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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org">Sleaford and North Hykeham</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/County_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="County constituency">County constituency</a><br /><span class="category">for the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 250px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="250" data-height="200" data-overlays="["_80751d913e49d71249bf1158d3909a1e042da9f4"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,a,a,a,250x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&revid=1247723100&groups=_80751d913e49d71249bf1158d3909a1e042da9f4" width="250" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,a,a,a,250x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&revid=1247723100&groups=_80751d913e49d71249bf1158d3909a1e042da9f4 2x" alt="Map" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Boundaries since 2024</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:East_Midlands_-_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_constituency.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Map of constituency" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/East_Midlands_-_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_constituency.svg/175px-East_Midlands_-_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_constituency.svg.png" decoding="async" width="175" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/East_Midlands_-_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_constituency.svg/263px-East_Midlands_-_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_constituency.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/East_Midlands_-_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_constituency.svg/350px-East_Midlands_-_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_constituency.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="713" data-file-height="767" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Boundary of Sleaford and North Hykeham in the East Midlands</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_registration_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Electoral registration in the United Kingdom">Electorate</a></th><td class="infobox-data">73,380 (2023) <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Major settlements</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sleaford" title="Sleaford">Sleaford</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Hykeham" title="North Hykeham">North Hykeham</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;">Current constituency</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Johnson" title="Caroline Johnson">Caroline Johnson</a> (<a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">One</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created from</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Grantham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)">Grantham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)">Lincoln</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sleaford and North Hykeham</b> is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_Parliament_constituencies" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies">parliamentary constituency</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> which elects a single <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> of the <a href="/wiki/UK_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Parliament">UK Parliament</a>. It has been represented since 2016 by <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Johnson" title="Caroline Johnson">Dr Caroline Johnson</a>, who is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>. The seat was created in 1997 and has always been represented by <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Members of Parliament</a> (MPs) from the Conservative Party; like all British constituencies, it elects one candidate by the <a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post" class="mw-redirect" title="First-past-the-post">first-past-the-post</a> voting system. Johnson became the MP for the constituency after <a href="/wiki/2016_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_by-election" title="2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election">a by-election in December 2016</a>, following the resignation of the previous MP for the seat, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Phillips_(British_politician)" title="Stephen Phillips (British politician)">Stephen Phillips</a>. The constituency is considered a <a href="/wiki/Safe_seat" title="Safe seat">safe seat</a> for the Conservatives. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries">Boundaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1997–2010"><span id="1997.E2.80.932010"></span>1997–2010</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1997–2010"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The District of <a href="/wiki/North_Kesteven" title="North Kesteven">North Kesteven</a> except for the <a href="/wiki/Wards_and_electoral_divisions_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom">ward</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bracebridge_Heath" title="Bracebridge Heath">Bracebridge Heath</a>, and the District of <a href="/wiki/South_Kesteven" title="South Kesteven">South Kesteven</a> wards of Ermine, Heath, Loveden, Saxonwell, and Witham Valley. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency">constituency</a> covers the towns of <a href="/wiki/Sleaford" title="Sleaford">Sleaford</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Hykeham" title="North Hykeham">North Hykeham</a> and a large area of rural <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> south west of <a href="/wiki/Lindsey,_Lincolnshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Lindsey, Lincolnshire">Lindsey</a>. The constituency's boundaries roughly correspond to those of <a href="/wiki/North_Kesteven" title="North Kesteven">North Kesteven</a> local government district. In their formative proposals for 1997, the <a href="/wiki/Boundary_Commission_for_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Boundary Commission for England">Boundary Commission for England</a> proposed calling the new constituency Mid Lincolnshire, however the name was changed to its current form during the local inquiry process.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The inclusion of North Hykeham in the constituency title was criticised by the author and psephologist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Waller_(pundit)" title="Robert Waller (pundit)">Robert Waller</a> in 1995, on the grounds that North Hykeham was effectively an overspill area of the <a href="/wiki/City_of_Lincoln" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Lincoln">City of Lincoln</a>; however, not on the grounds of its actual inclusion, as its local government authority has long been seen as linked with the villages to the south in this seat, and wholly separate from the city.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010–2024"><span id="2010.E2.80.932024"></span>2010–2024</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 2010–2024"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The District of North Kesteven wards of <a href="/wiki/Ashby_de_la_Launde" title="Ashby de la Launde">Ashby de la Launde</a>, Bassingham, Billinghay, Branston and Mere, Brant Broughton, Cliff Villages, Cranwell and Byard's Leap, Eagle and North Scarle, Heckington Rural, Heighington and Washingborough, Kyme, Leasingham and Roxholm, Martin, Metheringham, North Hykeham Forum, North Hykeham Memorial, North Hykeham Mill, North Hykeham Moor, North Hykeham Witham, Osbournby, Ruskington, Sleaford Castle, Sleaford Holdingham, Sleaford Mareham, Sleaford Navigation, Sleaford Quarrington, Sleaford Westholme, and Waddington West, and the District of South Kesteven wards of Barrowby, Ermine, Heath, Loveden, Peascliffe, Saxonwell, and Witham Valley. </p><p>Following another <a href="/wiki/Boundary_Commissions_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom)">Boundary Commission</a> review, the <a href="/wiki/Constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency">constituency</a> boundaries with two of its neighbouring seats <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)">Lincoln</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grantham_and_Stamford" class="mw-redirect" title="Grantham and Stamford">Grantham and Stamford</a> were changed for the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Current">Current</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Current"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Further to the <a href="/wiki/2023_Periodic_Review_of_Westminster_constituencies" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies">2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies</a>, which came into effect for the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 general election</a>, the composition of the constituency was defined as follows (as they existed on 1 December 2020): </p> <ul><li>The District of North Kesteven wards of: Ashby de la Launde and Cranwell; Bassingham and Brant Broughton; Billinghay, Martin and North Kyme; Branston; Cliff Villages; Eagle, Swinderby and Witham St. Hughs; Heighington and Washingborough; Kirkby la Thorpe and South Kyme; Leasingham and Rauceby; Metheringham; North Hykeham Forum; North Hykeham Memorial; North Hykeham Mill; North Hykeham Moor; North Hykeham Witham; Ruskington; Sleaford Castle; Sleaford Holdingham; Sleaford Navigation; Sleaford Quarrington and Mareham; Sleaford Westholme; Waddington West.