The county of Northamptonshire is divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies - 2 borough constituencies and 5 county constituencies.
Conservative † Labour ‡
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition | Map | ||
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Corby and East Northamptonshire CC | 78,770 | 6,331 | Lee Barron ‡ | Tom Pursglove † | |||
Daventry CC | 76,539 | 3,012 | Stuart Andrew † | Marianne Kimani ‡ | |||
Kettering CC | 79,360 | 3,900 | Rosie Wrighting ‡ | Philip Hollobone † | |||
Northampton North BC | 75,713 | 9,014 | Lucy Rigby ‡ | Dan Bennett † | |||
Northampton South BC | 71,512 | 4,071 | Mike Readers ‡ | Andrew Lewer † | |||
South Northamptonshire CC | 76,555 | 3,687 | Sarah Bool † | Rufia Ashraf ‡ | |||
Wellingborough and Rushden CC | 77,542 | 5,486 | Gen Kitchen ‡ | David Goss † |
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Former name | Boundaries 2010-2024 | Current name | Boundaries 2024–present |
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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 proposed maintaining seven constituencies in Northamptonshire, as detailed below, with boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries following the reorganisation of local government authorities within the county and to bring the electorates within the statutory range. Corby was renamed Corby and East Northamptonshire, and Wellingborough renamed Wellingborough and Rushden.[4][5] These changes came into effect from the 2024 general election.
Containing electoral wards from North Northamptonshire
Containing electoral wards from West Northamptonshire
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Northamptonshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:[2]
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
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Labour | 122,226 | 36.3% | 7.2% | 5 | 5 |
Conservative | 100,203 | 29.8% | 29.2% | 2 | 5 |
Reform | 61,502 | 18.3% | New | 0 | New |
Greens | 23,170 | 6.9% | 4.0% | 0 | 0 |
Liberal Democrats | 22,306 | 6.6% | 1.8% | 0 | 0 |
Others | 6,894 | 2.0% | 1.4 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 336,331 | 100.0 | 7 |
Election year | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Labour | 38.6 | 41.3 | 36.3 | 25.5 | 27.1 | 33.5 | 45.0 | 43.8 | 37.5 | 25.7 | 25.7 | 35.9 | 29.1 | 36.3 |
Conservative | 39.1 | 40.6 | 50.2 | 49.0 | 51.7 | 51.8 | 40.4 | 41.2 | 43.1 | 47.4 | 50.6 | 55.7 | 59.0 | 29.8 |
Reform | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18.3 |
Green Party | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.8 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 2.9 | 6.9 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 22.0 | 18.1 | 12.8 | 25.2 | 20.8 | 14.3 | 11.1 | 12.6 | 15.2 | 19.1 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 8.4 | 6.6 |
UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 2.8 | 16.0 | 2.5 | * | - |
Other | 0.3 | - | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 2.0 |
11974 & 1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Election year | 1974
(Feb) |
1974
(Oct) |
1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
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Labour | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Conservative | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 |
Total | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
The borders of Northamptonshire changed from 1974, with the Soke of Peterborough area becoming part of neighbouring Cambridgeshire.
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 Independent Liberal Labour Liberal Liberal-Labour Liberal Unionist National Party
Constituency | 1885 | 1886 | 89 | 91 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 1906 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 17 | 18 |
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Northampton | Labouchère | Paul | Lees-Smith | |||||||||
Bradlaugh | Manfield | Drucker | Shipman | McCurdy | ||||||||
Northamptonshire East | Channing | Money | → | |||||||||
Northamptonshire Mid | Spencer | Pender | Spencer | Manfield | ||||||||
Northamptonshire North | Cecil | Monckton | Stopford-Sackville | Nicholls | Brassey | |||||||
Northamptonshire South | Knightley | Guthrie | Douglas-Pennant | FitzRoy | Grove | FitzRoy | → | → | ||||
Peterborough | Wentworth-FitzWilliam | → | Morton | Purvis | Greenwood |
Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Co-operative Labour Speaker
Constituency | 1918 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 28 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 40 | 43 | 1945 |
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Daventry | FitzRoy | → | R, Manningham-Buller | ||||||||
Kettering | Waterson | Parker | Perry | M. Manningham-Buller | Perry | Eastwood | Profumo | Mitchison | |||
Northampton | McCurdy | Bondfield | Holland | Malone | M. Manningham-Buller | Summers | Paget | ||||
Peterborough | Brassey | Horrabin | Cecil | Hely-Hutchinson | Tiffany | ||||||
Wellingborough | Smith | Shakespeare | Cove | Dallas | James | Lindgren |
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 69 | 1970 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 1979 |
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Kettering | Mitchison | de Freitas | Homewood | |||||||||
Northampton / Northampton North (1974) | Paget | Colquhoun | Marlow | |||||||||
Wellingborough | Lindgren | Hamilton | Howarth | Fry | ||||||||
Peterborough | Nicholls | Transferred to Huntingdon and Peterborough | ||||||||||
Northamptonshire South / Daventry (1974) | Manningham-Buller | Jones | Prentice | |||||||||
Northampton South | Morris |
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 12 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 24 | 2024 |
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Corby / Corby & East Northants (2024) | Powell | Hope | Mensch | Sawford | Pursglove | Barron | |||||||
Daventry | Prentice | Boswell | Heaton-Harris | Andrew | |||||||||
Kettering | Freeman | Sawford | Hollobone | ||||||||||
Northampton North | Marlow | Keeble | Ellis | Rigby | |||||||||
Northampton South | Morris | Clarke | Binley | Mackintosh | Lewer | Reader | |||||||
Wellingborough / W & Rushden (2024) | Fry | Stinchcombe | Bone | Kitchen | |||||||||
South Northamptonshire | Leadsom | Bool |
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