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Parliamentary Constituencies In Lincolnshire
The non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire is divided into 8 parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 7 county constituencies. Rutland and Stamford is a cross-county boundary constituency, comprising electoral wards in Leicestershire and Rutland, as well as in Lincolnshire. Constituencies Boundary changes 2024 For the 2023 Periodic 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. The following seats were proposed: Containing electoral wards from Boston * Boston and Skegness (part) Containing el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincolnshire UK Locator Map 2010
Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to the north, the North Sea to the east, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to the south, and Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire to the west. The county is predominantly rural, with an area of and a population of 1,095,010. After Lincoln (104,565), the largest towns are Grimsby (85,911) and Scunthorpe (81,286). For Local government in England, local government purposes Lincolnshire comprises a non-metropolitan county with seven districts, and the unitary authority areas of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The last two areas are part of the Yorkshire and the Humber region, and the rest of the county is in the East Midlands. The non-metropolitan county council and two unitary councils collabora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston And Skegness Constituency 2023
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth And Horncastle Constituency 2023
Louth may refer to: Australia *Hundred of Louth, a cadastral unit in South Australia * Louth, New South Wales, a town * Louth Bay, a bay in South Australia ** Louth Bay, South Australia, a town and locality Canada * Louth, Ontario Ireland * County Louth, Ireland ** Louth GAA, a Gaelic games association *** Louth county football team **Louth, County Louth, a village in the heart of the county Louth **County Louth Historic Names, Listing of historically documented names for Louth, village & county **County Louth (Parliament of Ireland constituency) (1692–1801) **County Louth (UK Parliament constituency) (1801–1885, 1918–1922), Ireland **North Louth (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1918) **South Louth (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1918) ** Louth (Dáil constituency), Ireland (since 1923) United Kingdom * Louth, Lincolnshire, England ** Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency) (1885–1983), in England Other * Louth (crater) Louth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Atkins
Victoria Mary Atkins (born 22 March 1976) is a British politician who served in various ministerial positions under Prime Ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak between 2017 and 2024, lastly as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from November 2023 to July 2024. A member of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (UK), Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth and Horncastle since 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015 and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs since November 2024. Before her political career, she worked as a barrister specialising in organised crime. Atkins was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding at the Home Office in November 2017 by Prime Minister Theresa May. Following the formation of the first Johnson ministry in July 2019, she remained in her post. On 16 September 2021, during the 2021 British cabinet reshuffle, cabinet reshuffle, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth And Horncastle (UK Parliament Constituency)
Louth and Horncastle is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in Lincolnshire represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015 by Victoria Atkins, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative. Boundaries History of boundaries From 1885 to 1983, Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency), Louth and Horncastle (UK Parliament constituency), Horncastle both existed as separate constituencies. Then in 1983, Horncastle was moved into the new seat of Gainsborough and Horncastle, while Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency), Louth was moved into the newly formed East Lindsey (UK Parliament constituency), East Lindsey constituency. These boundaries remained the same until 1997, when the current Louth and Horncastle constituency was formed. 1997–2010 The District of East Lindsey wards of Alford, Chapel St Leonards, Coningsby, Donington on Bai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Constituency 2023
Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the 16th president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincoln (name), a surname and given name * Lincoln Motor Company, a Ford brand Lincoln may also refer to: Places Canada * Lincoln, Alberta * Lincoln, New Brunswick * Lincoln Parish, New Brunswick * Lincoln, Ontario ** Lincoln (federal electoral district) (former), Ontario ** Lincoln (provincial electoral district) (former), Ontario United Kingdom * Lincoln, England ** Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency) United States * Lincoln, Alabama * Lincoln, Arkansas * Lincoln, California, in Placer County * Lincoln, former name of Clinton, California, in Amador County * Lincoln, Delaware * Lincoln, Idaho * Lincoln, Illinois * Lincoln, Indiana * Lincoln, Iowa * Lincoln Center, Kansas * Lincoln Parish, Louisiana * Lincoln, Maine, a New Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl McCartney
