Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

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Huntingdon
County constituency

Huntingdon shown within Cambridgeshire, and Cambridgeshire shown within England
Created: 1885, 1983
MP: Jonathan Djanogly
Party: Conservative
Type: House of Commons
County: Cambridgeshire
EP constituency: East of England

Huntingdon 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. In the 17th century, this was Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary area. It was abolished in 1918 to re-create Huntingdonshire; that constituency was renamed, after slight boundary changes, to form the current constituency of Huntingdon. The seat was formerly held by ex-Prime Minister John Major.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency consists of the towns of St Neots, Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester and a number of smaller settlements in the south-west part of Cambridgeshire (East Anglia), neighbouring Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire. There were minor boundary changes at the 1983 General Election.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cambridgeshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor alterations to the existing constituencies to deal with population changes. The electoral wards used to create the modified Huntingdon constituency to be fought at the Next United Kingdom general election are:

  • Alconbury and The Stukeleys, Brampton, Buckden, Fenstanton, Godmanchester, Gransden and The Offords, Huntingdon East, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, Kimbolton and Staughton, Little Paxton, St Ives East, St Ives South, St Ives West, St Neots Eaton Ford, St Neots Eaton Socon, St Neots Eynesbury, St Neots Priory Park, and The Hemingfords all from the Huntingdonshire district.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1885 Thomas Coote
1886 Arthur Smith-Barry Conservative
1900 George Montagu
1906 Samuel Howard Whitbread
1910 John Cator
  • Constituency abolished (1918)
  • Constituency reconstituted (1983)
Year Member Party
1983 John Major Conservative
2001 Jonathan Djanogly Conservative

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: Huntingdon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jonathan Djanogly 26,646 50.8 +0.9
Liberal Democrats Julian Huppert 13,799 26.3 +2.4
Labour Stephen Sartain 9,821 18.7 -4.1
UK Independence Derek Norman 2,152 4.1 +0.7
Majority 12,847 24.5 -1.5
Turnout 52,418 62.5 +1.4
Conservative hold Swing -0.8


General Election 2001: Huntingdon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jonathan Djanogly 24,507 49.9 -5.4
Liberal Democrats Michael Pope 11,715 23.9 +9.1
Labour Takki Sulaiman 11,211 22.8 -0.6
UK Independence Derek Norman 1,656 3.4 +2.8
Majority 12,792 26.0 -5.8
Turnout 49,089 61.1 -13.8
Conservative hold Swing -7.3
General Election 1997: Huntingdon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Major 31,501 55.3 -9.9
Labour Jason Reece 13,361 23.5 +6.6
Liberal Democrats Matthew Owen 8,390 14.7 -6.4
Majority 18,140 31.80 -6.8
Turnout 56,963 74.9 -4.3
Conservative hold Swing -6.8


General Election 1992: Huntingdon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Major 48,662 66.2 +
Labour Hugh Seckleman 12,432 16.9
Liberal Democrats Matthew Owen 9,386 12.8
Liberal P Wiggan 1,045 1.4
Green Matthew Owen 846 1.2
Majority 36,230 49.30 +
Turnout 79.2
Conservative hold Swing +

[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)