Isle of Ely (UK Parliament constituency)
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Isle of Ely was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, centred on the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire. Until its abolition in 1983, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
The Isle had previously been represented by two members of the First and Second Protectorate Parliaments, between 1654 and 1658.
Clement Freud gained the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives in a 1973 by-election during the height of the 1970s Liberal revival; however, he surprisingly lost its successor seat in 1987.
The constituency was renamed in 1983, with most of the territory incorporated into the constituency of North East Cambridgeshire.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- Constituency created 1918
- Colin Reith Coote (1918-22)
- Norman Coates (1922-23)
- Henry Mond (1923-24), Liberal
- Hugh Lucas-Tooth (1924-29), Conservative
- James de Rothschild (1929-1945), Liberal
- Harry Legge-Bourke (1945-73), Conservative
- Clement Freud (1973-1983), Liberal
- Constituency abolished 1983
