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The county of Northamptonshire is divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies – 2 borough constituencies and 5 county constituencies.

Constituencies

  Conservative †   Labour ‡

Constituency	Electorate	Majority	Member of Parliament		Nearest opposition		Map
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 †

2024 boundary changes

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Former name	Boundaries 2010–2024	Current name	Boundaries 2024–present
Corby CC Daventry CC Kettering CC Northampton North BC Northampton South BC South Northamptonshire CC Wellingborough CC		Corby and East Northamptonshire CC Daventry CC Kettering CC Northampton North BC Northampton South BC South Northamptonshire CC Wellingborough and Rushden CC

For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England maintained 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. These changes came into effect from the 2024 general election.

Containing electoral wards from North Northamptonshire

• Corby and East Northamptonshire
• Daventry (part)
• Kettering
• South Northamptonshire (part)
• Wellingborough and Rushden

Containing electoral wards from West Northamptonshire

• Daventry (part)
• Northampton North
• Northampton South
• South Northamptonshire (part)

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Northamptonshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2019	Seats	Change from 2019
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
Greens	23,170	6.9%	4.0%	0
Liberal Democrats	22,306	6.6%	1.8%	0
Others	6,894	2.0%	1.4	0
Total	336,331	100.0		7

Percentage votes

1974 & 1979 – Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Maps

1885–1910

• 1885
• 1886
• 1892
• 1895
• 1900
• 1906
• Jan 1910
• Dec 1910

1918–1945

• 1918
• 1922
• 1923
• 1924
• 1929
• 1931
• 1935
• 1945

1950–1979

• 1950
• 1951
• 1955
• 1959
• 1964
• 1966
• 1970

1974–present

The borders of Northamptonshire changed from 1974, with the Soke of Peterborough area becoming part of neighbouring Cambridgeshire.

• Feb 1974
• Oct 1974
• 1979
• 1983
• 1987
• 1992
• 1997
• 2001
• 2005
• 2010
• 2015
• 2017
• 2019
• 2024

Historical representation by party

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.

1885 to 1918

  Conservative   Independent Liberal   Labour   Liberal   Liberal-Labour   Liberal Unionist   National Party

1918 to 1950

  Coalition Liberal (1918–22) / National Liberal (1922–23)   Conservative   Co-operative   Labour   Speaker

1950–1983

  Conservative   Labour

1983–present

  Conservative   Labour

See also

• List of electoral wards in Northamptonshire
• Parliamentary constituencies in the East Midlands

Notes

1. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
2. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

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 9 July 2024.
2. ^ "Constituencies A-Z – Election 2024". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
3. "These are all of the proposed changes for Northamptonshire's parliamentary constituencies under electoral map shake-up". Northampton Chronicle & Echo. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
4. "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report". Boundary Commission for England. paras 157–182. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
5. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".

• Lists of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in England
• Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire
• Northamptonshire-related lists