Corby (UK Parliament constituency)

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Corby County constituency

Corby shown within Northamptonshire, and Northamptonshire shown within England
Created:	1983
MP:	Phil Hope
Party:	Labour Co-operative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Northamptonshire
EP constituency:	East Midlands

Corby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is currently a marginal seat between Labour and the Conservatives.

1 Boundaries
- 1.1 Boundary review
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency is named for Corby in Northamptonshire, and also covers most of the local government district of East Northamptonshire. The seat is a highly marginal contest between the Tories and Labour. Corby itself is the most Labour-voting area; many speak with a Scottish accent after the migration of workers in the 1930s from north of the border to the town's former steelworks; the rest of the constituency, with Oundle (Home of the famous public school) and the rural villages, is mostly Conservative.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Northamptonshire, the Boundary Commission for England has created a new seat in the county, meaning consequential changes to the existing constituencies.

The electoral wards used to create the modified constituency are;

The borough of Corby
The East Northamptonshire wards of Barnwell, Dryden, Fineshade, Irthlingborough, King’s Forest, Lower Nene, Lyveden, Oundle, Prebendal, Raunds Saxon, Raunds Windmill, Ringstead, Stanwick, Thrapston and Woodford.

[edit] Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
1983	William Rhys Powell	Conservative
1987
1992
1997	Phil Hope	Labour Co-operative
2001
2005

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Corby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Phil Hope	20,913	43.1	-6.2
	Conservative	Andrew Griffith	19,396	40.0	+2.7
	Liberal Democrats	David Radcliffe	6,184	12.7	+2.7
	UKIP	Ian Gillman	1,278	2.6	+0.8
	Socialist Labour	Steven Carey	499	1.0	-0.6
	Independent (politician)	John Morris	257	0.5
Majority			1,517	3.1
Turnout			47,727	65.6	+0.6
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing	4.5

General Election 2001: Corby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Phil Hope	23,283	49.3	-6.1
	Conservative	Andrew Griffith	17,583	37.2	+3.8
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Scudder	4,751	10.1	+2.6
	UKIP	Ian Gillman	855	1.8	+0.9
	Socialist Labour	Andrew Dickson	750	1.6	N/A
Majority			5,700	12.1
Turnout			47,222	65.0	-12.6
	Labour Co-op hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire
Corby Borough Council Elections 2003
East Northamptonshire District Council Elections 2003
Northamptonshire County Council Elections 2005

Constituencies in the East Midlands
Labour	Amber Valley \| Ashfield \| Bassetlaw \| Bolsover \| Broxtowe \| Corby \| Derby North \| Derby South \| Erewash \| Gedling \| High Peak \| Leicester East \| Leicester South \| Leicester West \| Lincoln \| Loughborough \| Mansfield \| Northampton North \| North East Derbyshire \| North West Leicestershire \| Nottingham East \| Nottingham North \| Nottingham South \| Sherwood \| South Derbyshire
Conservative	Blaby \| Boston and Skegness \| Bosworth \| Charnwood \| Daventry \| Gainsborough \| Grantham and Stamford \| Harborough \| Kettering \| Louth and Horncastle \| Newark \| Northampton South \| Rushcliffe \| Rutland and Melton \| Sleaford and North Hykeham \| South Holland and The Deepings \| Wellingborough \| West Derbyshire
Liberal Democrat	Chesterfield
East Midlands European constituency: Conservative (2) \| UKIP (2) \| Labour (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)