Poole (UK Parliament constituency)
Poole | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Poole in Dorset. | |
Location of Dorset within England. | |
County | Dorset |
Electorate | 72,773 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Poole |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1950 |
Member of parliament | Robert Syms (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | East Dorset |
1455–1885 | |
Number of members | Two (1455–1868), One (1868–1885) |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South West England |
Poole is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Robert Syms, a Conservative.[n 2]
History
The first version of the Poole constituency existed from 1455 until 1885. During this period its exact status was a parliamentary borough, sending two burgesses to Westminster per year, except during its last 17 years when its representation was reduced to one member.
During its abeyance most of Poole was in the East Dorset seat and since its recreation in 1950 its area has been reduced as the harbour town's population has increased.
Boundaries
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which slightly altered this constituency for the 2010 general election since which it has electoral wards:
- Branksome West; Canford Cliffs; Creekmoor; Hamworthy East; Hamworthy West; Newtown; Oakdale; Parkstone; Penn Hill; Poole Town in the Borough of Poole[2]
Constituency profile
The borough is an economically very diverse borough. In the centre and north are a significant minority of Output Areas which in 2001 had high rankings in the Index of Multiple Deprivation, contributing in 2012 with the remainder to producing for Poole the highest unemployment of the constituencies in the county.[3][4] However, Canford Cliffs is epitomised by one sub-neighbourhood, Sandbanks with its multi-million pound properties, the coastline area has been dubbed as "Britain's Palm Beach" by the national media.[5] Alongside oil extraction, insurance, care, retail and customer service industries choosing the town as their base tourism contributes to overall a higher income than the national average, however the divergence is not statistically significant and the size of homes varies extensively.[4][6]
Members of Parliament
MPs 1455–1629
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- Borough established 1455, returning two members
Parliament | First member | Second member | |
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1510 | No names known[7] | ||
1512 | Richard Phelips | Ralph Worsley[7] | |
1515 | Richard Phelips | ?[7] | |
1523 | ? | ||
1529 | William Thornhill | William Biddlecombe[7] | |
1536 | ?William Biddlecombe | ?[7] | |
1539 | ?William Biddlecombe | ?[7] | |
1542 | Oliver Lawrence | John Carew[7] | |
1545 | Oliver Lawrence | John Harward[7] | |
1547 | John Hannam | John Harward[7] | |
1553 (Mar) | William Newman | Thomas White[7] | |
1553 (Oct) | Anthony Dillington | John Scryvin | |
Parliament of 1554 | William Wightman | Richard Shaw | |
Parliament of 1554-1555 | Anthony Dillington | Andrew Hourde | |
Parliament of 1555 | Robert Whitt | John Phelips | |
Parliament of 1558 | Thomas Goodwin | Thomas Phelips | |
Parliament of 1559 | Walter Haddon | Humphrey Mitchel | |
Parliament of 1563-1567 | William Green | ||
Parliament of 1571 | George Carleton | William Newman | |
Parliament of 1572-1581 | William Green | John Hastings | |
Parliament of 1584-1585 | Francis Mills | Thomas Vincent | |
Parliament of 1586-1587 | William Fleetwood, junior | ||
Parliament of 1588-1589 | Henry Ashley | Edward Man | |
Parliament of 1593 | James Orrenge | ||
Parliament of 1597-1598 | Roger Mawdeley | ||
Parliament of 1601 | Robert Miller | Thomas Billet | |
Parliament of 1604-1611 | Thomas Robarts | Edward Man | |
Addled Parliament (1614) | Sir Walter Erle | Sir Thomas Walsingham, junior | |
Parliament of 1621-1622 | Sir George Hussey | ||
Happy Parliament (1624-1625) | Edward Pitt | ||
Useless Parliament (1625) | John Pyne | Sir John Cooper | |
Parliament of 1625-1626 | Christopher Erle | ||
Parliament of 1628-1629 | Sir John Cooper | ||
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640 | |||
MPs 1640–1868
Year | First member[8] | First party | Second member[8] | Second party | ||
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April 1640 | John Pyne | Parliamentarian | William Constantine | Royalist | ||
November 1640 | ||||||
September 1642 | Constantine disabled from sitting - seat vacant | |||||
1645 | George Skutt | |||||
December 1648 | Skutt excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | |||||
1653 | Poole was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
1654 | Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper[9] | Poole had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate | ||||
1656 | Edward Boteler | |||||
January 1659 | Colonel John Fitzjames[10] | Samuel Bond | ||||
May 1659 | John Pyne | One seat vacant | ||||
April 1660 | George Cooper | Sir Walter Erle | ||||
1661 | Sir John Fitzjames | (Sir) John Morton[11] | ||||
1670 | Thomas Trenchard | |||||
February 1673 | George Cooper | |||||
March 1673 | Thomas Strangways | |||||
1679 | Henry Trenchard | Thomas Chafin | ||||
