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South Northamptonshire
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundaries since 2024
Boundary of South Northamptonshire in the East Midlands
County	Northamptonshire
Electorate	76,555 (2023)
Major settlements	Brackley, King's Sutton, Towcester
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of Parliament	Sarah Bool (Conservative)
Seats	One
Created from	Daventry
1950–1974
Seats	One
Created from	Daventry and Kettering
Replaced by	Daventry
1832–1918
Seats	1832–1885: Two 1885–1918: One
Created from	Northamptonshire
Replaced by	Daventry

South Northamptonshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Sarah Bool. 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.

Constituency profile

This is a rural seat around Towcester and Brackley. There is a significant motorsport sector including the north half of Silverstone Circuit. Incomes and house prices are above average for the UK.

History

Before 2010, the constituency existed from 1832 to 1918, and from 1950 to 1974, however on different boundaries during each period. It elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election from 1832, until the representation was reduced in 1885 to one member elected by the first past the post system.

Prominent members

Three names feature prominently among the area's Commons members, the 3rd and 5th Earl Spencer (during their tenures as MP having a courtesy title only, Viscount Althorp – Althorp is a major country house in the seat, well known as the childhood home of Diana, Princess of Wales); Edward Fitzroy (son of Lord Southampton), Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943; and lastly, Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne who on accomplishment of a peerage sat for the final two years of his life as the historic equivalent of the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom with additional functions, the Lord Chancellor.

In the 19th century history of the seat the Cartwright family (with three members) lived in the stately home Aynhoe Park near Banbury.

History of boundaries

The seat was abolished in 1918 to form the new constituency of Daventry, then recreated in 1950 caused by a relatively short-lived abolition of Daventry. In 1974 the constituency was almost wholly swallowed up by a reborn Daventry, which on wide boundaries saw substantial population growth.

This called for recreation in 2010 whereby most of the electoral wards were taken from the former version of the Daventry seat.

Present bordering constituencies

The constituency is bordered by Daventry and Northampton South to the north, Wellingborough to the north east, Milton Keynes North and Milton Keynes South to the south east, Buckingham to the south, Banbury to the south west and Kenilworth and Southam to the west.

Boundaries

Historic

1832–1885: The Hundreds of Kings Sutton, Chipping Warden, Greens Norton, Cleley, Towcester, Fawsley, Wymersley, Spelhoe, Nobottle Grove, and Guilsborough.

1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Brackley and Towcester, and part of the Sessional Division of Daventry. (The part of the Sessional Division of Daventry included in South Northamptonshire excluded the parishes of Ashby St. Ledgers, Barby, Claycoton Crick, Elkington, Kilsby, Lilboume, Long Buckley, Stanford, Watford, West Haddon, Winwick, and Yelvertoft, which were assigned to Mid Northamptonshire).

1950–1974: The Boroughs of Daventry and Brackley, and the Rural Districts of Brackley, Daventry, Northampton, and Towcester.

2010–2021: The District of South Northamptonshire wards of Astwell, Blakesley, Blisworth, Brackley East, Brackley South, Brackley West, Chase, Cogenhoe, Collingtree, Cosgrove, Courteenhall, Deanshanger, Grafton, Kings Sutton, Kingthorn, Little Brook, Middleton Cheney, Salcey, Silverstone, Steane, Tove, Towcester Brook, Towcester Mill, Wardoun, Washington, Whittlewood, and Yardley, and the Borough of Northampton wards of East Hunsbury, Nene Valley, and West Hunsbury.

2021–2024: With effect from 1 April 2021, the Borough of Northampton and the District of South Northamptonshire were abolished and absorbed into the new unitary authority of West Northamptonshire. From that date, the constituency comprised the District of West Northamptonshire wards of Brackley, Bugbrooke (part), Deanshanger, Duston West and St. Crispin (part), East Hunsbury and Shelfleys, Hackleton and Grange Park, Middleton Cheney, Nene Valley, Silverstone, Sixfields (part), and Towcester and Roade.

