Stockton South is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since December 2019 by Matt Vickers, a Conservative MP.[n 2]
Stockton South | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | County Durham, North Yorkshire |
Electorate | 74,698 (2018)[1] |
Major settlements | Stockton, Thornaby, Yarm, Ingleby Barwick and Eaglescliffe |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Matt Vickers (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Stockton-on-Tees, Thornaby, Easington and Richmond (Yorks)[2] |
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to moderate boundary changes and will be renamed Stockton West, to be first contested at the next general election.[3]
1983–1997: The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees wards of Bishopsgarth, Egglescliffe, Fairfield, Grangefield, Hartburn, Ingleby Barwick, Mandale, Parkfield, Preston, Stainsby, Victoria, Village, and Yarm, and the Borough of Middlesbrough wards of Ayresome, Brookfield, and Kader.
1997–2010: The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees wards of Bishopsgarth, Egglescliffe, Elm Tree, Fairfield, Grangefield, Hartburn, Ingleby Barwick, Mandale, Parkfield, Preston, Stainsby, Victoria, Village, and Yarm. The three Middlesbrough wards were transferred to the redrawn Middlesbrough constituency.
2010–present: The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees wards of Bishopsgarth and Elm Tree, Eaglescliffe, Fairfield, Grangefield, Hartburn, Ingleby Barwick East, Ingleby Barwick West, Mandale and Victoria, Parkfield and Oxbridge, Stainsby Hill, Thornaby-on-Tees, and Yarm.
Stockton South consists of the south-western half of Stockton-on-Tees and on the same bank, upstream, the town of Eaglescliffe – on the southern bank of the River Tees are the towns of Thornaby-on-Tees, Yarm, and Ingleby Barwick.
The seat was formed from a combination of Stockton-on-Tees and Thornaby in 1983, predominantly as a replacement to the latter seat.
More middle-class than neighbouring Stockton North, this seat was first won by the SDP-Liberal Alliance in a narrow victory at the 1983. Ian Wrigglesworth, the former Labour MP for Thornaby, defected to the newly formed Social Democratic Party in 1981, and held the successor seat as the SDP candidate.
This result came after the Conservative candidate's nomination was withdrawn when he was revealed to have previously been in the National Front.
Following this, the seat was held by a Conservative for ten years, from 1987 to 1997. It was a bellwether in Labour's landslide at the 1997 general election, and its member, Dari Taylor, retained it until the 2010 general election, when the Conservative, James Wharton narrowly won back the seat.
It was the Conservative Party's only gain in the North East, with Wharton substantially increasing his majority at the 2015 general election. However, Labour's victory in the seat in 2017 saw the seat's 30 year status as a bellwether constituency come to an end. In 2019, the Conservatives took it back, in line with the general swing in their favour in multiple north east red wall seats, despite only being held by Labour for fifteen of its 39 years of existence.
Based on ONS data, workless claimants and registered jobseekers, were in May 2017 lower than the North East average of 5.9%[4] and also lower than the national average of 4.6%, at 3.4%[5] of the population.
Election | Member[6] | Party | |
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1983 | Ian Wrigglesworth | SDP | |
1987 | Tim Devlin | Conservative | |
1997 | Dari Taylor | Labour | |
2010 | James Wharton | Conservative | |
2017 | Paul Williams | Labour | |
2019 | Matt Vickers | Conservative |
The next United Kingdom general election will see the constituency renamed to Stockton West with minor boundary changes to include villages west of Stockton.[7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Matt Vickers | 27,764 | 50.7 | 3.9 | |
Labour | Paul Williams | 22,504 | 41.1 | 7.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brendan Devlin | 2,338 | 4.3 | 2.5 | |
Brexit Party | John Prescott[9] | 2,196 | 4.0 | New | |
Majority | 5,260 | 9.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 54,802 | 71.3 | 0.1 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | 5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Paul Williams[11] | 26,102 | 48.5 | 11.5 | |
Conservative | James Wharton | 25,214 | 46.8 | 0.0 | |
UKIP | David Outterside[12] | 1,186 | 2.2 | 8.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Drew Durning | 951 | 1.8 | 0.8 | |
Green | Jo Fitzgerald | 371 | 0.7 | 1.1 | |
Majority | 888 | 1.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 53,824 | 71.2 | 2.2 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 5.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Wharton | 24,221 | 46.8 | 7.9 | |
Labour | Louise Baldock | 19,175 | 37.0 | 1.3 | |
UKIP | Ted Strike | 5,480 | 10.6 | 7.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Drew Durning | 1,366 | 2.6 | 12.5 | |
Green | Jacqui Lovell | 952 | 1.8 | New | |
Independent | Steve Walmsley | 603 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 5,046 | 9.8 | 9.2 | ||
Turnout | 51,797 | 69.0 | 1.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | 4.55 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Wharton | 19,577 | 38.9 | +4.7 | |
Labour | Dari Taylor | 19,245 | 38.3 | −9.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jacquie Bell | 7,600 | 15.1 | −1.0 | |
BNP | Neil Sinclair | 1,553 | 3.1 | New | |
UKIP | Peter Braney | 1,471 | 2.9 | +0.9 | |
Independent | Yvonne Hossack | 536 | 1.1 | New | |
Christian | Ted Strike | 302 | 0.6 | New | |
Majority | 332 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 50,284 | 67.4 | +4.4 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | −7.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dari Taylor | 21,480 | 47.8 | −5.2 | |
Conservative | James Gaddas | 15,341 | 34.1 | +1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mike Barker | 7,171 | 16.0 | +2.4 | |
UKIP | Sandra Allison | 931 | 2.1 | New | |
Majority | 6,139 | 13.7 | -6.9 | ||
Turnout | 44,923 | 63.0 | +0.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dari Taylor | 23,414 | 53.0 | −3.3 | |
Conservative | Tim Devlin | 14,328 | 32.4 | −1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Suzanne Fletcher | 6,012 | 13.6 | +4.4 | |
Socialist Alliance | Lawrence Coombes | 455 | 1.0 | New | |
Majority | 9,086 | 20.6 | -2.0 | ||
Turnout | 44,209 | 62.9 | −11.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dari Taylor | 28,790 | 56.3 | +16.5 | |
Conservative | Tim Devlin | 17,205 | 33.7 | −11.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Monck | 4,721 | 9.2 | −5.8 | |
Referendum | John Horner | 400 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 11,585 | 22.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 51,116 | 74.5 | -8.3 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +14.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Devlin | 28,418 | 45.2 | +10.2 | |
Labour | John McKie Scott | 25,049 | 39.8 | +8.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kay R. Kirkham | 9,410 | 15.0 | −18.7 | |
Majority | 3,369 | 5.4 | +4.1 | ||
Turnout | 62,877 | 82.8 | +3.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Devlin | 20,833 | 35.0 | −1.6 | |
SDP | Ian Wrigglesworth | 20,059 | 33.7 | −3.1 | |
Labour | John McKie Scott | 18,600 | 31.3 | +5.0 | |
Majority | 774 | 1.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 59,492 | 79.0 | +6.9 | ||
Conservative gain from SDP | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDP | Ian Wrigglesworth | 19,550 | 36.8 | ||
Conservative | Tom Finnegan | 19,448 | 36.6 | ||
Labour | Frank Griffiths | 13,998 | 26.3 | ||
Independent | D. Fern | 205 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 102 | 0.2 | |||
Turnout | 53,201 | 72.1 | |||
SDP win (new seat) |
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