South West Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
South West Cambridgeshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. Created in 1983 upon the abolition of the Cambridgeshire constituency, it was abolished in 1997 and succeeded by the constituencies of South Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon.
Boundaries
The constituency combined territory from three pre-1974 local authorities, which had been included 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.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)
- ^ a b c British Parliamentary Election results 1983-97: English Counties
- ^ UK General Election results April 1992
- ^ UK General Election results June 1987
- ^ UK General Election results June 1983
Sources
- 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)