North West Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency)

North West Hampshire
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of North West Hampshire in Hampshire.
Location of Hampshire within England.
County	Hampshire
Electorate	77,020 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Andover, Tadley and Whitchurch
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
Created from	Winchester and Basingstoke
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

North West Hampshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kit Malthouse, a Conservative.

This constituency's results suggest a Conservative safe seat since its creation for the 1983 general election. The outgoing MP for Basingstoke, David Mitchell, was elected the first MP as he chose to represent the area carved out from the old seat, where he lived instead, and served for fourteen years. On Sir David Mitchell's retirement in 1997 George Young won the seat and held it until his resignation in 2015. Young was previously MP for the marginal constituency of Ealing, Acton from 1974 to 1997, and was Transport Secretary in the Government of John Major from 1995 to 1997. He also ran for Speaker of the House in 2000 and 2009, being defeated on both occasions. Young was appointed Leader of the House of Commons in the coalition government following the 2010 general election, but returned to the backbenches in David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle of 4 September 2012 and returned to the government frontbenches as Chief Whip a few weeks later, in October 2012 in place of Mitchell's son Andrew Mitchell. In 2015, Young was succeeded by Kit Malthouse, also a Conservative.

The 2010 result placed the seat 31st of the 307 Conservative seats by share of the vote polled.

The constituency is in the county of Hampshire focussed around the town of Andover which has small pockets of regionally high levels of social housing and unemployment; however, the seat overall had the 32nd lowest level of claimants of the 84 seats in the South East, at 1.7%, lower than the regional average of 2.4%.