Thirsk and Malton

Thirsk and Malton
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Thirsk and Malton in North Yorkshire.
Location of North Yorkshire within England.
County	North Yorkshire
Electorate	77,230 (December 2010)
Major settlements	Pickering, Filey, Thirsk, Easingwold, Malton
Current constituency
Created	2010
Member of parliament	Kevin Hollinrake
Number of members	One
Created from	Ryedale (majority) Vale of York(part)
1885–1983
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Ryedale, Richmond (Yorks), Selby and Skipton and Ripon
Created from	Thirsk; preceded by North Riding of Yorkshire
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Yorkshire and the Humber

Thirsk and Malton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kevin Hollinrake, a Conservative.

The earlier version of the seat existed during this period.

Robin Turton was the Minister of Health (note head of department in that era) from December 1955 to January 1957. He also became father of the House and was among the longest-served of members for one constituency – for 44 years and 9 months.

Anne McIntosh, a conservative, elected for Vale of York in 1997 then in Thirsk and Malton in 2010, having defeated fellow MP John Greenway in the selection, qualified as an advocate and worked for six years as political adviser to the European Democrats group in Brussels, then won election as an MEP for two terms, since 2010 she chairs the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee. In 2014 she was deselected as the Conservative candidate.

Traditionally a safe Conservative seat, the main forerunner, Ryedale (abolished in 2010) was taken by Elizabeth Shields for the Liberal Party, following a by-election in 1986, held following the death of MP John Spence, and she held it for one year until the 1987 general election.