List of parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire explained

The non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshireis divided into 8 parliamentary constituencies – 1 borough constituency and 7 county constituencies.^[1]

Constituencies

See also: 2019 United Kingdom general election.

Constituency^[2]	Electorate^[3]	Majority^[4]	Member of Parliament^[5]		Nearest opposition<		--!rowspan=1 class=unsortable	Electoral wards^[6] ^[7] -->	Map
Boston and Skegness CC	75,806	2,010		Richard Tice¤		Matt Warman†
Gainsborough CC	75,836	3,532		Sir Edward Leigh†		Jess McGuire‡
Grantham and Bourne CC	73,285	4,496		Gareth Davies†		Vipul Bechar‡
Lincoln BC	74,128	8,793		Hamish Falconer‡		Karl McCartney†
Louth and Horncastle CC	75,959	5,506		Victoria Atkins†		Sean Matthews¤
Rutland and Stamford CC (part)	70,864	10,394		Alicia Kearns†		Joe Wood‡
Sleaford and North Hykeham CC	75,651	4,346		Dr Caroline Johnson†		Hanif Khan‡
South Holland and The Deepings CC	78,473	6,856		John Hayes†		Matthew Swainson¤

Boundary changes

2010

In the Fifth Review the Boundary Commission for England recommended that Lincolnshire retained its current constituencies, with minor changes only to reflect revisions to local authority ward boundaries and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.

2024

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.^[8] 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 recommendations were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission proposed including 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. ^[9]

The following seats were proposed:

Containing electoral wards from Boston

• Boston and Skegness (part)

Containing electoral wards from East Lyndsey

• Boston and Skegness (part)
• Louth and Horncastle

Containing electoral wards from Lincoln

• Lincoln (part)

Containing electoral wards from North Kesteven

• Grantham and Bourne (part)
• Lincoln (part)
• Sleaford and North Hykeham

Containing electoral wards from South Holland

• South Holland and The Deepings (part)

Containing electoral wards from South Kesteven

• Grantham and Bourne (part)
• Rutland and Stamford (also comprises the county of Rutland and parts of Harborough in Leicestershire)
• South Holland and The Deepings (part)

Containing electoral wards from West Lyndsey

• Gainsborough

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing – General election results from 1918 to 2019^[10]

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Lincolnshire in the 2024 general election were as follows:^[11]

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2019	Seats	Change from 2019
Conservative	130,092	35.6%	31.6%	6	1
Labour	94,894	26.0%	5.2%	1	1
Reform	82,464	22.6%	22.3%	1	1
Liberal Democrats	23,808	6.5%	1.2%	0	0
Green	18,204	5.0%	3.1	0	0
Others	15,514	4.3%	2.2%	0	0
Total	364,976	100.0		8

2019

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

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2017	Seats	Change from 2017
Conservative	246,959	67.2%	5.6%	7	1
Labour	76,583	20.8%	7.7%	0	1
Liberal Democrats	28,389	7.7%	3.6%	0	0
Greens	6,815	1.9%	0.5%	0	0
Brexit	1,079	0.3%	new	0	0
Others	7,614	2.1%	2.3%	0	0
Total	367,439	100.0		7

Percentage votes

Election year	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019	2024
Conservative	53.2	53.8	53.5	42.4	46.2	46.8	49.8	51.6	61.6	67.2	35.6
Labour	15.1	18.5	25.8	36.9	35.7	29.5	19.4	20.1	28.5	20.8	26.0
Reform^1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0.3	22.6
Liberal Democrat^2	31.4	27.4	19.8	17.5	16.1	17.4	20.2	4.7	4.1	7.7	6.5
Green Party	–						0.2	2.0	1.4	1.9	5.0
UKIP	–	–	–				4.7	19.4	3.5		-
Other	0.3	0.4	0.9	3.1	1.9	6.3	5.8	2.2	0.9	2.1	4.3

¹As the Brexit Party in 2019

²1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019	2024
Conservative	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	6	7	5
Labour	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
Reform UK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7

