Daventry is a constituency[n 1] in Northamptonshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Chris Heaton-Harris of the Conservative Party, who has served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 2022.
Daventry | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Northamptonshire |
Electorate | 74,674 (2018)[1] |
Major settlements | Daventry, Earls Barton, Brixworth |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1974 |
Member of Parliament | Chris Heaton-Harris (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | South Northamptonshire |
1918–1950 | |
Created from | South Northamptonshire and Mid Northamptonshire |
Replaced by | South Northamptonshire |
The seat, one of many created in 1918, was a narrower form of the oldest creation of South Northamptonshire and lasted 32 years until it reverted into "South Northamptonshire". Finally today's seat was recreated mostly from the north of the South Northants seat[n 2] in 1974. Since its recreation and during its first existence, it has been served by Conservative MPs. As the 1997 majority was also not marginal, it has been to date an archetypal safe seat.
1918–1950: The Boroughs of Daventry and Brackley, the Rural Districts of Brackley, Crick, Daventry, Hardingstone, Middleton Cheney, Potterspury, and Towcester, and part of the Rural District of Northampton.
1974–1983: The Boroughs of Brackley and Daventry, and the Rural Districts of Brackley, Brixworth, Daventry, Northampton, and Towcester.[2]
1983–1997: The District of Daventry wards of Abbey North, Abbey South, Badby, Barby, Brampton, Braunston, Byfield, Crick and West Haddon, Drayton, Everdon, Flore, Guilsborough, Hill, Kilsby, Long Buckby, Ravensthorpe, Spratton, Weedon, Welford, Woodford, and Yelvertoft, and the District of South Northamptonshire wards of Astwell, Blakesley, Brackley East, Brackley West, Cosgrove, Danvers, Deanshanger, Forest, Grafton, Greatworth, King's Sutton, Kingthorn, Middleton Cheney, Potterspury, Rainsborough, Slapton, Tove, Towcester, and Wardoun.
1997–2010: The District of Daventry wards of Abbey North, Abbey South, Badby, Barby, Brampton, Braunston, Byfield, Crick and West Haddon, Drayton, Everdon, Flore, Hill, Kilsby, Long Buckby, Ravensthorpe, Weedon, Woodford, and Yelvertoft, and the District of South Northamptonshire wards of Astwell, Blakesley, Blisworth, Brackley East, Brackley West, Bugbrooke, Cosgrove, Danvers, Deanshanger, Forest, Gayton, Grafton, Greatworth, Heyford, King's Sutton, Kingthorn, Middleton Cheney, Potterspury, Rainsborough, Slapton, Tove, Towcester, and Wardoun.
2010–2021: The District of Daventry, the District of South Northamptonshire wards of Cote, Downs, Grange, Harpole, and Heyford, and the Borough of Wellingborough wards of Earls Barton and West.
2021–present: The District of North Northamptonshire ward of Earls Barton (part) and the District of West Northamptonshire wards of Braunston and Crick; Brixworth, Bugbrooke (part) Daventry East, Daventry West, Long Buckby, Moulton, and Woodford and Weedon.
The constituency covers the west of Northamptonshire and is named for the market town of Daventry.
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the constituency from the next general election, due by January 2025, will be (as they existed on 1 April 2021):
The part of the Bugbrooke ward is to be transferred to South Northamptonshire, offset by the addition of the remainder of the Earls Barton ward from Wellingborough and the part of Silverstone ward from South Northamptonshire.
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
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1918 | Edward FitzRoy | Conservative | |
1928 | Speaker | ||
1943 by-election | Reginald Manningham-Buller | Conservative | |
1950 | Constituency abolished |
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Arthur Jones | Conservative | |
1979 | Reg Prentice | Conservative | |
1987 | Tim Boswell | Conservative | |
2010 | Chris Heaton-Harris | Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Harris[5] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Heaton-Harris | 37,055 | 64.6 | +0.9 | |
Labour | Paul Joyce | 10,975 | 19.1 | -5.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Simpson | 7,032 | 12.3 | +5.1 | |
Green | Clare Slater | 2,341 | 4.1 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 26,080 | 45.5 | +6.5 | ||
Turnout | 57,403 | 74.1 | +0.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Heaton-Harris[8] | 35,464 | 63.7 | +5.5 | |
Labour | Aiden Ramsey | 13,730 | 24.7 | +6.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Simpson | 4,015 | 7.2 | +2.7 | |
UKIP | Ian Gibbins | 1,497 | 2.7 | -13.1 | |
Green | Jamie Wildman | 957 | 1.7 | -1.8 | |
Majority | 21,734 | 39.0 | -1.1 | ||
Turnout | 55,663 | 74.0 | +1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -0.55 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Heaton-Harris[8] | 30,550 | 58.2 | +1.7 | |
Labour | Abigail Campbell[10] | 9,491 | 18.1 | +2.3 | |
UKIP | Michael Gerard[11] | 8,296 | 15.8 | +11.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Callum Delhoy[12] | 2,352 | 4.5 | -14.9 | |
Green | Steve Whiffen | 1,829 | 3.5 | +2.0 | |
Majority | 21,059 | 40.1 | +3.0 | ||
Turnout | 52,518 | 72.2 | -0.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
UKIP originally selected Nigel Wickens,[13] who was also selected for Mid Bedfordshire.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris Heaton-Harris | 29,252 | 56.5 | +3.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Christopher McGlynn[17] | 10,064 | 19.4 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Paul Corazzo | 8,168 | 15.8 | −12.1 | |
