Historic

1918–1950: The administrative county of Rutland, the Municipal Borough of Stamford, the Urban District of Bourne, the Rural Districts of Bourne and Uffington, and part of the Rural District of Grantham.

1950–1983: The administrative county of Rutland, the Municipal Borough of Stamford, the Urban District of Bourne, the Rural District of South Kesteven, and parts of the Rural Districts of East Kesteven and West Kesteven.

Proposed

The re-established constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

• The District of Harborough wards of: Billesdon & Tilton; Nevill; Thurnby & Houghton.
• The District of Rutland.
• The District of South Kesteven wards of: Casewick; Castle; Dole Wood; Glen; Isaac Newton; Stamford All Saints; Stamford St. George’s; Stamford St. John’s; Stamford St. Mary’s.^[2][3]

It will include the following areas:

• The County of Rutland and the parts of Harborough District, including Thurnby, from the (to be abolished) constituency of Rutland and Melton
• The town of Stamford and surrounding areas from Grantham and Stamford - to be renamed Grantham and Bourne.

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1939–40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby
• Labour: Arnold William Gray^[6]

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 2020s

Reform UK removed Ginny Ball as their candidate in March 2024 after "exposure of a range of racist comments on her social media feed".^[12]