Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire.
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Location of Cambridgeshire within England.
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County | Cambridgeshire |
Electorate | 79,134 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | St Neots, Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Huntingdonshire |
1885–1918 | |
Number of members | One |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Replaced by | Huntingdonshire |
Created from | Huntingdonshire |
c1290–1885 | |
Number of members | c1290–1868: Two 1868–1885: One |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | East of England |
Huntingdon is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Jonathan Djanogly, a Conservative.[n 2]
Contents
History
Representatives for seat, the standard two burgesses per parliamentary borough, were summoned to form the first fully assembled parliament, the Model Parliament in 1295 and at all parliaments assembled from then until 1868, in which year until the constituency lost its dual member entitlement. In 1885 the seat was further enlarged and given further election expenses rights as a county constituency. In the mid-17th century, this was Oliver Cromwell's constituency.
The seat was abolished in 1918 to re-create Huntingdonshire that co-existed in the early history of the above – this revived county seat lasted until 1983. That constituency was renamed and saw slight boundary changes, to form the current constituency of Huntingdon.
The former Conservative Prime Minister (1990–1997) John Major represented the seat from its re-creation in 1983 until his retirement in 2001. His majority in 1992 (36,230) is the largest majority for any member of parliament post-1832.
Boundaries
1983–1997: The District of Huntingdon wards of Brampton, Bury, Earith, Ellington, Elton, Farcet, Fenstanton, Godmanchester, Hemingford Abbots and Hilton, Hemingford Grey, Houghton and Wyton, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, Kimbolton, Needingworth, Ramsey, Sawtry, Somersham, Stilton, St Ives North, St Ives South, The Stukeleys, Upwood and The Raveleys, Warboys, and Yaxley, and the City of Peterborough wards of Barnack, Glinton, Northborough, Werrington, and Wittering.
1997–2010: The District of Huntingdonshire wards of Brampton, Buckden, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Ellington, Eynesbury, Fenstanton, Godmanchester, Gransden, Hemingford Abbots and Hilton, Hemingford Grey, Houghton and Wyton, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, Kimbolton, Needingworth, Paxton, Priory Park, St Ives North, St Ives South, Staughton, The Offords, and The Stukeleys.
2010–present: The District of Huntingdonshire wards of Alconbury and The Stukeleys, Brampton, Buckden, Fenstanton, Godmanchester, Gransden and The Offords, Huntingdon East, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, Kimbolton and Staughton, Little Paxton, St Ives East, St Ives South, St Ives West, St Neots Eaton Ford, St Neots Eaton Socon, St Neots Eynesbury, St Neots Priory Park, and The Hemingfords.
The constituency consists of the towns of St Neots, Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester and a number of smaller settlements in Western Cambridgeshire. There were significant boundary changes at the 1997 general election, when the neighbouring seat of North West Cambridgeshire was created from areas previously in the seats of Huntingdon and Peterborough.
Members of Parliament
MPs c1290–1660
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MPs 1660–1868
MPs 1868–1918
MPs since 1983
Election | Member[6] | Party | Notes | |
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1983 | Rt Hon John Major | Conservative | Cabinet minister 1987–90; Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister 1990–97 | |
2001 | Jonathan Djanogly | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 29,652 | 53.0 | +4.2 | |
Labour | Nik Johnson[8] | 10,248 | 18.3 | +7.3 | |
UKIP | Paul Bullen[9] | 9,473 | 16.9 | +10.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Rod Cantrill[10] | 4,375 | 7.8 | −21.1 | |
Green | Thomas MacLennan[11] | 2,178 | 3.9 | +2.7 | |
Majority | 19,404 | 34.7 | |||
Turnout | 67.9 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 26,516 | 48.9 | −1.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Martin Land | 15,697 | 28.9 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Anthea Cox | 5,982 | 11.0 | −7.4 | |
UKIP | Ian Curtis | 3,258 | 6.0 | +1.8 | |
Independent | Jonathan Salt[13] | 1,432 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Green | John Clare | 652 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Monster Raving Loony | Lord Toby Jug[14] | 548 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Animal Protection | Carrie Holliman | 181 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,819 | 19.9 | |||
Turnout | 54,266 | 64.9 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.1 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 26,646 | 50.8 | +0.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Julian Huppert | 13,799 | 26.3 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Stephen Sartain | 9,821 | 18.7 | −4.1 | |
UKIP | Derek Norman | 2,152 | 4.1 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 12,847 | 24.5 | −1.5 | ||
Turnout | 52,418 | 62.5 | +1.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 24,507 | 49.9 | −5.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Michael Robert Pope | 11,715 | 23.9 | +9.1 | |
Labour | Takki Emmanouel Sulaiman | 11,211 | 22.8 | −0.6 | |
UKIP | Derek Arthur Norman | 1,656 | 3.4 | +2.8 | |
Majority | 12,792 | 26.0 | −5.8 | ||
Turnout | 49,089 | 61.1 | −13.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −7.3 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 31,501 | 55.3 | −9.9 | |
