Haltemprice and Howden
Formercounty constituency for theHouse of Commons
2010–2024 boundary of Haltemprice and Howden in former county ofHumberside
Location of former county ofHumberside within England
County	East Riding of Yorkshire
Electorate	70,252 (December 2019)[1]
1997–2024
Seats	One
Created from	Beverley Boothferry
Replaced by	Goole and Pocklington Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice (part) Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham (part)

Haltemprice and Howden was aconstituency^{[n 1]} in theEast Riding of Yorkshire from 1997 to 2024.^{[n 2]}

The seat was abolished for the2024 general election.^[2]

TheElectoral Reform Society considers it to be historically thesafest seat in the country, afterNorth Shropshire was lost to theLiberal Democrats in 2021. Taking into account the previous seats roughly covering its boundaries, the Society considers that the seat has been held continuously by theConservative Party since the1837 general election.^[4]

Map of 2010–2024 boundaries

The constituency was named after the region ofHaltemprice and covered a large, wide area stretching from the border ofHull in the east toHowden in the west and northwards toHolme-on-Spalding-Moor towardsYork in the Yorkshire Wolds. The bulk of the population is centred in the urban villages ofWillerby,Kirk Ella,Anlaby andCottingham, which were part of the former district ofHaltemprice, which was abolished in 1974. Rural Howdenshire formed the bulk of the geographical area of the constituency but provides only a small part of the total electorate.

The constituency included many towns and villages along theA63 corridor including,Brough,Elloughton,South Cave,North Ferriby,Swanland,Gilberdyke,Newport,Welton andMelton.

1997–2010: The Borough of Boothferry wards of East Derwent, East Howdenshire, Gilberdyke, Holme upon Spalding Moor, Howden, Mid Howdenshire, and North Cave, and the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley wards of Anlaby, Brough, Castle, Kirk Ella, Mill Beck and Croxby, Priory, Skidby and Rowley, South Cave, Springfield, Swanland, and Willerby.

2010–2024: The District of East Riding of Yorkshire wards of Cottingham North, Cottingham South, Dale, Howden, Howdenshire, South Hunsley, Tranby, and Willerby and Kirk Ella.

The constituency was created for the1997 general election, covering an area previously part of theBeverley andBoothferry constituencies. In 1997, it returned the ConservativeDavid Davis, who had previously been the member for Boothferry; he was re-elected in the2001,2005 and2010 general elections.

The area was placed as 10th most affluent in the country in the 2003Barclays Private Clients survey.^[5]Election results but one to date suggest a Safe seat, with the 2001 result being an exception when the Conservative majority was cut to less than 2,000 votes. However, no party has come as near since then.

On 12 June 2008, a day after a vote on the extension ofdetention of terror suspects without charge, in an unexpected move, Davis took theChiltern Hundreds, effectively resigning his seat as the constituency's MP. He stated this was to force a by-election, in which he intended to provoke a wider public debate on the single issue of the perceived erosion ofcivil liberties. Over the course of the following week, the campaign was launched on the theme ofDavid Davis for Freedom.

Davis formally resigned as an MP on 18 June 2008, and the by-election took place on 10 July 2008, which Davis won.^[6]

Further to the completion of the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat contents proposed to be distributed three ways:^[2]

• Howden andNorth Ferriby, with rural areas in between, to the successor constituency ofGoole and Pocklington
• Cottingham toKingston upon Hull North (to be renamed Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham)
• Anlaby,Willerby andKirk Ella toKingston upon Hull West and Hessle (to be renamed Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice)

The constituency was abolished for the2024 general election.

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Humberside

• Haltemprice and Howden UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) atMapIt UK
• Haltemprice and Howden UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) atMapIt UK

• Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside (historic)
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 2024

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