Romsey and Southampton North (UK Parliament constituency)

Romsey and Southampton North
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Romsey and Southampton North in Hampshire.
Location of Hampshire within England.
County	Hampshire
Electorate	67,696 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Caroline Nokes (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Romsey
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Coordinates: 50°59′10″N 1°27′54″W / 50.986°N 1.465°W / 50.986; -1.465

Romsey and Southampton North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Caroline Nokes, a Conservative. For the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer it is a county constituency.

Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which created this constituency for the 2010 general election primarily as an extended Romsey constituency.

Romsey and Southampton North is formed from electoral wards:

The area includes , which was a rotten borough constituency until the latter's abolition under the Great Reform Act of 1832.

The constituency consists of two local government districts with similar characteristics: a working population whose income is close to the national average and lower than average reliance upon social housing. At the end of 2012 the unemployment rate in the constituency stood as 1.5% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 2.4%. The borough contributing to the bulk of the seat has a low 13.5% of its population without a car, 18.4% of the population without qualifications and a high 30.5% with level 4 qualifications or above. In terms of tenure 70.4% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage as at the 2011 census across the Test Valley district.