Ludlow (UK Parliament constituency)

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Coordinates: 52°29′17″N 2°44′46″W / 52.488°N 2.746°W / 52.488; -2.746

Ludlow
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of Ludlow in Shropshire.
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Location of Shropshire within England.
County Shropshire
Electorate 66,199 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlements Ludlow
Current constituency
Created 1885 (1885)
Member of Parliament Philip Dunne (Conservative)
Number of members One
Created from Ludlow and South Shropshire
1473 (1473)–1885 (1885)
Number of members 1473–1868: Two
1868–1885: One
Type of constituency Borough constituency
Replaced by Ludlow
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency West Midlands

Ludlow is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

From 1473 to 1707, Ludlow was a parliamentary borough of the House of Commons of England, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801. It was represented by two burgesses until 1868, when it was reduced to one member.

The parliamentary borough was abolished in 1885, and the name transferred to a new county division whose boundaries were similar to those of the Southern division of Shropshire from 1832 to 1885.

Ludlow was a safe Conservative seat from the 1920s until it was won by the Liberal Democrats in the 2001 general election. It was regained by the Conservatives in 2005.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers most of the South area of Shropshire Council (without Shifnal and Albrighton), or the former South Shropshire district with the southern part of the former Bridgnorth district. It lies entirely within the county of Shropshire in England.

It is a geographically large, rural constituency with a number of market towns, the largest of which are Ludlow and Bridgnorth. Other towns are Broseley, Clun, Bishop's Castle, Cleobury Mortimer, Much Wenlock, Craven Arms and Church Stretton.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1473–1660

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  • Constituency created (1473)
Parliament First member Second member
1510-1515 No names known [2]
1523  ?William Foxe  ?John Cother [2]
1529 William Foxe John Cother [2]
1536 William Foxe  ?John Cother [2]
1539 Charles Foxe Thomas Wheeler [2]
1542 Charles Foxe Edmund Foxe [2]
1545 John Bradshaw Thomas Wheeler [2]
1547 Robert Blount Charles Foxe [2]
1553 (Mar) Thomas Wheeler Charles Foxe [2]
1553 (Oct) Thomas Wheeler John Passey [2]
1554 (Apr) Sir John Price Thomas Blashefield [2]
1554 (Nov) James Warnecombe John Allsop [2]
1555 William Heath Thomas Croft [2]
1558 Richard Prince Robert Mason [2]
1559 William Poughmill Robert Mason I [3]
1562/3 Richard Langford William Poughmill [3]
1571 William Poughmill Robert Mason I [3]
1572 William Poughmill Robert Mason II, died
and replaced Jan 1581 by Philip Sidney
who sat for Shrewsbury
and was replaced by Robert Berry [3]
1584 Robert Berry Richard Farr [3]
1586 Robert Berry Thomas Canland [3]
1588 Robert Berry Thomas Canland [3]
1593 Robert Berry Thomas Canland [3]
1597 Hugh Sanford, election declared void
and was repl. 1597 by Robert Berry		 Thomas Canland [3]
1601 Thomas Canland Robert Berry [3]
1604 Robert Berry Richard Benson
1614 Sir Henry Townsend Robert Berry
1621 Henry Spencer, Lord Compton Richard Tomlins
1624 Richard Tomlins Ralph Goodman
1625 Richard Tomlins Ralph Goodwin
1626 Richard Tomlins Ralph Goodwin
1628 Richard Tomlins Ralph Goodwin
1629–1640 No Parliaments summoned
1640 (Apr) Charles Baldwin Ralph Goodwin
1640 (Nov) Charles Baldwin Ralph Goodwin
1645 Thomas Mackworth Thomas Moor
1648 Thomas Mackworth Thomas Moor
1653 Ludlow not represented in Barebones Parliament
1654 John Aston (one seat only)
1656 John Aston (one seat only)
1659 Job Charlton Samuel Baldwyn

