Swindon North
County constituency for theHouse of Commons
Boundary of Swindon North in South West England
County	Wiltshire
Electorate	72,163 (2023)[1]
Major settlements	Swindon (part),Highworth
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of Parliament	Will Stone (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	Swindon

Swindon North is aconstituency^{[n 1]} represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament since 2024 byWill Stone, aLabour politician.^{[n 2]}

Further to the completion of the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was formally renamed fromNorth Swindon to Swindon North, and first contested at the2024 general election.^[2]

North Swindon was created in 1997 and has been abellwether since then. However, during the 2010s, the Conservatives won the constituency by much higher numbers than their national popular vote margin.

Map of boundaries 2010-2024

Map of boundaries from 2024

1997–2010: The Borough of Thamesdown wards of Blunsdon, Covingham, Gorse Hill,Haydon Wick, Highworth, Moredon, St Margaret, St Philip, Western, and Whitworth, and the District of North Wiltshire ward of Cricklade.

The seat's boundaries encompassed an area that before its creation made up parts of the formerSwindon constituency and pre-1997 versions ofNorth Wiltshire andDevizes.

2010–2024: The Borough of Swindon wards of Abbey Meads,Blunsdon and Highworth, Covingham and Nythe,Gorse Hill and Pinehurst, Haydon Wick, Moredon, Penhill, St Margaret, St Philip, and Western.

In the 2010 boundary changes, the town ofCricklade became part of the North Wiltshire constituency while this seat acquired parts of the South Swindon constituency.

2024–present: Further to the2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

• The Borough of Swindon wards of:Blunsdon and Highworth;Gorse Hill and Pinehurst;Haydon Wick;Penhill and Upper Stratton;Priory Vale;Rodbourne Cheney;St. Andrews;St. Margaret and South Marston.^[3]

In order to bring the electorate within the permitted range and align with revised ward boundaries, the districts ofCovingham andNythe were transferred to Swindon South.

The constituency covers a northern part of centralSwindon and its northern suburbs (the civil parish ofCentral Swindon North), and extends northward to take inBlunsdon, the market town ofHighworth and the rural parishes surrounding that town.

North Swindon has an electorate of 79,488 (as of 2010^[update]), the majority of whom live in the suburbs or close to Swindon's town centre. In 2001, 52.9% of homes were into the categories of semi-detached or detached in the Swindon Local Authority area; after a 5.0% increase in flats/apartments in 2011, this figure had fallen slightly to 50.3%. In the same period, those registered unemployed rose from 2.5% to 4.2% and those self-employed rose from 6.2% to 7.8%.^[4] In 2010, the unemployment rate for Swindon South was 2.6%, compared to 3.5% in Swindon North. This is one indicator of social deprivation and compares to a rate of 11.0% in 2010 in Birmingham Ladywood, the constituency with the highest rate nationally.^[5]

General election 2024: Swindon North^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Will Stone	17,930	40.6	+10.1
	Conservative	Justin Tomlinson	13,827	31.3	–27.2
	Reform	Les Willis	7,557	17.1	N/A
	Green	Andy Bentley	2,366	5.4	+2.3
	Liberal Democrats	Flo Clucas	2,086	4.7	–3.2
	Independent	Debbie Hicks	260	0.6	N/A
	TUSC	Scott Hunter	139	0.3	N/A
Majority			4,103	9.3	N/A
Turnout			44,165	60.3	–5.4
Registered electors			73,238
	Labourgain fromConservative		Swing	19.3

General election 2005: North Swindon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Wills	19,612	43.7	–9.2
	Conservative	Justin Tomlinson	17,041	38.0	+4.3
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Evemy	6,831	15.2	+3.6
	UKIP	Robert Tingey	998	2.2	+0.3
	Socialist Unity	Andy Newman	208	0.5	N/A
	Independent	Ernest Reynolds	195	0.4	N/A
Majority			2,571	5.7	–13.5
Turnout			44,885	61.0	0.0
	Labourhold		Swing	–6.7

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire

• North Swindon UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) atMapIt UK
• North Swindon UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) atMapIt UK
• Swindon North UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) atMapIt UK

• Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire
• Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1997
• Politics of the Borough of Swindon

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