Newark (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Newark County constituency |
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| Newark shown within Nottinghamshire, and Nottinghamshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1673 |
| MP: | Patrick Mercer |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Nottinghamshire |
| EP constituency: | East Midlands |
Newark is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since 1885, it has elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency covers large parts of the Newark and Sherwood district in the east of Nottinghamshire, including the towns of Newark-on-Trent and Southwell, and the villages of Collingham and Sutton-on-Trent. It also covers the south-east of the Bassetlaw district, including Retford and Markham Moor.
[edit] Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Nottinghamshire, the Boundary Commission for England have modified the existing Newark constituency to be fought at the next general election. The Newark constituency will lose the town of Retford to the Bassetlaw constituency (although it will still cover a smaller part of the Bassetlaw district), but will gain the area around Bingham from the Rushcliffe constituency.
The electoral wards used in the formation of this modified seat are:
- From the district of Bassetlaw - East Markham, Rampton, and Tuxford and Trent
- From the district of Newark and Sherwood - Balderton North, Balderton West, Beacon, Bridge, Castle, Caunton, Collingham and Meering, Devon, Farndon, Lowdham, Magnus, Muskham, Southwell East, Southwell North, Southwell West, Sutton-on-Trent, Trent and Winthorpe
- From the borough of Rushcliffe - Bingham East, Bingham West, Cranmer, Oak and Thoroton.
[edit] History
Newark was the last borough seat to be created in the Unreformed House of Commons in 1673, prior to the Reform Act of 1832. It returned two representatives to Parliament from 1673 until 1885. The future Prime Mininster, W.E. Gladstone, began his elected career as Member of Parliament for Newark from 1832 until 1845, later moving to other constituencies.
More recently, the Labour Party held Newark from 1950 until 1979, when it was taken by the Conservatives' Richard Alexander. Alexander lost his seat during Labour's landslide victory at the 1997 general election. The victorious Labour candidate, Fiona Jones, was convicted of electoral fraud and expelled from the House of Commons in 1999 over misrepresented election expenses. The conviction was later overturned upon appeal, and she returned to Parliament. However, Jones lost her seat at the 2001 general election to Patrick Mercer of the Conservatives, who has held it since.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | MP | Party | MP | Party |
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| 1673 | Henry Savile | Sir Paul Neile | ||
| 1677 | Sir Richard Rothwell | |||
| Feb 1679 | Robert Leke | Sir Robert Markham | ||
| Aug 1679 | Sir Richard Rothwell | |||
| 1685 | Henry Savile | Philip Darcy | ||
| 1689 | William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax | Nicholas Saunderson | ||
| 1693 | Sir Francis Molyneux | |||
| 1695 | Sir George Markham | |||
| 1698 | James Saunderson | |||
| 1700 | John Rayner | |||
| Jan 1701 | Sir George Markham | |||
| Nov 1701 | Sir Matthew Jenison | James Saunderson | ||
| 1705 | John Digby | |||
| 1708 | Richard Sutton | |||
| 1710 | Sir Thomas Willoughby | Richard Newdigate | ||
| 1712 | Richard Sutton | |||
| 1715 | Conyers Darcy | |||
| 1722 | James Pelham | |||
| 1738 | Lord William Manners | |||
| 1741 | Job Staunton Charlton | |||
| 1754 | John Manners | |||
| 1761 | Thomas Thoroton | |||
| 1768 | John Shelley | |||
| 1774 | George Manners-Sutton | Henry Clinton | ||
| 1780 | Lord George Manners-Sutton | |||
| 1783 | John Manners-Sutton | |||
| 1784 | Constantine John Phipps | |||
| 1790 | William Crosbie | |||
| 1796 | Thomas Manners-Sutton | Mark Wood | ||
| 1802 | Sir Charles Morice Pole | |||
| 1805 | Henry Willoughby | |||
| 1806 | Stapleton Cotton | |||
| 1814 | George Hay Dawkins-Pennant | |||
| 1818 | Sir William Henry Clinton | |||
