List_of_Parliamentary_constituencies_in_Shropshire
The ceremonial county of Shropshire, England (which comprises the local/unitary authorities of Shropshire Council and Telford and Wrekin), is divided into 5 parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 4 county constituencies. As with all constituencies for the House of Commons in the modern age, each constituency elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system.
Conservative † Liberal Democrat ¤ Labour ‡
| Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludlow CC | 69,444 | 23,648 | Philip Dunne † | Heather Kidd ¤ |  | ||
| North Shropshire CC | 83,258 | 5,925 | Helen Morgan ¤ | Neil Shastri-Hurst † |  | ||
| Shrewsbury and Atcham CC | 82,238 | 11,217 | Daniel Kawczynski † | Julie Buckley ‡ |  | ||
| Telford BC | 68,921 | 10,941 | Lucy Allan † | Katrina Gilman ‡ |  | ||
| The Wrekin CC | 70,693 | 18,726 | Mark Pritchard † | Dylan Harrison ‡ |  | ||
Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the 5 constituencies in Shropshire for the 2010 election, making only small changes to the boundary between Telford and The Wrekin to align with current local government wards.
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[3] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission has proposed retaining the current five constituencies in Shropshire, with minor boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries and to bring constituencies within the statutory range. It is proposed that Shrewsbury and Atcham reverts to its original name of Shrewsbury, while Ludlow is renamed South Shropshire.[4]
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[5]
2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Shropshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 155,225 | 60.3% |  4.7% |
5 | 0 |
| Labour | 66,798 | 25.9% |  9.3% |
0 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 26,827 | 10.4% | 4.6% |
0 | 0 |
| Greens | 6,955 | 2.7% | 0.6% |
0 | 0 |
| Others | 1,713 | 0.7% | 0.6% |
0 | 0 |
| Total | 257,518 | 100.0 | 5 |
Percentage votes
| Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative1 | 54.7 | 57.3 | 59.3 | 55.6 | 47.9 | 49.3 | 52.4 | 43.1 | 43.0 | 49.6 | 49.0 | 48.2 | 46.3 | 37.2 | 39.1 | 41.8 | 46.8 | 48.3 | 55.6 | 60.3 |
| Labour | 41.2 | 42.7 | 40.7 | 36.2 | 34.1 | 42.7 | 36.0 | 31.1 | 33.2 | 29.1 | 21.3 | 25.4 | 30.7 | 39.7 | 38.2 | 30.8 | 21.6 | 24.4 | 35.2 | 25.9 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 4.1 | - | - | 8.2 | 18.0 | 8.0 | 11.7 | 25.8 | 23.8 | 21.0 | 29.7 | 26.0 | 22.0 | 20.5 | 18.6 | 23.0 | 23.5 | 7.0 | 5.8 | 10.4 |
| Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.8 | 4.0 | 2.1 | 2.7 |
| UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 4.4 | 16.3 | 1.2 | * |
| Other | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.0 | - | 0.1 | 0.7 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 – Liberal; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
| Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Labour | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966
21950-1979 – Liberal; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
Maps
1885-1910
- 1885
- 1886
- 1892
- 1895
- 1900
- 1906
- Jan 1910
- Dec 1910
1918-1945
- 1918
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- 1929
- 1931
- 1935
- 1945
1950-1979
- 1950
- 1951
- 1955
- 1959
- 1964
- 1966
- 1970
- Feb 1974
- Oct 1974
- 1979
1983-present
- 1983
- 1987
- 1992
- 1997
- 2001
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2017
- 2019
Timeline of parliamentary constituencies in the county, with historical (green) and extant (pink) constituencies.
| Constituency | 1290-1295 | 1295-1473 | 1473-1584 | 1584-1832 | 1832-1885 | 1885-1918 | 1918-1983 | 1983-1997 | 1997–present |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop's Castle | 1584-1832 | ||||||||
| Bridgnorth | 1295-1885 | ||||||||
| Ludlow | 1473–present | ||||||||
| Newport | 1885-1918 | ||||||||
| North Shropshire | 1832-1885 | 1983–present | |||||||
| Oswestry | 1885-1983 | ||||||||
| Shrewsbury | 1290-1983 | ||||||||
| Shrewsbury and Atcham | 1983–present | ||||||||
| Shropshire | 1290-1832 | ||||||||
| South Shropshire | 1832-1885 | ||||||||
| Telford | 1997–present | ||||||||
| Wellington | 1885-1918 | ||||||||
| (Much) Wenlock | 1290-1885 | ||||||||
| The Wrekin | 1918–present | ||||||||
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
1885 to 1918
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist National Party
| Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 01 | 03 | 04 | 1906 | 08 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludlow | More | → | Hunt | → | → | → | |||||||||||
| Newport | Bickersteth | → | Kenyon-Slaney | Stanier | |||||||||||||
| Oswestry | Leighton | Ormsby-Gore | Bright | Bridgeman | |||||||||||||
| Shrewsbury | Watson | Greene | Hill | Lloyd | |||||||||||||
| Wellington (Salop) | Brown | → | Henry | ||||||||||||||
1918 to 1945
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Independent Conservative Labour Liberal
| Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 1922 | 23 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 41 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludlow | Stanier | I. Windsor-Clive | G. Windsor-Clive | |||||||||
| Oswestry | Bridgeman | Leighton | ||||||||||
| Shrewsbury | Lloyd | Ryder | Sunlight | Ryder | Duckworth | |||||||
| The Wrekin | Henry | Palmer | Townshend | Button | Nixon | Oakley | Picton-Turbervill | Baldwin-Webb | Colegate | |||
1945 to 1983
| Constituency | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 60 | 61 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludlow | Corbett | Holland-Martin | More | Cockeram | |||||||||
| Oswestry | Poole | Ormsby-Gore | Biffen | ||||||||||
| Shrewsbury | Langford-Holt | ||||||||||||
| The Wrekin | Thomas | Yates | Fowler | Trafford | Fowler | Hawksley | |||||||
1983 to present
Conservative Labour Liberal Democrats
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 01 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 21 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ludlow | Cockeram | Gill | Green | Dunne | |||||||||
| North Shropshire | Biffen | Paterson | Morgan | ||||||||||
| Shrewsbury and Atcham | Conway | Marsden | → | Kawczynski | |||||||||
| The Wrekin | Hawksley | Grocott | Bradley | Pritchard | |||||||||
| Telford | Grocott | Wright | Allan | ||||||||||
- Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
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- "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. paras 1258-1270. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
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