Plymouth Drake (UK Parliament constituency)

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Plymouth Drake Borough constituency
Created:	1918, 1974
Abolished:	1950, 1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Playmouth Drake was a borough constituency in the city of Plymouth, in Devon. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, but abolished in the 1948 boundary review which came into effect in 1950. It was recreated by the Second Periodical review and therefore returned in the February 1974 election, but was abolished again by the Fourth Periodical review at the 1997 general election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, later Baron Glenravel	Conservative
	1929	James John Hamlyn Moses	Labour
	1931	Frederick Edward Guest	Conservative
	1937	Christian Henry Charles Guest	Conservative
	1945	Hubert Moses Medland	Labour
1950		constituency abolished