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><i>In order to bring the electorate within the permitted range, the parts in the District of South Kesteven and the two North Kesteven wards of Heckington Rural and Osbournby were transferred to the new constituency of <a href="/wiki/Grantham_and_Bourne" class="mw-redirect" title="Grantham and Bourne">Grantham and Bourne</a>.</i> </p><p>Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the constituency now comprises the following wards of the District of North Kesteven from the 2024 general election: </p> <ul><li>Ashby de la Launde, Digby & Scopwick; Bassingham Rural; Billinghay Rural; Branston; Cranwell, Leasingham & Wilsford (most); Heighington & Washingborough; Hykeham Central; Hykeham Fosse; Hykeham Memorial; Kirkby la Thorpe & South Kyme; Metheringham Rural; Navenby & Brant Broughton; Ruskington; Skellingthorpe & Eagle (part); Sleaford Castle; Sleaford Holdingham; Sleaford Navigation; Sleaford Quarrington & Mareham; Sleaford Westholme; Waddington Rural (part); Witham St Hughs & Swinderby.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The areas within the constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham are under the control and come under the responsibility of <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_County_Council" title="Lincolnshire County Council">Lincolnshire County Council</a> for the provision of certain public services, such as roads and local authority education.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1997–2015"><span id="1997.E2.80.932015"></span>1997–2015</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1997–2015"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Douglas Hogg moved to represent Sleaford and North Hykeham from the previously existing <a href="/wiki/Grantham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)">Grantham constituency</a>, a safe Conservative seat, which he had held since 1979. At the <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a>, Hogg won 43.9% of the vote, giving him a majority of 5,123 votes (9.6%) ahead of the second-placed <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorgan2001a32,_46_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorgan2001a32,_46-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001 general election</a>, the Conservatives increased their vote share by 5.7%, while the Labour Party's vote share decreased;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorgan2001b95_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorgan2001b95-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the seat had a majority of 8,622 votes (17.7%), which was the 104th-smallest percentage majority out of the 166 seats won by the Conservatives.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorgan2001b30–31,_95_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorgan2001b30–31,_95-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 general election</a>, Hogg won a majority of 12,705 votes (23.8%); this was the 35th-largest absolute majority (number of votes) and 52nd-largest percentage majority of the 198 seats won by the Conservative Party.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMellows-Facer20068,_198_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMellows-Facer20068,_198-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/UKIP" class="mw-redirect" title="UKIP">UKIP</a>, a minor party, won 5% of the vote in the constituency (coming fourth), retaining its deposit.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMellows-Facer2006124_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMellows-Facer2006124-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He stood down at the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a> owing to <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_parliamentary_expenses_scandal" title="United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal">controversy over his expenses claims</a>, making him the first MP to resign because of the scandal.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hogg was replaced by fellow Conservative <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Phillips_(British_politician)" title="Stephen Phillips (British politician)">Stephen Phillips</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERhodesCracknellMcGuiness201160_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERhodesCracknellMcGuiness201160-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, he won a majority of 19,905 votes (33.4%); the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> came second.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERhodesCracknellMcGuiness2011107_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERhodesCracknellMcGuiness2011107-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Out of the 650 UK Parliament constituencies contested at the election, Sleaford and North Hykeham had the 14th-largest absolute majority and the 72nd-largest percentage majority.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERhodesCracknellMcGuiness20111,_107_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERhodesCracknellMcGuiness20111,_107-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Independents" title="Lincolnshire Independents">Lincolnshire Independents</a>, a minor party, won 6.4% of the vote in the seat and came fourth; as this was more than 5%, the party retained its <a href="/wiki/Electoral_deposit#United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Electoral deposit">deposit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERhodesCracknellMcGuiness201120,_95_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERhodesCracknellMcGuiness201120,_95-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 general election</a>, Phillips won a majority of 24,115 votes (38.9%), with the Labour Party coming second in the seat. This made the constituency the 34th-safest by absolute majority, and the 99th-safest by percentage majority, out of the 650 constituencies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHawkinsKeenNakatuddeAyres20156,_118_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHawkinsKeenNakatuddeAyres20156,_118-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2016_by-election">2016 by-election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2016 by-election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2016_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_by-election" title="2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election">2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election</a></div> <p>Phillips stood down as an MP on 4 November 2016, owing to "irreconcilable differences" with the Government over the issue of <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This triggered a <a href="/wiki/UK_Parliamentary_by-elections" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Parliamentary by-elections">by-election</a> within the constituency, which was held on 8 December;<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Johnson" title="Caroline Johnson">Caroline Johnson</a> retained the seat for the Conservatives with a large majority.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2017–present"><span id="2017.E2.80.93present"></span>2017–present</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2017–present"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the <a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election</a>, Johnson won a majority of 25,237 votes; this was the second-largest majority of any seat in the East Midlands region (after <a href="/wiki/Leicester_South" class="mw-redirect" title="Leicester South">Leicester South</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBakerHawkinsAudickasBate201929_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBakerHawkinsAudickasBate201929-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Johnson's 42,245 votes were the greatest tally for her party in that election.