Sleaford and North Hykeham is a
parliamentary constituency
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in
Lincolnshire
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,
England
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which elects a single
Member of Parliament
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(MP) to the
House of Commons of the
UK Parliament
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. It has been represented since 2016 by
Dr Caroline Johnson, who is a member of the
Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
. The seat was created in 1997 and has always been represented by
Members of Parliament
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(MPs) from the Conservative Party; like all British constituencies, it elects one candidate by the
first-past-the-post
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voting system. Johnson became the MP for the constituency after
a by-election in December 2016, following the resignation of the previous MP for the seat,
Stephen Phillips
Stephen Phillips (28 July 1864 – 9 December 1915) was an English poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity early in his career.
Biography
He was born at Somertown near Oxford, the son of the Rev. Stephen Phillips, precentor o ...
. The constituency is considered a
safe seat
A safe seat is an electoral district (constituency) in a legislative body (e.g. Congress, Parliament, City Council) which is regarded as fully secure, for either a certain political party, or the incumbent representative personally or a combinat ...
for the Conservatives.
Boundaries
1997–2010: The District of
North Kesteven except for the
ward of
Bracebridge Heath, and the District of
South Kesteven
South Kesteven is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Lincolnshire, England, forming part of the traditional Kesteven division of the county. It covers Bourne, Lincolnshire, Bourne, Grantham, Market Deeping and Stamford, Li ...
wards of Ermine, Heath, Loveden, Saxonwell, and Witham Valley.
2010–present: The District of North Kesteven wards of
Ashby de la Launde
Ashby de la Launde is a small village, part of the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm, in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. The village is situated just west of Digby, Lincolnshire, D ...
, Bassingham, Billinghay, Branston and Mere, Brant Broughton, Cliff Villages, Cranwell and Byard's Leap, Eagle and North Scarle, Heckington Rural, Heighington and Washingborough, Kyme, Leasingham and Roxholm, Martin, Metheringham, North Hykeham Forum, North Hykeham Memorial, North Hykeham Mill, North Hykeham Moor, North Hykeham Witham, Osbournby, Ruskington, Sleaford Castle, Sleaford Holdingham, Sleaford Mareham, Sleaford Navigation, Sleaford Quarrington, Sleaford Westholme, and Waddington West, and the District of South Kesteven wards of Barrowby, Ermine, Heath, Loveden, Peascliffe, Saxonwell, and Witham Valley.
The
constituency
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger State (polity), state (a country, administrative region, ...
covers the towns of
Sleaford
Sleaford is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Centred on the former parish of New Sleaford, the modern boundaries and urban area include Quarrington, Lincolnshire, ...
and
North Hykeham
North Hykeham is a town and civil parish in the North Kesteven district, in the county of Lincolnshire, England. It forms part of the Lincoln Urban Area. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 13,884.
History
North Hykeham was ori ...
and a large area of rural
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
south west of
Lindsey Lindsey may refer to :
Places Canada
* Lindsey Lake, Nova Scotia
England
* Parts of Lindsey, one of the historic Parts of Lincolnshire and an administrative county from 1889 to 1974
** East Lindsey, an administrative district in Lincolnshire, a ...
. The constituency's boundaries roughly correspond to those of
North Kesteven local government district. In their formative proposals for 1997, the
Boundary Commission for England proposed calling the new constituency Mid Lincolnshire, however the name was changed to its current form during the local inquiry process. The inclusion of North Hykeham in the constituency title was criticised by the author and psephologist
Robert Waller in 1995, on the grounds that North Hykeham was effectively an overspill area of the
City of Lincoln; however, not on the grounds of its actual inclusion, as its local government authority has long been seen as linked with the villages to the south in this seat, and wholly separate from the city.
Following another
Boundary Commission
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Notable boundary commissions have included:
* Afghan Boundary Commission, an Anglo-Russian Boundary Commission, of 1885 and 1893, delineated the no ...
review, the
constituency
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boundaries with two of its neighbouring seats
Lincoln and
Grantham and Stamford were changed for the
2010 general election.
