Daventry (UK Parliament constituency)

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Daventry County constituency

Daventry shown within Northamptonshire, and Northamptonshire shown within England
Created:	1918, 1974
MP:	Tim Boswell
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Northamptonshire
EP constituency:	East Midlands

Daventry is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a strongly Conservative seat.

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

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the west of Northamptonshire and is named for the market town of Daventry. It covers the western part of Daventry and South Northamptonshire local government districts.

[edit] Boundary review

Following a 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 seats. Daventry will give much of its southern electoral wards to a new South Northamptonshire constituency.

A modified Daventry constituency is formed from the following electoral wards;

The district of Daventry
Two wards from the Wellingborough borough - Earls Barton and West
The South Northamptonshire wards of Cote, Downs, Grange, Harpole and Heyford

[edit] Members of Parliament

1918 – 1943: Edward FitzRoy, Conservative
1943 – 1950: Reginal Manningham-Buller, Conservative
Constituency abolished in 1950 but revived in 1974
1974 – 1979: Arthur Jones, Conservative
1979 – 1987: Reginald Prentice, Conservative
1987 – present: Tim Boswell, Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Daventry
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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
	UK Independence	Barry Mahoney	1,927	3.2	+0.8
	Veritas	Barrie Wilkins	822	1.4	+1.4
Majority			14,686	24.3
Turnout			60,439	68.1	+2.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	3.6

General Election 2001: Daventry
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	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	+1.2
	UK Independence	Peter Baden	1,381	2.4	+1.7
Majority			9,649	17.0
Turnout			56,684	65.5	-10.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire

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)