Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)

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Leominster
County constituency
Leominster shown within Herefordshire and part of Worcestershire, and Herefordshire shown within England
Created: 1295
MP: Bill Wiggin
Party: Conservative
Type: House of Commons
County: Herefordshire, Worcestershire
EP constituency: West Midlands

Leominster 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.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency consists of northern Herefordshire and a small part of north-west Worcestershire, having been defined when the two were joined in Hereford and Worcester. Tenbury Wells is the largest settlement in Worcestershire; in Herefordshire it includes the towns of Bromyard, Leominster, Kington and Ledbury.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Herefordshire, no longer connected for such reasons with Worcestershire, the Boundary Commission for England has created two parliamentary constituencies for the county.

Leominster is to be radically altered to become North Herefordshire.

The other seat in the county is Hereford and South Herefordshire

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1868

Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1660 Colonel John Birch Edward Pytts
1661 Ranald Grahme Humphrey Cornewall
Feb 1679 James Pytts John Dutton Colt
Sep 1679 Thomas Coningsby,
Lord Coningsby from 1691
1685 Robert Cornewall
1689 John Dutton Colt
1698 Edward Harley
Jan 1701 John Dutton Colt
Apr 1701 Edward Harley
1710 Edward Bangham
1713 Henry Gorges
1715 Lord Coningsby
1717 George Caswall (expelled)
1721 William Bateman
1722 Sir Archer Croft Sir George Caswall
1727 Viscount Bateman
1734 Robert Harley (c.1706-1774)
1741 John Caswall Capel Hanbury
1742 Robert Harley (c.1706-1774)
1747 Sir Robert de Cornwall James Peachey
1754 Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams Richard Gorges
1759 Chase Price
1761 Jenison Shafto
1767 Edward Willes
Feb 1768 John Carnac
Mar 1768 Viscount Bateman
1774 Thomas Hill
1776 Frederick Cornewall
1780 Richard Payne Knight
1784 John Hunter Penn Assheton Curzon
1790 John Sawyer
1791 Richard Beckford
1796 George Augustus Pollen
1797 William Taylor
1802 John Lubbock Charles Kinnaird
Jan 1806 William Lamb Whig
Nov 1806 Henry Bonham
1812 John Lubbock John Harcourt
1818 Sir William Cuningham-Fairlie
1819 John Harcourt
1820 The Lord Hotham Sir William Cuningham-Fairlie
1826 Thomas Bish
1827 Rowland Stephenson
Feb 1830 John Ward
Aug 1830 William Marshall
May 1831 William Bertram Evans Thomas Brayen
Dec 1831 The Lord Hotham
1832 Thomas Bish
1837 Charles Greenaway
1841 James Wigram
1842 George Arkwright
1845 Sir Henry Barkly
1849 Frederick Peel
1852 John George Phillimore
1856 Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy
1857 John Willoughby
1858 Charles Spencer Bateman Hanbury Kincaid-Lennox
1865 Arthur Walsh
1866 Richard Arkwright
1868 Viscount Mahon
  • 1868: representation reduced from two MPs to one

[edit] MPs since 1868

Election Member Party
1868 Richard Arkwright (MP) Conservative
1875 by-election Thomas Blake Liberal
1880 James Rankin Conservative
1885 Thomas Duckham Liberal
1886 Sir James Rankin Conservative
1906 Edmund George Lamb Liberal
Jan. 1910 Sir James Rankin Conservative
1912 by-election Captain Henry FitzHerbert Wright Conservative
1918 Charles Lionel Atkins Ward-Jackson Conservative
1922 Sir Ernest Whittome Shepperson Conservative
1945 Sir Archer Baldwin Conservative
1959 Clive Bossom Conservative
Feb. 1974 Peter Temple-Morris Conservative
1997 Independent One-Nation Conservative
1998 Labour
2001 Bill Wiggin Conservative

[edit] References

  1. ^ Christopher W. Brooks, ‘Littleton, Edward, Baron Littleton (1589–1645)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Bill Wiggin 25,407 52.1 +3.1
Liberal Democrat Caroline Williams 12,220 25.0 -1.7
Labour Paul Bell 7,424 15.2 -1.6
Green Felicity Norman 2,191 4.5 +0.9
UK Independence Peter Venables 1,551 3.2 -0.2
Majority 13,187 27.0 +4.8
Turnout 48,793 77.3 +7.9
Conservative hold Swing +2.4
General Election 2001: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Bill Wiggin 22,879 49.0 +3.7
Liberal Democrat Celia Downie 12,512 26.8 -1.0
Labour Stephen Hart 7,872 16.8 -0.6
Green Pippa Bennett 1,690 3.6 +1.5
UK Independence Christopher Kingsley 1,590 3.4 +2.2
Independent John Haycock 186 0.4 N/A
Majority 10,367 22.2
Turnout 46,729 69.4 -7.2
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
General Election January 1910: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sir James Rankin 4,822 54.7
Liberal Edmund George Lamb 3,991 45.3
Majority 831 9.4
Turnout
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing

[edit] See also

[edit] References


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