Stone (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stone County constituency

Stone shown within Staffordshire, and Staffordshire shown within England
Created:	1918, 1997
MP:	Bill Cash
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Staffordshire
EP constituency:	West Midlands

Stone 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.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Boundaries

Stone is one of the largest geographically in England. It covers from Balterley, Madeley in the North to the west of Newcaslte-under-Lyme. It then runs south and out to the outskirts of Market Drayton, running down to the northern edge of Newport. The boundary heads north alongside the western boundary of Stafford around the north of Stafford and down tis eastern boundary. It runs across the north of Abbots Bromley before reaching its eastern end. It continues to the west of Uttoxeter in the Burton constituency. It then extends eastwards between the Burton constituency and up to Cheadle and to the south of Stoke-on-Trent. Within the consituency are the towns of Eccleshall and Stone.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Sir Joseph Lamb, Conservative (1922-1945)
Hugh Fraser, Conservative (1945-1950)
Constituency abolished, 1950
Constituency re-created, 1997
Bill Cash, Conservative (1997-present)

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Stone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Cash	22,733	48.3	-0.8
	Labour	Mark Davis	13,644	29.0	-6.8
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Stevens	9,111	19.4	+4.3
	UK Independence	Mike Nattrass	1,548	3.3	N/A
Majority			9,089	19.3	+6.0
Turnout			47,036	66.9	+0.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+3.0

General Election 2001: Stone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Cash	22,395	49.1	+2.2
	Labour	John Palfreyman	16,359	35.8	-3.8
	Liberal Democrats	Brendan McKeown	6,888	15.1	+3.0
Majority			6,036	13.3
Turnout			45,642	66.3	-12.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

General Election 1997: Stone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Cash	24,859	46.8	N/A
	Labour	John Wakefield	21,041	39.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Barry Stamp	6,392	12.0	N/A
	Liberal	A. Winfield	545	1.0	N/A
	Natural Law	D. Grice	237	0.4	N/A
Majority			3,818		N/A
Turnout				77.8	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire

[edit] References

(2003) in Iain Dale: The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
(1945) The Times House of Commons 1945.

Constituencies in the West Midlands
Labour	Birmingham Edgbaston \| Birmingham, Erdington \| Birmingham Hall Green \| Birmingham Hodge Hill \| Birmingham Northfield \| Birmingham Perry Barr \| Birmingham Selly Oak \| Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath \| Burton \| Cannock Chase \| Coventry North East \| Coventry North West \| Coventry South \| Dudley North \| Dudley South \| Halesowen and Rowley Regis \| Newcastle-under-Lyme \| North Warwickshire \| Nuneaton \| Redditch \| Stafford \| Staffordshire Moorlands \| Stoke-on-Trent Central \| Stoke-on-Trent North \| Stoke-on-Trent South \| Stourbridge \| Tamworth \| Telford \| Walsall North \| Walsall South \| Warley \| Warwick and Leamington \| West Bromwich East \| West Bromwich West \| Wolverhampton North East \| Wolverhampton South East \| Wolverhampton South West \| Worcester
Conservative	Aldridge-Brownhills \| Bromsgrove \| Leominster \| Lichfield \| Ludlow \| Meriden \| Mid Worcestershire \| North Shropshire \| Rugby and Kenilworth \| Shrewsbury and Atcham \| South Staffordshire \| Stone \| Stratford-on-Avon \| Sutton Coldfield \| The Wrekin \| West Worcestershire
Liberal Democrat	Birmingham Yardley \| Hereford \| Solihull
Health Concern	Wyre Forest
Independent	Birmingham, Ladywood
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) \| Labour (2) \| UKIP (1) \| Liberal Democrats (1)