1685 | William Ettrick | |||||
1689 | Henry Trenchard | Sir Nathaniel Napier | ||||
1690 | Sir John Trenchard | Whig | ||||
1695 | Lord Ashley | |||||
1698 | William Joliffe | Sir William Phippard | ||||
1705 | Samuel Weston | |||||
1708 | William Lewen | Thomas Ridge[12] | ||||
1710 | Sir William Phippard | |||||
1711 | Sir William Lewen | |||||
1713 | George Trenchard | |||||
1722 | Thomas Ridge | |||||
1727 | Denis Bond[13] | |||||
1732 | Thomas Wyndham | |||||
1741 | Joseph Gulston | Thomas Missing | ||||
1747 | George Trenchard | |||||
1754 | Colonel Sir Richard Lyttelton[14] | |||||
1761 | Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Calcraft | |||||
1765 | Joseph Gulston | |||||
1768 | Joshua Mauger | |||||
1774 | Major-General Sir Eyre Coote | |||||
1780 | Joseph Gulston | William Morton Pitt | ||||
1784 | Michael Angelo Taylor | |||||
1790 | Colonel Hon. Charles Stuart[15] | Benjamin Lester | ||||
1791 | Michael Angelo Taylor | |||||
1796 | Colonel Hon. Charles Stuart | John Jeffery | ||||
1801 | George Garland | |||||
1808 | Sir Richard Bickerton | |||||
1809 | Benjamin Lester Lester | Whig | ||||
1812 | Michael Angelo Taylor | Whig | ||||
1818 | John Dent | |||||
1826 | Hon. William Ponsonby | |||||
1831 | Sir John Byng | Whig | ||||
January 1835 | Charles Augustus Tulk | Whig | ||||
May 1835 | Hon. George Stephens Byng | Whig | ||||
1837 | Hon. Charles Ponsonby | Whig | George Richard Philips | Whig | ||
1847 | George Richard Robinson | Conservative | ||||
1850 | Henry Danby Seymour | Whig | ||||
1852 | George Woodroffe Franklyn | Conservative | ||||
1859 | Liberal | |||||
1865 | Charles Waring | Liberal | ||||
1868 | Representation reduced to one Member |
MPs 1868–1885
Election | Member[8] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1868 | Arthur Guest | Conservative | |
1874 | Charles Waring | Liberal | |
May 1874 by-election | Hon. Evelyn Ashley | Liberal | |
1880 | Charles Schreiber | Conservative | |
1884 by-election | William James Harris | Conservative | |
1885 | Constituency abolished | ||
MPs since 1950
Election | Member[8] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1950 | Colonel Mervyn Wheatley | Conservative | |
1951 | Richard Pilkington | Conservative | |
1964 | Oscar Murton | Conservative | |
1979 | John Ward | Conservative | |
1997 | Robert Syms | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2015: Poole[16] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
UKIP | David Young[17] | ||||
Conservative | Robert Syms | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Philip Eades | ||||
Green | Adrian Oliver[18] | ||||
Labour | Helen Rosser | ||||
Poole People | Mark Howell[19] | ||||
General Election 2010: Poole[20] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Syms | 22,532 | 47.5 | +4.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Phillip Eades | 14,991 | 31.6 | +2.5 | |
Labour | Jason Sanderson | 6,041 | 12.7 | −10.0 | |
UKIP | Nick Wellstead | 2,507 | 5.3 | +1.8 | |
BNP | David Holmes | 1,188 | 2.5 | +1.2 | |
Independent | Ian Northover | 177 | 0.4 | ||
Majority | 7,541 | 15.9 | |||
Turnout | 47,436 | 73.4 | +9.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.8 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
General Election 2005: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Syms | 17,571 | 43.4 | −1.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mike Plummer | 11,583 | 28.6 | +3.1 | |
Labour | Darren Brown | 9,376 | 23.1 | −3.8 | |
UKIP | John Barnes | 1,436 | 3.5 | +1.0 | |
BNP | Peter Pirnie | 547 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,988 | 14.8 | |||
Turnout | 40,513 | 63.1 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.4 | |||
General Election 2001: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Syms | 17,710 | 45.1 | +3.0 | |
Labour | David Watt | 10,544 | 26.9 | +5.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Nick Westbrook | 10,011 | 25.5 | −5.3 | |
UKIP | John Bass | 968 | 2.5 | +1.4 | |
Majority | 7,166 | 18.2 | |||
Turnout | 39,233 | 60.7 | −10.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
General Election 1997: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Syms | 19,726 | 42.14 | ||
Liberal Democrat | A Tetlow | 14,428 | 30.82 | ||
Labour | H White | 10,100 | 21.58 | ||
Referendum Party | J Riddington | 1,932 | 4.13 | ||
UKIP | P Tyler | 487 | 1.04 | ||
Natural Law | J Rosta | 137 | 0.29 | ||
Majority | 5,298 | 11.32 | |||
Turnout | 71.00 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1992: Poole[21] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Ward | 33,445 | 53.2 | −4.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | BR Clements | 20,614 | 32.8 | +0.2 | |
Labour | HR White | 6,912 | 11.0 | +1.1 | |
Independent Conservative | M Steen | 1,620 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Natural Law | AL Bailey | 303 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,831 | 20.4 | −4.5 | ||
Turnout | 62,894 | 79.4 | +1.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.3 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
General Election 1987: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Ward | 34,159 | 57.50 | ||
Social Democratic | RJ Whitley | 19,351 | 32.57 | ||