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The majority in percentage was surpassed by six candidates of the same party. At the <a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 general election</a>, the Conservatives increased their majority further to 32,565. This was the largest Conservative majority (measured by number of votes) at the election, and the largest majority of any seat in the East Midlands.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUberoiBakerCracknell201910,_29_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUberoiBakerCracknell201910,_29-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The seat was <a href="/wiki/Malapportionment" class="mw-redirect" title="Malapportionment">overweight in electorate</a> meaning each elector's potential vote counts for about 15% less than the smallest mainland seats and each potential vote has 24.4% of the potential effect as the remote seat covering <a href="/wiki/Na_h-Eileanan_an_Iar_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Na h-Eileanan an Iar (UK Parliament constituency)">Na h-Eileanan an Iar</a> (the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides). A seat consisting of the latter seat multiplied by four times its electorate would, narrowly, be smaller than this seat's adult eligible voters (electorate). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Grantham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Grantham (UK Parliament constituency)">Grantham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)">Lincoln</a> prior to 1997</i> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Election</th> <th>Member<sup id="cite_ref-rayment_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rayment-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hogg" title="Douglas Hogg">Douglas Hogg</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Phillips_(British_politician)" title="Stephen Phillips (British politician)">Stephen Phillips</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2016_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_by-election" title="2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election">2016 by-election</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Johnson" title="Caroline Johnson">Caroline Johnson</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elections">Elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="center"><div class="thumb tnone" style=""><div class="thumbinner" style="width:-moz-fit-content; width:fit-content;"><div class="thumbimage noresize" style="width:auto;"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Notice plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width:100%;margin:0;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/60px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/80px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="text-align: left;"><div class="mbox-text-span">Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940" class="extiw" title="phab:T334940">Phabricator</a> and on <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Plans" class="extiw" title="mw:Extension:Graph/Plans">MediaWiki.org</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="thumbcaption">Graph of election results in Sleaford and North Hykeham, including the 2016 by-election (minor parties that never received more than 5% of the vote are omitted)</div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2020s">Elections in the 2020s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2020s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">General election 2024</a>: Sleaford and North Hykeham <sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Johnson" title="Caroline Johnson">Caroline Johnson</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>17,348</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>35.7</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>−30.8</b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Hanif Khan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,002 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #12B6CF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform UK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ben Jackson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,484 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Independents" title="Lincolnshire Independents">Lincolnshire Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Robert Oates </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,032 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Martin Blake </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,435 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Matthew Winnington </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,264 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,346 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−40.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48,565 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">64.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">75,807 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-19.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2010s">Elections in the 2010s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2010s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">General election 2019</a>: Sleaford and North Hykeham<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Johnson" title="Caroline Johnson">Caroline Johnson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44,683 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>67.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+2.9 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Linda Edwards-Shea </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,118 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Olly Craven </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,355 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Independents" title="Lincolnshire Independents">Lincolnshire Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Marianne Overton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,999 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Simon Tooke </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,742 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Caroline Coram </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">657 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32,565 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">66,554 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">70.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/General_election_2017" class="mw-redirect" title="General election 2017">General election 2017</a>: Sleaford and North Hykeham<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Johnson" title="Caroline Johnson">Caroline Johnson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>42,245 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>64.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+8.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jim Clarke </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,008 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ross Pepper </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,722 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sally Chadd </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,954 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−12.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Fiona McKenna </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">968 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Paul Coyne </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">900 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25,237 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65,797 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">72.