¹1983 & 1987 – SDP-Liberal Alliance

Maps

1983-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

Constituency	1885	86	1886	87	90	1892	93	94	1895	98	1900	1906	07	Jan 1910	Dec 1910	11	12	14	17
	Ingram		Farmer-Atkinson			Ingram			Garfit			Faber		Dixon
Brigg	Meysey-Thompson	→	Waddy					Richardson	Reckitt				Sheffield	Gelder
Gainsborough	Bennett		Eyre			Bennett			Bainbridge		Ormsby-Gore	Renton	→	Bentham
Grantham	Mellor		Low			Lopes					Priestley
Grimsby	Heneage	→				Josse	Heneage		bgcolor=	Doughty	→				Wing	Doughty		→	Tickler
Horncastle	Stanhope							de Eresby								Weigall
Lincoln	Ruston	→	Kerans			Crosfield			Seely			Roberts
Louth	Otter		Heath			Perks								Brackenbury	Davies
Sleaford	Chaplin											Lupton		Royds
Spalding	Finch-Hatton			Stewart					Pollock		Mansfield			McLaren					Peel
Stamford	Lawrance				Cust				Younger			Joicey-Cecil		Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby

1918 to 1950

Constituency	1918	20	21	1922	23	1923	24	1924	29	1929	31	1931	33	1935	37	42	1945	48
Brigg	McLean			Sheffield						Quibell		Hunter		Quibell			Williamson	Mallalieu
Gainsborough	Molson					Winfrey		Crookshank
Grantham	Royds			R. Pattinson		Warrender										Kendall
Grimsby	Tickler			Sutcliffe				Womersley									Younger
Holland with Boston	Royce						Dean		Blindell		→				Butcher
Horncastle	Weigall	Hotchkin		S. Pattinson				Haslam									Maitland
Lincoln	Davies							Taylor				Liddall					Deer
Louth	Brackenbury	T. Wintringham	M. Wintringham					Heneage									Osborne
Rutland and Stamford	Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby			Dixon	Smith-Carington								de Eresby

1950 to 1983

Constituency	1950	1951	1955	56	1959	62	1964	1966	69	1970	73	Feb 1974	Oct 1974	77	1979
Brigg / Brigg and Scunthorpe (1974)	Mallalieu											Ellis			Brown
Gainsborough	Crookshank			Kimball
Grantham	Smith	Godber													Hogg
Grimsby	Younger				Crosland									Mitchell
Holland with Boston	Butcher							Body
Horncastle	Maitland							Tapsell
Lincoln	de Freitas					Taverne					→		Jackson		Carlisle
Louth	Osborne								Archer				Brotherton
Rutland and Stamford	Conant				Lewis

1983 to present

Constituency	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	07	2010	2015	16	2017	19	2019	2024
Holland with Boston / Boston and Skegness (1997)	Body				Simmonds				Warman					Tice
Gainsborough and Horncastle / Gainsborough (1997)	Leigh
Stamford & Spalding / Grantham & S. ('97) / G. & Bourne ('24)	Lewis	J. Davies					→	Boles				→	G. Davies
Lincoln	Carlisle			Merron				McCartney			Lee		McCartney	Falconer
East Lindsey / Louth and Horncastle (1997)	Tapsell								Atkins
Grantham / Sleaford and North Hykeham (1997)	Hogg							Phillips		Johnson
South Holland and The Deepings				Hayes

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in the East Midlands (region)
• List of parliamentary constituencies in Humberside for those covering North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire unitary authorities.

Notes and References

1. [Rutland and Stamford (UK Parliament constituency)|Rutland and Stamford]
2. BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
3. Web site: The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries for England - Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition - East Midlands. Boundary Commission for England. 9 July 2024.
4. The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
5. Web site: Constituencies A-Z – Election 2014. BBC News. en. 2024-07-09.
6. Web site: The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 2007, page 4. Crown copyright. Office of Public Sector Information. 7 November 2009. 13 June 2007.
7. [Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom)|Boundary Commission for England]
8. Web site: 2023 Review Boundary Commission for England. 2021-10-06. boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk.
9. Web site: The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report Boundary Commission for England . 2023-07-09 . paras 138-156.
10. News: Watson. Christopher. Uberoi. Elise. Loft. Philip. 17 April 2020. General election results from 1918 to 2019.
11. It should be acknowledged that Rutland and Stamford is a cross-county constituency between Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Rutland. As the results of UK general elections are not disclosed on sub-constituency levels, the following shares contain votes within the Leicestershire and Rutland areas of the Rutland and Stamford constituency.