Labour | M Shutler | 5,901 | 9.93 | ||
Majority | 14,808 | 24.92 | |||
Turnout | 77.49 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1983: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Ward | 30,358 | 58.31 | ||
Liberal | B Clements | 15,929 | 30.60 | ||
Labour | MV Castle | 5,595 | 10.75 | ||
Servicemen & Citizen Association | A Foster | 177 | 0.34 | ||
Majority | 14,429 | 27.72 | |||
Turnout | 73.60 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1979: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | John Ward | 38,846 | 57.01 | ||
Labour | DA Bell | 15,291 | 22.44 | ||
Liberal | B Sutton | 14,001 | 20.55 | ||
Majority | 23,555 | 34.57 | |||
Turnout | 78.13 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election October 1974: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Oscar Murton | 28,982 | 46.15 | ||
Liberal | GM Goode | 17,557 | 27.96 | ||
Labour | GW Hobbs | 16,262 | 25.89 | ||
Majority | 11,425 | 18.19 | |||
Turnout | 75.30 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election February 1974: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Oscar Murton | 31,156 | 46.04 | ||
Liberal | GM Goode | 21,088 | 31.16 | ||
Labour | GW Hobbs | 15,434 | 22.81 | ||
Majority | 10,068 | 14.88 | |||
Turnout | 81.88 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1970: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Oscar Murton | 31,100 | 53.11 | ||
Labour | IS Campbell | 17,610 | 30.07 | ||
Liberal | GM Goode | 9,846 | 16.81 | ||
Majority | 13,490 | 23.04 | |||
Turnout | 75.06 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
General Election 1966: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Oscar Murton | 25,451 | 47.59 | ||
Labour | DA Sutton | 19,630 | 36.71 | ||
Liberal | BS Sherriff | 8,394 | 15.70 | ||
Majority | 5,821 | 10.89 | |||
Turnout | 79.00 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1964: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Oscar Murton | 24,440 | 46.26 | ||
Labour | H Toch | 16,158 | 30.58 | ||
Liberal | HCR Ballam | 12,234 | 23.16 | ||
Majority | 8,282 | 15.68 | |||
Turnout | 80.05 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
General Election 1959: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Richard Pilkington | 26,956 | 52.84 | ||
Labour | Alan Williams | 15,325 | 30.04 | ||
Liberal | John C Holland | 8,735 | 17.12 | ||
Majority | 11,631 | 22.80 | |||
Turnout | 80.27 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1955: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Richard Pilkington | 26,594 | 53.86 | ||
Labour | FC Reeves | 17,032 | 34.49 | ||
Liberal | John C Holland | 5,750 | 11.65 | ||
Majority | 9,562 | 19.37 | |||
Turnout | 80.94 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1951: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Richard Pilkington | 26,998 | 53.60 | ||
Labour | LJ Matchan | 18,346 | 36.42 | ||
Liberal | W Ridgway | 5,029 | 9.98 | ||
Majority | 8,652 | 17.18 | |||
Turnout | 84.97 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1950: Poole | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Mervyn Wheatley | 24,344 | 49.37 | ||
Labour | EM King | 17,831 | 36.16 | ||
Liberal | William Ridgway | 7,130 | 14.46 | ||
Majority | 6,513 | 13.21 | |||
Turnout | 87.10 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- References
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ 2010 post-revision map non-metropolitan areas and unitary authorities of England
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 2001 Census
- ↑ Morris, Steven. "£3m for modest bungalow needing TLC", The Guardian November 2, 2005.
- ↑ 2011 census interactive maps
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
- ↑ Browne Willis and Cobbett both list Cooper as Poole's MP. Cooper was also elected for Wiltshire, and seems to have been regarded as its Member, but there appears no record of another Member having been elected for Poole in his place
- ↑ Cobbett again lists Cooper (elected for Wiltshire) as Poole's MP together with Bond, but Browne Willis gives Fitzjames as the second member
- ↑ Succeeded to baronetcy, February 1662
- ↑ Expelled from the House of Commons, 15 February 1711, for "great Frauds and Abuses in his Contract for furnishing the Navy with Beer"
- ↑ Expelled from the House of Commons, 30 March 1732, for his role in the fraudulent sale of the Earl of Derwentwater's estate
- ↑ Major-General from 1758
- ↑ On petition, Stuart was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Taylor, was declared elected in his place
- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/poole/
- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/poole/
- ↑ http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11795172.Green_Party_to_field_candidates_in_every_constituency_in_Dorset_for_the_first_time/
- ↑ http://www.poolepeople.org.uk/index.php/general-election/
- ↑ "BBC NEWS – Election 2010 – Poole". BBC News.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
Sources
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
- Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847, Volume 1 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1844)
- Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 1.