Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire
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The non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire is divided into 8 parliamentary constituencies: 1 borough constituency and 7 county constituencies.[nb 1]
Constituencies
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Reform UK
| Constituency[nb 2] | Electorate[1] | Majority[nb 3] | Member of Parliament[2] | Nearest opposition[2] | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston and Skegness CC | 75,811 | 2,010 | Richard Tice¤ | Matt Warman† |  | ||
| Gainsborough CC | 75,836 | 3,532 | Sir Edward Leigh† | Jess McGuire‡ |  | ||
| Grantham and Bourne CC | 73,285 | 4,496 | Gareth Davies† | Vipul Bechar‡ |  | ||
| Lincoln BC | 72,315 | 8,793 | Hamish Falconer‡ | Karl McCartney† |  | ||
| Louth and Horncastle CC | 76,880 | 5,506 | Victoria Atkins† | Sean Matthews¤ |  | ||
| Rutland and Stamford CC (part) | 71,763 | 10,394 | Alicia Kearns† | Joe Wood‡ |  | ||
| Sleaford and North Hykeham CC | 75,651 | 4,346 | Dr Caroline Johnson† | Hanif Khan‡ |  | ||
| South Holland and The Deepings CC | 78,473 | 6,856 | John Hayes† | Matthew Swainson¤ |  | ||
Boundary changes
2024
For the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to combine 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, spanning all three counties. Consequently, Stamford was removed from the constituency of Grantham and Stamford, which was renamed Grantham and Bourne.[3]
| Former name | Boundaries 2010–2024 | Current name | Boundaries 2024–present |
|---|---|---|---|
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The following seats were proposed:
Containing electoral wards from Boston
- Boston and Skegness (part)
Containing electoral wards from East Lindsey
- Boston and Skegness (part)
- Louth and Horncastle
Containing electoral wards from Lincoln
- Lincoln (part)
Containing electoral wards from North Kesteven
- Grantham and Bourne (part)
- Lincoln (part)
- Sleaford and North Hykeham
Containing electoral wards from South Holland
Containing electoral wards from South Kesteven
- Grantham and Bourne (part)
- Rutland and Stamford (also comprises the county of Rutland and parts of Harborough in Leicestershire)
- South Holland and The Deepings (part)
Containing electoral wards from West Lyndsey
2010
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 2010–2024 |
|---|---|---|
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Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019[4]
2024
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Lincolnshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:[nb 4][2]
| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2019 | Seats | Change from 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 130,092 | 35.6% |  31.6% |
6 | 1 |
| Labour | 94,894 | 26.0% |  5.2% |
1 | 1 |
| Reform | 82,464 | 22.6% | 22.3% |
1 | 1 |
| Liberal Democrats | 23,808 | 6.5% | 1.2% |
0 | 0 |
| Green | 18,204 | 5.0% | 3.1 |
0 | 0 |
| Others | 15,514 | 4.3% | 2.2% |
0 | 0 |
| Total | 364,976 | 100.0 | 8 |
2019
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 |
Percentage votes
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 53.2 | 53.8 | 53.5 | 42.4 | 46.2 | 46.8 | 49.8 | 51.6 | 61.6 | 67.2 | 35.6 |
| Labour | 15.1 | 18.5 | 25.8 | 36.9 | 35.7 | 29.5 | 19.4 | 20.1 | 28.5 | 20.8 | 26.0 |
| Reform1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.3 | 22.6 |
| Liberal Democrat2 | 31.4 | 27.4 | 19.8 | 17.5 | 16.1 | 17.4 | 20.2 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 7.7 | 6.5 |
| Green Party | – | * | * | * | * | * | 0.2 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 5.0 |
| UKIP | – | – | – | * | * | * | 4.7 | 19.4 | 3.5 | * | - |
| Other | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 4.3 |
1As the Brexit Party in 2019
21983 & 1987 – SDP–Liberal Alliance
* Included in Other
Seats
| Election year | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
| Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Reform UK | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
11983 & 1987 – SDP–Liberal Alliance
Maps
1885-1910
1885
1886
1892
1895
1900
1906
Jan 1910
Dec 1910
1918-1945
1918
1922
1923
1924
1929
1931
1935
1945
1950-1979
1950- 1951
1955- 1959
- 1964
1966- 1970
Feb 1974- Oct 1974
1979
1983-present
1983- 1987
- 1992
1997- 2001
- 2005
2010- 2015
2017- 2019
2024
Historical representation by party
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.
1885 to 1918
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
1918 to 1950
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
1950 to 1983
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||||||||
1983 to present
Conservative Independent Labour Reform UK
| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 07 | 2010 | 2015 | 16 | 2017 | 19 | 2019 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holland with Boston / Boston and Skegness (1997) | Body | Simmonds | Warman | Tice | ||||||||||
| Gainsborough and Horncastle / Gainsborough (1997) | Leigh | |||||||||||||
| Stamford & Spalding / Grantham & S. ('97) / G. & Bourne ('24) | Lewis | J. Davies | → | Boles | → | G. Davies | ||||||||
| Lincoln | Carlisle | Merron | McCartney | Lee | McCartney | Falconer | ||||||||
| East Lindsey / Louth and Horncastle (1997) | Tapsell | Atkins | ||||||||||||
| Grantham / Sleaford and North Hykeham (1997) | Hogg | Phillips | Johnson | |||||||||||
| South Holland and The Deepings | Hayes | |||||||||||||
See also
Notes
- Rutland and Stamford is a cross-county boundary constituency, comprising electoral wards in Leicestershire and Rutland, as well as in Lincolnshire.
- BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
- The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
- It should be acknowledged that Rutland and Stamford is a cross-county constituency between Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Rutland. As the results of UK general elections are not disclosed on sub-constituency levels, the following shares contain votes within the Leicestershire and Rutland areas of the Rutland and Stamford constituency.