Telford (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 52°40′41″N 2°26′56″W / 52.678°N 2.449°W / 52.678; -2.449

Telford
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Telford in Shropshire.
Location of Shropshire within England.
County	Shropshire
Electorate	65,938 (December 2010)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Lucy Allan (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	The Wrekin
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	West Midlands

Telford is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since May 2015 by Lucy Allan, a Conservative, who defeated David Wright, the former Labour Party MP for the seat.^{[n 2]}

History

Created from the more rural Wrekin constituency for the 1997 general election, Telford was continuously held by the Labour Party, with a change in candidate in 2001, until the 2015 general election when the Conservatives took the seat from David Wright. Bruce Grocott was its first-ever MP, serving for the first four years. In 2010 Wright's majority fell to a marginal figure of 981 votes, and he lost in 2015 by 730 votes, the narrowest result to date.^[2]

Boundaries

1997-2010: The District of The Wrekin wards of Brookside, Cuckoo Oak, Dawley Magna, Hollinswood/Randley, Ironbridge (The Gorge), Ketley Bank, Langley, Lawley, Madeley, Malinslee, Priorslee, Stirchley, Wombridge, Woodside, and Wrockwardine Wood.

2010-present: The Borough of Telford and Wrekin wards of Brookside, Cuckoo Oak, Dawley Magna, Horsehay and Lightmoor, Ironbridge Gorge, Ketley and Oakengates, Lawley and Overdale, Madeley, Malinslee, Priorslee, St George's, The Nedge, Woodside, Wrockwardine Wood, and Trench.

Telford is made up of several old industrial towns to the north of the River Severn and on the eastern flanks of the Wrekin (including Madeley, Dawley and the small townships in the Ironbridge Gorge) and numerous New Town developments including Woodside. However, not all of the Telford New Town developments are in the constituency; the northern parts and some western areas (including the town of Wellington) which pre-dates Telford, are in the The Wrekin constituency.

All of the constituency is covered by Telford and Wrekin Borough Council.

Boundary changes to realign the constituency boundaries to fit with the borough's most recent ward revisions resulted in the addition of Ketley (from the constituency of The Wrekin) for the 2010 general election.

Future proposals: Under constituency boundary changes announced in September 2016, ahead of the next general election, it is proposed to extend the constituency to include the wards of Donnington and Hadley and Leegomery, to be taken from The Wrekin constituency.^[3]

Constituency profile

Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 3.1% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.^[4]

Members of Parliament

	Member^[5]	Party
1997	Bruce Grocott	Labour
2001	David Wright	Labour
2015	Lucy Allan	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Telford^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Lucy Allan^[8]	16,094	39.6	+3.3
	Labour	David Wright	15,364	37.8	−0.9
	UKIP	Denis Allen	7,330	18.0	+12.2
	Green	Peter Hawkins	930	2.3	+2.3
	Liberal Democrat	Ian Croll	927	2.3	−13.2
Majority			730	1.8
Turnout			40,645	61.4
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+2.1

General Election 2010: Telford^[9]^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Wright	15,977	38.7	−9.5
	Conservative	Tom Biggins	14,996	36.3	+3.2
	Liberal Democrat	Phillip Bennion	6,399	15.5	+1.4
	UKIP	Denis Allen	2,428	5.9	+1.2
	BNP	Phil Spencer	1,513	3.7	N/A
Majority			981	2.4
Turnout			41,313	63.5	+4.8
	Labour hold		Swing	−6.3

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Telford^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Wright	16,506	48.3	−6.3
	Conservative	Stella Kyriazis	11,100	32.5	+5.1
	Liberal Democrat	Ian Jenkins	4,941	14.4	+1.5
	UKIP	Tom McCartney	1,659	4.9	+1.3
Majority			5,406	15.8
Turnout			34,206	57.7	+5.7
	Labour hold		Swing	−5.7

General Election 2001: Telford^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Wright	16,854	54.6	−3.2
	Conservative	Andrew Douglas Henderson	8,471	27.4	0.0
	Liberal Democrat	Sallyann Wiggin	3,983	12.9	+1.1
	UKIP	Nicola Brookes	1,098	3.6	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Michael Paul Jeffries	469	1.5	N/A
Majority			8,383	27.2
Turnout			30,875	52.0	−13.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Telford^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Bruce Grocott	21,456	57.8	N/A
	Conservative	Bernard Gentry	10,166	27.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Nathaniel Green	4,371	11.8	N/A
	Referendum	Christopher Morris	1,119	3.0	N/A
Majority			11,290	30.4	N/A
Turnout			37,112	65.6	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

Notes and references

Notes

↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

↑ "Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ "Surprise result as Labour stalwart Wright loses out to Conservative candidate Allan". Shropshire Star. 8 May 2015. p. 5. Election 2015 report.
↑ "It's All Change for MPs, Political map to be transformed". Shropshire Star. 13 September 2016. p. 1. Report by Mark Andrews.
↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "BBC NEWS – Election 2015 – Telford". BBC News.
↑ "Lucy Allan MP". Lucy Allan MP.
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "BBC NEWS – Election 2010 – Telford". BBC News.
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

Constituencies in the West Midlands (59)

Conservative (34)	Aldridge-Brownhills Bromsgrove Burton Cannock Chase Dudley South Halesowen and Rowley Regis Hereford and South Herefordshire Kenilworth and Southam Lichfield Ludlow Meriden Mid Worcestershire North Herefordshire North Shropshire North Warwickshire Nuneaton Redditch Rugby Shrewsbury and Atcham Solihull South Staffordshire Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stone Stourbridge Stratford-on-Avon Sutton Coldfield Tamworth Telford The Wrekin Warwick and Leamington West Worcestershire Worcester Wyre Forest

Labour (25)	Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham, Erdington Birmingham, Hall Green Birmingham, Hodge Hill Birmingham, Ladywood Birmingham, Northfield Birmingham, Perry Barr Birmingham, Selly Oak Birmingham, Yardley Coventry North East Coventry North West Coventry South Dudley North Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke-on-Trent Central Stoke-on-Trent North Stoke-on-Trent South Walsall North Walsall South Warley West Bromwich East West Bromwich West Wolverhampton North East Wolverhampton South East Wolverhampton South West

West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (2) Labour (2) UKIP (3)

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