Selby and Ainsty

Selby and Ainsty
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Selby and Ainsty in North Yorkshire.
Location of North Yorkshire within England.
County	North Yorkshire
Electorate	73,580 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Selby
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Nigel Adams (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Selby
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Coordinates: 53°46′37″N 1°04′44″W / 53.777°N 1.079°W / 53.777; -1.079

Selby and Ainsty is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Nigel Adams, a Conservative.

For 2010 the Boundary Commission recommended the creation of this seat following a review of parliamentary representation in York and North Yorkshire. The constituency covers the area around Selby and some parts of the ancient wapentake of Ainsty within the borough of Harrogate.

This seat is a successor to Selby. The electoral wards used to create the extended constituency are:

Some villages in the previous Selby constituency have been moved to the new York Outer constituency.

The constituency consists of Census Output Areas 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 2.2% of the population claiming jobseekers allowance, compared to the regional average of 4.7%. The district contributing to the bulk of the seat has a low 14.5% of its population without a car, 21.2% of the population without qualifications and a relatively high 26.1% with level 4 qualifications or above. In terms of tenure 75.0% of homes are owned outright or on a mortgage by occupants as at the 2011 census across the Selby district.