[edit] MPs 1660–1868

Year First member[4] First party Second member[4] Second party
1660 Timothy Littleton Job Charlton
1670 Somerset Fox
Febr. 1679 Francis Charlton[disambiguation needed ]
Sept. 1679 Thomas Walcot
1681 Charles Baldwyn
Apr. 1685 Sir Edward Herbert William Charlton
Jn. 1685 Sir Josiah Child
Nov. 1685 Sir Edward Lutwyche
1689 Francis Herbert Charles Baldwyn
1690 Thomas Hanmer William Gower
1691 Silius Titus Francis Lloyd
1695 Thomas Newport Charles Baldwyn
1698 Francis Herbert William Gower
1699 Thomas Newport
Jan. 1701 Sir Thomas Powys William Gower
Dec. 1701 Francis Herbert
1705 Acton Baldwyn
1713 Humphrey Walcot
1715 Francis Herbert
1719 Sir Robert Raymond
1722 Abel Ketelby Acton Baldwyn
Febr. 1727 Richard Herbert
Sept. 1727 Henry Arthur Herbert
1741 Sir William Corbet
1743 Richard Herbert
1748 Henry Bridgeman
1754 Edward Herbert
1768 William Fellowes
1770 Thomas Herbert
1774 Viscount Villiers The Lord Clive
1780 Frederick Cornewall
1783 Somerset Davies
1784 Richard Payne Knight
1794 Robert Clive
1806 Viscount Clive Tory
1807 Henry Clive
1818 Robert Clive
1832 Edward Romilly Whig
1834 Conservative
1835 Edmund Lechmere Charlton Conservative
1837 Henry Salwey Whig
1839 Thomas Alcock Whig
1840 Beriah Botfield Conservative
1841 James Ackers Conservative
1847 Henry Bayley Clive Conservative Henry Salwey Liberal
1852 Hon. Robert Windsor-Clive Conservative Lord William Powlett Conservative
1854 Percy Egerton Herbert Conservative
1857 Beriah Botfield Conservative
1860 George Windsor-Clive Conservative
1863 Sir William Fraser Conservative
1865 John Edmund Severne Conservative

[edit] MPs 1868–1885

  • Constituency reduced to one Member (1868)
  • Constituency reorganized (1885)

[edit] MPs since 1885

Election Member[4] Party
1885 Robert Jasper More Liberal
1886 Liberal Unionist
1903 by-election Rowland Hunt Liberal Unionist
1917 National Party;
1918 Conservative
1918 Sir Beville Stanier Coalition Conservative
1922 by-election Viscount Windsor Coalition Conservative
1923 by-election George Windsor-Clive Conservative
1945 Uvedale Corbett Conservative
1951 Christopher Holland-Martin Conservative
1960 by-election Jasper More Conservative
1979 Eric Cockeram Conservative
1987 Christopher Gill Conservative
2001 Matthew Green Liberal Democrat
2005 Philip Dunne Conservative

[edit] Elections

[edit] Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Ludlow[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Philip Dunne 25,720 52.8 +7.7
Liberal Democrat Heather Kidd 15,971 32.8 -7.9
Labour Tony Hunt 3,272 6.7 -4.0
UKIP Christopher Gill 2,127 4.4 +2.7
BNP Christina Evans 1,016 2.1 +2.1
Green Jacqui Morrish 447 0.9 -0.9
Monster Raving Loony Alan Powell 179 0.4 +0.4
Majority 9,749 20.0
Turnout 48,732 73.1 +1.1
Conservative hold Swing +7.8

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Ludlow
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Philip Dunne 20,979 45.1 +5.7
Liberal Democrat Matthew Green 18,952 40.7 −2.5
Labour Nigel Knowles 4,974 10.7 −2.7
Green Jim Gaffney 852 1.8 −0.2
UKIP Michael Zuckerman 783 1.7 −0.3
Majority 2,027 4.4
Turnout 46,540 72.1 +4.2
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrat Swing 4.1
General Election 2001: Ludlow
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrat Matthew Green 18,620 43.2 +13.5
Conservative Martin Taylor-Smith 16,990 39.4 −3.0
Labour Nigel Knowles 5,785 13.4 −12.0
Green Jim Gaffney 871 2.0 +0.3
UKIP Phil Gutteridge 858 2.0 +1.2
Majority 1,630 3.8
Turnout 43,124 67.9 −7.6
Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Ludlow
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Gill 19,633 42.4
Liberal Democrat Ian Huffer 13,724 29.7
Labour Nuala O'Kane 11,745 25.4
Green Tim Andrewes 798 1.7
UKIP E Freeman-Keel 385 0.8
Majority 5,909 12.8
Turnout 46,285 75.5
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1992: Ludlow[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Gill 28,719 51.5 -2.4
Liberal Democrat ID Phillips 14,567 26.1 -4.8
Labour Mrs BO Mason 11,709 21.0 +5.9
Green NH Appleton-Fox 758 1.4 +1.4
Majority 14,152 25.4 +2.5
Turnout 55,753 80.9 +3.8
Conservative hold Swing +1.2
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[edit] See also

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/ludlow%7C title= History of Parliament| publisher= History of Parliament Trust| accessdate = 2011-10-27}}
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/ludlow%7C title= History of Parliament| publisher= History of Parliament Trust| accessdate = 2011-10-27}}
  4. ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
  5. ^ Shropshire Council
  6. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010. 

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