UKIP | Jim Broomfield | 2,333 | 4.5 | +1.6 | |
English Democrat | Alan Bennett-Spencer | 1,187 | 2.3 | New | |
Green | Steve Whiffen | 770 | 1.5 | New | |
Majority | 19,188 | 37.1 | +12.8 | ||
Turnout | 51,774 | 72.5 | +4.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.7 |
After the 2005 general election, Daventry incurred massive boundary changes following the creation of the new South Northamptonshire seat. The results of the 2010 general election are based on the notional results for the new boundaries.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Boswell | 31,206 | 51.6 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Andrew Hammond | 16,520 | 27.3 | −4.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hannah Saul | 9,964 | 16.5 | +0.4 | |
UKIP | Barry Mahoney | 1,927 | 3.2 | +0.8 | |
Veritas | Barrie Wilkins | 822 | 1.4 | New | |
Majority | 14,686 | 24.3 | +7.3 | ||
Turnout | 60,439 | 68.1 | +2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Boswell | 27,911 | 49.2 | +2.9 | |
Labour | Kevin Quigley | 18,262 | 32.2 | -2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jamie Calder | 9,130 | 16.1 | +1.1 | |
UKIP | Peter Baden | 1,381 | 2.4 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 9,649 | 17.0 | +5.1 | ||
Turnout | 56,684 | 65.5 | -11.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Boswell | 28,615 | 46.3 | −11.4 | |
Labour | Ken Ritchie | 21,237 | 34.4 | +10.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Gordon | 9,233 | 15.0 | −2.7 | |
Referendum | Barbara Russocki | 2,018 | 3.3 | New | |
UKIP | B.J. Mahoney | 443 | 0.7 | New | |
Natural Law | Russell B. France | 204 | 0.3 | −0.4 | |
Majority | 7,378 | 11.9 | -21.9 | ||
Turnout | 61,750 | 77.0 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −11.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Boswell | 34,734 | 58.4 | +0.5 | |
Labour | Lesley Koumi | 14,460 | 24.3 | +3.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anthony S. Rounthwaite | 9,820 | 16.5 | −5.0 | |
Natural Law | Russell B. France | 422 | 0.7 | New | |
Majority | 20,274 | 34.1 | −2.2 | ||
Turnout | 59,436 | 82.7 | +4.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tim Boswell | 31,353 | 57.9 | +4.6 | |
Liberal | Ian Miller | 11,663 | 21.6 | -5.1 | |
Labour | Lesley Koumi | 11,097 | 20.5 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 19,690 | 36.3 | +9.7 | ||
Turnout | 54,113 | 78.2 | +1.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Reg Prentice | 26,357 | 53.3 | -3.3 | |
SDP | David Collins | 13,221 | 26.7 | New | |
Labour | David Middleton | 9,840 | 19.9 | -7.4 | |
Majority | 13,136 | 26.6 | -2.8 | ||
Turnout | 49,418 | 76.8 | -3.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Reg Prentice | 41,422 | 56.61 | ||
Labour | JL Rawlings | 19,939 | 27.25 | ||
Liberal | R Woodside | 11,286 | 15.42 | ||
National Front | G Younger | 522 | 0.71 | New | |
Majority | 21,483 | 29.36 | |||
Turnout | 73,169 | 80.50 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Jones | 29,801 | 46.43 | ||
Labour | D Forwood | 20,739 | 32.31 | ||
Liberal | D Cassidy | 13,640 | 21.25 | ||
Majority | 9,062 | 14.12 | |||
Turnout | 64,180 | 77.09 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Jones | 31,273 | 44.93 | ||
Labour | P Jones | 21,524 | 30.93 | ||
Liberal | P Smout | 16,802 | 24.14 | ||
Majority | 9,749 | 14.00 | |||
Turnout | 69,599 | 84.33 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 14,863 | 42.8 | New | |
Labour | Paul F Williams | 13,693 | 39.5 | +3.2 | |
Liberal | William George Ernest Dyer | 6,130 | 17.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,170 | 3.3 | -24.1 | ||
Turnout | 34,686 | 75.0 | -1.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Reginald Manningham-Buller | 9,043 | 45.9 | -17.8 | |
Common Wealth | Dennis G Webb | 6,591 | 33.4 | New | |
Independent Liberal | William George Ernest Dyer | 4,093 | 20.7 | New | |
Majority | 2,452 | 12.5 | -14.9 | ||
Turnout | 19,727 | 48.7 | -27.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
General Election 1939–40:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Speaker | Edward FitzRoy | 18,934 | 63.7 | N/A | |
Labour | TE Barnes | 10,767 | 36.3 | New | |
Majority | 8,167 | 27.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 29,701 | 76.0 | N/A | ||
Speaker hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Speaker | Edward FitzRoy | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Speaker hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Speaker | Edward FitzRoy | Unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Speaker hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Edward FitzRoy | 12,683 | 50.4 | +5.7 | |
Liberal | Charles Kerr | 12,483 | 49.6 | +11.8 | |
Majority | 200 | 0.8 | -6.1 | ||
Turnout | 25,166 | 79.7 | +3.6 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | -3.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Edward FitzRoy | 10,514 | 44.7 | -14.9 | |
Liberal | Charles Kerr | 8,914 | 37.8 | New | |
Labour | Len Smith | 4,127 | 17.5 | -22.9 | |
Majority | 1,600 | 6.9 | -12.3 | ||
Turnout | 23,555 | 76.1 | +4.0 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Edward FitzRoy | 13,055 | 59.6 | +0.8 | |
Labour | Will Rogers | 8,850 | 40.4 | -0.8 | |
Majority | 4,205 | 19.2 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 21,905 | 72.1 | +9.4 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | +0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Edward FitzRoy | 11,176 | 58.8 | |
Labour | Will Rogers | 7,824 | 41.2 | ||
Majority | 3,352 | 17.6 | |||
Turnout | 19,000 | 62.7 | |||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
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