Constituency profile: Selby & Ainsty
Key fact and figures on how our Parliamentary seat's area is made up and who lives here.
Selby & Ainsty Parliamentary Election
The Selby & Ainsty parliamentary constituency was formed in time for the 2010 election following changes by the Electoral Commission.
It has an electorate of around 74,000 voters, 71% of the constituency's voter turned out in the last election.
During the changes, several communities that had traditionally been part of the old Selby constituency were taken away as part of the Commission's desire to create a new 'York Outer' Constituency. Resulting from this, with a drastically lower population, Selby was to be clumped together with a number of parishes from the Borough of Harrogate to create Selby & Ainsty.
As a whole, Selby & Ainsty has a working population whose income is close to the national average and enjoys a lower than average reliance upon social housing. But, this statistic masks a higher degree of deprivation in the three areas of greater population density, namely Selby, Tadcaster and Sherburn.