Montgomeryshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Montgomeryshire County constituency |
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| Montgomeryshire shown within Wales | |
| Created: | 1536 |
| MP: | Lembit Öpik |
| Party: | Liberal Democrat |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Preserved county: | Powys |
| EP constituency: | Wales |
Montgomeryshire 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.
The Montgomeryshire Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
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[edit] Boundaries
The seat is based on the ancient county of Montgomeryshire, in the principal area of Powys. One of the UK's most rural and isolated constituencies, it has also been one of the small handful of seats that the Lib Dems (formerly the Liberal Party) can call safe. Apart from a lone Conservative victory in the 1979 general election, Montgomeryshire has elected Liberal or Liberal-affiliated candidates since 1880.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Duration of term as MP | Name of MP | Party of MP | |
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| 1624 | George Herbert | ||
| 1640 - 1645 | John Pryce | ||
| 1645 - 1646 | Seat vacant after Pryce was disabled from sitting | ||
| 1646 - 1648 | Edward Vaughan | ||
| 1648 - 1653 | Seat vacant after Vaughan was excluded in Pride's Purge | ||
| 1653 | Not separately represented in the Barebones Parliament | ||
| 1654 - 1655 (Two Members)[1] |
Charles Lloyd | ||
| John Pryce | |||
| 1656 - 1658 (Two Members) |
Charles Lloyd | ||
| Hugh Pryce | |||
| 1659 | Edward Vaughan | ||
| 1660 - 1661 | John Purcell | ||
| 1661 | Edward Vaughan | ||
| 1661 - 1679 | Andrew Newport | ||
| 1679 - 1718 | Edward Vaughan | ||
| 1719 - 1740 | Hon. Price Devereux | ||
| 1740 - 1741 | Robert Williams | ||
| 1741 - 1742 | Sir Watkin Williams Wynn [2] | ||
| 1742 - 1747 | Robert Williams | ||
| 1747 - 1772 | Edward Kynaston | ||
| 1772 - 1774 | Watkin Williams | ||
| 1774 - 1795 | William Mostyn Owen | ||
| 1795 - 1799 | Francis Lloyd | ||
| 1799 - 1834 | Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn | Tory | |
| 1834 - 1850 | Conservative | ||
| 1850 - 1862 | Herbert Watkin Williams Wynn | Conservative | |
| 1862 - 1880 | Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn | Conservative | |
| 1880 - 1894 | Stuart Rendel | Liberal | |
| 1894 - 1906 | Arthur Humphreys-Owen | Liberal | |
| 1906 - 1929 | David Davies | Liberal | |
| 1929 - 1931 | Clement Davies | Liberal | |
| 1931 - 1939 | National Liberal | ||
| 1939 - 1942 | Independent | ||
| 1942 - 1962 | Liberal | ||
| 1962 - 1979 | Emlyn Hooson | Liberal | |
| 1979 - 1983 | Delwyn Williams | Conservative | |
| 1983 - 1988 | Alex Carlile | Liberal | |
| 1988 - 1997 | Liberal Democrat | ||
| 1997 - | Lembit Öpik | Liberal Democrat | |
Notes
- ^ In the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate, most of the Welsh boroughs, including Montgomery, were disfranchised, their counties gaining a second member instead
- ^ Wynn was also elected for Denbighshire, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Montgomeryshire
[edit] Elections
| General Election 2005: Montgomeryshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Lembit Öpik | 15,419 | 51.2 | +1.8 | |
| Conservative | Simon Baynes | 8,246 | 27.4 | -0.5 | |
| Labour | David Tinline | 3,454 | 11.5 | -0.4 | |
| Plaid Cymru | Ellen ap Gwynn | 2,078 | 6.9 | +0.1 | |
| UK Independence | Clive Easton | 900 | 3.0 | +0.3 | |
| Majority | 7,173 | 23.8 | +2.3 | ||
| Turnout | 30,097 | 64.4 | -1.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | +1.2 | |||
| General Election 2001: Montgomeryshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Lembit Öpik | 14,319 | 49.4 | +3.5 | |
| Conservative | David Jones | 8,085 | 27.9 | +1.8 | |
| Labour | Paul Davies | 3,443 | 11.9 | -7.3 | |
| Plaid Cymru | David Senior | 1,969 | 6.8 | +1.8 | |
| UK Independence | David Rowlands | 786 | 2.7 | N/A | |
| ProLife Alliance | Ruth Davies | 210 | 0.7 | N/A | |
| Independent (politician) | Reginald Taylor | 171 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 6,234 | 21.5 | +1.7 | ||
| Turnout | 28,983 | 65.5 | -9.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Montgomeryshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Lembit Öpik | 14,647 | 45.9 | -2.6 | |
| Conservative | Glyn Davies | 8,344 | 26.1 | -6.6 | |
| Labour | Angharad Davies | 6,109 | 19.1 | +6.7 | |
| Plaid Cymru | David Senior | 1,608 | 5.0 | +0.3 | |
| Referendum Party | J Bufton | 879 | 2.8 | N/A | |
| Green | S Walker | 338 | 1.1 | ||
| Majority | 6,303 | 19.7 | |||
| Turnout | 31,925 | 74.9 | |||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Robert Waller, The Almanac of British Politics (1st edition, London: Croom Helm, 1983)
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