Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

The ceremonial county of Shropshire, England (which comprises the local/unitary authorities of Shropshire Council and Telford and Wrekin) is divided into 5 Parliamentary constituencies – 1 Borough constituency and 4 County constituencies. As with all constituencies for the House of Commons in the modern age, each constituency elects one Member of Parliament by the First Past The Post system.

Constituencies
Further information: 2019 United Kingdom general election

  Conservative †   Liberal Democrat ¤   Labour ‡

Constituency[nb 1] Electorate[1] Majority[2][nb 2] Member of Parliament[2] Nearest Opposition[2] Map
Ludlow CC 69,444 23,648   Philip Dunne †   Heather Kidd ¤
North Shropshire CC 83,258 22,949 Owen Paterson †   Graeme Currie ‡
Shrewsbury and Atcham CC 82,238 11,217 Daniel Kawczynski †   Julie Buckley ‡
Telford BC 68,921 10,941 Lucy Allan † Katrina Gilman ‡
The Wrekin CC 70,693 18,726 Mark Pritchard † Dylan Harrison ‡

Boundary changes

The most recent changes to Parliamentary constituencies by the Boundary Commission for England retain the 5 constituencies in Shropshire, making only small changes to the boundary between Telford and The Wrekin to align with current local government wards. These changes were implemented for the 2010 United Kingdom general election.

NamePre-2010 boundariesCurrent boundaries
  1. Ludlow CC
  2. North Shropshire CC
  3. Shrewsbury and Atcham CC
  4. Telford BC
  5. The Wrekin CC
Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire
New parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

Proposed boundary changes

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.

Results history

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 Shropshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party Votes % Change from 2017 Seats Change from 2017
Conservative 155,225 60.3% 4.7% 5 0
Labour 66,798 25.9% 9.3% 0 0
Liberal Democrats 26,827 10.4% 4.6% 0 0
Greens 6,955 2.7% 0.6% 0 0
Others 1,713 0.7% 0.6% 0 0
Total 257,518 100.0 5

Percentage votes
Election year 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974

(Feb)

 1974

(Oct)

 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative1 54.7 57.3 59.3 55.6 47.9 49.3 52.4 43.1 43.0 49.6 49.0 48.2 46.3 37.2 39.1 41.8 46.8 48.3 55.6 60.3
Labour 41.2 42.7 40.7 36.2 34.1 42.7 36.0 31.1 33.2 29.1 21.3 25.4 30.7 39.7 38.2 30.8 21.6 24.4 35.2 25.9
Liberal Democrat2 4.1 - - 8.2 18.0 8.0 11.7 25.8 23.8 21.0 29.7 26.0 22.0 20.5 18.6 23.0 23.5 7.0 5.8 10.4
Green Party - - - - - - - - - - - * * * * * 0.8 4.0 2.1 2.7
UKIP - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * * 4.4 16.3 1.2 *
Other - - - - - - - - - 0.2 0.1 0.3 1.0 2.7 4.1 4.4 3.0 - 0.1 0.7

1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats
Election year 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974

(Feb)

 1974

(Oct)

 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Conservative1 3 3 4 4 4 3 4 3 3 4 4 3 3 2 1 4 4 5 5 5
Labour 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 3 1 1 0 0 0
Liberal Democrat2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Total 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

1Includes National Liberal Party up to 1966

21950-1979 - Liberal; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps
  • 1950
  • 1951
  • 1955
  • 1959
  • 1964
  • 1966
  • 1970
  • Feb 1974
  • Oct 1974
  • 1979
  • 1983
  • 1987
  • 1992
  • 1997
  • 2001
  • 2005
  • 2010
  • 2015
  • 2017
  • 2019

Historical constituencies

Timeline of Parliamentary constituencies in the county, with historical (green) and extant (pink) constituencies.

Constituency 1290-1295 1295-1473 1473-1584 1584-1832 1832-1885 1885-1918 1918-1983 1983-1997 1997–present
Bishop's Castle 1584-1832
Bridgnorth 1295-1885
Ludlow 1473–present
Newport 1885-1918
North Shropshire 1832-1885 1983–present
Oswestry 1885-1983
Shrewsbury 1290-1983
Shrewsbury and Atcham 1983–present
Shropshire 1290-1832
South Shropshire 1832-1885
Telford 1997–present
Wellington 1885-1918
(Much) Wenlock 1290-1885
The Wrekin 1918–present

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   Liberal   Liberal Unionist   National Party

Constituency 1885 86 1886 1892 1895 1900 01 03 04 1906 08 Jan 1910 Dec 1910 12 13 17 18
Ludlow More → Hunt → → →
Newport Bickersteth → Kenyon-Slaney Stanier
Oswestry Leighton Ormsby-Gore Bright Bridgeman
Shrewsbury Watson Greene Hill Lloyd
Wellington (Salop) Brown → Henry

1918 to 1983

  Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23)   Conservative   Independent Conservative   Labour   Liberal

Constituency 1918 20 20 22 1922 23 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 41 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 60 61 1964 1966 1970 Feb 74 Oct 74 1979
Ludlow Stanier I. Windsor-Clive G. Windsor-Clive Corbett Holland-Martin More Cockeram
Oswestry Bridgeman Leighton Poole Ormsby-Gore Biffen
Shrewsbury Lloyd Ryder Sunlight Ryder Duckworth Langford-Holt
The Wrekin Henry Palmer Townshend Button Nixon Oakley Picton-Turbervill Baldwin-Webb Colegate Thomas Yates Fowler Trafford Fowler Hawksley

1983 to present

  Conservative   Labour   Liberal Democrats

Constituency 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 01 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019
Ludlow Cockeram Gill Green Dunne
North Shropshire Biffen Paterson
Shrewsbury and Atcham Conway Marsden → Kawczynski
The Wrekin Hawksley Grocott Bradley Pritchard
Telford Grocott Wright Allan

See also

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. Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. "Update: Strengthening Democracy:Written statement - HCWS183". UK Parliament. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  4. "Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020".
  5. "2023 Review launched | Boundary Commission for England". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  6. Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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