Cleveland and Whitby (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cleveland and Whitby was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Whitby in northern England. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from February 1974 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

Cleveland and Whitby largely replaced the previous Cleveland constituency. It was defined as covering the urban districts of Guisborough, Loftus, Saltburn and Marske by the Sea, Skelton and Brotton, Whitby, along with Whitby Rural District.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1974	Leon Brittan	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page