The Wrekin (historic UK Parliament constituency)

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The Wrekin
County constituency
Created: 1918
Abolished: 1997
Type: House of Commons

The Wrekin is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament.

In the constituency changes for the 1997 general election, a new constituency was created, also called The Wrekin. Despite the same name, the old and new constituencies are very different: the town of Telford was a major component of the pre-1997 constituency, but after 1997 it gained its own Telford constituency.[1]

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Election Member Party
1918 Constituency created
1918 Sir Charles Solomon Henry Coalition Liberal
1920 Charles Frederick Palmer, Independent
1920 Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend Independent Conservative
1922 Howard Stransom Button Conservative
1923 Henry Nixon Labour
1924 Thomas Oakley Unionist
1929 Edith Picton-Turbervill Labour
1931 James Baldwin-Webb Conservative
1941 William Arthur Colegate Conservative
1945 Ivor Owen Thomas Labour
1955 William Yates Conservative
1966 Gerald Teasdale Fowler Labour
1970 Joseph Anthony Porteous Trafford Conservative
1974 Gerald Teasdale Fowler Labour
1979 Warren Hawksley Conservative
1987 Bruce Grocott Labour
  • Constituency abolished (1997)

[edit] Elections

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