Ludlow (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ludlow
County constituency

Ludlow shown within Shropshire, and Shropshire shown within England
Created: 1885
MP: Philip Dunne
Party: Conservative
Type: House of Commons
County: Shropshire
EP constituency: West Midlands
Ludlow
Borough constituency
Created: 1473
Abolished: 1885
Type: House of Commons

Ludlow is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was founded in 1473. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England until 1707 and of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and it has been such of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801. It was represented by two burgesses until 1868.
In 1868 it was reduced to one member and reorganized in 1885. So it elects now one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

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[edit] Boundaries

This rural constituency covers the towns of Ludlow, Clun, Bishop's Castle, Bridgnorth, Cleobury Mortimer, Much Wenlock, Craven Arms and Church Stretton in the county of Shropshire, England.

It corresponds roughly to the South Shropshire and the southern part of the Bridgnorth local government districts.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] until 1868

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  • Constituency created (1473)
Year First member First party Second member Second party
1660 Timothy Littleton Job Charlton
1670 Somerset Fox
Febr. 1679 Francis Charlton
Sept. 1679 Thomas Walcot
1681 Charles Baldwyn
Apr. 1685 Sir Edward Herbert William Charlton
Jn. 1685 Sir Josiah Child
Nov. 1685 Sir Edward Lutwyche
1689 Francis Herbert Charles Baldwyn
1690 Thomas Hanmer William Gower
1691 Silius Titus Francis Lloyd
1695 Thomas Newport Charles Baldwyn
1698 Francis Herbert William Gower
1699 Thomas Newport
Jan. 1701 Sir Thomas Powys William Gower
Dec. 1701 Francis Herbert
1705 Acton Baldwyn
1713 Humphrey Walcot
1715 Francis Herbert
1719 Sir Robert Raymond
1722 Abel Ketelby Acton Baldwyn
Febr. 1727 Richard Herbert
Sept. 1727 Henry Arthur Herbert
1741 Sir William Corbet
1743 Richard Herbert
1748 Henry Bridgeman
1754 Edward Herbert
1768 William Fellowes
1770 Thomas Herbert
1774 Viscount Villiers The Lord Clive
1780 Frederick Cornewall
1783 Somerset Davies
1784 Richard Payne Knight
1794 Robert Clive
1806 Viscount Clive
1807 Henry Clive
1818 Robert Henry Clive
1832 Edward Romilly
1835 Edmund Lechmere Charlton
1837 Henry Salwey
1839 Thomas Alcock
1840 Beriah Botfield
1841 James Ackers
1847 Henry Bayley Clive Henry Salwey
1852 Robert Windsor Clive Lord William Powlett
1854 Percy Egerton Herbert
1857 Beriah Botfield
1860 George Windsor-Clive
1863 Sir William Fraser
1865 John Edmund Severne

[edit] 1868-1885

  • Constituency reduced to one Member (1868)
  • Constituency reorganized (1885)

[edit] 1885-present

Election Member Party
1885 Robert Jasper More
1903 by-election Rowland Hunt 1903-17: Liberal Unionist; 1917-18: National Party; 1918: Conservative
1918 Sir Beville Stanier
1922 Viscount Windsor Conservative
1923 George Windsor-Clive
1945 Uvedale Corbett Conservative
1951 Christopher Holland-Martin Conservative
1960 by-election Jasper More Conservative
1979 Eric Cockeram Conservative
1987 Christopher Gill Conservative
2001 Matthew Green Liberal Democrat
2005 Philip Dunne Conservative

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Ludlow
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Philip Dunne 20,979 45.1 +5.7
Liberal Democrat Matthew Green 18,952 40.7 −2.5
Labour Nigel Knowles 4,974 10.7 −2.7
Green Jim Gaffney 852 1.8 −0.2
UK Independence Michael Zuckerman 783 1.7 −0.3
Majority 2,027 4.4
Turnout 46,540 72.1 +4.2
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat Swing 4.1
General Election 2001: Ludlow
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrat Matthew Green 18,620 43.2 +13.5
Conservative Martin Taylor-Smith 16,990 39.4 −3.0
Labour Nigel Knowles 5,785 13.4 −12.0
Green Jim Gaffney 871 2.0 +0.3
UK Independence Phil Gutteridge 858 2.0 +1.2
Majority 1,630 3.8
Turnout 43,124 67.9 −7.6
Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative Swing
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[edit] See also

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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
Liberal Democrat
Health Concern
Independent
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) • Labour (2) • UKIP (1) • Liberal Democrats (1)


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