Milton Keynes North is a constituency represented in the

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of the

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since the 2019 United Kingdom general election by

Ben Everitt Benjamin William Everitt (born 22 November 1979) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Milton Keynes North since the 2019 general election. Early life and career Everitt was born in ...

, a

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Constituency profile

The seat covers

Central Milton Keynes Central Milton Keynes is the central business district of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England and a civil parish in its own right, with a town council. The district is approximately long by wide and occupies some of the highest land in Mi ...

and areas to the north including Wolverton, Newport Pagnell and Olney. Milton Keynes North has a higher average income, less

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and less rented housing than the national average.

History

This constituency (and its counterpart, Milton Keynes South), came into being when the two Milton Keynes constituencies ( Milton Keynes North East and Milton Keynes South West) were reconfigured following the

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with the aim of equalising the electorate as between the constituencies in the light of population growth that had occurred mainly in the

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. This constituency is the more rural of the two. Mark Lancaster, who had been the incumbent for Milton Keynes North East, won the new constituency for the

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in the 2010 general election and retained it in the 2015 general election. He stood down before the 2019 general election after abuse and two threats to his life. His successor to the Conservative candidacy was

Boundaries

The constituency takes up the majority of the area of the

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and is one of the borough's two constituencies. Milton Keynes North has a larger rural area; the other, Milton Keynes South, covers a smaller area and is more urban. At its creation the constituency comprised the electoral wards of Bradwell, Campbell Park,

Hanslope Hanslope is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about west northwest of Newport Pagnell, about north of Stony Stratford and north of Central Milt ...

Park, Linford North, Linford South, Middleton, Newport Pagnell North, Newport Pagnell South, Olney, Sherington, Stantonbury, and

Wolverton Wolverton is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, England. It is located at the northern edge of Milton Keynes, beside the West Coast Main Line, the Grand Union Canal and the river Great Ouse. It is the administrative seat of Wolverton and G ...

. Following a revision to the ward boundaries in 2013, the seat comprises part or all of the following Council electoral wards:Ward map (PDF)

2013 * Bradwell * Broughton *

* Campbell Park &

Old Woughton Old Woughton ( ) is a district and civil parish in south central Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. The parish was established in April 2012 by the division into two parts of Woughton parish. The original (undivided) civil parish was its ...

* Monkston * Newport Pagnell North &

* Newport Pagnell South * Olney * Stantonbury *

The City Council ward boundaries do not necessarily coincide with the town and parish council areas. Of these wards, Newport Pagnell North & Hanslope and Olney are more rural. The remainder are more urban. Each ward returns three Councillors so their electorates are broadly equal.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

Notes

References

External links

United Kingdom ParliamentBoundary Commission for EnglandUK Polling Report Milton Keynes North
{{DEFAULTSORT:Milton Keynes North (Uk Parliament Constituency) Parliamentary constituencies in Buckinghamshire Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2010 Politics of Milton Keynes