County North Yorkshire Major settlements Selby Created from Selby Major settlement Selby Replaced by Selby | Electorate 73,580 (December 2010) Created 2010 Member of parliament Nigel Adams Number of members 1 | |
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European Parliament constituency Yorkshire and the Humber | ||
Selby and Ainsty is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Nigel Adams, a Conservative.
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History
For 2010 the Boundary Commission recommended the creation of this seat following a review of parliamentary representation in York and North Yorkshire. The constituency covers the area around Selby and some parts of the ancient wapentake of Ainsty within the borough of Harrogate.
Boundaries
This seat is a successor to Selby. The electoral wards used to create the extended constituency are:
Some villages in the previous Selby constituency have been moved to the new York Outer constituency.
Constituency profile
One of three British major coal mines is operative in the seat at Kellingley Colliery.
The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of two local government districts with similar characteristics: a working population whose income is close to the national average and lower than average reliance upon social housing. At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 2.2% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 4.7%. The district contributing to the bulk of the seat has a low 14.5% of its population without a car, 21.2% of the population without qualifications and a relatively high 26.1% with level 4 qualifications or above. In terms of tenure 75.0% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage by occupants as at the 2011 census across the Selby district.