Milton Keynes North East (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 52°03′22″N 0°38′53″W / 52.056°N 0.648°W / 52.056; -0.648

North East Milton Keynes
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of North East Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire for the 2005 general election.
Location of Buckinghamshire within England.
County	Buckinghamshire
1992–2010
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Milton Keynes North, Milton Keynes South
Created from	Milton Keynes^[1]

North East Milton Keynes was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1992 to 2010. It elected one member of parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The constituency was one of two covering the Milton Keynes borough. It covered the remaining parts of the town of Milton Keynes not in the Milton Keynes South West constituency, as well as the older settlement of Newport Pagnell and the more rural parts of the borough, around Hanslope and Olney.

The constituency consisted of 10 electoral wards of the Borough of Milton Keynes: Bradwell, Danesborough, Lavendon, Linford, Newport Pagnell, Olney, Pineham, Sherington, Stantonbury, and Woburn Sands.

Boundary review

Following the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies into parliamentary representation in Buckinghamshire, the Boundary Commission for England recommended changes to the existing Milton Keynes constituencies. Beginning with the 2010 United Kingdom general election, there would continue to be two parliamentary constituencies for Milton Keynes, but they would be formed on a different basis, abolishing the Milton Keynes North East and Milton Keynes South West constituencies after four general elections of use.

Milton Keynes North was formed from the electoral wards of Bradwell, Campbell Park, Hanslope Park, Linford North, Linford South, Middleton, Newport Pagnell North, Newport Pagnell South, Olney, Sherington, Stantonbury, and Wolverton.

Milton Keynes South was formed from the electoral wards of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford, Danesborough, Denbigh, Eaton Manor, Emerson Valley, Furzton, Loughton Park, Stony Stratford, Walton Park, Whaddon, and Woughton.

History

Construction of Milton Keynes began in 1967, as a new town. Until 1983, it was part of the Buckingham constituency. As its population grew, Milton Keynes then gained its own constituency, which was taken by William Benyon of the Conservative Party.

The continuing expansion in the population of Milton Keynes led to this constituency being divided for the 1992 general election into two parts (Milton Keynes South West and North East Milton Keynes). The new North East constituency was taken by Peter Butler of the Conservatives, who lost it to Labour's Brian White at the 1997 election. White held the seat until 2005, when it was regained by the Conservatives' Mark Lancaster.

Members of parliament

	Member^[2]	Party
1992	Peter Butler	Conservative
1997	Brian White	Labour
2005	Mark Lancaster	Conservative
2010	Constituency abolished: see Milton Keynes North and Milton Keynes South

Elections

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: North East Milton Keynes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mark Lancaster	19,674	39.3	+1.2
	Labour	Brian White	18,009	35.9	−6.1
	Liberal Democrat	Jane Carr	9,789	19.5	+1.7
	UKIP	Mike Phillips	1,400	2.8	+0.6
	Green	Peter Richardson	1,090	2.2	N/A
	Independent	Anant Vyas	142	0.3	N/A
Majority			1,665	3.3
Turnout			50,104	63.6	−1.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+3.6

General election 2001: North East Milton Keynes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian White	19,761	42.0	+2.5
	Conservative	Marion Rix	17,932	38.1	-0.9
	Liberal Democrat	David Yeoward	8,375	17.8	+0.4
	UKIP	Michael Phillips	1,026	2.2	N/A
Majority			1,829	3.9
Turnout			47,094	64.6	-8.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: North East Milton Keynes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian White	20,201	39.43	+15.7
	Conservative	Peter Butler	19,961	38.96	−12.6
	Liberal Democrat	Graham Mabbutt	8,907	17.38	−5.6
	Referendum	Michael Phillips	1,492	2.91	+2.9
	Green	Alan Francis	576	1.12	−1.1
	Natural Law	Martin Simson	99	0.19	0.0
Majority			240	0.47
Turnout				72.78
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+14.2

General election 1992: North East Milton Keynes^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Butler	26,212	51.6
	Labour	Maggie Cosin	12,036	23.7
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Gaskell	11,693	23.0
	Green	Alan Francis	529	1.0
	Independent Conservative	M. Kavanagh-Dowsett	249	0.5
	Natural Law	Martin Simson	79	0.2
Majority			14,176	27.9
Turnout			50,798	81.0
	Conservative win (new seat)

Notes and references

↑ "UK Parliamentary Constituency: 'Milton Keynes North East', April 1992 - April 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 2)
↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

Sources

Election result, 2005 (BBC)
Election results, 1997 – 2001 (BBC)
Election results, 1997 – 2001 (Election Demon)
Election results, 1992 (Election Demon)
Election results, 1992 – 2005 (Guardian)

Constituencies in South East England (84)

Conservative (78)	Aldershot Arundel and South Downs Ashford Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Beaconsfield Bexhill and Battle Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Bracknell Brighton Kemptown Canterbury Chatham and Aylesford Chesham and Amersham Chichester Crawley Dartford Dover Eastbourne East Hampshire Eastleigh East Surrey East Worthing and Shoreham Epsom and Ewell Esher and Walton Fareham Faversham and Mid Kent Folkestone and Hythe Gillingham and Rainham Gosport Gravesham Guildford Hastings and Rye Havant Henley Horsham Isle of Wight Lewes Maidenhead Maidstone and The Weald Meon Valley Mid Sussex Milton Keynes North Milton Keynes South Mole Valley Newbury New Forest East New Forest West North East Hampshire North Thanet North West Hampshire Oxford West and Abingdon Portsmouth North Portsmouth South Reading East Reading West Reigate Rochester and Strood Romsey and Southampton North Runnymede and Weybridge Sevenoaks Sittingbourne and Sheppey Southampton Itchen South Thanet South West Surrey Spelthorne Surrey Heath Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells Wantage Wealden Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worthing West Wycombe

Labour (4)	Hove Oxford East Slough Southampton Test

Green (1)	Brighton Pavilion

Speaker (1)	Buckingham

South East England European constituency: UKIP (4) Conservative (3) Green (1) Labour (1) Liberal Democrats (1)

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