Gedling is a constituency in Nottinghamshire created in 1983 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Michael Payne of the Labour Party.[n 1][n 2] The seat (and its predecessor, Carlton) was safely Conservative until the Labour Party's landslide victory in 1997, when it was won for Labour by Vernon Coaker. Labour held Gedling until 2019, when it was regained by the Conservative Party.[2]
Gedling | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundaries since 2024 | |
![]() Boundary of Gedling in the East Midlands | |
County | Nottinghamshire |
Electorate | 75,795 (2023)[1] |
Major settlements | Arnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick, Gedling village and Woodthorpe |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Michael Payne (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Carlton |
Boundaries and profile
Historic
1983–2010: The Borough of Gedling wards of Bonington, Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph, Carlton, Carlton Hill, Cavendish, Conway, Gedling, Killisick, Kingswell, Mapperley Plains, Netherfield, Oxclose, Phoenix, Porchester, Priory, St James, St Mary's, and Woodthorpe.
2010–2024: The Borough of Gedling wards of Bonington, Burton Joyce and Stoke Bardolph, Carlton, Carlton Hill, Daybrook, Gedling, Killisick, Kingswell, Mapperley Plains, Netherfield and Colwick, Phoenix, Porchester, St James, St Mary's, Valley, and Woodthorpe.
Current
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the composition of the constituency is as follows (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
- The Borough of Gedling wards of: Bestwood St. Albans; Carlton; Carlton Hill; Cavendish; Colwick; Coppice; Daybrook; Dumbles; Ernehale; Gedling; Netherfield; Phoenix; Plains; Porchester; Redhill; Trent Valley; Woodthorpe.[3]
The seat gained some rural areas to the north, including the Dumbles ward, from the Sherwood constituency.
Gedling is a substantial part of Greater Nottingham covering the most populated parts of the borough of the same name; it has mainly affluent, middle-income north eastern suburbs of Nottingham that include Arnold, Burton Joyce, Carlton, Colwick, Gedling village, Woodthorpe and Mapperley Plains.
History
The constituency of Gedling was created in 1983, replacing the earlier Carlton constituency. Until 1997, it only elected candidates from the Conservative Party. The seat was represented by the former Carlton MP Sir Philip Holland until 1987, then for ten years by Andrew Mitchell, son of former Conservative MP David Mitchell. The Labour Party gained the seat in their landslide victory at the 1997 general election. At that election, the junior minister lost to Labour's Vernon Coaker, who retained the seat until the 2019 election.
- Summary of results
The 2010 and 2015 results set the seat as marginal: first and second place were separated by less than 7%. At the 2005 general election, the Conservative candidate Anna Soubry (who was elected MP for nearby Broxtowe in 2010) caused controversy by revealing that she "was not proud" of the record of the area she was vying to represent, referring to crime levels in Nottingham[4] — the subsequent swing from Labour to Conservative was only 2.1%, compared with the national swing of 3.1%. The 2015 result gave the seat the 29th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[5]
- Other parties
In 2015, UKIP fielded the other candidate to retain their deposit. The party's swing nationally was +9.5% in 2015, and reached 11.4% in Gedling. Liberal Democrat and Green Party candidates forfeited their deposits in 2015.
- Turnout
Turnout has varied from 82.3% of the vote in 1992 to 63.9% in 2001 and 2005.
