South Ribble (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°43′01″N 2°41′49″W / 53.717°N 2.697°W / 53.717; -2.697

South Ribble
County constituency
for the House of Commons

Outline map

Boundary of South Ribble in Lancashire.

Outline map

Location of Lancashire within England.
County Lancashire
Electorate 75,116 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlements Leyland and Penwortham
Current constituency
Created 1983
Member of parliament Seema Kennedy (Conservative)
Number of members One
Created from Preston South, Fylde South and Chorley[2]
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency North West England

South Ribble is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Seema Kennedy, a Conservative.[n 2]

History

The seat of South Ribble was created for the 1983 general election, following the local government changes in the 1970s which saw the creation of the main constitutive borough of the same name.

Former Preston North MP Robert Atkins won the South Ribble constituency in 1983 and fought the seat in every election up to the 1997 general election. At that time, in dramatic bellwether fashion, Labour's David Borrow gained the seat on a clear majority, with nearly 26,000 votes, 2,000 less than Robert Atkins' victory in 1983 which was the equally an unusual landslide result. From the 1997 "landslide year" until 2010, David Borrow's vote total and majority consistently shrunk with a swing back to the Conservatives at every election. In terms of the other parties, Liberal Democrats have not thus far achieved better than third and 2005 saw UKIP nominating a candidate for the first time, and taking just over 1,200 votes. Borrow finally lost South Ribble in 2010 on a large two-party swing to Conservative Lorraine Fullbrook.

Boundaries

1983-1997: The Borough of South Ribble (the wards of All Saints, Bamber Bridge Central, Bamber Bridge South, Charnock, Farington, Howick, Hutton and New Longton, Kingsfold, Leyland Central, Leyland St Ambrose, Leyland St John's, Leyland St Mary's, Little Hoole and Much Hoole, Longton Central and West, Lostock Hall, Manor, Middleforth Green, Moss Side, Priory, Samlesbury and Cuerdale, Seven Stars, and Walton-le-Dale).

1997-2010: The Borough of South Ribble wards of Charnock, Farington, Howick, Hutton and New Longton, Kingsfold, Leyland Central, Leyland St Ambrose, Leyland St John's, Leyland St Mary's, Little Hoole and Much Hoole, Longton Central and West, Lostock Hall, Manor, Middleforth Green, Moss Side, Priory, and Seven Stars, and the District of West Lancashire wards of Hesketh-with-Becconsall, North Meols, Rufford, and Tarleton.

2010-present: The Borough of South Ribble wards of Broad Oak, Charnock, Earnshaw Bridge, Golden Hill, Howick and Priory, Kingsfold, Leyland Central, Leyland St Ambrose, Leyland St Mary’s, Little Hoole and Much Hoole, Longton and Hutton West, Lowerhouse, Middleforth, Moss Side, New Longton and Hutton East, Seven Stars, and Whitefield, the District of West Lancashire wards of Hesketh-with-Becconsall, North Meols, Rufford, and Tarleton, and the Borough of Chorley wards of Eccleston and Mawdesley, and Lostock.

The seat's original boundaries were co-terminous with the South Ribble borough.[3] Due to its population figures, the borough of South Ribble and its parliamentary constituency haven't shared the same boundaries since although the towns of Leyland and Penwortham have always featured at the centre of the constituency.

For the 1997 general election the eastern small towns of Bamber Bridge and Walton-le-Dale were moved to the Preston constituency. Following their review of parliamentary representation in Lancashire prior to the 2010 general election, the Boundary Commission for England created a new constituency of Wyre and Preston North in the central part of the county. This also made the Ribble Valley seat take wards from south of the River Ribble for the first time causing alterations to this seat also.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember[4]Party
1983 Robert Atkins Conservative
1997 David Borrow Labour
2010 Lorraine Fullbrook Conservative
2015 Seema Kennedy Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: South Ribble[5][6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Seema Kennedy 24,313 46.4 +1.0
Labour Veronica Lucy Bennett 18,368 35.1 +0.4
UKIP David Gallagher 7,377 14.1 +10.4
Liberal Democrat Sue McGuire 2,312 4.4 −9.7
Majority 5,945 11.4 +0.6
Turnout 52,370 68.5 +0.6
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 2010: South Ribble[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Lorraine Fullbrook 23,396 45.5 +7.1
Labour David Borrow 17,842 34.7 −9.6
Liberal Democrat Peter Fisher 7,271 14.1 −0.6
UKIP David Duxbury 1,895 3.7 +1.5
BNP Rosalind Gauci 1,054 2.0 +2.0
Majority 5,554 10.8 +6.2
Turnout 51,458 67.9 +4.4
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +8.1

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: South Ribble[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Borrow 20,428 43.0 −3.4
Conservative Lorraine Fullbrook 18,244 38.4 +0.3
Liberal Democrat Mark Lindsay Alcock 7,634 16.1 +0.6
UKIP Kenneth Jones 1,205 2.5 N/A
Majority 2,184 4.6 −3.7
Turnout 47,511 63.0 +0.5
Labour hold Swing −1.9
General Election 2001: South Ribble[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Borrow 21,386 46.4 −0.4
Conservative Adrian Edward Owens 17,584 38.1 +0.5
Liberal Democrat Mark Lindsay Alcock 7,150 15.5 +4.9
Majority 3,802 8.3 −0.9
Turnout 46,120 62.5 −14.6
Labour hold Swing −0.5

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: South Ribble[10][11][12][13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Borrow 25,856 46.8 +12.0
Conservative Robert James Atkins 20,772 37.6 −12.3
Liberal Democrat Tim Farron 5,879 10.6 −4.2
Referendum Mark Adams 1,475 2.7 N/A
Liberal Nigel R. Ashton 1,127 2.0 N/A
Natural Law Mrs. Bibette Leadbetter 122 0.2 −0.2
Majority 5,084 9.2 −5.8
Turnout 55,231 77.1
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +12.1
General Election 1992: South Ribble[14][15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert James Atkins 30,828 47.5 +0.3
Labour Dr. Geoffrey Wilfred Tracey Smith 24,855 38.3 +5.2
Liberal Democrat Simon Nicholas Jones 8,928 13.8 −6.0
Natural Law Dr. Decter Ronald 269 0.4 +0.4
Majority 5,973 9.2 −4.9
Turnout 64,880 83.0 +3.2
Conservative hold Swing −2.5

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1987: South Ribble[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert James Atkins 28,133 47.2 −1.6
Labour David Frank Roebuck 19,703 33.1 +6.6
Liberal Joseph Alan Holleran 11,746 19.7 −5.0
Majority 8,430 14.1
Turnout 59,582 82.5
Conservative hold Swing −4.1
General Election 1983: South Ribble[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert James Atkins 27,625 48.8 N/A
Labour Frank Duffy 14,966 26.5 N/A
Liberal Robert Walker 13,960 24.7 N/A
Majority 12,659 22.3 N/A
Turnout 56,551 78.0 N/A
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

  1. ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "'South Ribble', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Crewe, Ivor (1983). British Parliamentary Constituencies - a statistical compendium. faber and faber.
  4. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)
  5. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "South Ribble". BBC News. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1997. Politics Resources. 1 May 1997. Retrieved 7 Jan 2011.
  12. ↑ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.138 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
  13. ↑ The 1997 election result is calculated relative to the notional, not the actual, 1992 result.
  14. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  15. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.
  16. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  17. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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