The areas within the constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham are under the control and come under the responsibility of
Lincolnshire County Council for the provision of certain public services, such as roads and local authority education.
History
1997–2015
Douglas Hogg moved to represent Sleaford and North Hykeham from the previously existing
Grantham constituency, a safe Conservative seat, which he had held since 1979. At the
1997 general election, Hogg won 43.9% of the vote, giving him a majority of 5,123 votes (9.6%) ahead of the second-placed
Labour Party. At the
2001 general election, the Conservatives increased their vote share by 5.7%, while the Labour Party's vote share decreased; the seat had a majority of 8,622 votes (17.7%), which was the 104th-smallest percentage majority out of the 166 seats won by the Conservatives. At the
2005 general election, Hogg won a majority of 12,705 votes (23.8%); this was the 35th-largest absolute majority (number of votes) and 52nd-largest percentage majority of the 198 seats won by the Conservative Party.
UKIP, a minor party, won 5% of the vote in the constituency (coming fourth), retaining its deposit. He stood down at the
2010 general election owing to
controversy over his expenses claims, making him the first MP to resign because of the scandal.
Hogg was replaced by fellow Conservative
Stephen Phillips
Stephen Phillips (28 July 1864 – 9 December 1915) was an English poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity early in his career.
Biography
He was born at Somertown near Oxford, the son of the Rev. Stephen Phillips, precentor o ...
. In 2010, he won a majority of 19,905 votes (33.4%); the
Liberal Democrats came second. Out of the 650 UK Parliament constituencies contested at the election, Sleaford and North Hykeham had the 14th-largest absolute majority and the 72nd-largest percentage majority. The
Lincolnshire Independents, a minor party, won 6.4% of the vote in the seat and came fourth; as this was more than 5%, the party retained its
deposit. At the
2015 general election, Phillips won a majority of 24,115 votes (38.9%), with the Labour Party coming second in the seat. This made the constituency the 34th-safest by absolute majority, and the 99th-safest by percentage majority, out of the 650 constituencies.
2016 by-election
Phillips stood down as an MP on 4 November 2016, owing to "irreconcilable differences" with the Government over the issue of
Brexit
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. This triggered a
by-election
A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...
within the constituency, which was held on 8 December;
Caroline Johnson
Caroline Elizabeth Johnson (''née'' Burton; born 31 December 1977) is a British Conservative Party politician and consultant paediatrician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health and Public Health from Septembe ...
retained the seat for the Conservatives with a large majority.
2017–present
At the
2017 general election
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January
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, Johnson won a majority of 25,237 votes; this was the second-largest majority of any seat in the East Midlands region (after
Leicester South
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. Johnson's 42,245 votes were the greatest tally for her party in that election.
Results of the 2017 United Kingdom general election
Results by parliamentary constituency
The results of the 2017 United Kingdom general election, by parliamentary constituency were as follows:
See also
* Results of the 2015 United Kingdom general election
* Results of the 2019 United Kingdom g ...
The majority in percentage was surpassed by six candidates of the same party. At the
2019 general election, the Conservatives increased their majority further to 32,565. This was the largest Conservative majority (measured by number of votes) at the election, and the largest majority of any seat in the East Midlands.
The seat is
overweight in electorate meaning each elector's potential vote counts for about 15% less than the smallest mainland seats and each potential vote has 24.4% of the potential effect as the remote seat covering
Na h-Eileanan an Iar (the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides). A seat consisting of the latter seat multiplied by four times its electorate would, narrowly, be smaller than this seat's adult eligible voters (electorate).
Members of Parliament
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Douglas Hogg
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Stephen Phillips
Stephen Phillips (28 July 1864 – 9 December 1915) was an English poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity early in his career.
Biography
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2016 by-election
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Caroline Johnson
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Conservative
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
See also
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List of parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire
References
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Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997