Central Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency)

Central Suffolk
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
County	Suffolk
1983 (1983)–1997 (1997)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Central Suffolk & North Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds
Created from	Eye

Central Suffolk was a county constituency in the county of Suffolk. 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 1983 general election, replacing the former Eye constituency. It was in turn replaced by the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich constituency for the 1997 general election with a substantial area of the constituency joining a modified Bury St Edmunds constituency.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1983	Michael Lord	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished: see Central Suffolk and North Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds

Elections

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Suffolk Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Michael Lord	32,917	49.6	-4.1
	Liberal Democrat	Ms. LA Henniker-Major	16,886	25.4	-1.3
	Labour	JW Harris	15,615	23.5	+3.9
	Green	JE Matthissen	800	1.2	+1.2
	Natural Law	Ms. JC Wilmot	190	0.3	+0.3
Majority			16,031	24.1	-2.8
Turnout			66,408	80.3	+4.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.4