North Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)


North Shropshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Owen Paterson, a Conservative.

History

From its first creation in 1832 to the abolition of the first creation in 1885 it covered approximately half of the county and elected two members, formally Knights of the Shire. In 1885 the county was - divided between four constituencies: Ludlow, Newport, Oswestry and Wellington.
In 1983 the constituency was revived in a smaller form and elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.
Owen Paterson was appointed to be the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in May 2010 and from the September 2012 Cabinet reshuffle, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, until another reshuffle in June 2014.

Boundaries

1832–1885: The Hundreds of Oswestry, Pimhill, North Bradford and South Bradford, and the Liberty of Shrewsbury.
1983–1997: The District of North Shropshire, the Borough of Oswestry, and the District of The Wrekin wards of Church Aston, Edgmond, Ercall Magna, Newport East, Newport North, and Newport West.
1997–2009: The District of North Shropshire, and the Borough of Oswestry.
2009–present: The North Area Committee of Shropshire Council.
The area is rural and north of Shrewsbury, west of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the Stoke conurbation and south of Cheshire, having five small towns.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1832–85

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

originally selected Al Derby as a candidate here, but he changed to Wolverhampton North East.

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections 1865-1880

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1870s

Elections in the 1840s