Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)

Leominster
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons

Boundary of Leominster in Herefordshire for the 2005 general election.

Location of Herefordshire within England.
County Herefordshire
1885 (1885)–2010 (2010)
Number of members One
Replaced by North Herefordshire
Created from Herefordshire and Leominster
1295 (1295)–1885 (1885)
Number of members 1295–1868: Two
1868–1885: One
Type of constituency Borough constituency
Replaced by Leominster

Leominster was, until 2010, a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

From 1295 to 1868, it was a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election. Under the Reform Act 1867 its representation was reduced to one MP, elected by the first past the post system. The parliamentary borough was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and the name was transferred to a new county constituency.

Contents

History

Abolition

Following the review by the Boundary Commission for England of parliamentary representation in Herefordshire, no longer connected for such reasons with Worcestershire, two parliamentary constituencies have been allocated to the county. Most of the Leominster seat has been replaced by the North Herefordshire seat, while the remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat.[1]

Boundaries

In its final form, the constituency consisted of northern Herefordshire and a small part of north-west Worcestershire, the boundaries having been specified when the two were joined as the single county of Hereford and Worcester. In Herefordshire it included the towns of Bromyard, Kington and Ledbury as well as Leominster, while the largest settlement of Worcestershire it included was Tenbury Wells.

Members of Parliament

Leominster parliamentary borough

To 1660

Parliament First member Second member
1386 Robert Calderbrook Walter Aston [2]
1388 (Feb) Robert Calderbrook John Montgomery [2]
1388 (Sep) John Aston II Walter Aston [2]
1390 (Jan) Hugh Aston Peter Cook [2]
1390 (Nov)
1391 Peter Cook John Bradford [2]
1393 Roger Loutwardin John Hood I [2]
1394
1395 Thomas Barber I Thomas Reynold [2]
1397 (Jan) Thomas Reynold William Colle [2]
1397 (Sep) William Taverner I John Romayn [2]
1399 John Hood I Thomas White II [2]
1401
1402 William Taverner I John Bond [2]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406 William Taverner I William Tiler [2]
1407 William Taverner I William Tiler [2]
1410 Edmund Morris Walter Borgate [2]
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May) John Salisbury John Romayn [2]
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov) William Colle John Salisbury [2]
1415
1416 (Mar) John Salisbury Reynold Smith [2]
1416 (Oct)
1417 John Salisbury John Braas [2]
1419 Thomas Hood Reynold Smith [2]
1420 Thomas Hood William Raves [2]
1421 (May) William Stokes John Hood II [2]
1421 (Dec) Thomas Hood William Raves [2]
1510-1523 No names known[3]
1529 John Bell I John Hillesley [3]
1536  ?
1539  ?
1542  ?
1545  ?
1547 William Crowche Richard Cupper [3]
1553 (Mar)  ?
1553 (Oct) William Strete John Polle [3]
1554 (Apr) Lewis Jones John Evans [3]
1554 (Nov) Nicholas Depden Thomas Wykes [3]
1555 James Warnecombe Thomas Kerry [3]
1558 Alban Birch Richard Hakluyt [3]
1559 Thomas Hakluyt Thomas Coningsby I[4]
1562/3 Thomas Dallowe John Morgan [4]
1571 Edward Croft Nicholas Depden [4]
1572 Nicholas Depden Fabian Phillips [4]
1584 Thomas Wigmore Edward Croft [4]
1586 Edward Croft Thomas Wigmore [4]
1588 Thomas Shoter Humphrey Wall [4]
1593 Sir Francis Vere Richard Coningsby [4]
1597 Thomas Coningsby II John Creswell [4]
1601 Thomas Coningsby II John Warnecombe [4]
1604 Thomas Coningsby John Powle
1614 Sir Humphrey Baskerville Thomas Coningsby
1621-1622 Francis Smallman William Beecher
1624 James Tomkins Sir William Beecher
1625 James Tomkins Edward Littleton
1626 James Tomkins Edward Littleton
1628 James Tomkins Edward Littleton, sat for Caernarvon
and replaced by Thomas Lyttelton
1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned
1640 (Apr) William Smallman Walter Kyrle
1640 (Nov) Sampson Eure
disabled 22 January 1644		 Walter Kyrle
1645 Walter Kyrle
excluded in 1648		 John Birch
excluded in 1648
1653 Leominster not represented in Barebones Parliament
1654 John Birch (One member only)
1656 John Birch (One member only)
1659 John Birch Edward Freeman

MPs 1660-1868

Election 1st Member[5] 1st Party 2nd Member[5] 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 Conservative
1832 Thomas Bish Liberal
1837 Charles Greenaway Liberal
1841 James Wigram Conservative
1842 by-election George Arkwright Conservative
1845 by-election Sir Henry Barkly Conservative
1849 by-election Frederick Peel Conservative
1852 John George Phillimore Liberal
1856 by-election Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy Conservative
1857 John Willoughby Conservative
1858 by-election Charles Spencer Bateman Hanbury Kincaid-Lennox Conservative
1865 Arthur Walsh Conservative
1866 by-election Richard Arkwright Conservative
1868 by-election Viscount Mahon Conservative
1868 representation reduced from two MPs to one

MPs 1868–1885

Election Member[5] Party
1868 Richard Arkwright Conservative
1876 by-election Thomas Blake Liberal
1880 James Rankin Conservative
1868 Leominster parliamentary borough abolished. Name transferred to county division

Leominster county constituency

MPs since 1885

Election Member[5] Party
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 Ernest Whittome Shepperson Conservative
1945 Sir Archer Baldwin Conservative
1959 Sir Clive Bossom Conservative
Feb. 1974 Peter Temple-Morris Conservative
1997 Independent One-Nation Conservative
1998 Labour
2001 Bill Wiggin Conservative
2010 Constituency abolished: see North Herefordshire

Elections

Elections in the 2000s

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
UKIP 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
UKIP 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

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Leominster[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Temple-Morris 32,783 56.6 −1.2
Liberal Democrat DC Short 16,103 27.8 −4.1
Labour ACR Chappell 6,874 11.9 +3.7
Green Mrs FM Norman 1,503 2.6 +0.6
Anti-Federalist League EP Carlisle 640 1.1 +1.1
Majority 16,680 28.8 +2.9
Turnout 57,903 81.7 +3.7
Conservative hold Swing +1.4

Elections in the 1910s

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

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Final recommendations for Parliamentary constituencies in the county of Herefordshire". Boundary Commission for England. 2004-01-07. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/review_areas/downloads/FR_NR_Hereford.doc. Retrieved 2010-05-05. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/leominster. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/leominster. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/leominster. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 
  5. ^ a b c d Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)
  6. ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i13.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06. 
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