Brigg and Scunthorpe (UK Parliament constituency)

Brigg and Scunthorpe
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Humberside
1974 (1974)–1983
Seats	One
Created from	Brigg
Replaced by	Brigg & Cleethorpes and Glanford & Scunthorpe

Brigg and Scunthorpe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Brigg and Scunthorpe in Humberside. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, mostly from the former seat of Brigg, and abolished for the 1983 general election, when it was partially replaced by the new constituencies of Brigg & Cleethorpes and Glanford & Scunthorpe.

Boundaries

1974-83: The borough of Scunthorpe, the urban districts of Barton-upon-Humber and Brigg, and the rural district of Glanford Brigg. Unchanged from the former Brigg constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Feb 1974	John Ellis	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	1979	Michael Brown	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)