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36-556: George Hay Dawkins-Pennant (born George Hay Dawkins ; 20 February 1764 – 17 December 1840) was a British politician who represented Newark and New Romney in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1814 to 1830. George Hay Dawkins was born on 20 February 1764 in Penrhyn Castle , Llandygai . He was the second son of politician Henry Dawkins , who owned slave plantations in

72-545: A parliamentary borough in the 1660s, in recognition of the town's royalist sympathies during the English Civil War . It was eventually enfranchised by a royal charter in early 1673, which gave the rights of election to the mayor and aldermen. However, the freemen of the town contested this, and held a separate election in which they selected a different member to the aldermen. The dispute in Parliament lasted until 1677, when

108-403: A parliamentary by-election for the constituency of Newark after Sir Stapleton Cotton left the seat, and was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 19 May. Dawkins-Pennant represented Newark until the 1818 United Kingdom general election , when he was replaced by Sir William Henry Clinton . In the 1820 United Kingdom general election , Dawkins-Pennant was again elected to

144-460: A further six, leaving 33 unaltered. In Northern Ireland, minor boundary changes affected five seats, with no changes to the proposed names. As the number of constituencies in Northern Ireland remains the same, changes were only necessary to bring some of the electorates within the permitted range and align boundaries with those of revised local government wards. Belfast South was enlarged into

180-654: A net gain of 11 seats for the Conservatives, a net loss of 6 for Labour, a loss of 3 for the Liberal Democrats and 2 for Plaid Cymru. This was further analysed as follows: In January 2024, professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher published detailed estimates of what the result would have been had the new boundaries been in place at the previous general election. This analysis shows the Conservatives would have won seven additional seats in 2019, with Labour losing two,

216-409: A total of 24 constituencies would disappear (i.e. be broken up and not form the larger part of any proposed seats), offset by 24 wholly new constituencies (proposed seats which do not contain the larger part of any pre-existing seat). If the 2019 general election was re-run under the boundaries in the final proposals, it was estimated that a further 15 seats would change hands. The overall effect would be

252-717: Is a constituency in Nottinghamshire , England . It is represented by Robert Jenrick of the Conservative Party , who won the seat in a by-election on 5 June 2014, following the resignation of Patrick Mercer in April 2014. 1918–1950 : The Municipal Borough of Newark, and the Rural Districts of Bingham, Newark, and Southwell. 1950–1955 : The Municipal Borough of Newark, the Urban District of Mansfield Woodhouse, and

288-554: Is governed by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 , as amended by the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and subsequently by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 . The 2023 review was the successor to the 2018 periodic review of Westminster constituencies , which was abandoned after it failed to pass into law. After abandonment of several previous reviews since 2015,

324-563: The Labour Party held Newark (on substantially different boundaries to the present ones) from 1950 until 1979, when it was taken by the Conservatives ' Richard Alexander . Alexander lost his seat during Labour's landslide victory at the 1997 general election . The victorious Labour candidate, Fiona Jones , was convicted of electoral fraud and expelled from the House of Commons in 1999 over misrepresented election expenses. The conviction

360-520: The Speaker of the House of Commons on 27 June 2023. The Speaker immediately laid these before Parliament and the reports were published on the respective commissions' websites the following day. The new boundaries were formally introduced into UK law on 15 November 2023 through The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023. (The original deadline of the end of October was missed by the government, which, according to

396-445: The right to buy . Nonetheless, there is a minority of social housing but the proportion is lower than the national average across the three districts. Labour held the seat for one term following their 1997 landslide victory, but subsequent major boundary changes have brought in more rural areas and made the seat into one of the most strongly Conservative voting in the UK, with it now being

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432-598: The 2023 review was set to be the first review based on electoral registers drawn up using Individual Electoral Registration, which Parliament approved from 2014–15. Because every routine canvass by local government reaches slightly fewer imminent attainers of the age of 18 than the previous system of household registration, the new system favours the Conservatives , according to a University of Manchester researcher in 2023. Local election offices are funded to implement mitigating measures to minimise any such disproportionate impacts. The Command Papers were sponsored and ordered by

468-417: The 2nd Baron Penrhyn. Emma Elizabeth Alicia Dawkins-Pennant married in 1831 Thomas-Charles, Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley (d. 1863). He left £140,000. She had children with him and his successor, also Lord Sudeley. This article about a member of Parliament representing an English constituency is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Newark (UK Parliament constituency) Newark

