Poole (UK Parliament constituency)

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Poole
Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Poole in Dorset.
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Location of Dorset within England.
County Dorset
Electorate 72,773 (December 2010)[1]
Current constituency
Created 1950 (1950)
Member of Parliament Robert Syms (Conservative)
Number of members One
1455 (1455)–1885 (1885)
Number of members Two (1455–1868), One (1868–1885)
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency South West England

Poole is a borough 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. The present constituency has existed since 1950, but Poole was previously a parliamentary borough from 1455 to 1885.

Until 1950, most of this constituency was in the East Dorset seat.

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[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1455–1629

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  • Borough established 1455, returning two members
Parliament First member Second member
1510 No names known [2]
1512 Richard Phelips Ralph Worsley [2]
1515 Richard Phelips ? [2]
1523 ?
1529 William Thornhill William Biddlecombe [2]
1536 ?William Biddlecombe ? [2]
1539 ?William Biddlecombe  ? [2]
1542 Oliver Lawrence John Carew [2]
1545 Oliver Lawrence John Harward [2]
1547 John Hannam John Harward [2]
1553 (Mar) William Newman Thomas White [2]
1553 (Oct) Anthony Dillington John Scryvin
Parliament of 1554 William Wightman Richard Shaw
Parliament of 1554-1555 Anthony Dillington Andrew Hourde
Parliament of 1555 Robert Whitt John Phelips
Parliament of 1558 Thomas Goodwin Thomas Phelips
Parliament of 1559 Walter Haddon Humphrey Mitchel
Parliament of 1563-1567 William Green
Parliament of 1571 George Carleton William Newton
Parliament of 1572-1581 William Green John Hastings
Parliament of 1584-1585 Francis Mills Thomas Vincent
Parliament of 1586-1587 William Fleetwood, junior
Parliament of 1588-1589 Henry Ashley Edward Man
Parliament of 1593 James Orrenge
Parliament of 1597-1598 Roger Mawdeley
Parliament of 1601 Robert Miller Thomas Billet
Parliament of 1604-1611 Thomas Robarts Edward Man
Addled Parliament (1614) Sir Walter Erle Sir Thomas Walsingham, junior
Parliament of 1621-1622 Sir George Hussey
Happy Parliament (1624-1625) Edward Pitt
Useless Parliament (1625) John Pyne Sir John Cooper
Parliament of 1625-1626 Christopher Erle
Parliament of 1628-1629 Sir John Cooper
No Parliament summoned 1629-1640

[edit] MPs 1640–1868

Year First member[3] First party Second member[3] Second party
April 1640 John Pyne Parliamentarian William Constantine Royalist
November 1640
September 1642 Constantine disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 George Skutt
December 1648 Skutt excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Poole was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper[4] Poole had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Edward Boteler
January 1659 Colonel John Fitzjames [5] Samuel Bond
May 1659 John Pyne One seat vacant
April 1660 George Cooper Sir Walter Erle
1661 Sir John Fitzjames (Sir) John Morton [6]
1670 Thomas Trenchard
February 1673 George Cooper
March 1673 Thomas Strangways
1679 Henry Trenchard Thomas Chafin
1685 William Ettrick
1689 Henry Trenchard Sir Nathaniel Napier
1690 Sir John Trenchard Whig
1695 Lord Ashley
1698 William Joliffe Sir William Phippard
1705 Samuel Weston
1708 William Lewen Thomas Ridge [7]
1710 Sir William Phippard
1711 Sir William Lewen
1713 George Trenchard
1722 Thomas Ridge
1727 Denis Bond [8]
1732 Thomas Wyndham
1741 Joseph Gulston Thomas Missing
1747 George Trenchard
1754 Colonel Sir Richard Lyttelton [9]
1761 Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Calcraft
1765 Joseph Gulston
1768 Joshua Mauger
1774 Major-General Sir Eyre Coote
1780 Joseph Gulston William Morton Pitt
1784 Michael Angelo Taylor
1790 Colonel Hon. Charles Stuart [10] Benjamin Lester
1791 Michael Angelo Taylor
1796 Colonel Hon. Charles Stuart John Jeffery
1801 George Garland
1808 Sir Richard Bickerton
1809 Benjamin Lester Lester Whig
1812 Michael Angelo Taylor Whig
1818 John Dent
1826 Hon. William Ponsonby
1831 Sir John Byng Whig
January 1835 Charles Augustus Tulk Whig
May 1835 Hon. George Stephens Byng Whig
1837 Hon. Charles Ponsonby Whig George Richard Philips Whig
1847 George Richard Robinson Conservative
1850 Henry Danby Seymour Whig
1852 George Woodroffe Franklyn Conservative
1859 Liberal
1865 Charles Waring Liberal
1868 Representation reduced to one Member

