Mid Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Bedfordshire County constituency

Mid Bedfordshire shown within Bedfordshire, and Bedfordshire shown within England
Created:	1918
MP:	Nadine Dorries
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Bedfordshire
EP constituency:	East of England

Mid Bedfordshire 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.

[edit] Boundaries

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Bedfordshire and Luton, the Boundary Commission for England have made only minor changes to the existing constituencies.[1]

The Mid Bedfordshire seat was fought at the UK general election in 2005 and has been formed from electoral wards under the Borough of Bedford, District of Mid Bedfordshire and the District of South Bedfordshire.

From Bedford Borough Council:- Turvey, Wilshamstead and Wootton
From the District of South Bedfordshire:- Barton-le-Clay, Streatley and Toddington
From the District of Mid Bedfordshire:- Ampthill, Aspley Guise, Clifton and Meppershall, Cranfield, Flitton, Greenfield and Pulloxhill, Flitwick East, Flitwick West, Harlington, Houghton, Haynes, Southill and Old Warden, Marston, Maulden and Clophill, Shefford, Campton and Gravenhurst, Shillington, Stondon and Henlow Camp, Silsoe, Westoning and Tingrith and Woburn

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Maximilian Gowran Townley	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Frederick Caesar Linfield	Liberal
	1924	William Ward Warner	Unionist
	1929	Milner Gray	Liberal
	1931	Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd	Conservative
	1960	Stephen Lewis Edmonstone Hastings	Conservative
	1983	Sir Nicholas Walter Lyell	Conservative
	1997	Jonathan Sayeed	Conservative
	2005	Nadine Vanessa Dorries	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

General Election 2005: Mid Bedfordshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Nadine Dorries	23,345	46.3	−1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Chapman	11,990	23.8	+4.1
	Labour	Martin Lindsay	11,351	22.5	−7.6
	UK Independence	Richard Joselyn	1,372	2.7	0.0
	Green	Ben Foley	1,292	2.6	N/A
	Veritas	Howard Martin	769	1.5	N/A
	Independent Candidate	[Saqhib Ali][2]	301	0.6	N/A
Majority			11,355	22.5
Turnout			50,420	68.3	+2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.6

General Election 2001: Mid Bedfordshire
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Sayeed	22,109	47.4	+1.4
	Labour	James Valentine	14,043	30.1	-2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Mabbutt	9,205	19.7	+2.9
	UK Independence	Chris Laurence	1,281	2.7	N/A
Majority			8,066	17.3
Turnout			46,638	65.9	-13.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

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)