Rutland and Melton (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Rutland and Melton in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Location of Leicestershire and Rutland within England.
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County | 1983–1997 Leicestershire 1997–present Leicestershire and Rutland |
Electorate | 77,324 (December 2010)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Alan Duncan (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Rutland & Stamford, and Melton |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | East Midlands |
Rutland and Melton is a county constituency spanning Leicestershire and Rutland, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. The constituency was first contested in 1983. The current MP is Sir Alan Duncan. It has been considered a safe Conservative seat since its creation, continuing to elect a Conservative with a significant margin even with the 1997 national swing towards the Labour Party.
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Boundaries
The constituency was created in 1983 from the former seats of Rutland and Stamford and Melton. Initially it covered all of Rutland and Melton Borough and part of Charnwood. A boundary change implemented in 1997 saw the area of Charnwood replaced with part of Harborough District up to the boundary of the city of Leicester (for example Scraptoft).
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1983 | Michael Latham | Conservative | |
1992 | Alan Duncan | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan Duncan | 30,383 | 55.6 | +4.5 | |
UKIP | Richard Billington[5] | 8,678 | 15.9 | +11.3 | |
Labour | James Moore | 8,383 | 15.4 | +1.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Ed Reynolds | 4,407 | 8.1 | -17.7 | |
Green | Alastair McQuillan | 2,325 | 4.3 | +4.3 | |
Independent | Marilyn Gordon | 427 | 0.8 | +0.8 | |
Majority | 21,705 | 39.8 | |||
Turnout | 54,603 | 68.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan Duncan | 28,228 | 51.2 | ±0.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Grahame Hudson | 14,228 | 25.8 | +7.2 | |
Labour | John Morgan | 7,839 | 14.2 | −10.8 | |
UKIP | Peter Baker | 2,526 | 4.6 | +1.4 | |
BNP | Keith Addison | 1,757 | 3.2 | N/A | |
Independent | Leigh Higgins | 588 | 1.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,000 | 25.4 | −0.8 | ||
Turnout | 55,166 | 71.7 | +6.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.6 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan Duncan | 25,237 | 51.2 | +3.1 | |
Labour | Linda Arnold | 12,307 | 25.0 | −4.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Grahame Hudson | 9,153 | 18.6 | +0.8 | |
UKIP | Peter Baker | 1,554 | 3.2 | +0.6 | |
Veritas | Duncan Shelley | 696 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Helen Pender | 337 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,930 | 26.2 | +7.9 | ||
Turnout | 49,284 | 65.0 | +0.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan Duncan | 22,621 | 48.1 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Matthew O’Callaghan | 14,009 | 29.8 | +0.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Kim Lee | 8,386 | 17.8 | −1.4 | |
UKIP | Peter Baker | 1,223 | 2.6 | +1.0 | |
Green | Chris Davies | 817 | 1.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,612 | 18.3 | +1.5 | ||
Turnout | 47,056 | 64.2 | −10.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan Duncan | 24,107 | 45.8 | −15.6 | |
Labour | John Meads | 15,271 | 29.0 | +8.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Kim Lee | 10,112 | 19.2 | +3.5 | |
Referendum | Rupert King | 2,317 | 4.4 | N/A | |
UKIP | Jeff Abbott | 823 | 1.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,836 | 16.8 | −23.8 | ||
Turnout | 52,630 | 75.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -14.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan Duncan | 38,603 | 59.0 | −3.0 | |
Labour | Mrs Joan Taylor | 13,068 | 20.0 | +5.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Richard Lustig | 12,682 | 19.4 | −4.1 | |
Green | Jim Berreen | 861 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Natural Law | R Gray | 237 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 25,535 | 39.0 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 65,451 | 80.8 | +4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.2 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Latham | 37,073 | 62.0 | - | |
Liberal | Rob Renold | 14,051 | 23.5 | - | |
Labour | Chris Burke | 8,680 | 14.5 | - | |
Majority | 23,022 | 38.50 | |||
Turnout | 59,804 | 76.82 | - | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Latham | 33,262 | 60.35 | - | |
Liberal | David Farrer | 14,909 | 27.05 | - | |
Labour | John Whitby | 6,414 | 11.64 | - | |
Ecology | Heather Goddard | 532 | 0.97 | - | |
Majority | 18,353 | 33.30 | - | ||
Turnout | 59,804 | 73.31 | - | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
See also
Notes and references
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- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/rutlandandmelton/
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- ↑ http://www.rutland.gov.uk/pp/pressrelease/pressdetail.asp?Id=8639
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- ↑ C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, p.142 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
- ↑ The 1997 election result is calculated relative to the notional, not the actual, 1992 result.
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
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