Stoke Lodge, Pilning and Severn Beach, Pucklechurch, Thornbury North, Thornbury South, Westerleigh Stanshawes, Westerleigh and Coalpit Heath, Wick and Abson, Wickwar, Winterbourne, Winterbourne Down and Hambrook, Winterbourne Frenchay, Yate Central, Yate North, Yate South, and Yate West.

1997-2010: The District of Northavon wards of Almondsbury, Alveston, Badminton, Charfield, Chipping Sodbury, Dodington North, Frampton Cotterell Central, Frampton Cotterell East, Frampton Cotterell West, Hawkesbury, Iron Acton, Marshfield, Oldbury-on-Severn, Olveston, Pilning and Severn Beach, Pucklechurch, Thornbury North, Thornbury South, Westerleigh and Coalpit Heath, Wick and Abson, Wickwar, Winterbourne, Winterbourne Down and Hambrook, Winterbourne Frenchay, Yate Central, Yate North, Yate South, Yate Stanshawes, and Yate West.

Northavon covered the same area as the former Northavon district (the more rural part of the current South Gloucestershire district) at its creation, but some of the constituency moved to Bristol North West with the boundary review implemented in 1997. The constituency included suburban and industrial areas on the outskirts of Bristol and several dormitory towns and small villages.

Following the review by the Boundary Commission for England of parliamentary representation in the former Avon county, taking effect at the 2010 general election, the Northavon seat has been abolished. It has been largely replaced by the Thornbury and Yate seat, but also by Filton and Bradley Stoke.^[2]

Members of Parliament

	Member^[3]	Party
1983	Sir John Ambrose Cope	Conservative
1997	Steve Webb	Liberal Democrat
2010	constituency abolished: see Thornbury and Yate & Filton and Bradley Stoke

Elections

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Northavon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Steve Webb	30,872	52.3	-0.1
	Conservative	Christopher Butt	19,839	33.6	−1.1
	Labour	Patricia Gardener	6,277	10.6	−0.9
	UKIP	Adrian Blake	1,032	1.7	+0.4
	Green	Alan Pinder	922	1.6	-
	Independent (politician)	Thomas Beacham	114	0.2	-
Majority			11,033	18.7	+1.0
Turnout			59,056	72.2	+1.5
Registered electors			81,800
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	+0.5

General Election 2001: Northavon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Steve Webb	29,217	52.4	+10.0
	Conservative	Carrie Ruxton	19,340	34.7	−4.3
	Labour	Robert Hall	6,450	11.6	−4.1
	UKIP	Carmen Carver	751	1.3	-1.7
Majority			9,877	17.7	+14.3
Turnout			55,758	70.7	−8.5
Registered electors			78,841
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	n/a

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Northavon^[4]^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrat	Steve Webb	26,500	42.4	+7.9
	Conservative	John Cope	24,363	39.0	-12.8
	Labour	Ronald Stone	9,767	15.6	+3.5
	UKIP	John Parfitt	1,900	3.0	_
Majority			2,137	3.4	-13.9
Turnout			62,530	79.2	-5.5
Registered electors			78,943
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing	+10.4

General Election 1992: Northavon^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Cope	35,338	50.3	−4.1
	Liberal Democrat	Heather Larkins	23,477	33.4	+1.7
	Labour	Nita Norris	10,290	14.6	+0.7
	Green	Jay Greene	789	1.1	-
	Liberal	Paul Marx	380	0.5	-
Majority			11,861	16.9	−5.8
Turnout			70,274	84.2	+3.9
Registered electors			83,496
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.9

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: Northavon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Cope	34,244	54.4	+0.7
	Liberal	Christine Willmore	19,954	31.7	+0.6
	Labour	Dan Norris	8,762	13.9	-0.5
Majority			14,270	22.7	+0.1
Turnout			62,960	80.2	+2.3
Registered electors			78,483
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.0

General Election 1983: Northavon ^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	John Cope	30,790	53.7	+0.9
	Liberal	George Conrad	17,807	31.1	+12.6
	Labour	Nita Norris	8,243	14.4	-13.4
	Ecology	Keith Radmall	499	0.9	-
Majority			12,983	22.6	-2.4
Turnout			57,339	78.0	-7.4
Registered electors			73,553
	Conservative win (new seat)

Notes and references

↑ "'Gloucestershire South', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
↑ "FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY BOUNDARIES IN THE UNITARY AUTHORITY OF SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE". Boundary Commission for England. 15 November 2001. Archived from the original on 2 November 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1997. Politics Resources. 1 May 1997. Retrieved 7 January 2011.
↑ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.127 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
↑ The 1997 election result is calculated relative to the notional, not the actual, 1992 result.
↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
↑ Percentage change and swing for 1983 is calculated relative to the BBC/ITN 1979 notional constituency result, not actual 1979 result. See British Broadcasting Corporation; Independent Television News. The BBC/ITN Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies (Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services 1983)

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Conservative (46)	Bournemouth East Bournemouth West Bridgwater and West Somerset Camborne and Redruth Central Devon Cheltenham Chippenham Christchurch Devizes East Devon Filton and Bradley Stoke Forest of Dean Gloucester Kingswood Mid Dorset and North Poole North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North East Somerset North Somerset North Swindon North Wiltshire Plymouth Moor View Poole Salisbury Somerton and Frome South Dorset South East Cornwall South Swindon South West Devon South West Wiltshire St Austell and Newquay St Ives Taunton Deane Tewkesbury The Cotswolds Thornbury and Yate Tiverton and Honiton Torbay Torridge and West Devon Totnes Truro and Falmouth Wells West Dorset Weston-super-Mare Yeovil
Labour (7)	Bristol East Bristol North West Bristol South Bristol West Exeter Plymouth Sutton and Devonport Stroud
Liberal Democrats (1)	Bath
Independent (1)	Newton Abbot
South West England European constituency: Conservative (2) Green (1) Labour (1) UKIP (2)

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