The non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire is divided into 8 parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 7 county constituencies.[nb 1]
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Reform UK
Constituency[nb 2] | Electorate[1] | Majority[nb 3] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
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Boston and Skegness CC | 75,806 | 2,010 | Richard Tice¤ | Matt Warman† | |||
Gainsborough CC | 75,836 | 3,532 | Sir Edward Leigh† | Jess McGuire‡ | |||
Grantham and Bourne CC | 73,285 | 4,496 | Gareth Davies† | Vipul Bechar‡ | |||
Lincoln BC | 74,128 | 8,793 | Hamish Falconer‡ | Karl McCartney† | |||
Louth and Horncastle CC | 75,959 | 5,506 | Victoria Atkins† | Sean Matthews¤ | |||
Rutland and Stamford CC (part) | 70,864 | 10,394 | Alicia Kearns† | Joe Wood‡ | |||
Sleaford and North Hykeham CC | 75,651 | 4,346 | Dr Caroline Johnson† | Hanif Khan‡ | |||
South Holland and The Deepings CC | 78,473 | 6,856 | John Hayes† | Matthew Swainson¤ |
In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Lincolnshire retained its current constituencies, with minor changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.
Name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Boundaries 2010–2024 |
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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 recommendations were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission proposed including Lincolnshire with Leicestershire and Rutland in a sub-region of the East Midlands region, creating one additional seat by re-establishing the constituency of Rutland and Stamford, spanning all three counties. Consequently, Stamford was removed from the constituency of Grantham and Stamford, which was renamed Grantham and Bourne. [4]
The following seats were proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Boston
Containing electoral wards from East Lyndsey
Containing electoral wards from Lincoln
Containing electoral wards from North Kesteven
Containing electoral wards from South Holland
Containing electoral wards from South Kesteven
Containing electoral wards from West Lyndsey
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[5]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Lincolnshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:[nb 4][2]
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
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Conservative | 130,092 | 35.6% | 31.6% | 6 | 1 |
Labour | 94,894 | 26.0% | 5.2% | 1 | 1 |
Reform | 82,464 | 22.6% | 22.3% | 1 | 1 |
Liberal Democrats | 23,808 | 6.5% | 1.2% | 0 | 0 |
Green | 18,204 | 5.0% | 3.1 | 0 | 0 |
Others | 15,514 | 4.3% | 2.2% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 364,976 | 100.0 | 8 |
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Lincolnshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
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Conservative | 246,959 | 67.2% | 5.6% | 7 | 1 |
Labour | 76,583 | 20.8% | 7.7% | 0 | 1 |
Liberal Democrats | 28,389 | 7.7% | 3.6% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 6,815 | 1.9% | 0.5% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 1,079 | 0.3% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 7,614 | 2.1% | 2.3% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 367,439 | 100.0 | 7 |
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Conservative | 53.2 | 53.8 | 53.5 | 42.4 | 46.2 | 46.8 | 49.8 | 51.6 | 61.6 | 67.2 | 35.6 |
Labour | 15.1 | 18.5 | 25.8 | 36.9 | 35.7 | 29.5 | 19.4 | 20.1 | 28.5 | 20.8 | 26.0 |
Reform1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.3 | 22.6 |
Liberal Democrat2 | 31.4 | 27.4 | 19.8 | 17.5 | 16.1 | 17.4 | 20.2 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 7.7 | 6.5 |
Green Party | – | * | * | * | * | * | 0.2 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 5.0 |
UKIP | – | – | – | * | * | * | 4.7 | 19.4 | 3.5 | * | - |
Other | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 4.3 |
1As the Brexit Party in 2019
21983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Conservative | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Reform UK | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
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.
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 87 | 90 | 1892 | 93 | 94 | 1895 | 98 | 1900 | 1906 | 07 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 17 |
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Boston | Ingram | Farmer-Atkinson | Ingram | Garfit | Faber | Dixon | |||||||||||||
Brigg | Meysey-Thompson | → | Waddy | Richardson | Reckitt | Sheffield | Gelder | ||||||||||||
Gainsborough | Bennett | Eyre | Bennett | Bainbridge | Ormsby-Gore | Renton | → | Bentham | |||||||||||
Grantham | Mellor | Low | Lopes | Priestley | |||||||||||||||
Grimsby | Heneage | → | Josse | Heneage | Doughty | → | Wing | Doughty | → | Tickler | |||||||||
Horncastle | Stanhope | de Eresby | Weigall | ||||||||||||||||
Lincoln | Ruston | → | Kerans | Crosfield | Seely | Roberts | |||||||||||||
Louth | Otter | Heath | Perks | Brackenbury | Davies | ||||||||||||||
Sleaford | Chaplin | Lupton | Royds | ||||||||||||||||
Spalding | Finch-Hatton | Stewart | Pollock | Mansfield | McLaren | Peel | |||||||||||||
Stamford | Lawrance | Cust | Younger | Joicey-Cecil | Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby |
Conservative Independent Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931–68)
Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 21 | 1922 | 23 | 1923 | 24 | 1924 | 29 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 33 | 1935 | 37 | 42 | 1945 | 48 |
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Brigg | McLean | Sheffield | Quibell | Hunter | Quibell | Williamson | Mallalieu | |||||||||||
Gainsborough | Molson | Winfrey | Crookshank | |||||||||||||||
Grantham | Royds | R. Pattinson | Warrender | Kendall | ||||||||||||||
Grimsby | Tickler | Sutcliffe | Womersley | Younger | ||||||||||||||
Holland with Boston | Royce | Dean | Blindell | → | Butcher | |||||||||||||
Horncastle | Weigall | Hotchkin | S. Pattinson | Haslam | Maitland | |||||||||||||
Lincoln | Davies | Taylor | Liddall | Deer | ||||||||||||||
Louth | Brackenbury | T. Wintringham | M. Wintringham | Heneage | Osborne | |||||||||||||
Rutland and Stamford | Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | Dixon | Smith-Carington | de Eresby |
Conservative Labour Lincoln Democratic Labour National Liberal (1931–68)
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 56 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 69 | 1970 | 73 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 77 | 1979 |
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Brigg / Brigg and Scunthorpe (1974) | Mallalieu | Ellis | Brown | ||||||||||||
Gainsborough | Crookshank | Kimball | |||||||||||||
Grantham | Smith | Godber | Hogg | ||||||||||||
Grimsby | Younger | Crosland | Mitchell | ||||||||||||
Holland with Boston | Butcher | Body | |||||||||||||
Horncastle | Maitland | Tapsell | |||||||||||||
Lincoln | de Freitas | Taverne | → | Jackson | Carlisle | ||||||||||
Louth | Osborne | Archer | Brotherton | ||||||||||||
Rutland and Stamford | Conant | Lewis |
Conservative Independent Labour Reform UK
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 07 | 2010 | 2015 | 16 | 2017 | 19 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Holland with Boston / Boston and Skegness (1997) | Body | Simmonds | Warman | Tice | ||||||||||
Gainsborough and Horncastle / Gainsborough (1997) | Leigh | |||||||||||||
Stamford & Spalding / Grantham & S. ('97) / G. & Bourne ('24) | Lewis | J. Davies | → | Boles | → | G. Davies | ||||||||
Lincoln | Carlisle | Merron | McCartney | Lee | McCartney | Falconer | ||||||||
East Lindsey / Louth and Horncastle (1997) | Tapsell | Atkins | ||||||||||||
Grantham / Sleaford and North Hykeham (1997) | Hogg | Phillips | Johnson | |||||||||||
South Holland and The Deepings | Hayes |
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