South West Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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South West Cambridgeshire
County constituency
Created: 1983
Abolished: 1997
Type: House of Commons

South West Cambridgeshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the abolition of the Cambridgeshire constituency in 1983 and was abolished in 1997.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency combined territory from three pre-1974 local authorities, which had been includeded in the expanded non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire from 1974. It was the south west part of the old Cambridgeshire (with a small part of Cambridge) and the south of Huntingdonshire.

52.6% of the constituency came from the old administrative county and parliamentary constituency of Cambridgeshire. 29.7% originated from the former administrative county and county constituency of Huntingdonshire. The remaining 17.7% of the area had been part of the old borough constituency of Cambridge.

The constituency included the following local government wards.

  • From the City of Cambridge: Queen Edith's and Trumpington.
  • From the District of Huntingdon: Buckden, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Eynesbury, Gransden, Paxton, Priory Park, Staughton and The Offords.
  • From the District of South Cambridgeshire: Arrington, Barrington and Shepreth, Barton, Bassingbourn, Bourn, Comberton, Duxford, Foxton, Gamlingay, Great Shelford, Hardwick, Harston, Haslingfield, Ickleton, Little Shelford, Melbourn, Meldreth, Orwell, Papworth, Sawston, Stapleford, The Mordens and Whittlesford.

[edit] Members of Parliament

  • Constituency created (1983)
Year Member Party
1983 Sir John Anthony Grant Conservative

[edit] Elections

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[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
  • British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)


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