Telford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Telford Borough constituency

Telford shown within Shropshire, and Shropshire shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	David Wright
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Shropshire
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Telford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
5 See also

[edit] Boundaries

Telford is made up of several old industrial towns near the river Severn and on the eastern flanks of the Wrekin (including Madeley, Dawley and the small townships in the Ironbridge Gorge) and numerous New Town developments (although not all of the Telford New Town developments are in the constituency; the northern parts of the New Town are in the Wrekin constituency) including Woodside. It also includes the commuter town of Priorslee. All of the constituency is covered by Telford and Wrekin Borough Council.

Boundary changes for the next election realign the constituency boundaries to fit with the Borough's new wards and as a result Telford will gain Ketley from The Wrekin.

[edit] History

Telford was created in 1997 from the core of the old Wrekin constituency and has been held by the Labour Party since its creation. Despite it's reputation, not all of Telford is solidly working class and there is a sizeable Tory vote in middle class areas like Priorslee.

[edit] Members of Parliament

1997 – 2001: Bruce Grocott, Labour
2001 – present: David Wright, Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Telford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Wright	16,506	48.3	−6.3
	Conservative	Stella Kyriazis	11,100	32.5	+5.1
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Jenkins	4,941	14.4	+1.5
	UK Independence	Tom McCartney	1,659	4.9	+1.3
Majority			5,406	15.8
Turnout			34,206	57.7	+5.7
	Labour hold		Swing	−5.7

General Election 2001: Telford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Wright	16,854	54.6	-3.2
	Conservative	Andrew Henderson	8,471	27.4	0.0
	Liberal Democrats	Sally Wiggin	3,983	12.9	+1.1
	UK Independence	Nicola Brookes	1,098	3.6	N/A
	Socialist Alliance	Mike Jeffries	469	1.5	N/A
Majority			8,383	27.2
Turnout			30,875	52.0	-13.7
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Telford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bruce Grocott	21,456	57.8	N/A
	Conservative	Bernard Gentry	10,166	27.4	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Nathaniel Green	4,371	11.8	N/A
	Referendum Party	C. Morris	1,119	3.0	N/A
Majority			11,290		N/A
Turnout				65.6	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

Constituencies in the West Midlands
Labour	Birmingham Edgbaston \| Birmingham, Erdington \| Birmingham Hall Green \| \|Birmingham Hodge Hill \| Birmingham Northfield \| Birmingham Perry Barr \| Birmingham Selly Oak \| Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath \| Burton \| Cannock Chase \| Coventry North East \| Coventry North West \| Coventry South \| Dudley North \| Dudley South \| Halesowen and Rowley Regis \| Newcastle-under-Lyme \| North Warwickshire \| Nuneaton \| Redditch \| Stafford \| Staffordshire Moorlands \| Stoke-on-Trent Central \| Stoke-on-Trent North \| Stoke-on-Trent South \| Stourbridge \| Tamworth \| Telford \| Walsall North \| Walsall South \| Warley \| Warwick and Leamington \| West Bromwich East \| West Bromwich West \| Wolverhampton North East \| Wolverhampton South East \| Wolverhampton South West \| Worcester
Conservative	Aldridge-Brownhills \| Bromsgrove \| Leominster \| Lichfield \| Ludlow \| Meriden \| Mid Worcestershire \| North Shropshire \| Rugby and Kenilworth \| Shrewsbury and Atcham \| South Staffordshire \| Stone \| Stratford-on-Avon \| Sutton Coldfield \| The Wrekin \| West Worcestershire
Liberal Democrat	Birmingham Yardley \| Hereford \| Solihull
Health Concern	Wyre Forest
Independent	Birmingham, Ladywood
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) \| Labour (2) \| UKIP (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)