# North Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 was defined as comprising the following electoral wards:
* Backbury, Bircher, Bringsty, Bromyard, Burghill, Holmer and Lyde, Castle, Credenhill, Frome, Golden Cross with Weobley, Hagley, Hampton Court, Hope End, Kington Town, Ledbury, Leominster North, Leominster South, Mortimer, Old Gore, Pembridge and Lyonshall with Titley, Sutton Walls, Upton, Wormsley Ridge.

### 2024–present

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the following:
* The District of Herefordshire wards of: Arrow; Backbury; Bircher; Bishops Frome & Cradley; Bromyard Bringsty; Bromyard West; Castle; Credenhill; Hagley; Hampton; Holmer; Hope End; Kington; Ledbury North; Ledbury South; Ledbury West; Leominster East; Leominster North & Rural; Leominster South; Leominster West; Mortimer; Old Gore; Queenswood; Sutton Walls; Three Crosses; Weobley.
The seat was unchanged, except to align the boundaries with those of revised local authority wards.
The seat includes the village of Weobley, a former borough constituency that was abolished as a 'rotten borough' in 1832.

## Members of Parliament

Leominster prior to 2010
| Election | Election | Member | Party |
| | 2010 | Bill Wiggin | Conservative |
| | 2024 | Ellie Chowns | Green |

## 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.
General election 2024: North Herefordshire :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Green | Ellie Chowns | 21,736 | 43.2 | 34.4 |
| | Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 15,842 | 31.5 | 31.0 |
| | Reform UK | Andrew Dye | 8,048 | 16.0 | New |
| | Labour | Jon Browning | 3,205 | 6.4 | 8.8 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Cat Hornsey | 1,436 | 2.9 | 10.6 |
| | SDP | Michael Guest | 95 | 0.2 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 5,894 | 11.7 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 50,362 | 71.7 | 0.9 |
| | Green gain from Conservative | Green gain from Conservative | Swing | 32.7 | |

### Elections in the 2010s

General election 2019: North Herefordshire :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 32,158 | 63.0 | 1.0 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Phillip Howells | 7,302 | 14.3 | 2.6 |
| | Labour | Joe Wood | 6,804 | 13.3 | 5.6 |
| | Green | Ellie Chowns | 4,769 | 9.3 | 3.8 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 24,856 | 48.7 | 5.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 51,033 | 72.6 | 1.5 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | 0.8 | |
General election 2017: North Herefordshire :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 31,097 | 62.0 | 6.4 |
| | Labour | Roger Page | 9,495 | 18.9 | 7.5 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Jeanie Falconer | 5,874 | 11.7 | 0.3 |
| | Green | Ellie Chowns | 2,771 | 5.5 | 1.5 |
| | Independent | Sasha Norris | 577 | 1.1 | New |
| | Independent | Arthur Devine | 363 | 0.7 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 21,602 | 43.1 | 1.5 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 50,177 | 74.1 | 2.1 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | 0.6 | |
General election 2015: North Herefordshire :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 26,716 | 55.6 | 3.8 |
| | UKIP | Jonathan Oakton | 6,720 | 14.0 | 8.3 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Jeanie Falconer | 5,768 | 12.0 | 19.0 |
| | Labour | Sally Prentice | 5,478 | 11.4 | 4.3 |
| | Green | Daisy Blench | 3,341 | 7.0 | 3.8 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 19,996 | 41.6 | 20.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 42,545 | 72.0 | 0.5 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
General election 2010: North Herefordshire :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 24,631 | 51.8 | 0.7 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Lucy Hurds | 14,744 | 31.0 | 6.9 |
| | Labour | Neil Sabharwal | 3,373 | 7.1 | 8.4 |
| | UKIP | Jonathan Oakton | 2,701 | 5.7 | 2.4 |
| | Green | Felicity Norman | 1,533 | 3.2 | 1.5 |
| | Independent | John King | 586 | 1.2 | New |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 9,887 | 20.8 | 7.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 47,568 | 71.5 | 2.3 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | 3.8 | |