County Buckinghamshire Created 2010 Member of parliament Mark Lancaster | Electorate 81,226 (March 2011) European Parliament constituency South East England | |
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Replaced by Milton Keynes North East, Milton Keynes South West | ||
Milton Keynes North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Mark Lancaster, a Conservative.
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History
This constituency (and its counterpart, Milton Keynes South), came into being when the two Milton Keynes constituencies (Milton Keynes North East and Milton Keynes South West) were reconfigured following the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies with the aim of equalising the electorate as between the constituencies in the light of population growth that had occurred mainly in the Milton Keynes Urban Area. This constituency is the more rural of the two.
Mark Lancaster, who had been the incumbent for Milton Keynes North East, won the new constituency for the Conservatives in the 2010 general election and retained it in the 2015 general election.
Boundaries
The constituency takes up the majority of the area of the Borough of Milton Keynes and is one of the borough's two constituencies. Milton Keynes North has a larger rural area, most of its communities have larger green buffers; the other, Milton Keynes South, covers a smaller area and is more urban.
This seat has electoral wards:
Of these wards, Hanslope, Olney and Sherington have substantial green buffers and are more rural. The remainder are wikt:contiguous so arguably more urban.
Demographics
Milton Keynes North has a higher average income, less social housing and less rented housing than the national average.
Elections in the 2010s
UKIP candidate Stuart Moore stepped down in April 2015, and was replaced by David Reilly.