504-573: The Act, must only happen in exceptional circumstances). A description of the review process is detailed in timeline of the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies . The four boundary commissions launched their 2023 reviews on 5 January 2021, to coincide with the release by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) of electorate data from analysis of the electoral registers that had been published on 2 March 2020. The commissions jointly calculated

540-655: The British colony of Jamaica , and his wife Lady Juliana Colyear. In 1807, Dawkins married Sophia Mary Maude, the daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden . A year later, his second cousin Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn died and left his estate to Dawkins, who changed his surname to Dawkins-Pennant to inherit it. In 1814, Henry died, leaving four sugar plantations and their slaves in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica to Dawkins-Pennant. In 1814, Dawkins-Pennant ran in

576-512: The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg , a Liberal Democrat . Under current legislation, the four boundary commissions of the United Kingdom were required to report on their next review of the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies before 1 July 2023. In order to meet this deadline, the commissions began their work on 5 January 2021. Following three rounds of public consultation, all four commissions submitted their final proposals to

612-562: The District of Bassetlaw wards of East Markham, Rampton, Tuxford, and Trent, and the Borough of Rushcliffe wards of Bingham East, Bingham West, Cranmer, Oak, and Thoroton. Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies , which came into effect for the 2024 general election , the composition of the constituency was defined as follows (as they existed on 1 December 2020): The constituency saw minor boundary changes, primarily due to

648-612: The House of Commons representing New Romney until the 1830 general election . Like Richard, Dawkins-Pennant was an advocate of proslavery thought , sitting on the pro-slavery West India Committee . After the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolished slavery in Jamaica, Dawkins-Pennant received compensation for the emancipation of the 650 slaves he owned under the Slave Compensation Act 1837 . Best known for his development of

684-425: The Liberal Democrats three and Plaid Cymru two. In total, the review produced 211 newly named constituencies, with the same number of seat names no longer being used (comprising just under one third of the total of 650). These constituencies are listed alphabetically below. Note that a constituency name remaining the same or changing does not necessarily correlate with how much the seat's boundaries change, or whether

720-473: The Penrhyn estates, he died immensely wealthy, leaving £600,000. Dawkins-Pennant had two children with his first wife, Juliana Isabella Mary and Emma Elizabeth Alicia. In 1814, he married Elizabeth Bouverie, the daughter of William Henry Bouverie . Juliana married Colonel Edward Gordon Douglas in 1833. They had two children, of which eldest son George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant succeeded his father in 1886 as

756-811: The Rural Districts of Newark and Southwell. 1955–1983 : The Municipal Borough of Newark, and the Rural Districts of Newark and Southwell. 1983–2010 : The District of Newark wards of Beacon, Bridge, Bullpit Pinfold, Castle, Caunton, Collingham, Devon, Elston, Farndon, Magnus, Meering, Milton Lowfield, Muskham, Southwell East, Southwell West, Sutton on Trent, Trent, and Winthorpe, and the District of Bassetlaw wards of East Markham, East Retford East, East Retford North, East Retford West, Elkesley, Trent, and Tuxford. 2010–2024 : The District of Newark and Sherwood wards of Balderton North, Balderton West, Beacon, Bridge, Castle, Caunton, Collingham and Meering, Devon, Farndon, Lowdham, Magnus, Muskham, Southwell East, Southwell North, Southwell West, Sutton-on-Trent, Trent, and Winthorpe,

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792-586: The UK in accordance with the Sainte-Laguë method as shown in the table below. The Boundary Commission for England applied the same distribution formula to the English allocation, which results in the following redistribution of constituencies among the English regions: * Excluding Isle of Wight All four commissions submitted their Final Recommendations Reports to the speaker of the House of Commons on 27 June 2023. These were immediately laid before Parliament and

828-593: The charter was withdrawn and a new one issued, causing a fresh election in which all inhabitants paying scot and lot could vote. In 1685, a third charter was issued, giving the right of election to all forty-shilling freeholders . The borough constituency existed until 1885, when it was replaced by a county division of the same name under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 . The future Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone , began his political career as Member of Parliament for Newark from 1832 to 1845. More recently,

864-417: The constituency would be seen as a "new constituency". For example, the pre-2023 Burton changes name to become the post-2023 Burton and Uttoxeter , but its boundaries remain identical; on the other hand, the constituency name Newcastle upon Tyne North remains the same after the review, but the majority of the post-review constituency covers different territory to the pre-review constituency, with only 43% of

