Bexley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Bexley
constituency
Created: 1945
Abolished: 1974
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Bexley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Bexley district of South-East London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1945 general election, and abolished for the February 1974 general election.

The MP when the constituency was abolished, the incumbent Prime Minister Edward Heath, contested and won the Sidcup constituency in 1974. He represented the new seat of Old Bexley and Sidcup from 1983.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year Member Party
1945 Janet Adamson Labour
1946 Ashley Bramall Labour
1950 Edward Heath Conservative
February 1974 constituency abolished: see Sidcup

This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.