| 1829 | Michael Thomas Sadler | Tory | ||
| Feb 1831 | William Farnworth Handley | |||
| May 1831 | Thomas Wilde | |||
| 1832 | William Ewart Gladstone | Liberal | ||
| 1835 | Thomas Wilde | |||
| 1841 | Lord John James Robert Manners | |||
| 1846 | John Stuart | |||
| 1847 | John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton | Conservative | ||
| 1852 | Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon | |||
| 1857 | Henry Pelham Alexander Pelham-Clinton | John Handley | ||
| 1859 | Grosvenor Hodgkinson | |||
| 1865 | Lord Arthur Pelham-Clinton | |||
| 1868 | Edward Denison | |||
| 1870 | Samuel Boteler Bristow | |||
| 1874 | Thomas Earp | |||
| 1880 | William Newman Nicholson | |||
| 1885 | Representation reduced to one member | |||
| Charles William Sydney Pierrepont | Conservative | |||
| 1895 | Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton | Conservative | ||
| 1898 | Charles William Sydney Pierrepont | Conservative | ||
| 1900 | Charles Glynne Earle Welby | Conservative | ||
| 1906 | John Ralph Starkey | Conservative | ||
| 1922 | William Cavendish-Bentinck | Conservative | ||
| 1943 | Sidney Shephard | Conservative | ||
| 1950 | George Deer | Labour | ||
| 1964 | Edward Stanley Bishop | Labour | ||
| 1979 | Richard Alexander | Conservative | ||
| 1997 | Fiona Jones | Labour | ||
| 2001 | Patrick Mercer | Conservative | ||
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: Newark | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Patrick Mercer | 21,946 | 48.0 | +1.5 | |
| Labour | Jason Reece | 15,482 | 33.9 | −3.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Stuart Thompstone | 7,276 | 15.9 | +2.7 | |
| UK Independence | Charlotte Creasy | 992 | 2.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 6,464 | 14.1 | |||
| Turnout | 45,696 | 63.2 | −0.3 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 | |||
| General Election 2001: Newark | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Patrick Mercer | 20,983 | 46.5 | +7.1 | |
| Labour | Fiona Jones | 16,910 | 37.5 | -7.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Harding-Price | 5,970 | 13.2 | +1.8 | |
| Independent | Donald Haxby | 822 | 1.8 | N/A | |
| Socialist Alliance | Ian Thomson | 462 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| Majority | 4,073 | 9.0 | |||
| Turnout | 45,147 | 63.5 | -10.8 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Newark | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Fiona Jones | 23,496 | 45.2 | ||
| Conservative | Richard Alexander | 20,480 | 39.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Harris | 5,960 | 11.5 | ||
| Referendum Party | G. Creedy | 2,035 | 3.9 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,016 | ||||
| Turnout | 74.5 | ||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1992: Newark | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Richard Alexander | 28,494 | 50.4 | ||
| Labour | Dave Barton | 20,265 | 35.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Peter Harris | 7,342 | 13.0 | ||
| Green | P. Wood | 435 | 0.8 | ||
| Majority | 8,229 | ||||
| Turnout | 82.2 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] See also
| Constituencies in the East Midlands | |
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| Labour |
Amber Valley | Ashfield | Bassetlaw | Bolsover | Broxtowe | Corby | Derby North | Derby South | Erewash | Gedling | High Peak | Leicester East | Leicester South | Leicester West | Lincoln | Loughborough | Mansfield | Northampton North | North East Derbyshire | North West Leicestershire | Nottingham East | Nottingham North | Nottingham South | Sherwood | South Derbyshire |
| Conservative |
Blaby | Boston and Skegness | Bosworth | Charnwood | Daventry | Gainsborough | Grantham and Stamford | Harborough | Kettering | Louth and Horncastle | Newark | Northampton South | Rushcliffe | Rutland and Melton | Sleaford and North Hykeham | South Holland and The Deepings | Wellingborough | West Derbyshire |
| Liberal Democrat | |
| East Midlands European constituency: Conservative (2) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1) | |