900-475: The countryside and renamed Belfast South and Mid Down . East Antrim was extended further west, while Fermanagh-South Tyrone was extended further east into County Armagh. This table describes how the demographics of each constituency are different under the new boundaries compared to the old boundaries. The population disparity between constituencies exists because boundaries are drawn based on electorate size, not total population. The following table details

936-1069: The only Conservative seat in Nottinghamshire after the 2024 General Election result. General Election 1914–15 : Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; 53°06′N 0°54′W  /  53.10°N 0.90°W  / 53.10; -0.90 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies

972-639: The proposed changes, based on the commission's final report. The final recommendations on the new constituencies in Wales were published on 28 June 2023 by the Boundary Commission for Wales . This followed years of proposals and consultations since 2021, with initial proposals published in 2021 and revised in 2022. Legend – New constituency ; expanded constituency ; redefined constituency ; revived constituency According to analysis carried out by electoral modelling consultancy Electoral Calculus ,

1008-537: The redrawing of local authority ward boundaries. Following a further local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023, the parts in the Borough of Rushcliffe now comprise the following wards from the 2024 general election: The constituency covers large parts of the Newark and Sherwood district which encompasses the east of Nottinghamshire , as such includes the towns of Newark-on-Trent and Southwell , and

1044-623: The relevant electoral quota/range to be used for the 2023 review and the allocation of parliamentary constituencies between the four nations. The English commission further divided its allocation between the nine regions of England . The electorate of the United Kingdom, comprising 650 constituencies, as determined by the ONS, was 47,558,398 on 2 March 2020. The electorate of the five protected constituencies – Isle of Wight (two seats), Na h-Eileanan an Iar , Orkney and Shetland , and Ynys Môn – amounted to 220,132, leaving 47,338,266 to be distributed between

1080-406: The remaining 645 constituencies, which gave an electoral quota of 73,393. Each non-protected constituency must have an electorate which is within 5% of this quota, which gave a permitted range of 69,724 to 77,062. In Northern Ireland the legislation allows for a wider range, in certain prescribed circumstances, from 68,313 to 77,062. The 650 constituencies were allocated between the four nations of

1116-479: The reports were published on the respective commissions' websites on 28 June 2023. The final recommendations for England resulted in only 55 of the existing 533 constituencies remaining completely unchanged. In Wales, 21 of the 32 seats were unaltered from the revised proposals; 10 had revised boundaries (of which five were renamed); and one had a name change only. In Scotland boundary changes affected 18 seats, of which 12 were renamed. Only name changes affected

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1152-701: The town of Retford to the Bassetlaw constituency (although Newark still has a smaller part of the Bassetlaw district), but gained land in and around Bingham from the Rushcliffe constituency, thus making it much safer Conservative territory. Following an investigation by Commons authorities finding that Mr Mercer had engaged in paid lobbying, not properly reported the income or declared his interest, and repeatedly seriously denigrated other members, Patrick Mercer stepped down as MP for Newark on 30 April 2014. Robert Jenrick

1188-516: The villages of Collingham and Sutton-on-Trent . It also covers parts of the Bassetlaw and Rushcliffe areas including Markham Moor and Bingham . Newark was the last borough to be added to the Unreformed House of Commons which took place in 1673, prior to the Reform Act 1832 . It returned two representatives to Parliament from 1673 until 1885. Newark petitioned for enfranchisement as

1224-495: Was elected in the subsequent by-election, in the Conservative Party's largest by-election majority for four decades. He was appointed on 24 July 2019 as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Many towns are historic in architecture with many well-preserved listed buildings whereas much of the council housing in the constituency has been privately acquired under

1260-424: Was later overturned upon appeal and she returned to Parliament. However, Jones lost her seat at the 2001 general election to Patrick Mercer of the Conservatives, who held it until 2014. Mercer held the position of Shadow Minister for Homeland Security from June 2003 until March 2007, when he was forced to resign following racially contentious comments made to The Times . The Newark constituency in 2010 lost

1296-468: Was the most recent cycle of the process to redraw the constituency map for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom . The new constituency boundaries were approved by the Privy Council on 15 November 2023 and came into law on 29 November. These constituencies were first contested at the 2024 general election . The process for periodic reviews of parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom

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