County North Yorkshire Created 2010 Number of members 1 | Electorate 77,230 (December 2010) Member of parliament Kevin Hollinrake | |
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Created from Ryedale (majority)
Vale of York(part) Replaced by Ryedale, Richmond (Yorks), Selby and Skipton and Ripon Created from Thirsk; preceded by North Riding of Yorkshire Major settlements Pickering, Filey, Thirsk, Easingwold, Malton | ||
Thirsk and Malton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kevin Hollinrake, a Conservative.
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1885–1983
The earlier version of the seat existed during this period.
Robin Turton was the Minister of Health (note head of department in that era) from December 1955 to January 1957. He also became father of the House and was among the longest-served of members for one constituency – for 44 years and 9 months.
2010-date
Anne McIntosh, a conservative, elected for Vale of York in 1997 then in Thirsk and Malton in 2010, having defeated fellow MP John Greenway in the selection, qualified as an advocate and worked for six years as political adviser to the European Democrats group in Brussels, then won election as an MEP for two terms, since 2010 she chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. In 2014 she was deselected as the Conservative candidate.
Political history
Traditionally a safe Conservative seat, the main forerunner, Ryedale (abolished in 2010) was taken by Elizabeth Shields for the Liberal Party, following a by-election in 1986, held following the death of MP John Spence, and she held it for one year until the 1987 general election.
Boundaries
1918-1950: The Urban District of Malton, the Rural Districts of Easingwold, Flaxton, Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside, Malton, Thirsk, and Wath, and part of the Rural District of Pickering.
1950-1974: The Urban District of Malton, the Rural Districts of Bedale, Easingwold, Flaxton, Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside, Malton, Thirsk, and Wath, and part of the Rural District of Pickering.
1974-1983: The Urban District of Malton, and the Rural Districts of Bedale, Easingwold, Flaxton, Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside, Malton, Thirsk, and Wath.
2010-present: The District of Ryedale, the District of Hambleton wards of Easingwold, Helperby, Huby and Sutton, Shipton, Sowerby, Stillington, Thirsk, Thorntons, Tollerton, Topcliffe, White Horse, and Whitestonecliffe, and the Borough of Scarborough wards of Filey and Hertford.
Constituency profile
The seat also includes Pickering and most of the North York Moors (its southern part), a mixed rugged crags and hillside National Park; its coastline in the seat at Filey is where the Moors meet the sea, with picturesque bays near to Scarborough.
Workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.3% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.
Elections in the 2010s
In January 2014, Conservative Anne McIntosh — the MP at the time — was not re-selected by the local party. McIntosh originally announced she would stand as an independent, but withdrew in March 2015.
Thirsk and Malton was originally scheduled to be contested for the first time at the general election on 6 May 2010. However, the death of UKIP candidate John Boakes from a suspected heart attack, announced on 22 April 2010, caused the poll in the constituency to be postponed until 27 May 2010. Under the Electoral Administration Act, UKIP were allowed to select a replacement candidate, but new nominations by other parties were not permitted. The constituent parties of the Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition government formed in the aftermath of the general election fielded competing candidates.