Karl Ian McCartney (born 25 October 1968) is a British politician who was the Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 2010 to 2017, and again from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he briefly served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport from July to September 2022. Early life and career McCartney was born St Catherine's Hospital in Birkenhead in October 1968 to parents John McCartney and Brenda McCartney (''née'' Weir). He was privately educated at Birkenhead School from 1980 to 1986, before joining the state-sector Sixth Form at Neston County Comprehensive School. He gained two A-levels in Geography and Art in 1987. He studied geography at St David's University College in Lampeter from 1988 to 1992. At Lampeter, he was student union president from 1991 to 1992, and captained the Welsh Universities First XI football team from 1990 to 1991. He later worked in the City of London. From 1993 to 1996, he was an agent and researcher for Conse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Falconer
Hamish Nicholas Falconer (born 20 December 1985) is a British Labour Party politician and former diplomat, who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln since 2024. He has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan since July 2024. The son of Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, who served as the last Lord Chancellor with full power under Tony Blair, Falconer attended Westminster School and then St. John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 2008 in Human, Social and Political Science, before joining the diplomatic service. Falconer worked in the UK government's Department for International Development from 2009 to 2013, and then the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until 2022. His diplomatic career centred on national security and humanitarian relief, including hostage recovery. Whilst in the Foreign Office, he spent a year at Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln (UK Parliament Constituency)
Lincoln is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency in Lincolnshire, England represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Hamish Falconer of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. Since the split of the City of York (UK Parliament constituency), City of York seat with effect from the 2010 general election, Lincoln has been the oldest constituency in continuous existence in the UK – established in 1265. Lincoln was a bellwether between October 1974 and 2017. The seat bucked the national Conservative victory in 1970 by electing a Labour MP, as it did in 2017. In 2019 and 2024, Lincoln followed the national result, electing a Conservative MP in 2019 and a Labour MP in 2024. The seat has been considered, relative to others, an ultra-marginal seat, as well as a swing seat. From 2005 until 2024, its winner's majority had not exceeded 6.9% of the vote since the 12.5% majority won in 2005 and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grantham And Bourne Constituency 2023
Grantham () is a market town and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies south of Lincoln and east of Nottingham. The population in 2016 was put at 44,580. The town is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of the South Kesteven District. Grantham was the birthplace of the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Isaac Newton was educated at the King's School. The town was the workplace of the UK's first warranted female police officer, Edith Smith in 1914. The UK's first running diesel engine was made there in 1892 and the first tractor in 1896. Thomas Paine worked there as an excise officer in the 1760s. The villages of Manthorpe, Great Gonerby, Barrowby, Londonthorpe and Harlaxton form outlying suburbs of the town. Etymology Grantham's name is first attested in the Domesday Book (1086); its origin is not known with certainty. The ending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Davies (English Politician)
Gareth Mark Davies (born 31 March 1984) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Grantham and Bourne, previously Grantham and Stamford, since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury from April 2023 to July 2024. He has been the Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury since November 2024. Early life Davies was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, as the eldest of two sons. His mother and father were a state primary school teacher and a small business owner respectively. He attended state comprehensive schools in Leeds and Hull. Davies later completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Nottingham, graduating in 2006. He then completed a Master's of Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2016, focusing on economics, trade, and foreign affairs. During his time at Harvard, he travelled to North Korea on a study visit. Business career Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grantham And Bourne (UK Parliament Constituency)
Grantham and Bourne is a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. It was first contested at the 2024 general election, since when it has been held by Gareth Davies of the Conservative Party (MP for Grantham and Stamford 2019–2024) Boundaries The constituency is composed of the following electoral wards: * The District of North Kesteven wards of Heckington Rural, Helpringham & Osbournby, and Cranwell, Leasingham & Wilsford (part) * The District of South Kesteven wards of Aveland, Belmont, Belvoir, Bourne Austerby, Bourne East, Bourne West, Grantham Arnoldfield, Grantham Barrowby Gate, Grantham Earlesfield, Grantham Harrowby, Grantham Springfield, Grantham St Vincents, Grantham St Wulfram's, Lincrest, Loveden Heath, Morton, Peascliffe & Ridgeway, Toller, and Viking. It comprises the majority of the abolished constituency of Grantham and Stamford, excluding the town of Stamford and extended northwards to include a minority of the Sleaford an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
