| Stamford and Spalding | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
| County | Lincolnshire |
| Major settlements | Stamford |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Grantham & Stamford and South Holland & The Deepings |
| Created from | Holland with Boston and Rutland & Stamford |
Stamford and Spalding was a county constituency in Lincolnshire, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.
Contents |
| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Sir Kenneth Lewis | Conservative | |
| 1987 | Quentin Davies | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Grantham & Stamford | ||
| General Election 1992: Stamford and Spalding[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Quentin Davies | 35,965 | 59.0 | +2.5 | |
| Labour | LC Burke | 13,096 | 21.5 | +8.9 | |
| Liberal Democrat | BD Lee | 11,939 | 19.6 | −11.4 | |
| Majority | 22,869 | 37.5 | +12.0 | ||
| Turnout | 61,000 | 81.2 | +3.4 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −3.2 | |||