The Mansfield council area voted with more than 70% to Leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum. In 2019, the Conservatives received 63.9% of the vote in the formerly safe Labour constituency.
Boundariesedit
Map of present boundaries
The constituency covers the towns of Mansfield and Warsop, Nottinghamshire.
1885–1918: The sessional division of Mansfield (except the parishes of Clipstone, Sookholme and Warsop), and the parishes of Annesley, Eastwood, Felley and Greasley in the sessional division of Nottingham.[4]
1918–1950: The municipal borough of Mansfield, the urban district of Huthwaite, Mansfield Woodhouse, and Sutton-in-Ashfield, and the rural district of Skegby (except the parish of Sookholme).[5]
1950–1955: The municipal borough of Mansfield and the urban district of Sutton in Ashfield.[6]
1955–1983: The municipal borough of Mansfield and the urban districts of Mansfield Woodhouse and Warsop.[7]
1983–2010: The Berry Hill, Broomhill, Cumberlands, Eakring, Forest Town, Ladybrook, Leeming, Lindhurst, Manor, Northfield, Oakham, Oak Tree, Pleasleyhill, Ravensdale, Sherwood and Titchfield wards of the District of Mansfield.[8]
Berry Hill, Broom Hill, Cumberlands, Eakring, Forest Town East, Forest Town West, Grange Farm, Ladybrook, Leeming, Lindhurst, Oak Tree, Pleasley Hill, Portland, Priory, Ravensdale, Robin Hood, Sherwood.[10]
Birklands and Meden were added from 2010 having previously been part of Bassetlaw constituency.
Mansfield's elected executive mayor Tony Egginton unilaterally decided to reduce the number of ward councillors (from 46 to 36) whilst simultaneously increasing the number of wards from 17 + 2 (shown above) to 36 by applying to the Boundary Commission to re-structure ward layout and boundaries from 2011:[11]
Abbott, Berry Hill, Brick Kiln, Broom Hill, Bull Farm and Pleasley Hill, Carr Bank, Eakring, Grange Farm, Holly, Hornby, King's Walk, Kingsway, Ladybrook, Lindhurst, Ling Forest, Manor, Market Warsop, Maun Valley, Meden, Netherfield, Newgate, Newlands, Oak Tree, Oakham, Park Hall, Peafields, Penniment, Portland, Racecourse, Ransom Wood, Sandhurst, Sherwood, Warsop Carrs, Woodhouse, Woodlands, Yeoman Hill
Proposededit
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 reduced to bring the electorate within the permitted electoral range by transferring the Bull Farm and Pleasley Hill ward and polling district BHC in the Berry Hill ward (as they existed on 1 December 2020) to Ashfield.[12]
Following a local government boundary review in which came into effect in May 2023,[13][14] the constituency will now comprise the following wards of the Borough of Mansfield from the next general election:
Bancroft; Berry Hill; Brick Kiln; Carr Bank; Central; Eakring; Grange Farm; Holly Forest Town; Hornby; Kings Walk; Kingsway Forest Town; Lindhurst (part); Ling Forest; Manor; Market Warsop; Maun Valley Forest Town; Meden; Mill Lane; Netherfield; Newlands Forest Town; Oak Tree; Oakham; Park Hall; Penniment; Racecourse; Rock Hill; Rufford (majority); Sherwood (nearly all); Southwell; Thompsons; Vale; Wainwright; Warsop Carrs; West Bank; Yeoman Hill; and a very small part of Pleasley.[15]
Historyedit
The seat was created in the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and in the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century its economy centred on coal mining and the market town itself. Among many classes of local labourers saw organised Labour Party support, in Trade Unions, party clubs and civic society. Progression in the party's polling was heightened from the early 1920s when the seat joined many wrested from the Liberal Party, enabling the formation of the first Labour government. By length of tenure and in great majorities a safe seat status emerged for Labour (on the basis of these standard criteria) in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1980s general elections Labour's Mansfield candidates came closer to losing to Conservatives. At the 1983 election, Labour held the seat by just over 2,000 votes – at the following, in 1987, 56 votes. That election was set against the background of the party HQ-backed miners' strike of 1984, not supported by the majority of miners in Nottinghamshire.
In the elections after 1987 until 2017, the Labour MP Alan Meale held Mansfield with relatively large majorities. He was knighted in 2012 after receiving the award in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.[16]
At the 2005 general election, independent candidate Stewart Rickersey, a local District Councillor, took 17% of the vote, finishing in third place.
At the 2010 general election, Andre Camilleri, another candidate from Mansfield Independent Forum and previously a local councillor with special responsibility as a Cabinet Member for Mansfield District Council during 2003 to 2007, was placed fourth with 9% of the vote, above the 5% deposit threshold.
At the 2015 general election, the UKIP candidate Sid Pepper received 25% of the vote placing him third; this dropped to 5% at the 2017 election.
At the 2019 general election, Ben Bradley held Mansfield with a 16,306 majority, the highest ever for a Conservative candidate.
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
^A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
^As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
Referencesedit
^"Electorate Figures – Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Archived from the original on 6 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
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^Marginal seats dominate latest towns funding Local Government Chronicle, 3 October 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2024
^"Chap. 23. Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885". The Public General Acts of the United Kingdom passed in the forty-eighth and forty-ninth years of the reign of Queen Victoria. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1885. pp. 111–198.
^Fraser, Hugh (1918). The Representation of the People Act, 1918: with explanatory notes. London: Sweet and Maxwell.
^"The Parliamentary Constituencies (Nottinghamshire) Order 1955. SI 1955/169". Statutory Instruments 1955. Part II. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1956. pp. 2157–2159.
^"New Seat Details - Mansfield". www.electoralcalculus.co.uk. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
^"Mansfield MP Sir Alan Meale officially knighted by Prince Charles". Chad. 19 January 2012. Archived from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
^Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "M" (part 1)
^"Mansfield MP wants to 'see the job through' by getting re-elected at next general election". Mansfield and Ashfield Chad. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
^ https://www.socialistlabourparty.org/post/2024-general-election/candidates/mansfield/steve-jones. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^"General election 2024 Meet the candidates". Newark & Sherwood Green Party. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
^"Former Mansfield mayoral candidate to stand for Labour at next general election". Mansfield and Ashfield Chad. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
^"Ben Bradley would 'probably' stick to one job if he became East Midlands Mayor". Nottinghamshire Live. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
^"Mansfield Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
^"Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^Mansfield and Ashfield Conservatives, Selection of a Parliamentary candidates [sic] Archived 16 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine 12 December 2014, Retrieved 16 December 2014
^UKIP up for fight against Labour in Mansfield Archived 12 February 2015 at the Wayback MachineNottingham Post 7 February 2015 Retrieved 11 February 2015
^ abMansfield District Council Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll Archived 17 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 10 April 2015