Bedford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bedford
Borough constituency

Bedford shown within Bedfordshire, and Bedfordshire shown within England
Created: 1295, 1997
MP: Patrick Hall
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: Bedfordshire
EP constituency: East of England

Bedford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is a marginal seat between the Labour Party and the Conservatives.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the town of Bedford in Bedfordshire.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Bedfordshire, the Boundary Commission for England made only minor changes to each of the existing constituencies.

The new Bedford seat will be formed from electoral wards entirely within the borough of Bedford:

  • Brickhill, Castle, Cauldwell, De Parys, Goldington, Harpur, Kempston East, Kempston North, Kempston South, Kingsbrook, Newnham, Putnoe, Queen’s Park.

[edit] Members of Parliament

  • Constituency created (1295)
  • 1295: John Cullebere, Simon de Holand
Year First member First party Second member Second party
1660 Sir Samuel Luke Humphrey Winch
1661 Richard Taylor John Kelyng
1663 Paulet St John
1667 Sir William Beecher
1679 Sir William Francklyn
1685 Sir Anthony Chester, Bt Thomas Christie
1689 Thomas Hillersden
1695 William Farrer
March 1698 William Spencer
July 1698 Sir Thomas Alston, Bt
January 1701 Samuel Rolt
November 1701 William Farrer
1702 Edward Carteret
1705 William Farrer Sir Philip Monoux, Bt
1707 William Hillersden
1710 John Cater
1713 Samuel Rolt
1715 William Farrer John Thurlow Brace
1722 George Huxley
1725 John Thurlow Brace
1727 John Orlebar
1728 James Metcalfe
1731 Sir Jeremy Vanacker Sambrooke, Bt
1734 Samuel Ongley
1740 Sir Boteler Chernock, Bt
1747 Thomas Gore John Offley
1754 Francis Herne Robert Henley-Ongley
1761 Richard Vernon Whig
1768 Samuel Whitbread Tory
1774 Sir William Wake, Bt Robert Sparrow
1775 Samuel Whitbread Tory
1784 William MacDowall Colhoun Whig
1790 Samuel Whitbread Whig
1802 William Lee-Antonie
1812 Lord George Russell
1815 Hon. William Waldegrave
1818 William Henry Whitbread
1830 Frederick Polhill
1832 Samuel Crawley
1835 Frederick Polhill
1837 Henry Stuart
1838 Samuel Crawley
1841 Henry Stuart
1847 Sir Harry Verney, Bt
1852 Samuel Whitbread
1854 William Stuart
1857 Thomas Barnard
1859 William Stuart
1868 James Howard
1874 Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner
1880 Charles Magniac
  • Reduced to one member (1885)
Year Member Party
1885 Samuel Whitbread
1895 Charles Guy Pym
1906 Percy Barlow
January 1910 Walter Annis Attenborough
December 1910 Frederick George Kellaway Liberal
1922 Sir Sydney Richard Wells, Bt
1945 Thomas Skeffington-Lodge Labour
1950 Christopher Soames Conservative
1966 Brian Parkyn Labour
1970 Trevor Skeet Conservative
  • Constituency abolished (1983)
  • Constituency recreated (1997)
Year Member Party
1997 Patrick Hall Labour

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Bedford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Patrick Hall 17,557 41.7 −6.2
Conservative Richard Fuller 14,174 33.7 +0.9
Liberal Democrats Michael Headley 9,063 21.5 +5.7
UK Independence Peter Conquest 995 2.4 +1.3
Independent John McCready 283 0.7 N/A
Majority 3,383 8.0
Turnout 42,072 59.6 −0.3
Labour hold Swing −3.5
General Election 2001: Bedford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Patrick Hall 19,454 47.9 -2.7
Conservative Nicky Attenborough 13,297 32.8 -0.9
Liberal Democrats Michael Headley 6,425 15.8 +3.5
Independent Richard Rawlins 973 2.4 N/A
UK Independence Jennifer Lo Bianco 430 1.1 N/A
Majority 6,157 15.1
Turnout 40,579 59.9 -13.6
Labour hold Swing
General Election 1997: Bedford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Patrick Hall 24,774 50.6 N/A
Conservative Robert Blackman 16,474 33.7 N/A
Liberal Democrats Christopher Noyce 6,044 12.3 N/A
Referendum Party P. Conquest 1,503 3.1 N/A
Natural Law P. Saunders 149 0.3 N/A
Majority 8,300 N/A
Turnout 73.5 N/A
Labour hold Swing N/A

[edit] See also

Constituencies in the East of England
Conservative

Billericay | Braintree | Brentwood and Ongar | Broxbourne | Bury St Edmunds | Castle Point | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Epping Forest | Harwich | Hemel Hempstead | Hertford and Stortford | Hertsmere | Hitchin and Harpenden | Huntingdon | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Norfolk | North Essex | North East Bedfordshire | North East Cambridgeshire | North East Hertfordshire | North West Cambridgeshire | North West Norfolk | Peterborough | Rayleigh | Rochford and Southend East | Saffron Walden | Southend West | South Cambridgeshire | South East Cambridgeshire | South Norfolk | South Suffolk | South West Bedfordshire | South West Hertfordshire | South West Norfolk | St Albans | Suffolk Coastal | Welwyn Hatfield | West Chelmsford | West Suffolk

Labour

Basildon | Bedford | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Ipswich | Luton North | Luton South | Norwich North | Norwich South | Stevenage | Thurrock | Watford | Waveney

Liberal Democrat

Cambridge | Colchester | North Norfolk

East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)