North Herefordshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Ellie Chowns of the Green Party of England and Wales. It is the first Green seat in the West Midlands region.

Constituency profile

The seat has a substantially self-sufficient population, covered by civil parishes and with low rates of unemployment and social housing in each ward, with income levels concentrated towards the average in Britain.

Boundaries

2010–2024

This constituency contains a northern and central part of Herefordshire, including the towns of Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury and Leominster. The constituency has the electoral wards: The village of Weobley (listed above) was a former borough constituency that was abolished as a 'rotten borough' in 1832.

2024–present

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 general election, due on 4 July 2024, the constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020): The seat was unchanged, except to align the boundaries with those of the revised local authority wards.

Members of Parliament

Leominster prior to 2010

History

Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which slightly altered this constituency for the 2010 general election to exclude those areas of the former county of Hereford and Worcester which are now in Worcestershire. This meant North Herefordshire being at its core a successor to Leominster constituency. The remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat. In the 2024 United Kingdom general election, issues included the NHS, immigration and pollution in the River Wye. The seat was a target for the Greens, who ended up winning the seat.

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

The 2024 election marked the first time that the Greens had gained a Parliamentary seat directly from the Conservatives.

Elections in the 2010s