Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire
# Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

The ceremonial county of Shropshire, England (which comprises the local/unitary authorities of Shropshire Council and Telford and Wrekin), is divided into 5 parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 4 county constituencies. As with all constituencies for the House of Commons in the modern age, each constituency elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system.

## Constituencies

Conservative †  Liberal Democrat ¤  Labour ‡

| Constituency | Electorate | Majority | Member of Parliament | Nearest opposition |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Ludlow CC | 69,444 | 23,648 | Philip Dunne † | Heather Kidd ¤ |
| North Shropshire CC | 83,258 | 5,925 | Helen Morgan ¤ | Neil Shastri-Hurst † |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham CC | 82,238 | 11,217 | Daniel Kawczynski † | Julie Buckley ‡ |
| Telford BC | 68,921 | 10,941 | Lucy Allan † | Katrina Gilman ‡ |
| The Wrekin CC | 70,693 | 18,726 | Mark Pritchard † | Dylan Harrison ‡ |

## 2010 boundary changes

Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain the 5 constituencies in Shropshire for the 2010 election, making only small changes to the boundary between Telford and The Wrekin to align with current local government wards.

| Name | Boundaries 1997-2010 | Boundaries 2010-present |
| - | - | - |
| Ludlow CC North Shropshire CC Shrewsbury and Atcham CC Telford BC The Wrekin CC | Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire | New parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire |

## Proposed boundary changes

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. 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 proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission has proposed retaining the current five constituencies in Shropshire, with minor boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries and to bring constituencies within the statutory range. It is proposed that Shrewsbury and Atcham reverts to its original name of Shrewsbury, while Ludlow is renamed South Shropshire.

## Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019

### 2019

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Shropshire in the 2019 general election were as follows:

| Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Conservative | 155,225 | 60.3% | 4.7% | 5 | 0 |
| Labour | 66,798 | 25.9% | 9.3% | 0 | 0 |
| Liberal Democrats | 26,827 | 10.4% | 4.6% | 0 | 0 |
| Greens | 6,955 | 2.7% | 0.6% | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 1,713 | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 257,518 | 100.0 | | 5 | |

### Percentage votes

| Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| $Conservative^1$ | 54.7 | 57.3 | 59.3 | 55.6 | 47.9 | 49.3 | 52.4 | 43.1 | 43.0 | 49.6 | 49.0 | 48.2 | 46.3 | 37.2 | 39.1 | 41.8 | 46.8 | 48.3 | 55.6 | 60.3 |
| Labour | 41.2 | 42.7 | 40.7 | 36.2 | 34.1 | 42.7 | 36.0 | 31.1 | 33.2 | 29.1 | 21.3 | 25.4 | 30.7 | 39.7 | 38.2 | 30.8 | 21.6 | 24.4 | 35.2 | 25.9 |
| Liberal $Democrat^2$ | 4.1 | - | - | 8.2 | 18.0 | 8.0 | 11.7 | 25.8 | 23.8 | 21.0 | 29.7 | 26.0 | 22.0 | 20.5 | 18.6 | 23.0 | 23.5 | 7.0 | 5.8 | 10.4 |
| Green Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | * | * | 0.8 | 4.0 | 2.1 | 2.7 |
| UKIP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | * | * | * | 4.4 | 16.3 | 1.2 | * |
| Other | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 3.0 | - | 0.1 | 0.7 |

$^1Includes$ National Liberal Party up to 1966

$^21950-1979$ – Liberal; 1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

### Seats

| Election year | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | 1974 (Feb) | 1974 (Oct) | 1979 | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| $Conservative^1$ | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Labour | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Liberal $Democrat^2$ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |

$^1Includes$ National Liberal Party up to 1966

$^21950-1979$ – Liberal; 1983 & 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

## Historical constituencies

Timeline of parliamentary constituencies in the county, with historical (green) and extant (pink) constituencies.

| Constituency | 1290-1295 | 1295-1473 | 1473-1584 | 1584-1832 | 1832-1885 | 1885-1918 | 1918-1983 | 1983-1997 | 1997–present |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bishop's Castle | | | | 1584-1832 | | | | | |
| Bridgnorth | | 1295-1885 | 1295-1885 | 1295-1885 | 1295-1885 | | | | |
| Ludlow | | | 1473–present | 1473–present | 1473–present | 1473–present | 1473–present | 1473–present | 1473–present |
| Newport | | | | | | 1885-1918 | | | |
| North Shropshire | | | | | 1832-1885 | | | 1983–present | 1983–present |
| Oswestry | | | | | | 1885-1983 | 1885-1983 | | |
| Shrewsbury | 1290-1983 | 1290-1983 | 1290-1983 | 1290-1983 | 1290-1983 | 1290-1983 | 1290-1983 | | |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham | | | | | | | | 1983–present | 1983–present |
| Shropshire | 1290-1832 | 1290-1832 | 1290-1832 | 1290-1832 | | | | | |
| South Shropshire | | | | | 1832-1885 | | | | |
| Telford | | | | | | | | | 1997–present |
| Wellington | | | | | | 1885-1918 | | | |
| (Much) Wenlock | 1290-1885 | 1290-1885 | 1290-1885 | 1290-1885 | 1290-1885 | | | | |
| The Wrekin | | | | | | | 1918–present | 1918–present | 1918–present |

