Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Leominster in Herefordshire for the 2005 general election.
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Location of Herefordshire within England.
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County | Herefordshire |
1885–2010 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | North Herefordshire |
Created from | Herefordshire and Leominster |
1295–1885 | |
Number of members | 1295–1868: Two 1868–1885: One |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Replaced by | Leominster |
Leominster was a parliamentary constituency represented until 1707 in the House of Commons of England, then until 1801 in that of Great Britain, and finally until 2010, when it disappeared in boundary changes, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
From 1295 to 1868, Leominster was a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election. Under the Reform Act 1867 its representation was reduced to one Member, 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
- 1 History
- 2 Members of Parliament
- 3 Elections
- 3.1 Elections in the 1880s
- 3.2 Elections in the 1890s
- 3.3 Elections in the 1900s
- 3.4 Elections in the 1910s
- 3.5 Elections in the 1920s
- 3.6 Elections in the 1930s
- 3.7 Elections in the 1940s
- 3.8 Elections in the 1950s
- 3.9 Elections in the 1960s
- 3.10 Elections in the 1970s
- 3.11 Elections in the 1980s
- 3.12 Elections in the 1990s
- 3.13 Elections in the 2000s
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 Notes and references
History
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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 Most of the Leominster seat has been replaced by the North Herefordshire seat, while the remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat.[1]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
Members 1660-1868 (two)
Members 1868–1885 (one)
Election | Member[5] | Party | ||
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1868 | Richard Arkwright | Conservative | ||
1876 by-election | Thomas Blake | Liberal | ||
1880 | James Rankin | Conservative | ||
1885 | Parliamentary borough abolished, name transferred to county constituency |
Leominster county constituency
Members 1885–2010
Election | Member[5] | Party | |
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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 1880s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Thomas Duckham | 3,871 | 50.8 | n/a | |
Conservative | James Rankin | 3,750 | 49.2 | n/a | |
Majority | 121 | 1.6 | n/a | ||
Turnout | n/a | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Rankin | 4,287 | 64.2 | +15.0 | |
Liberal | E S Lucas | 2,394 | 35.8 | -15.0 | |
Majority | 1,893 | 28.4 | |||
Turnout | 71.7 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +15.0 |
Elections in the 1890s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Rankin | 4,318 | |||
Liberal | J T Southall | 2,918 | |||
Majority | 1,400 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Rankin | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1900s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir James Rankin | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Edmund George Lamb | 3,892 | 50.2 | ||
Conservative | Sir James Rankin | 3,864 | 49.8 | ||
Majority | 28 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 83.1 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir James Rankin | 4,600 | 57.3 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Wyatt Wyatt-Paine | 3,431 | -2.6 | ||
Majority | 1,169 | 14.6 | +5.2 | ||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
- The Conservative candidate, Henry FitzHerbert Wright, was returned unopposed.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Maj. Charles Lionel Atkins Ward-Jackson | 8,308 | 50.5 | ||
Liberal | Edmund George Lamb | 5,291 | 32.1 | ||
Agriculturalist | Ernest Wilfred Langford | 2,870 | 17.4 | ||
Majority | 3,017 | 18.4 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
- Ward-Jackson was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
- Some records describe Lamb as an Independent Radical.
- Langford was also a Liberal.
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Ernest Whittome Shepperson | 10,978 | 53.1 | +2.6 | |
Liberal | Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander | 9,698 | 46.9 | +14.8 | |
Majority | 1,280 | 6.2 | |||
Turnout | 79.0 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | -12.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Ernest Whittome Shepperson | 11,582 | 57.3 | +4.2 | |
Liberal | James Dockett | 8,614 | 42.7 | -4.2 | |
Majority | 2,968 | 14.6 | +8.4 | ||
Turnout | 75.8 | -3.2 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | +4.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Ernest Whittome Shepperson | 12,470 | 64.4 | 7.1 | |
Liberal | George Adolphus Edinger | 6,897 | 35.6 | -7.1 | |
Majority | 5,573 | 28.8 | |||
Turnout | 71.6 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | 7.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Ernest Whittome Shepperson | 13,237 | 52.5 | -11.9 | |
Liberal | George Adolphus Edinger | 11,990 | 47.5 | +11.9 | |
Majority | 1,247 | 5.0 | -23.8 | ||
Turnout | 76.3 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | -11.9 |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Ernest Whittome Shepperson | 16,916 | 63.3 | +10.8 | |
Liberal | George Adolphus Edinger | 9,803 | 36.7 | -10.8 | |
Majority | 7,113 | 26.6 | |||
Turnout | 26,719 | 79.9 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | 10.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ernest Whittome Shepperson | 14,180 | 53.2 | -10.1 | |
Liberal | Albert Ernest Farr | 12,465 | 46.8 | +10.1 | |
Majority | 1,715 | 6.4 | |||
Turnout | 26,645 | 78.2 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -10.1 |
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1939/40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Ernest Shepperson
- Liberal: Albert Ernest Farr
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Archer Ernest Baldwin | 14,224 | 51.1 | -2.1 | |
Liberal | Albert Ernest Farr | 13,586 | 48.9 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 638 | 2.3 | |||
Turnout | 74.4 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.1 |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Archer Baldwin | 18,036 | 55.86 | ||
Labour | Edmund JM Jones | 8,402 | 26.02 | ||
Liberal | George Morgan-Harris | 5,850 | 18.12 | ||
Majority | 9,634 | 29.84 | |||
Turnout | 80.85 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Archer Baldwin | 19,952 | 66.75 | ||
Labour | Edmund JM Jones | 9,939 | 33.25 | ||
Majority | 10,013 | 33.50 | |||
Turnout | 74.16 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Archer Baldwin | 18,487 | 65.49 | ||
Labour | Alfred Thomas Evans | 9,740 | 34.51 | ||
Majority | 8,747 | 30.99 | |||
Turnout | 70.40 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hon. Clive Bossom | 16,642 | 55.43 | ||
Liberal | Thomas Grenville Jones | 6,905 | 23.00 | ||
Labour | Frederick W Bowerman | 6,475 | 21.57 | ||
Majority | 9,737 | 32.43 | |||
Turnout | 76.38 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hon. Clive Bossom | 15,238 | 50.91 | ||
Liberal | Dr Edward Paul Cadbury | 8,941 | 29.87 | ||
Labour | Kenneth A Gulleford | 5,750 | 19.21 | ||
Majority | 6,297 | 21.04 | |||
Turnout | 77.13 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Hon. Clive Bossom | 15,045 | 51.47 | ||
Liberal | Dr Edward Paul Cadbury | 7,647 | 26.16 | ||
Labour | K Roy Simmons | 6,536 | 22.36 | ||
Majority | 7,398 | 25.31 | |||
Turnout | 75.17 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Clive Bossom | 17,630 | 57.97 | ||
Liberal | Roger James Pincham | 6,462 | 21.25 | ||
Labour | Martyn George Morgan Sloman | 6,321 | 20.78 | ||
Majority | 11,168 | 36.72 | |||
Turnout | 72.84 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Temple-Morris | 16,221 | 46.35 | ||
Liberal | Roger James Pincham | 14,602 | 41.73 | ||
Labour | CD Lindley | 4,172 | 11.92 | ||
Majority | 1,619 | 4.63 | |||
Turnout | 80.07 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Temple-Morris | 15,741 | 46.07 | ||
Liberal | Roger James Pincham | 15,162 | 44.38 | ||
Labour | S Allen | 3,264 | 9.55 | ||
Majority | 579 | 1.69 | |||
Turnout | 77.56 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Temple-Morris | 21,126 | 53.50 | ||
Liberal | Roger James Pincham | 16,261 | 41.18 | ||
Labour | PJ Dobbs | 2,099 | 5.32 | ||
Majority | 4,865 | 12.32 | |||
Turnout | 81.90 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Temple-Morris | 29,276 | 56.99 | ||
Liberal | Roger James Pincham | 19,490 | 37.94 | ||
Labour | D Wilcox | 1,932 | 3.76 | ||
Ecology | Miss Felicity M. Norman | 668 | 1.3 | ||
Majority | 9,786 | 19.05 | |||
Turnout | 77.49 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Temple-Morris | 31,396 | 57.86 | ||
Liberal | SC Morris | 17,321 | 31.92 | ||
Labour | Chris Chappell | 4,444 | 8.19 | ||
Green | Mrs Felicity M. Norman | 1,102 | 2.03 | ||
Majority | 14,075 | 25.94 | |||
Turnout | 77.54 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Temple-Morris | 32,783 | 56.6 | −1.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | DC Short | 16,103 | 27.8 | −4.1 | |
Labour | Chris Chappell | 6,874 | 11.9 | +3.7 | |
Green | Mrs Felicity M. 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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Temple-Morris | 22,888 | 45.3 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Terry M. James | 14,053 | 27.8 | ||
Labour | Richard J. Westwood | 8,831 | 17.5 | ||
Referendum | Anthony J. Parkin | 2,815 | 5.6 | ||
Green | Mrs Felicity M. Norman | 1,086 | 2.1 | ||
UKIP | Richard J. Chamings | 588 | 1.2 | ||
BNP | John B. Haycock | 292 | 0.6 | ||
Majority | 8,835 | 17.5 | |||
Turnout | 50,553 | 76.6 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 22,879 | 49.0 | +3.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Celia M. Downie | 12,512 | 26.8 | -1.0 | |
Labour | Dr. Stephen J.S. Hart | 7,872 | 16.8 | -0.6 | |
Green | Mrs. Pippa Bennett | 1,690 | 3.6 | +1.5 | |
UKIP | Christopher R. Kingsley | 1,590 | 3.4 | +2.2 | |
Independent | John B. Haycock | 186 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,367 | 22.2 | |||
Turnout | 46,729 | 69.4 | -7.2 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 25,407 | 52.1 | +3.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Ms. Caroline J. Williams | 12,220 | 25.0 | -1.7 | |
Labour | Paul K. Bell | 7,424 | 15.2 | -1.6 | |
Green | Mrs Felicity M. Norman | 2,191 | 4.5 | +0.9 | |
UKIP | Peter S. Whyte-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 |
See also
References
Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Notes and references
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
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