The Wrekin (historic UK Parliament constituency)

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The Wrekin County constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

The Wrekin is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post voting system.

In the constituency changes for the 1997 general election, a new constituency was created, also called The Wrekin. Despite the same name, the old and new constituencies are very different: the town of Telford was a major component of the pre-1997 constituency, but after 1997 it gained its own Telford constituency.[1]

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

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
1918		Constituency created
	1918	Sir Charles Solomon Henry	Coalition Liberal
	1920	Charles Frederick Palmer,	Independent
	1920	Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend	Independent Conservative
	1922	Howard Stransom Button	Conservative
	1923	Henry Nixon	Labour
	1924	Thomas Oakley	Unionist
	1929	Edith Picton-Turbervill	Labour
	1931	James Baldwin-Webb	Conservative
	1941	William Arthur Colegate	Conservative
	1945	Ivor Owen Thomas	Labour
	1955	William Yates	Conservative
	1966	Gerald Teasdale Fowler	Labour
	1970	Joseph Anthony Porteous Trafford	Conservative
	1974	Gerald Teasdale Fowler	Labour
	1979	Warren Hawksley	Conservative
	1987	Bruce Grocott	Labour

• Constituency abolished (1997)

[edit] Election results

[edit] See also

• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies

[edit] References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.