## 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  National Party

| Constituency | 1885 | 86 | 1886 | 1892 | 1895 | 1900 | 01 | 03 | 04 | 1906 | 08 | Jan 1910 | Dec 1910 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 18 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ludlow | More | → | → | → | → | → | → | Hunt | Hunt | Hunt | Hunt | Hunt | Hunt | → | → | → | → |
| Newport | Bickersteth | → | Kenyon-Slaney | Kenyon-Slaney | Kenyon-Slaney | Kenyon-Slaney | Kenyon-Slaney | Kenyon-Slaney | Kenyon-Slaney | Kenyon-Slaney | Stanier | Stanier | Stanier | Stanier | Stanier | Stanier | Stanier |
| Oswestry | Leighton | Leighton | Leighton | Leighton | Leighton | Leighton | Ormsby-Gore | Ormsby-Gore | Bright | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman |
| Shrewsbury | Watson | Watson | Watson | Greene | Greene | Greene | Greene | Greene | Greene | Hill | Hill | Hill | Hill | Hill | Lloyd | Lloyd | Lloyd |
| Wellington (Salop) | Brown | → | → | → | → | → | → | → | → | Henry | Henry | Henry | Henry | Henry | Henry | Henry | Henry |

### 1918 to 1945

Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23)  Conservative  Independent Conservative  Labour  Liberal

| Constituency | 1918 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 1922 | 23 | 1923 | 1924 | 1929 | 1931 | 1935 | 41 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ludlow | Stanier | Stanier | Stanier | I. Windsor-Clive | I. Windsor-Clive | G. Windsor-Clive | G. Windsor-Clive | G. Windsor-Clive | G. Windsor-Clive | G. Windsor-Clive | G. Windsor-Clive | G. Windsor-Clive |
| Oswestry | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Bridgeman | Leighton | Leighton | Leighton | Leighton |
| Shrewsbury | Lloyd | Lloyd | Lloyd | Lloyd | Ryder | Ryder | Sunlight | Ryder | Duckworth | Duckworth | Duckworth | Duckworth |
| The Wrekin | Henry | Palmer | Townshend | Townshend | Button | Button | Nixon | Oakley | Picton-Turbervill | Baldwin-Webb | Baldwin-Webb | Colegate |

### 1945 to 1983

Conservative  Labour

| Constituency | 1945 | 1950 | 1951 | 1955 | 1959 | 60 | 61 | 1964 | 1966 | 1970 | Feb 74 | Oct 74 | 1979 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ludlow | Corbett | Corbett | Holland-Martin | Holland-Martin | Holland-Martin | More | More | More | More | More | More | More | Cockeram |
| Oswestry | Poole | Ormsby-Gore | Ormsby-Gore | Ormsby-Gore | Ormsby-Gore | Ormsby-Gore | Biffen | Biffen | Biffen | Biffen | Biffen | Biffen | Biffen |
| Shrewsbury | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt | Langford-Holt |
| The Wrekin | Thomas | Thomas | Thomas | Yates | Yates | Yates | Yates | Yates | Fowler | Trafford | Fowler | Fowler | Hawksley |

### 1983 to present

Conservative  Labour  Liberal Democrats

| Constituency | 1983 | 1987 | 1992 | 1997 | 2001 | 01 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 21 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ludlow | Cockeram | Gill | Gill | Gill | Green | Green | Dunne | Dunne | Dunne | Dunne | Dunne | Dunne | Dunne |
| North Shropshire | Biffen | Biffen | Biffen | Paterson | Paterson | Paterson | Paterson | Paterson | Paterson | Paterson | Paterson | Morgan |
| Shrewsbury and Atcham | Conway | Conway | Conway | Marsden | Marsden | → | Kawczynski | Kawczynski | Kawczynski | Kawczynski | Kawczynski | Kawczynski |
| The Wrekin | Hawksley | Grocott | Grocott | Bradley | Bradley | Bradley | Pritchard | Pritchard | Pritchard | Pritchard | Pritchard | Pritchard |
| Telford | | | | Grocott | Wright | Wright | Wright | Wright | Allan | Allan | Allan | Allan |
