Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)
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Swindon Borough constituency |
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Created: | 1918 |
Abolished: | 1997 |
Type: | House of Commons |
Members: | one |
Swindon was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Swindon in Wiltshire.
It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.
It was then replaced by two new constituencies: Swindon North and Swindon South.
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[edit] Boundaries
[edit] Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Sir Frederick William Young | Coalition Conservative | |
1922 | Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks | Conservative | |
1929 | Christopher Addison | Labour | |
1931 | Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks | Conservative | |
1934 | Christopher Addison | Labour | |
1935 | Wavell Wakefield | Conservative | |
1945 | Thomas Reid | Labour | |
1955 | Francis Noel-Baker | Labour | |
1969 | Christopher Ward | Conservative | |
1970 | David Stoddart | Labour | |
1983 | Simon Christopher Coombs | Conservative | |
1997 | constituency abolished: see Swindon North and Swindon South |
[edit] Election results
[edit] References
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.