[edit] MPs 1868–1885

Election Member[3] Party
1868 Arthur Guest Conservative
1874 Charles Waring Liberal
May 1874 by-election Hon. Evelyn Ashley Liberal
1880 Charles Schreiber Conservative
1884 by-election William James Harris Conservative
1885 Constituency abolished

[edit] MPs since 1950

Election Member[3] Party
1950 Colonel Mervyn Wheatley Conservative
1951 Richard Pilkington Conservative
1964 Oscar Murton Conservative
1979 John Ward Conservative
1997 Robert Syms Conservative

[edit] Elections

[edit] Elections in the 2010s

General election: 2010: Poole[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Syms 22,532 47.5 +4.1
Liberal Democrat Phillip Eades 14,991 31.6 +2.5
Labour Jason Sanderson 6,041 12.7 − 10.0
UKIP Nick Wellstead 2,507 5.3 +1.8
BNP David Holmes 1,188 2.5 +1.2
Independent Ian Northover 177 0.4
Majority 7,541 15.9
Turnout 47,436 73.4 +9.4
Conservative hold Swing +0.8

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Poole
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Syms 17,571 43.4 −1.7
Liberal Democrat Mike Plummer 11,583 28.6 +3.1
Labour Darren Brown 9,376 23.1 −3.8
UKIP John Barnes 1,436 3.5 +1.0
BNP Peter Pirnie 547 1.4 N/A
Majority 5,988 14.8
Turnout 40,513 63.1 +2.4
Conservative hold Swing −2.4
General Election 2001: Poole
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Robert Syms 17,710 45.1 +3.0
Labour David Watt 10,544 26.9 +5.3
Liberal Democrat Nick Westbrook 10,011 25.5 -5.3
UKIP John Bass 968 2.5 +1.4
Majority 7,166 18.2
Turnout 39,233 60.7 -10.3
Conservative hold Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Poole[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Ward 33,445 53.2 −4.3
Liberal Democrat BR Clements 20,614 32.8 +0.2
Labour HR White 6,912 11.0 +1.1
Independent Conservative M Steen 1,620 2.6 N/A
Natural Law AL Bailey 303 0.5 N/A
Majority 12,831 20.4 −4.5
Turnout 62,894 79.4 +1.9
Conservative hold Swing −2.3

[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 "History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/poole. Retrieved 2011-11-13. 
  3. ^ a b c d Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
  4. ^ Browne Willis and Cobbett both list Cooper as Poole's MP. Cooper was also elected for Wiltshire, and seems to have been regarded as its Member, but there appears no record of another Member having been elected for Poole in his place
  5. ^ Cobbett again lists Cooper (elected for Wiltshire) as Poole's MP together with Bond, but Browne Willis gives Fitzjames as the second member
  6. ^ Succeeded to baronetcy, February 1662
  7. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons, 15 February 1711, for "great Frauds and Abuses in his Contract for furnishing the Navy with Beer"
  8. ^ Expelled from the House of Commons, 30 March 1732, for his role in the fraudulent sale of the Earl of Derwentwater's estate
  9. ^ Major-General from 1758
  10. ^ On petition, Stuart was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Taylor, was declared elected in his place
  11. ^ "BBC NEWS – Election 2010 – Poole". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d55.stm. 
  12. ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/ge92index.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06. 

[edit] Sources

  • Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
  • Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
  • Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847, Volume 1 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1844) [3]
  • Browne Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria (London, 1750) [4]
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