Labour | Jason Reece | 13,361 | 23.5 | +6.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | Matthew J. Owen | 8,390 | 14.7 | −6.4 | |
Referendum | David Bellamy | 3,114 | 5.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Charles R. Coyne | 331 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Christian Democrat | Mrs. Veronica Hufford | 177 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Duncan J. Robertson | 89 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,140 | 31.80 | −6.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,963 | 74.9 | −4.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −8.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 48,662 | 66.2 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Hugh A. Seckleman | 12,432 | 16.9 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Andrew Duff | 9,386 | 12.8 | −8.3 | |
Liberal | Paul D. Wiggin | 1,045 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Green | Miss Deborah M. Birkhead | 846 | 1.2 | −0.2 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 728 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Conservative Thatcherite | Michael A. Flanagan | 231 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Gremloids | Lord Buckethead | 107 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Forward to Mars Party | Charles S. Cockell | 91 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Natural Law | David Shepherd | 26 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 36,230 | 49.3 | +6.8 | ||
Turnout | 73,554 | 79.2 | +5.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.2 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 40,530 | 63.6 | +1.2 | |
Social Democratic | Anthony Joseph Nicholson | 13,486 | 21.1 | N/A | |
Labour | David Michael Brown | 8,883 | 13.9 | +2.4 | |
Green | William Barry Lavin | 874 | 1.4 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 27,044 | 42.5 | |||
Turnout | 63,773 | 74.0 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 34,254 | 62.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | S.J. Gatiss | 13,906 | 25.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Mark Slater | 6,317 | 11.5 | N/A | |
Ecology | T.M.B. Eiloart | 444 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 20,348 | 37.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 54,921 | 71.6 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Cator | 2,287 | 51.7 | −2.3 | |
Liberal | O S B Brett | 2,139 | 48.3 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 148 | 3.4 | |||
Turnout | 4,426 | 85.5 | −2.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Cator | 2,466 | 54.0 | +9.4 | |
Liberal | O S B Brett | 2,099 | 46.0 | −9.4 | |
Majority | 367 | 8.0 | |||
Turnout | 4,565 | 88.2 | +5.1 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +9.4 |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Samuel Howard Whitbread | 2,426 | 55.4 | +8.9 | |
Conservative | John Cator | 1,957 | 44.6 | −8.9 | |
Majority | 469 | 10.8 | |||
Turnout | 4,383 | 83.1 | +7.3 | ||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +8.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | George Charles Montagu | 2,118 | 53.5 | −0.4 | |
Liberal | C R W Adeane | 1,838 | 46.5 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 280 | 7.0 | |||
Turnout | 3,956 | 75.8 | −6.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.4 |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry | 2,419 | 53.9 | +3.7 | |
Liberal | J J Wilks | 2,068 | 46.1 | −3.7 | |
Majority | 351 | 7.8 | |||
Turnout | 4,487 | 82.6 | +0.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry | 2,251 | 50.2 | −1.6 | |
Liberal | Samuel Howard Whitbread | 2,229 | 49.8 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 22 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 4,480 | 81.8 | +3.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.6 |
Elections in the 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry | 2,302 | 51.8 | +3.4 | |
Liberal | Thomas Coote | 2,141 | 48.2 | −3.4 | |
Majority | 161 | 3.6 | |||
Turnout | 4,443 | 78.6 | −2.1 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +3.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Thomas Coote | 2,354 | 51.6 | ||
Conservative | O G P Montagu | 2,208 | 48.4 | ||
Majority | 146 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | 4,562 | 80.7 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing |
See also
- List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire
- North West Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years, though this was not the case in its first creation
- References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/huntingdon-2015.html
- ↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/huntingdon-2015.html
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ https://my.greenparty.org.uk/candidates?display_name=Huntingdon&display_name_1=&display_name_2=All&relationship_type=All
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.jonathansalt.co.uk
- ↑ Local Radio station Star 107
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 British Parliamentary Election results 1983–97
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 F. W. S. Craig (1989), British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885–1918. Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 299
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Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1989–1990 |
Succeeded by Kingston-upon-Thames |
Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 28 November 1990 – 2 May 1997 |
Succeeded by Sedgefield |
Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Leader of the Opposition 2 May 1997 – 19 June 1997 |
Succeeded by Richmond, Yorks |
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