Corby (UK Parliament constituency)

Corby
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Corby in Northamptonshire.
Location of Northamptonshire within England.
County	Northamptonshire
Electorate	79,468 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Corby, Oundle, Raunds, Thrapston and Irthlingborough
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Tom Pursglove (Conservative)
Created from	Kettering and Wellingborough
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	East Midlands

Corby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since May 2015 by Tom Pursglove of the Conservative Party.

The seat was created due to population increases in the county for the 1983 general election. Since creation it has been a marginal seat alternating between Labour and the Conservative representatives with marginal majorities relative to national averages on all but two occasions, the 1997 Labour landslide and the 2012 by-election. On 6 August 2012, MP for the seat since 2010 Louise Mensch announced she was resigning, triggering a by-election held on 15 November 2012. Labour's Andy Sawford won, becoming the first Labour MP for the seat since Phil Hope was defeated in 2010, and only the second in the seat's history. This was Labour's first by-election win from a Conservative since the Wirral South by-election, 1997, won by Ben Chapman. At the 2015 general election, the Conservatives recovered the seat.

1983-2010: The District of Corby, and the District of East Northamptonshire wards of Barnwell, Brigstock, Drayton, Forest, Irthlingborough, King's Cliffe, Lower Nene, Margaret Beaufort, Oundle, Raunds, Ringstead, Stanwick, Thrapston, Willibrook, and Woodford.

2010-present: The Borough of Corby, and the District of East Northamptonshire wards of Barnwell, Dryden, Fineshade, Irthlingborough, King's Forest, Lower Nene, Lyveden, Oundle, Prebendal, Raunds Saxon, Raunds Windmill, Ringstead, Stanwick, Thrapston, and Woodford.