Stoke-on-Trent North (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stoke-on-Trent North Borough constituency

Stoke-on-Trent North shown within Staffordshire, and Staffordshire shown within England
Created:	1950
MP:	Joan Walley
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Staffordshire
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Stoke-on-Trent North is a 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.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

Each of the three constituencies of Stoke-on-Trent contain two of the historic ‘six towns’ of the Potteries. Burslem and Tunstall are Stoke-on-Trent North's historic towns.

A local inquiry of the Boundary Commission For England was held in Stoke-on-Trent on 25th and 26th June 2002. To raise Stoke-on-Trent North's electorate to nearly 70,000, the inquiry recommended that the six wards in the north of the City - Burslem North, Burslem South, Chell and Packmoor, East Valley (consisting of most of Smallthorne, Sneyd Green, Milton and Baddeley Green), Norton and Bradeley, and Tunstall - are joined by four wards from the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme - Butt Lane, Kidsgrove, Ravenscliffe, and Talke.

The new Parliamentary constituency will become a reality once the Commission's recommendations have been accepted by Parliament.

[edit] Members of Parliament

1950 – 1953: Edward Davies, Labour
1953 – 1966: Harriet Slater, Labour
1966 – 1987: John Forrester, Labour
1987 – present: Joan Walley, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Stoke-on-Trent North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joan Walley	16,191	52.6	-5.4
	Conservative	Benjamin Browning	6,155	20.0	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Henry Jebb	4,561	14.8	+2.9
	British National	Spencer Cartlidge	2,132	6.9
	UK Independence	Eileen Braithwaite	696	2.3
	Veritas	Ian Taylor	689	2.2
	Independent (politician)	Harry Chesters	336	1.1
Majority			10,036	32.6
Turnout			30,760	52.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 2001: Stoke-on-Trent North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joan Walley	17,460	58.0	-7.2
	Conservative	Benjamin Browning	5,676	18.8	-1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Henry Jebb	3,580	11.9	+1.2
	Independent (politician)	Charles Wanger	3,399	11.3	N/A
Majority			11,784	39.2
Turnout			30,115	51.9	-13.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Constituencies in the West Midlands
Labour	Birmingham Edgbaston \| Birmingham, Erdington \| Birmingham Hall Green \| \|Birmingham Hodge Hill \| Birmingham Northfield \| Birmingham Perry Barr \| Birmingham Selly Oak \| Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath \| Burton \| Cannock Chase \| Coventry North East \| Coventry North West \| Coventry South \| Dudley North \| Dudley South \| Halesowen and Rowley Regis \| Newcastle-under-Lyme \| North Warwickshire \| Nuneaton \| Redditch \| Stafford \| Staffordshire Moorlands \| Stoke-on-Trent Central \| Stoke-on-Trent North \| Stoke-on-Trent South \| Stourbridge \| Tamworth \| Telford \| Walsall North \| Walsall South \| Warley \| Warwick and Leamington \| West Bromwich East \| West Bromwich West \| Wolverhampton North East \| Wolverhampton South East \| Wolverhampton South West \| Worcester
Conservative	Aldridge-Brownhills \| Bromsgrove \| Leominster \| Lichfield \| Ludlow \| Meriden \| Mid Worcestershire \| North Shropshire \| Rugby and Kenilworth \| Shrewsbury and Atcham \| South Staffordshire \| Stone \| Stratford-on-Avon \| Sutton Coldfield \| The Wrekin \| West Worcestershire
Liberal Democrat	Birmingham Yardley \| Hereford \| Solihull
Health Concern	Wyre Forest
Independent	Birmingham, Ladywood
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) \| Labour (2) \| UKIP (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)