County Buckinghamshire Created 2010 Member of parliament Iain Stewart | Electorate 85,552 (December 2010) European Parliament constituency South East England | |
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Created from Milton Keynes South West, North East Milton Keynes Replaced by Milton Keynes South West, Milton Keynes North East | ||
Milton Keynes South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Iain Stewart, a Conservative.
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History
This constituency (and its counterpart, Milton Keynes North), 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 urban of the two.
Iain Stewart MP won the new constituency for the Conservatives in the 2010 general election. This new constituency is a very large part of the former Milton Keynes South West, which had been held by Phyllis Starkey for Labour for 13 years until the 2010 general election.
In the 2015 general election, Iain Stewart again won the Milton Keynes South constituency for the Conservative Party.
Boundaries
The constituency takes up the smaller part of the area of the Borough of Milton Keynes but the more dense and is one of the borough's two constituencies. Milton Keynes South is primarily an urban area with some rural elements; the other, Milton Keynes North, covers a larger area and is more rural.
The electoral wards that make up this constituency are Bletchley & Fenny Stratford; Danesborough; Denbigh; Eaton Manor; Emerson Valley; Furzton; Loughton Park; Stony Stratford; Whaddon (West Bletchley); Walton Park; Woughton