List of Parliamentary constituencies in Leicestershire and Rutland

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Name[nb 1]	Electorate[1]	Majority[2][nb 2]	Member of Parliament[2]		Nearest opposition[2]		Map
Bosworth CC	81,542	26,278		Luke Evans †		Rick Middleton‡
Charnwood CC	79,534	22,397		Edward Argar†		Gary Godden‡
Harborough CC	80,151	17,278		Neil O'Brien†		Celia Hibbert‡
Leicester East BC	78,433	6,019		Claudia Webbe‡		Bhupendra Dave†
Leicester South BC*	77,708	22,675		Jon Ashworth‡		Natalie Neale†
Leicester West BC	64,940	4,212		Liz Kendall‡		Amanda Wright†
Loughborough CC	79,764	7,169		Jane Hunt†		Stuart Brady‡
North West Leicestershire CC	78,935	20,400		Andrew Bridgen†		Terri Eynon‡
Rutland and Melton CC	82,705	26,924		Alicia Kearns†		Andy Thomas‡
South Leicestershire CC	80,520	24,004		Alberto Costa†		Tristan Koriya‡

In the unreformed House of Commons, Leicestershire and Rutland were represented by two Knights of the Shire each, and the only parliamentary borough was Leicester, which sent two burgesses.

Under the Reform Act 1832, Leicestershire was split into two divisions, North and South, which each elected two members. The Reform Act 1885 redistributed these seats into four single-member divisions: Melton, or Eastern, Loughborough, or Mid, Harborough, or Southern, and Bosworth, or Western.

At the 1918 general election, the four divisions of the county were retained, and the borough of Leicester was split into three single-member constituencies, Leicester East, Leicester South, and Leicester West. From 1950 to 1974 Leicester had four constituencies, these being Leicester North East, Leicester North West, Leicester South East and Leicester South West: the three seat arrangement of South, East and West was reverted to thereafter.

Rutland constituted a constituency on its own until 1918, when it became part of the Rutland and Stamford constituency, with nearby Stamford in Lincolnshire.

In 1983, seats in Leicestershire were redrawn. Rutland was merged with Melton to form Rutland and Melton, with Loughborough, Bosworth, and Harborough remaining as seat names. The new North West Leicestershire constituency was created. A further constituency, Charnwood was created in the north for the 1997 election.

Finalised proposals by the Boundary Commission for England retain the 10 constituencies, with changes to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries of current local government wards, and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies. These changes were implemented at the 2010 United Kingdom general election. They have confirmed that the new constituency which almost corresponds to the existing Blaby is renamed South Leicestershire on the grounds that it does not match the borders of Blaby district, and the village of Blaby itself is not one of the major population centres.

No. on map	Constituency	2005 boundaries	2010 boundaries
1	Bosworth
2	Charnwood
3	Harborough
4	Leicester East
5	Leicester South
6	Leicester West
7	Loughborough
8	North West Leicestershire
9	Rutland and Melton
10	South Leicestershire (previously Blaby)

The Boundary Commission for England submitted their final proposals in respect of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies (the 2018 review) in September 2018. Although the proposals were immediately laid before Parliament they were not brought forward by the Government for approval. Accordingly, they did not come into effect for the 2019 election which took place on 12 December 2019, and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010.

Under the terms of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, the Sixth Review was based on reducing the total number of MPs from 650 to 600 and a strict electoral parity requirement that the electorate of all constituencies should be within a range of 5% either side of the electoral quota.

On 24 March 2020, the Minister of State for the Cabinet Office, Chloe Smith, issued a written statement to Parliament setting out the Government's thinking with regard to parliamentary boundaries.[3] Subsequently, the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020[4] was passed into law on 14 December 2020. This formally removed the duty to implement the 2018 review and set out the framework for future boundary reviews. The Act provided that the number of constituencies should remain at the current level of 650, rather than being reduced to 600, while retaining the requirement that the electorate should be no more than +/- 5% from the electoral quota.

The Act specified that the next review should be completed no later than 1 July 2023 and the Boundary Commission formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[5] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[6]

2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Leicestershire and Rutland in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	281,019	53.3%	4.4%	7	0
Labour	169,475	32.1%	8.0%	3	0
Liberal Democrats	51,606	9.8%	3.2%	0	0
Greens	18,705	3.5%	1.4%	0	0
Brexit	4,050	0.8%	new	0	0
Others	2,835	0.5%	1.8%	0	0
Total	527,690	100.0		10

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.

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in the East Midlands (region)
• East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)
• Leicestershire County Council
• Rutland County Council

General

• "Boundary Commission for England: Fifth Periodical Report" (PDF). Boundary Commission for England. Crown Copyright. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
• Craig, Frederick Walter Scott (1972). Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885–1972. Chichester, Sussex: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.

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