The non-metropolitan county

Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England

Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are one of the four levels of subdivisions of England used for the purposes of local government outside Greater London. As originally constituted, the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties each consisted of multiple districts, had a county council and...

 of Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

is divided into 7 Parliamentary constituencies

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly.Within the United Kingdom there are now five bodies with members elected by constituencies:...

 – 1 Borough constituency and 6 County constituencies.

Constituencies

ConstituencyBC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.	Electorate	MajorityThe majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.	Member of Parliament Member of Parliament A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...		Nearest opposition		Map
Boston and Skegness CC	71,003	12,426		Mark Simmonds Mark Simmonds Mark Jonathon Mortlock Simmonds is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire, and was first elected in 2001, succeeding Sir Richard Body...		Paul Kenny
Gainsborough CC Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency) Gainsborough is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....	64,022	10,559		Edward Leigh Edward Leigh Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a British Conservative politician. He has sat in the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Gainsborough in Lincolnshire since 1997, and for its predecessor constituency of Gainsborough and Horncastle between 1983 and 1997...		Pat O'Connor
Grantham and Stamford CC	73,336	14,826		Nicholas Boles Nicholas Boles Nicholas Edward Coleridge "Nick" Boles is a British Conservative Party politician who is the Member of Parliament for the Grantham and Stamford constituency in Lincolnshire...		Harrish Bisnauthsing
Lincoln BC Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency) Lincoln is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....	70,135	1,058		Karl McCartney Karl McCartney Karl Ian McCartney is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Party member of Parliament for Lincoln, and was first elected in 2010.-Biography:...		Gillian Merron Gillian Merron Gillian Joanna Merron was a British Labour Party politician, who was also the Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 1997 to 2010. From 2009 to 2010 she was Minister of State with responsibility for Public Health at the Department of Health.-Personal life:Merron was born in Ilford, Essex, and...
Louth and Horncastle CC	70,463	13,871		Sir Peter Tapsell		Fiona Martin
Sleaford and North Hykeham CC	70,058	19,905		Stephen Phillips Stephen Phillips Stephen Phillips was a highly famed English poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity in his lifetime....		David Harding Price
South Holland and The Deepings CC	70,402	21,880		John Hayes John Henry Hayes John Henry Hayes FRSA is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for South Holland and The Deepings, and a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group...		Jenny Conroy

Boundary changes

Current proposals by the Boundary Commission for England would retain these
7 constituencies, with changes to realign constituency boundaries
with the boundaries of current local government wards,
and to reduce the electoral disparity between constituencies.
These changes will take effect at the United Kingdom general election, 2010.

Name	|Current Boundaries
Boston and Skegness CC Gainsborough CC Gainsborough (UK Parliament constituency) Gainsborough is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... Grantham and Stamford CC Lincoln BC Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency) Lincoln is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.... Louth and Horncastle CC Sleaford and North Hykeham CC South Holland and The Deepings CC

Results

2005	2010

See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Humberside for those covering North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. For ceremonial purposes it is part of Lincolnshire....

and North East Lincolnshire

North East Lincolnshire

North East Lincolnshire is a unitary authority in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, bordering the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire and the administrative county of Lincolnshire...

 unitary authorities

Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national...

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