Members of Parliament
Carlton prior to 1983
Election | Member[6] | Party | |
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1983 | Sir Philip Holland | Conservative | |
1987 | Andrew Mitchell | Conservative | |
1997 | Vernon Coaker | Labour | |
2019 | Tom Randall | Conservative | |
2024 | Michael Payne | Labour |
Elections
Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Michael Payne | 23,278 | 47.8 | +5.0 | |
Conservative | Tom Randall | 11,397 | 23.4 | -23.8 | |
Reform UK | Simon Christy | 8,211 | 16.9 | +13.5 | |
Green | Dominic Berry | 3,122 | 6.4 | +4.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tad Jones | 2,473 | 5.1 | +0.6 | |
Independent | Irenea Marriott | 241 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 11,881 | 24.4 | |||
Turnout | 48,722 | 63.3 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Elections in the 2010s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tom Randall | 22,718 | 45.5 | +2.7 | |
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 22,039 | 44.1 | −7.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anita Prabhakar | 2,279 | 4.6 | +2.6 | |
Brexit Party | Graham Hunt | 1,820 | 3.6 | New | |
Green | Jim Norris | 1,097 | 2.2 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 679 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,953 | 69.9 | -2.6 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 26,833 | 51.9 | +9.6 | |
Conservative | Carolyn Abbott | 22,139 | 42.8 | +6.7 | |
UKIP | Lee Waters | 1,143 | 2.2 | −12.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Swift | 1,052 | 2.0 | −2.0 | |
Green | Rebecca Connick | 515 | 1.0 | −2.2 | |
Majority | 4,694 | 9.1 | +2.9 | ||
Turnout | 51,682 | 72.5 | +4.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 20,307 | 42.3 | +1.2 | |
Conservative | Carolyn Abbott | 17,321 | 36.1 | −1.2 | |
UKIP | Lee Waters | 6,930 | 14.4 | +11.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Swift | 1,906 | 4.0 | −11.3 | |
Green | Jim Norris | 1,534 | 3.2 | New | |
Majority | 2,986 | 6.2 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 47,998 | 68.5 | +0.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 19,821 | 41.1 | −5.5 | |
Conservative | Bruce Laughton | 17,962 | 37.3 | +0.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Julia Bateman | 7,350 | 15.3 | +1.5 | |
BNP | Stephen Adcock | 1,598 | 3.3 | New | |
UKIP | David Marshall | 1,459 | 3.0 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 1,859 | 3.8 | -5.8 | ||
Turnout | 48,190 | 67.9 | +4.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.9 |
Because of boundary changes, vote shares in 2010 are compared to notional results from 2005.
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 20,329 | 46.1 | −5.0 | |
Conservative | Anna Soubry | 16,518 | 37.5 | −0.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Raymond Poynter | 6,070 | 13.8 | +3.2 | |
UKIP | Alan Margerison | 741 | 1.7 | New | |
Veritas | Deborah Johnson | 411 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 3,811 | 8.6 | -4.2 | ||
Turnout | 44,069 | 63.9 | 0.0 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 22,383 | 51.1 | +4.3 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Bullock | 16,785 | 38.3 | −1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tony Gillam | 4,648 | 10.6 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 5,598 | 12.8 | +5.5 | ||
Turnout | 43,816 | 63.9 | −11.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.7 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 24,390 | 46.8 | +12.4 | |
Conservative | Andrew Mitchell | 20,588 | 39.5 | −13.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Raymond Poynter | 5,180 | 9.9 | −2.2 | |
Referendum | John Connor | 2,006 | 3.9 | New | |
Majority | 3,802 | 7.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 52,164 | 75.7 | -6.6 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +13.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrew Mitchell | 30,191 | 53.2 | −1.3 | |
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 19,554 | 34.4 | +10.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | DG George | 6,863 | 12.1 | −9.5 | |
Natural Law | AKL Miszeweka | 168 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 10,637 | 18.8 | −11.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,776 | 82.3 | +3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.9 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Andrew Mitchell | 29,492 | 54.5 | +0.4 | |
Labour | Vernon Coaker | 12,953 | 23.9 | +3.3 | |
SDP | David Morton | 11,684 | 21.6 | -3.4 | |
Majority | 16,539 | 30.6 | +1.5 | ||
Turnout | 54,129 | 79.1 | +3.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Philip Holland | 27,207 | 54.1 | ||
SDP | Adrian Berkeley | 12,543 | 25.0 | ||
Labour | John Peck | 10,330 | 20.6 | ||
Independent | J Szatter | 186 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 14,664 | 29.1 | |||
Turnout | 50,080 | 75.4 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |