Warwick and Leamington (UK Parliament constituency)
Warwick and Leamington | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of Warwick and Leamington in Warwickshire.
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Location of Warwickshire within England.
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County | Warwickshire |
Electorate | 66,278 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Warwick and Leamington |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1885 |
Member of parliament | Chris White (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Warwick |
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European Parliament constituency | West Midlands |
Warwick and Leamington is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Chris White, a Conservative.[n 2]
Contents
Boundaries
1918-1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Royal Leamington Spa, Stratford-on-Avon, and Warwick, the Urban District of Kenilworth, the Rural Districts of Alcester and Warwick, in the Rural District of Brailes the civil parishes of Ilmington and Stretton-on-Fosse, and the part of the Rural District of Stratford-on-Avon which was not included in the Rugby constituency.
1950–1983: The Municipal Boroughs of Leamington Spa and Warwick, the Urban District of Kenilworth, and the Rural District of Warwick.
1983–1997: The District of Warwick wards of Bishop's Tachbrook, Brunswick, Budbrooke, Clarendon, Crown, Cubbington, Lapworth, Leek Wootton, Manor, Milverton, Radford Semele, Warwick North, Warwick South, Warwick West, Whitnash, and Willes.
1997–2010: The District of Warwick wards of Bishop's Tachbrook, Brunswick, Budbrooke, Clarendon, Crown, Cubbington, Lapworth, Leek Wootton, Manor, Milverton, Radford Semele, Warwick North, Warwick South, Warwick West, Whitnash, and Willes, and the District of Stratford-on-Avon wards of Henley, Tanworth, and Tanworth Earlswood.
2010–present: The District of Warwick wards of Bishop’s Tachbrook, Brunswick, Budbrooke, Clarendon, Crown, Manor, Milverton, Warwick North, Warwick South, Warwick West, Whitnash, and Willes.
The constituency includes the towns of Warwick and Royal Leamington Spa with a minority of surrounding villages. At various times the constituency's boundaries have also taken in the towns of Kenilworth, Stratford-upon-Avon and the village of Studley.
The 2010 boundary changes reduced the constituency by removing outlying villages, reflecting population and housing growth. Wards removed, that generally share their names with outlying villages, were: Cubbington, Lapworth, Leek Wootton, Radford Semele, Tanworth-in-Arden and the formerly shared part of Henley-in-Arden.
History
The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, partially replacing the earlier and ancient Warwick constituency which unusually, until that year had sent two MPs to Westminster.[2]
- Political history
Represented by Conservatives from 1910–1997, the seat was for much of this time a safe seat, seeing frequent majorities of more than 10,000 votes. The seat had not been expected to change hands in the 1997 general election: as such James Plaskitt's defeat of Dudley Smith was a Portillo moment, without the decapitation of a government frontbencher. Plaskitt increased his majority in the 2001 election, but on a lower turnout. In the 2005 election, Warwick and Leamington was 85th on the Conservative list of target seats, meaning that to gain it they would have required a somewhat greater swing than was seen nationally. With a greater swing from Labour to the Liberal Democrats, Plaskitt narrowly held the seat with a majority slashed from nearly 6,000 votes to only 266.
However, minor boundary changes in Labour's favour took effect at the 2010 general election and the winner was variously predicted.[citation needed] In the event the seat was gained by a Conservative, Chris White, with a majority of 7% of the vote. On this occasion the Conservative Party was the main beneficiary from swings away from the Labour Party and the Green Party.
- Prominent frontbenchers
For 34 years the seat was represented by former prime minister Anthony Eden, until the end of his premiership caused by his resignation (after the Suez Crisis and falling ill).
In part of the early 1920s, the Solicitor General for England and Wales, then Attorney General for England and Wales represented the seat, Sir Ernest Pollock – Eden's successor was also in these senior positions, Sir John Hobson, in the part of early 1960s.
Constituency profile
The seat comprises the two eponymous towns, with modest hills surrounding them, in the upper valley of the River Avon (Warwickshire).
The towns of Warwick and Royal Leamington Spa are still distinct however form, in the modern seat, a contiguous urban area. Both towns are relatively affluent, although there are pockets of deprivation in Leamington. Warwick, with its historic castle, is an internationally advertised tourist destination, while Leamington's economy is more dependent on storage, distribution, manufacturing, processing, engineering and industry. Leamington is also more ethnically diverse (e.g. five per cent of the constituency's population is of Asian ethnicity)[clarification needed] and is home to some students of the University of Warwick that lies close to Coventry.
Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.2% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[3]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[4] | Party | Notes | |
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1885 | Sir Arthur Wellesley Peel | Liberal | Speaker of the House of Commons 1884–95 | |
1886 | Liberal Unionist | |||
1895 by-election | Alfred Lyttelton | Liberal Unionist | ||
1906 | Thomas Berridge | Liberal | ||
Jan 1910 | Sir Ernest Pollock | Conservative | Solicitor General then Attorney General (1919–1922) | |
1923 | Sir Anthony Eden | Conservative | Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister 1955–57 | |
1957 by-election | Sir John Hobson | Conservative | Solicitor General then Attorney General (1962–1964), died 1967 | |
1968 by-election | Sir Dudley Smith | Conservative | ||
1997 | James Plaskitt | Labour | ||
2010 | Chris White | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris White | 24,249 | 47.9 | +5.4 | |
Labour | Lynnette Kelly | 17,643 | 34.9 | -0.5 | |
UKIP | Alastair MacBrayne[6] | 4,183 | 8.3 | +6.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Haseeb Arif | 2,512 | 5 | -13.3 | |
Green | Azzees Minott | 1,994 | 3.9 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 6,606 | 13.1 | |||
Turnout | 50,581 | 70.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Chris White | 20,876 | 42.6 | +8.2 | |
Labour | James Plaskitt | 17,363 | 35.4 | -9.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Alan Beddow | 8,977 | 18.3 | +2.4 | |
UKIP | Christopher Lenton | 926 | 1.9 | +0.2 | |
Green | Ian Davison | 693 | 1.4 | -1.9 | |
Independent | Jim Cullinane | 197 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 3,513 | 7.2 | |||
Turnout | 49,032 | 71.0 | +5.3 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | 8.75 |
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James Plaskitt | 22,238 | 40.6 | −8.2 | |
Conservative | Chris White | 21,972 | 40.1 | +2.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Linda Forbes | 8,119 | 14.8 | +3.7 | |
Green | Ian Davison | 1,534 | 2.8 | N/A | |
UKIP | Greville Warwick | 921 | 1.7 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 266 | 0.5 | −10.7 | ||
Turnout | 54,744 | 67.4 | +1.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | −5.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James Plaskitt | 26,108 | 48.8 | +4.3 | |
Conservative | David Campbell-Bannerman | 20,155 | 37.6 | −1.2 | |
Liberal Democrat | Linda Forbes | 5,964 | 11.1 | −0.7 | |
Socialist Alliance | Claire Kime | 664 | 1.2 | N/A | |
UKIP | Greville Warwick | 648 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,953 | 11.2 | +5.5 | ||
Turnout | 53,539 | 65.8 | −9.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.8 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | James Plaskitt | 26,747 | 44.5 | +11.5 | |
Conservative | Dudley Smith | 23,349 | 38.9 | −9.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Nigel Hicks | 7,133 | 11.9 | −4.7 | |
Referendum | Val Davis | 1,484 | 2.5 | N/A | |
Green | Paul Baptie | 764 | 1.3 | −0.1 | |
Independent | Greville Warwick | 306 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Independent | Michael Gibbs | 183 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Roddy McCarthy | 125 | 0.2 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 3,398 | 5.7 | |||
Turnout | 60,091 | 75.1 | −6.5 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | 10.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 28,093 | 48.4 | −1.4 | |
Labour | Matthew Taylor | 19,158 | 33.0 | +9.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | S. E. Boad | 9,645 | 16.6 | −7.9 | |
Green | J. A. Alty | 803 | 1.4 | −0.6 | |
Independent | R. Newby | 251 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Natural Law | J. Brewster | 156 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,935 | 15.4 | −9.9 | ||
Turnout | 58,108 | 81.6 | −5.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.5 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 27,530 | 49.8 | −1.1 | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | K. P. O'Sullivan | 13,548 | 24.5 | −1.4 | |
Labour | A. Christina | 13,019 | 23.5 | +1.5 | |
Green | J. A. Alty | 1,214 | 2.2 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 13,982 | 25.3 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 55,311 | 76.0 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 26,512 | 50.9 | −3.5 | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | R. Behrens | 13,480 | 25.9 | +10.9 | |
Labour | Richard Chessum | 11,463 | 22.0 | −7.3 | |
Ecology | N. Charlton | 685 | 1.3 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 13,032 | 25.0 | 0.0 | ||
Turnout | 52,140 | 73.6 | −4.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −7.2 |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 35,925 | 54.4 | +7.3 | |
Labour | C. J. Gray | 19,367 | 29.3 | −3.8 | |
Liberal | D. Woodcock | 9,905 | 15.0 | −4.8 | |
Ecology | P. Sizer | 905 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,558 | 25.0 | +11.0 | ||
Turnout | 66,102 | 77.7 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 27,721 | 47.1 | −0.4 | |
Labour | J. W. England | 19,476 | 33.1 | +3.4 | |
Liberal | T. A. Jones | 11,625 | 19.8 | −3.0 | |
Majority | 8,245 | 14.0 | −3.8 | ||
Turnout | 58,822 | 74.8 | −6.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 30,167 | 47.5 | −15.9 | |
Labour | J. W. England | 18,874 | 29.7 | −6.9 | |
Liberal | T. A. Jones | 14,500 | 22.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 11,293 | 17.8 | −9.0 | ||
Turnout | 63,541 | 81.6 | +9.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −19.4 (to the Liberal Party) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 36,994 | 63.4 | −4.9 | |
Labour | John Watkinson | 21,355 | 36.6 | +20.1 | |
Majority | 15,639 | 26.8 | −25.0 | ||
Turnout | 58,349 | 72.6 | −6.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −12.5 |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Dudley Smith | 28,914 | 68.3 | +16.7 | |
Labour | Raymond Carter | 6,992 | 16.5 | −19.6 | |
Liberal | Antony Butcher | 6,415 | 15.2 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 21,922 | 51.8 | +36.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +18.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Hobson | 28,918 | 51.6 | −2.2 | |
Labour | Les Huckfield | 20,221 | 36.1 | +2.0 | |
Liberal | Antony Butcher | 6,912 | 12.3 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 8,697 | 15.5 | −4.2 | ||
Turnout | 56,051 | 78.9 | −1.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Hobson | 29,749 | 53.8 | −8.8 | |
Labour | Nigel Spearing | 18,865 | 34.1 | −3.3 | |
Liberal | P. Gibson | 6,676 | 12.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,884 | 19.7 | −5.5 | ||
Turnout | 55,290 | 80.4 | −2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −10.5 |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Hobson | 32,513 | 62.6 | 10.3 | |
Labour | William Wilson | 19,434 | 37.4 | −10.3 | |
Majority | 13,079 | 25.2 | |||
Turnout | 51,947 | 82.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +10.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Hobson | 24,948 | 52.3 | −12.2 | |
Labour | William Wilson | 22,791 | 47.7 | 12.2 | |
Majority | 2,157 | 4.5 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −12.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Anthony Eden | 29,979 | 64.48 | 4.0 | |
Labour | William Wilson | 16,513 | 35.52 | -−4.0 | |
Majority | 13,466 | 28.96 | |||
Turnout | 78.77 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Anthony Eden | 28,282 | 60.48 | 0.7 | |
Labour | William Wilson | 18,479 | 39.52 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 9,803 | 20.96 | |||
Turnout | 82.38 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Anthony Eden | 27,353 | 59.78 | −1.6 | |
Labour | H. Bithell | 18,400 | 40.22 | +8.0 | |
Majority | 8,953 | 19.57 | |||
Turnout | 82.86 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.8 |
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rt Hon. Robert Anthony Eden | 37,110 | 61.34 | -15.3 | |
Labour | D. Chesworth | 19,476 | 32.19 | +8.8 | |
Liberal | Walter Leslie Dingley | 3,908 | 6.46 | +6.46 | |
Majority | 17,634 | 29.15 | |||
Turnout | 69.18 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −12.1 |
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: Rt Hon. Robert Anthony Eden
- Liberal: Walter Leslie Dingley
- Labour: Theodore Besterman
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rt Hon. Robert Anthony Eden | 35,746 | 76.58 | −4.0 | |
Labour | J. Perry | 10,930 | 23.42 | +4.0 | |
Majority | 24,816 | 53.17 | |||
Turnout | 65.66 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −4.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Anthony Eden | 38,584 | 80.64 | ||
Ind. Labour Party | Charles George Garton | 9,261 | 19.36 | ||
Majority | 29,323 | 61.29 | |||
Turnout | 72.43 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Robert Anthony Eden | 23,045 | 47.6 | -12.6 | |
Liberal | Walter Leslie Dingley | 17,585 | 36.4 | -3.4 | |
Labour | Charles George Garton | 7,741 | 16.0 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,460 | 11.2 | -9.2 | ||
Turnout | 77.5 | +3.9 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -4.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Robert Anthony Eden | 19,575 | 60.2 | +8.4 | |
Liberal | George Nicholls | 12,966 | 39.8 | +4.4 | |
Majority | 6,609 | 20.4 | +4.0 | ||
Turnout | 73.6 | +0.7 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | +2.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Robert Anthony Eden | 16,337 | 51.8 | ||
Liberal | George Nicholls | 11,134 | 35.4 | ||
Labour | Countess of Warwick | 4,015 | 12.8 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 72.9 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Rt Hon. Sir Ernest Murray Pollock | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
Elections in the 1910s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | unopposed | n/a | n/a | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a |
- denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A borough 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.
- References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2010 post-revision map non-metropolitan areas and unitary authorities of England
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://ukipwarwickleamington.org/news/our-new-candidate-for-the-2015-general-election.html
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- ↑ Warwick District Council, Official list of candidates
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- ↑ BBC Vote 2005
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ BBC Vote 2001
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Election Demon
- ↑ BBC Vote 2001
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Election Demon
- ↑ The Guardian
- ↑ Election Demon
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- ↑ Election Demon
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- ↑ Election Demon
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1949
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Sources
- Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources: UK General Elections since 1832
- 1968 By Election Results
- 1957 By Election Results
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Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Speaker 1885–1895 |
Succeeded by Carlisle |
Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1955–1957 |
Succeeded by Bromley |
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