Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Leominster | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 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, until 2010, a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
From 1295 to 1868, it was a parliamentary borough which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) by the bloc vote system of election. Under the Reform Act 1867 its representation was reduced to one MP, 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.
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[edit] History
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[edit] 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 Most of the Leominster seat has been replaced by the North Herefordshire seat, while the remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat.[1]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Members of Parliament
[edit] Leominster parliamentary borough
[edit] To 1660
| Parliament | First member | Second member |
|---|---|---|
| 1386 | Robert Calderbrook | Walter Aston [2] |
| 1388 (Feb) | Robert Calderbrook | John Montgomery [2] |
| 1388 (Sep) | John Aston II | Walter Aston [2] |
| 1390 (Jan) | Hugh Aston | Peter Cook [2] |
| 1390 (Nov) | ||
| 1391 | Peter Cook | John Bradford [2] |
| 1393 | Roger Loutwardin | John Hood I [2] |
| 1394 | ||
| 1395 | Thomas Barber I | Thomas Reynold [2] |
| 1397 (Jan) | Thomas Reynold | William Colle [2] |
| 1397 (Sep) | William Taverner I | John Romayn [2] |
| 1399 | John Hood I | Thomas White II [2] |
| 1401 | ||
| 1402 | William Taverner I | John Bond [2] |
| 1404 (Jan) | ||
| 1404 (Oct) | ||
| 1406 | William Taverner I | William Tiler [2] |
| 1407 | William Taverner I | William Tiler [2] |
| 1410 | Edmund Morris | Walter Borgate [2] |
| 1411 | ||
| 1413 (Feb) | ||
| 1413 (May) | John Salisbury | John Romayn [2] |
| 1414 (Apr) | ||
| 1414 (Nov) | William Colle | John Salisbury [2] |
| 1415 | ||
| 1416 (Mar) | John Salisbury | Reynold Smith [2] |
| 1416 (Oct) | ||
| 1417 | John Salisbury | John Braas [2] |
| 1419 | Thomas Hood | Reynold Smith [2] |
| 1420 | Thomas Hood | William Raves [2] |
| 1421 (May) | William Stokes | John Hood II [2] |
| 1421 (Dec) | Thomas Hood | William Raves [2] |
| 1510-1523 | No names known[3] | |
| 1529 | John Bell I | John Hillesley [3] |
| 1536 | ? | |
| 1539 | ? | |
| 1542 | ? | |
| 1545 | ? | |
| 1547 | William Crowche | Richard Cupper [3] |
| 1553 (Mar) | ? | |
| 1553 (Oct) | William Strete | John Polle [3] |
| 1554 (Apr) | Lewis Jones | John Evans [3] |
| 1554 (Nov) | Nicholas Depden | Thomas Wykes [3] |
| 1555 | James Warnecombe | Thomas Kerry [3] |
| 1558 | Alban Birch | Richard Hakluyt [3] |
| 1559 | Thomas Hakluyt | Thomas Coningsby I[4] |
| 1562/3 | Thomas Dallowe | John Morgan [4] |
| 1571 | Edward Croft | Nicholas Depden [4] |
| 1572 | Nicholas Depden | Fabian Phillips [4] |
| 1584 | Thomas Wigmore | Edward Croft [4] |
| 1586 | Edward Croft | Thomas Wigmore [4] |
| 1588 | Thomas Shoter | Humphrey Wall [4] |
| 1593 | Sir Francis Vere | Richard Coningsby [4] |
| 1597 | Thomas Coningsby II | John Creswell [4] |
| 1601 | Thomas Coningsby II | John Warnecombe [4] |
| 1604 | Thomas Coningsby | John Powle |
| 1614 | Sir Humphrey Baskerville | Thomas Coningsby |
| 1621-1622 | Francis Smallman | William Beecher |
| 1624 | James Tomkins | Sir William Beecher |
| 1625 | James Tomkins | Edward Littleton |
| 1626 | James Tomkins | Edward Littleton |
| 1628 | James Tomkins | Edward Littleton, sat for Caernarvon and replaced by Thomas Lyttelton |
| 1629–1640 | No Parliaments summoned | |
| 1640 (Apr) | William Smallman | Walter Kyrle |
| 1640 (Nov) | Sampson Eure disabled 22 January 1644 |
Walter Kyrle |
| 1645 | Walter Kyrle excluded in 1648 |
John Birch excluded in 1648 |
| 1653 | Leominster not represented in Barebones Parliament | |
| 1654 | John Birch | (One member only) |
| 1656 | John Birch | (One member only) |
| 1659 | John Birch | Edward Freeman |
[edit] MPs 1660-1868
[edit] MPs 1868–1885
| Election | Member[5] | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | Richard Arkwright | Conservative | ||
| 1876 by-election | Thomas Blake | Liberal | ||
| 1880 | James Rankin | Conservative | ||
| 1868 | Leominster parliamentary borough abolished. Name transferred to county division | |||
[edit] Leominster county constituency
[edit] MPs since 1885
| Election | Member[5] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
[edit] Elections
[edit] Elections in the 2000s
| General Election 2005: Leominster | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 25,407 | 52.1 | +3.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Caroline Williams | 12,220 | 25.0 | -1.7 | |
| Labour | Paul Bell | 7,424 | 15.2 | -1.6 | |
| Green | Felicity Norman | 2,191 | 4.5 | +0.9 | |
| UKIP | Peter 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 | |||
| General Election 2001: Leominster | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Bill Wiggin | 22,879 | 49.0 | +3.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Celia Downie | 12,512 | 26.8 | -1.0 | |
| Labour | Stephen Hart | 7,872 | 16.8 | -0.6 | |
| Green | Pippa Bennett | 1,690 | 3.6 | +1.5 | |
| UKIP | Christopher Kingsley | 1,590 | 3.4 | +2.2 | |
| Independent | John Haycock | 186 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 10,367 | 22.2 | |||
| Turnout | 46,729 | 69.4 | -7.2 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
[edit] Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Leominster[6] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Peter Temple-Morris | 32,783 | 56.6 | −1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrat | DC Short | 16,103 | 27.8 | −4.1 | |
| Labour | ACR Chappell | 6,874 | 11.9 | +3.7 | |
| Green | Mrs FM 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 | |||
[edit] Elections in the 1910s
| General Election January 1910: Leominster | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| 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 | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Final recommendations for Parliamentary constituencies in the county of Herefordshire". Boundary Commission for England. 2004-01-07. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/review_areas/downloads/FR_NR_Hereford.doc. Retrieved 2010-05-05.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/leominster. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/leominster. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/leominster. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
- ^ a b c d Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)[self-published source?][better source needed]
- ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i13.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