Current

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency is as follows (as they existed on 1 April 2021):

• The District of North Northamptonshire ward of Irchester (polling districts WAA, WAB, WPA, WPB and WPC)

• The District of West Northamptonshire wards of Brackley; Bugbrooke; Deanshanger; Hackleton and Grange Park; Middleton Cheney; Silverstone (polling districts SAA, SAB, SAN, SAT, SBP, SBX, SCV, SDG, SDW, SDZ, SEF, SEW, SFE, SFF, SFN, SFO, SFR, SFW, SGD, SGF and SGK); Towcester and Roade.

The parts in the former Borough of Northampton were transferred to Northampton South. The constituency gained the part of the Irchester ward from Wellingborough and the remainder of the Bugbrooke ward from Daventry. A small part of Silverstone ward was transferred to Daventry.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832–1885

Northamptonshire prior to 1832

MPs 1885–1918

MPs 1950–1974

Daventry and Kettering prior to 1950

MPs since 2010

Daventry prior to 2010

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1950s

Election results 1868–1918

Elections in the 1860s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1880s

Cartwright's death caused a by-election.

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: Edward FitzRoy
• Liberal: Arthur Augustus Thomas

Election results 1832–1868

Elections in the 1830s

Elections in the 1840s

Cartwright resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1850s

Spencer succeeded to the peerage, becoming 5th Earl Spencer and causing a by-election.

Elections in the 1860s

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire

Notes

1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
2. Later a member for Windsor: 4 November 1863 – 11 July 1865
3. This source

References

1. "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – East Midlands". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
2. UK Polling Report http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/northamptonshiresouth/
3. Electoral Calculus https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/seatdetails.py?seat=Northamptonshire+South
4. "The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 2 & 3 William IV. Cap. LXIV. An Act to settle and describe the Divisions of Counties, and the Limits of Cities and Boroughs, in England and Wales, in so far as respects the Election of Members to serve in Parliament". London: His Majesty's statute and law printers. 1832. pp. 300–383. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
5. "The statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 48 & 49 Victoria. Ch. 23: Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Schedule 7". London: His Majesty's statute and law printers. 1885. pp. 166–167. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
6. "The Northamptonshire (Structural Changes) Order 2020".
7. "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule I Part I.
8. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 3)
9. "Northamptonshire Southern 1832–1918 (Hansard)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).
10. ^ Stooks Smith, Henry. (1973) . Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 232–233. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
11. Millbank Systems – reference to government on the opposition benches, July 1836
    Note that at this time party affiliations were only beginning to become more rigid.
12. "Lincolnshire Chronicle". 10 April 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 11 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
13. "Bell's Weekly Messenger". 4 April 1857. p. 1. Retrieved 11 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
14. Hansard at Millbank Systems has no debates from November–December 1892 but from this source it seems David Guthrie never spoke in Parliament.
15. South Northamptonshire
16. "Statement of Persons Nominated, Notice of Poll and Situation Of Polling Stations". North Northamptonshire Council. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
17. "Northamptonshire South Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
18. Leadsom, Andrea (28 April 2017). "Delighted and honoured to be readopted as Conservative candidate for South Northamptonshire this evening! #GE2017pic.twitter.com/5JqJfH8nu6" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
19. "General Election". southnorthantslabour.com.
20. "Chris Lofts". 25 January 2017.
21. "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
22. Statement of Persons Nominated, South Northamptonshire Council
23. "BBC News – Election 2010 – Constituency – Northamptonshire South". news.bbc.co.uk.
24. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
25. ^ Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 9781349022984.
26. ^ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
27. Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
28. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
29. ^ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
30. Northampton Mercury 10 Apr 1914
31. "Which is the Low Party?". Northampton Mercury. 7 August 1847. p. 1. Retrieved 17 May 2019 – via British Newspaper Archive.
32. "Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette". 17 July 1852. p. 3. Retrieved 11 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
33. "The Parliament". London Evening Standard. 3 February 1858. p. 3. Retrieved 11 August 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.

External links

• South Northamptonshire UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
• South Northamptonshire UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK

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