Telford
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Telford in Shropshire
Location of Shropshire within England
County	Shropshire
Electorate	65,938 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of Parliament	Lucy Allan (Conservative)
Seats	One
Created from	The Wrekin

Telford is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since May 2015 by Lucy Allan, a Conservative, who defeated David Wright, the former Labour Party MP for the seat.^{[n 2]}

Members of Parliament

Constituency profile

The constituency is generally urban and covers Telford New Town. There is a significant technology sector.^[3] Residents are slightly poorer than the UK average.^[4]

Boundaries

Telford is made up of several old industrial towns to the north of 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 including Woodside. However, not all of the Telford New Town developments are in the constituency; the northern parts and some western areas (including the town of Wellington) which pre-dates Telford, are in The Wrekin constituency.

All of the constituency is covered by Telford and Wrekin Council.

2010–present: The Borough of Telford and Wrekin wards of Brookside, Cuckoo Oak, Dawley Magna, Horsehay and Lightmoor, Ironbridge Gorge, Ketley and Oakengates, Lawley and Overdale, Madeley, Malinslee, Priorslee, St George's, The Nedge, Woodside, Wrockwardine Wood, and Trench.

1997–2010: The District of The Wrekin wards of Brookside, Cuckoo Oak, Dawley Magna, Hollinswood/Randlay, Ironbridge (The Gorge), Ketley Bank, Langley, Lawley, Madeley, Malinslee, Priorslee, Stirchley, Wombridge, Woodside, and Wrockwardine Wood.

Boundary changes to realign the constituency boundaries to fit with the borough's most recent ward revisions resulted in the addition of Ketley (from the constituency of The Wrekin) for the 2010 general election.

Future proposals: Under constituency boundary changes announced in September 2016, ahead of the then next general election, it was proposed to extend the constituency to include the wards of Donnington and Hadley and Leegomery, to be taken from The Wrekin constituency.^[5]

History

Created from the more rural Wrekin constituency for the 1997 general election, Telford was continuously held by the Labour Party, with a change in candidate in 2001, until the 2015 general election when the Conservatives took the seat from David Wright. Bruce Grocott was its first-ever MP, serving for the first four years. In 2010 Wright's majority fell to a marginal figure of 981 votes, and he lost in 2015 by 730 votes^[6] - one of the small number of Conservative gains from Labour in that election, which in turn helped to give the Conservatives an overall parliamentary majority. The seat was retained by Lucy Allan in 2017 with an almost identical majority of 720, and again by Ms Allan in December 2019 with a majority of 10,941, one of the most significant Conservative marginal seat holds in that election.^[7]

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: Telford^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lucy Allan	25,546	59.7	+11.0
	Labour	Katrina Gilman	14,605	34.1	–13.0
	Liberal Democrats	Shana Roberts	2,674	6.2	+4.1
Majority			10,941	25.6	+25.0
Turnout			42,825	62.1	–4.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+12.0

Results of UK House of Commons seat Telford, created in 1997, since 2005.

General election 2017: Telford^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lucy Allan	21,777	48.7	+9.1
	Labour	Kuldip Sahota	21,057	47.1	+9.3
	Liberal Democrats	Susan King	954	2.1	-0.2
	Green	Luke Shirley	898	2.0	–0.3
Majority			720	1.6	–0.2
Turnout			44,686	66.3	+4.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	–0.1

General election 2015: Telford^[10][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lucy Allan	16,094	39.6	+3.3
	Labour	David Wright	15,364	37.8	–0.9
	UKIP	Denis Allen	7,330	18.0	+12.1
	Green	Peter Hawkins	930	2.3	New
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Croll	927	2.3	–13.2
Majority			730	1.8	N/A
Turnout			40,645	61.4	–2.1
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+2.1

General election 2010: Telford^[12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Wright	15,974	38.7	–9.5
	Conservative	Tom Biggins	14,996	36.3	+3.2
	Liberal Democrats	Phillip Bennion	6,399	15.5	+1.4
	UKIP	Denis Allen	2,428	5.9	+1.2
	BNP	Phil Spencer	1,513	3.7	New
Majority			978	2.4	–13.4
Turnout			41,313	63.5	+4.8
	Labour hold		Swing	–6.3

See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire

Notes

References

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