The non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire is divided into 7 parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 6 county constituencies.
Constituency[nb 1] | Electorate[1] | Majority[2][nb 2] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
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Boston and Skegness CC | 69,381 | 25,621 | Matt Warman† | Ben Cook‡ | |||
Gainsborough CC | 76,343 | 22,967 | Sir Edward Leigh† | Perry Smith‡ | |||
Grantham and Stamford CC | 81,502 | 26,003 | Gareth Davies† | Kathryn Salt‡ | |||
Lincoln BC | 74,942 | 3,514 | Karl McCartney† | Karen Lee‡ | |||
Louth and Horncastle CC | 79,634 | 28,868 | Victoria Atkins† | Ellie Green‡ | |||
Sleaford and North Hykeham CC | 94,761 | 32,564 | Dr Caroline Johnson† | Linda Edwards-Shea‡ | |||
South Holland and The Deepings CC | 75,975 | 30,838 | John Hayes† | Mark Popple‡ |
In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Lincolnshire retained its current constituencies, with minor changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.
Name | Boundaries 1997–2010 | Boundaries 2010–present |
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See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.[3] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final recommendations were published on 28 June 2023.
The commission has proposed including Lincolnshire with Leicestershire and Rutland in a sub-region of the East Midlands region, creating one additional seat by re-establishing the constituency of Rutland and Stamford, which spans all three counties. Consequently, that town is removed from the constituency of Grantham and Stamford, which is to be renamed Grantham and Bourne. [4]
The following seats are proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Boston
Containing electoral wards from East Lyndsey
Containing electoral wards from Lincoln
Containing electoral wards from North Kesteven
Containing electoral wards from South Holland
Containing electoral wards from South Kesteven
Containing electoral wards from West Lyndsey
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[5]
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Lincolnshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 246,959 | 67.2% | 5.6% | 7 | 1 |
Labour | 76,583 | 20.8% | 7.7% | 0 | 1 |
Liberal Democrats | 28,389 | 7.7% | 3.6% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 6,815 | 1.9% | 0.5% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 1,079 | 0.3% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 7,614 | 2.1% | 2.3% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 367,439 | 100.0 | 7 |
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative | 53.2 | 53.8 | 53.5 | 42.4 | 46.2 | 46.8 | 49.8 | 51.6 | 61.6 | 67.2 |
Labour | 15.1 | 18.5 | 25.8 | 36.9 | 35.7 | 29.5 | 19.4 | 20.1 | 28.5 | 20.8 |
Liberal Democrat1 | 31.4 | 27.4 | 19.8 | 17.5 | 16.1 | 17.4 | 20.2 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 7.7 |
Green Party | – | * | * | * | * | * | 0.2 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
UKIP | – | – | – | * | * | * | 4.7 | 19.4 | 3.5 | * |
Brexit Party | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.3 |
Other | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 2.1 |
11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
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Conservative | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
11983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance
A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.
Conservative Liberal Liberal Unionist
Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 87 | 90 | 1892 | 93 | 94 | 1895 | 98 | 1900 | 1906 | 07 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 17 |
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Boston | Ingram | Farmer-Atkinson | Ingram | Garfit | Faber | Dixon | |||||||||||||
Brigg | Meysey-Thompson | → | Waddy | Richardson | Reckitt | Sheffield | Gelder | ||||||||||||
Gainsborough | Bennett | Eyre | Bennett | Bainbridge | Ormsby-Gore | Renton | → | Bentham | |||||||||||
Grantham | Mellor | Low | Lopes | Priestley | |||||||||||||||
Grimsby | Heneage | → | Josse | Heneage | Doughty | → | Wing | Doughty | → | Tickler | |||||||||
Horncastle | Stanhope | de Eresby | Weigall | ||||||||||||||||
Lincoln | Ruston | → | Kerans | Crosfield | Seely | Roberts | |||||||||||||
Louth | Otter | Heath | Perks | Brackenbury | Davies | ||||||||||||||
Sleaford | Chaplin | Lupton | Royds | ||||||||||||||||
Spalding | Finch-Hatton | Stewart | Pollock | Mansfield | McLaren | Peel | |||||||||||||
Stamford | Lawrance | Cust | Younger | Joicey-Cecil | Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby |
Conservative Independent Labour Liberal National Liberal (1931–68)
Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 21 | 1922 | 23 | 1923 | 24 | 1924 | 29 | 1929 | 31 | 1931 | 33 | 1935 | 37 | 42 | 1945 | 48 |
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Brigg | McLean | Sheffield | Quibell | Hunter | Quibell | Williamson | Mallalieu | |||||||||||
Gainsborough | Molson | Winfrey | Crookshank | |||||||||||||||
Grantham | Royds | R. Pattinson | Warrender | Kendall | ||||||||||||||
Grimsby | Tickler | Sutcliffe | Womersley | Younger | ||||||||||||||
Holland with Boston | Royce | Dean | Blindell | → | Butcher | |||||||||||||
Horncastle | Weigall | Hotchkin | S. Pattinson | Haslam | Maitland | |||||||||||||
Lincoln | Davies | Taylor | Liddall | Deer | ||||||||||||||
Louth | Brackenbury | T. Wintringham | M. Wintringham | Heneage | Osborne | |||||||||||||
Rutland and Stamford | Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | Dixon | Smith-Carington | de Eresby |
Conservative Labour Lincoln Democratic Labour National Liberal (1931–68)
Constituency | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 56 | 1959 | 62 | 1964 | 1966 | 69 | 1970 | 73 | Feb 1974 | Oct 1974 | 77 | 1979 |
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Brigg / Brigg and Scunthorpe (1974) | Mallalieu | Ellis | Brown | ||||||||||||
Gainsborough | Crookshank | Kimball | |||||||||||||
Grantham | Smith | Godber | Hogg | ||||||||||||
Grimsby | Younger | Crosland | Mitchell | ||||||||||||
Holland with Boston | Butcher | Body | |||||||||||||
Horncastle | Maitland | Tapsell | |||||||||||||
Lincoln | de Freitas | Taverne | → | Jackson | Carlisle | ||||||||||
Louth | Osborne | Archer | Brotherton | ||||||||||||
Rutland and Stamford | Conant | Lewis |
Conservative Independent Labour
Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 07 | 2010 | 2015 | 16 | 2017 | 19 | 2019 |
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Holland with Boston / Boston and Skegness (1997) | Body | Simmonds | Warman | ||||||||||
Gainsborough and Horncastle / Gainsborough (1997) | Leigh | ||||||||||||
Stamford and Spalding / Grantham and Stamford (1997) | Lewis | J. Davies | → | Boles | → | G. Davies | |||||||
Lincoln | Carlisle | Merron | McCartney | Lee | McCartney | ||||||||
East Lindsey / Louth and Horncastle (1997) | Tapsell | Atkins | |||||||||||
Grantham / Sleaford and North Hykeham (1997) | Hogg | Phillips | Johnson | ||||||||||
South Holland and The Deepings | Hayes |
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