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2016_Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_by-election" title="2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election">By-election 2016</a>: Sleaford and North Hykeham<sup id="cite_ref-three_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-three-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Caroline_Johnson" title="Caroline Johnson">Caroline Johnson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>17,570 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Victoria Ayling </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,426 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ross Pepper </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,606 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jim Clarke </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,363 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Independents" title="Lincolnshire Independents">Lincolnshire Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Marianne Overton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,892 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sarah Stock </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">462 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFF000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_Party" title="Official Monster Raving Loony Party">Monster Raving Loony</a> </td> <td class="fn">The Iconic Arty-Pole </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">200 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><i>No description</i> </td> <td class="fn">Paul Coyne </td> <td style="text-align:right;">186 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.6 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><i>No description</i> </td> <td class="fn">Mark Suffield </td> <td style="text-align:right;">74 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF00FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Bus_Pass_Elvis_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Bus Pass Elvis Party">Bus-Pass Elvis</a> </td> <td class="fn">David Bishop </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,144 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32,893 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−33.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">General election 2015</a>: Sleaford and North Hykeham<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Phillips_(British_politician)" title="Stephen Phillips (British politician)">Stephen Phillips</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>34,805 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jason Pandya-Wood </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,690 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UKIP" class="mw-redirect" title="UKIP">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Steven Hopkins </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,716 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Matthew Holden </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,500 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−12.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Independents" title="Lincolnshire Independents">Lincolnshire Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Marianne Overton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,233 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24,115 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">61,944 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">70.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">General election 2010</a>: Sleaford and North Hykeham<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Phillips_(British_politician)" title="Stephen Phillips (British politician)">Stephen Phillips</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30,719 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+1.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">David Harding-Price </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,814 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">James Normington </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,051 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire_Independents" title="Lincolnshire Independents">Lincolnshire Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Marianne Overton<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,806 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Independence_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Roger Doughty </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,163 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #2e3b74; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/British_National_Party" title="British National Party">BNP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mike Clayton<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,977 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,905 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59,530 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">69.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.8 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.45 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2000s">Elections in the 2000s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">General election 2005</a>: Sleaford and North Hykeham<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hogg" title="Douglas Hogg">Douglas Hogg</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,855 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.3 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Katrina Bull </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,150 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">David Harding-Price </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,710 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Independence_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Guy Croft </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,682 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,705 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53,397 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">66.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.9 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+3.05 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">General election 2001</a>: Sleaford and North Hykeham<sup id="cite_ref-vote2001_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vote2001-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hogg" title="Douglas Hogg">Douglas Hogg</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>24,190 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Elizabeth Donnelly </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,568 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Robert Arbon </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,894 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Independence_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael Ward-Barrow </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,067 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,622 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48,719 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">64.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+4.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1990s">Elections in the 1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">General election 1997</a>: Sleaford and North Hykeham<sup id="cite_ref-vote2001_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vote2001-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Hogg" title="Douglas Hogg">Douglas Hogg</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>23,358 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sean Hariss </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,235 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.3 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Marriott </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,063 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.2 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #bf475c; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Referendum_Party" title="Referendum Party">Referendum</a> </td> <td class="fn">Peter Clery </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,942 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.5 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">Independent Conservative </td> <td class="fn">Richard Overton </td> <td style="text-align:right;">578 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,123 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52,598 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>win</b> (new seat) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_Lincolnshire" title="List of parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire">List of parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sleaford_and_North_Hykeham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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