| Telford | |
|---|---|
| Borough constituency for theHouse of Commons | |
 Boundaries since 2024 | |
 Boundary of Telford inWest Midlands region | |
| County | Shropshire |
| Electorate | 65,938 (December 2010)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1997 |
| Member of Parliament | Shaun Davies (Labour) |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | The Wrekin |
Telford is aconstituency[n 1] represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament since2024 byShaun Davies of theLabour Party[n 2].
Telford is made up of several old industrial towns to the north of theRiver Severn and on the eastern flanks ofthe Wrekin (includingMadeley,Dawley and the small townships in theIronbridge Gorge) and numerous New Town developments includingWoodside. However, not all of theTelford New Town developments are in the constituency; the northern parts and some western areas (including the town ofWellington which pre-dates Telford) are inThe Wrekin constituency.
All of the constituency is covered byTelford and Wrekin Council.
1997–2010: The District of The Wrekin wards of Brookside, Cuckoo Oak, Dawley Magna, Hollinswood/Randlay, Ironbridge (The Gorge), Ketley Bank, Langley, Lawley, Madeley, Malinslee, Priorslee, Stirchley, Wombridge, Woodside, and Wrockwardine Wood.
2010–2024: The Borough of Telford and Wrekin wards of Brookside, Cuckoo Oak, Dawley Magna, Horsehay and Lightmoor, Ironbridge Gorge, Ketley and Oakengates, Lawley and Overdale, Madeley, Malinslee, Priorslee, St George's, The Nedge, Woodside, Wrockwardine Wood, and Trench.
Boundary changes to realign the constituency boundaries to fit with the borough's most recent ward revisions resulted in the addition ofKetley (from the constituency of The Wrekin) for the 2010 general election.
2024–present: The2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies resulted in a slight boundary adjustment to accommodate changes in ward boundaries. Following a further local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023,[2][3] the constituency now comprises the following wards of the Borough of Telford and Wrekin from the2024 general election:
The constituency is generally urban and covers Telford New Town. There is a significant technology sector.[5] Residents are slightly poorer than the UK average.[6]
Created from the more ruralWrekin constituency for the1997 general election, Telford was continuously held by theLabour Party, with a change in candidate in 2001, until the2015 general election when theConservatives took the seat fromDavid Wright.Bruce Grocott was its first-ever MP, serving for the first four years. In 2010 Wright's majority fell to amarginal figure of 981 votes, and he lost in 2015 by 730 votes[7] – one of the small number of Conservative gains from Labour in that election, which in turn helped to give the Conservatives an overall parliamentary majority. The seat was retained byLucy Allan in 2017 with an almost identical majority of 720, and again by Allan in 2019 with a majority of 10,941, one of the most significant Conservative marginal seat holds in that election.[8]
In June 2023 Allan announced she would not stand at the forthcominggeneral election,[9] and in May 2024, 3 days before the end of her term, she was suspended from the Conservative Party for publicly supporting theReform UK candidate, Alan Adams.[10] The subsequent election was won byShaun Davies of the Labour Party, with a majority of 8,102 over Adams who beat the Conservative candidate into third place.
| Election | Member[11] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Bruce Grocott | Labour | |
| 2001 | David Wright | Labour | |
| 2015 | Lucy Allan | Conservative | |
| May 2024 | Independent | ||
| 2024 | Shaun Davies | Labour | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Shaun Davies | 18,212 | 44.7 | +10.4 | |
| Reform | Alan Adams | 10,110 | 24.8 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Hannah Campbell | 8,728 | 21.4 | –38.0 | |
| Green | John Adams | 2,120 | 5.2 | +5.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jo McKenna | 1,560 | 3.8 | −2.4 | |
| Majority | 8,102 | 19.9 | −5.7 | ||
| Turnout | 40,730 | 55.4 | –6.7 | ||
| Labourgain fromConservative | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Lucy Allan | 25,546 | 59.7 | +11.0 | |
| Labour | Katrina Gilman | 14,605 | 34.1 | –13.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Shana Roberts | 2,674 | 6.2 | +4.1 | |
| Majority | 10,941 | 25.6 | +25.0 | ||
| Turnout | 42,825 | 62.1 | –4.2 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | +12.0 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Lucy Allan | 21,777 | 48.7 | +9.1 | |
| Labour | Kuldip Sahota | 21,057 | 47.1 | +9.3 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Susan King | 954 | 2.1 | −0.2 | |
| Green | Luke Shirley | 898 | 2.0 | –0.3 | |
| Majority | 720 | 1.6 | –0.2 | ||
| Turnout | 44,686 | 66.3 | +4.9 | ||
| Conservativehold | Swing | –0.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Lucy Allan | 16,094 | 39.6 | +3.3 | |
| Labour | David Wright | 15,364 | 37.8 | –0.9 | |
| UKIP | Denis Allen | 7,330 | 18.0 | +12.1 | |
| Green | Peter Hawkins | 930 | 2.3 | New | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ian Croll | 927 | 2.3 | –13.2 | |
| Majority | 730 | 1.8 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 40,645 | 61.4 | –2.1 | ||
| Conservativegain fromLabour | Swing | +2.1 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Wright | 15,974 | 38.7 | –9.5 | |
| Conservative | Tom Biggins | 14,996 | 36.3 | +3.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Phillip Bennion | 6,399 | 15.5 | +1.4 | |
| UKIP | Denis Allen | 2,428 | 5.9 | +1.2 | |
| BNP | Phil Spencer | 1,513 | 3.7 | New | |
| Majority | 978 | 2.4 | –13.4 | ||
| Turnout | 41,310 | 63.5 | +4.8 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | –6.3 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Wright | 16,506 | 48.3 | –6.3 | |
| Conservative | Stella Kyriazis | 11,100 | 32.5 | +5.1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Ian Jenkins | 4,941 | 14.4 | +1.5 | |
| UKIP | Tom McCartney | 1,659 | 4.9 | +1.3 | |
| Majority | 5,406 | 15.8 | –11.4 | ||
| Turnout | 34,206 | 57.7 | +5.7 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | –5.7 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | David Wright | 16,854 | 54.6 | –3.2 | |
| Conservative | Andrew Henderson | 8,471 | 27.4 | 0.0 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Sallyann Wiggin | 3,983 | 12.9 | +1.1 | |
| UKIP | Nicola Brookes | 1,098 | 3.6 | New | |
| Socialist Alliance | Michael Jeffries | 469 | 1.5 | New | |
| Majority | 8,383 | 27.2 | –3.2 | ||
| Turnout | 30,875 | 52.0 | –13.6 | ||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Bruce Grocott | 21,456 | 57.8 | ||
| Conservative | Bernard Gentry | 10,166 | 27.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Nathaniel Green | 4,371 | 11.8 | ||
| Referendum | Christopher Morris | 1,119 | 3.0 | ||
| Majority | 11,290 | 30.4 | |||
| Turnout | 37,112 | 65.6 | |||
| Labourwin (new seat) | |||||
