Gedling (UK Parliament constituency)

Gedling is a constituency created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Tom Randall of the Conservative Party.[n 1][n 2] The seat is one of the dozens of the UK seats held by Labour in 2017, but gained by the Conservatives in 2019.

Gedling
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Gedling in Nottinghamshire
Location of Nottinghamshire within England
CountyNottinghamshire
Electorate70,886 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlementsArnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick, Gedling village and Woodthorpe
Current constituency
Created1983
Member of ParliamentTom Randall (Conservative)
Number of membersOne
Created fromCarlton

Boundaries and profile

1983–2010: The Borough of Gedling wards of Bonington, Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph, Carlton, Carlton Hill, Cavendish, Conway, Gedling, Killisick, Kingswell, Mapperley Plains, Netherfield, Oxclose, Phoenix, Porchester, Priory, St James, St Mary's, and Woodthorpe.

2010–present: The Borough of Gedling wards of Bonington, Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph, Carlton, Carlton Hill, Daybrook, Gedling, Killisick, Kingswell, Mapperley Plains, Netherfield and Colwick, Phoenix, Porchester, St James, St Mary's, Valley, and Woodthorpe.

Gedling is a substantial part of Greater Nottingham covering the most populated parts of the borough of the same name, it has mainly affluent, middle-income north eastern suburbs of Nottingham that include Arnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick and Gedling village, Woodthorpe and Mapperley Plains.

History

The constituency of Gedling was created in 1983, replacing the earlier Carlton constituency. Until 1997, it only elected candidates from the Conservative Party. The seat was represented by the former Carlton MP Sir Philip Holland until 1987, then for ten years by Andrew Mitchell, son of former Conservative MP David Mitchell. The Labour Party gained the seat in their landslide victory at the 1997 general election. At that election, the junior minister lost to Labour's Vernon Coaker who retained the seat until the 2019 elections.

Summary of results

The 2010 and 2015 results set the seat as marginal: first and second place were separated by less than 7%. At the 2005 general election, the Conservative candidate Anna Soubry (who was elected MP for nearby Broxtowe in 2010) caused controversy by revealing that she "was not proud" of the record of the area she was vying to represent, referring to crime levels in Nottingham[2] — the subsequent swing from Labour to Conservative was only 2.1% compared with the national swing of 3.1%. The 2015 result gave the seat the 29th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[3]

Other parties

UKIP in 2015 fielded the other candidate to retain their deposit. UKIP's swing nationally was +9.5% in 2015 and reached 11.4% in Gedling. Liberal Democrat and Green Party candidates forfeited their deposits in 2015.

Turnout

Turnout has varied from 82.3% of the vote in 1992 to 63.9% in 2001 and 2005.

Members of Parliament
ElectionMember[4] Party
1983Sir Philip HollandConservative
1987Andrew MitchellConservative
1997Vernon CoakerLabour
2019Tom RandallConservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s
Election results for Gedling
General election 2019: Gedling[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tom Randall 22,718 45.5 +2.7
Labour Vernon Coaker 22,039 44.1 −7.8
Liberal Democrats Anita Prabhakar 2,279 4.6 +2.6
Brexit Party Graham Hunt 1,820 3.6 New
Green Jim Norris 1,097 2.2 +1.2
Majority 679 1.4 N/A
Turnout 49,953 69.9 -2.6
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +5.2
General election 2017: Gedling
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 26,833 51.9 +9.6
Conservative Carolyn Abbott 22,139 42.8 +6.7
UKIP Lee Waters 1,143 2.2 −12.2
Liberal Democrats Robert Swift 1,052 2.0 −2.0
Green Rebecca Connick 515 1.0 −2.2
Majority 4,694 9.1 +2.9
Turnout 51,682 72.5 +4.0
Labour hold Swing +1.4
General election 2015: Gedling[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 20,307 42.3 +1.2
Conservative Carolyn Abbott 17,321 36.1 −1.2
UKIP Lee Waters 6,930 14.4 +11.4
Liberal Democrats Robert Swift 1,906 4.0 −11.3
Green Jim Norris 1,534 3.2 New
Majority 2,986 6.2 +2.4
Turnout 47,998 68.5 +0.6
Labour hold Swing +1.2
General election 2010: Gedling[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 19,821 41.1 −5.5
Conservative Bruce Laughton 17,962 37.3 +0.3
Liberal Democrats Julia Bateman 7,350 15.3 +1.5
BNP Stephen Adcock 1,598 3.3 New
UKIP David Marshall 1,459 3.0 +1.3
Majority 1,859 3.8
Turnout 48,190 67.9 +4.0
Labour hold Swing −2.9

Because of boundary changes, vote shares in 2010 are compared to notional results from 2005.

Elections in the 2000s
General election 2005: Gedling[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 20,329 46.1 −5.0
Conservative Anna Soubry 16,518 37.5 −0.8
Liberal Democrats Raymond Poynter 6,070 13.8 +3.2
UKIP Alan Margerison 741 1.7 New
Veritas Deborah Johnson 411 0.9 New
Majority 3,811 8.6 -4.2
Turnout 44,069 63.9 0.0
Labour hold Swing −2.1
General election 2001: Gedling[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 22,383 51.1 +4.3
Conservative Jonathan Bullock 16,785 38.3 −1.2
Liberal Democrats Tony Gillam 4,648 10.6 +0.7
Majority 5,598 12.8 +5.5
Turnout 43,816 63.9 −11.8
Labour hold Swing +2.7

Elections in the 1990s
General election 1997: Gedling[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Vernon Coaker 24,390 46.8 +12.4
Conservative Andrew Mitchell 20,588 39.5 −13.7
Liberal Democrats Raymond Poynter 5,180 9.9 −2.2
Referendum John Connor 2,006 3.9 New
Majority 3,802 7.3 N/A
Turnout 52,164 75.7 -6.6
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +13.1
General election 1992: Gedling[11][12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Andrew Mitchell 30,191 53.2 −1.3
Labour Vernon Coaker 19,554 34.4 +10.5
Liberal Democrats DG George 6,863 12.1 −9.5
Natural Law AKL Miszeweka 168 0.3 New
Majority 10,637 18.7 −11.8
Turnout 56,776 82.3 +3.2
Conservative hold Swing −5.9

Elections in the 1980s
General election 1987: Gedling[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Andrew Mitchell 29,492 54.5 +0.4
Labour Vernon Coaker 12,953 23.9 +3.3
SDP David Morton 11,684 21.59 -3.4
Majority 16,539 30.55 +1.38
Turnout 54,129 79.14 +3.73
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1983: Gedling[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Philip Holland 27,207 54.1
SDP A Berkeley 12,543 25.0
Labour J Peck 10,330 20.6
Independent J Szatter 186 0.37
Majority 14,664 29.17
Turnout 50,080 75.41
Conservative win (new seat)

See also

Notes and references
Notes
  1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
  2. 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
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  3. List of Labour MPs elected in 2015 by % majority UK Political.info. Retrieved 2017-01-29
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