Stafford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Stafford
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Outline map
Boundary of Stafford in Staffordshire.
Outline map
Location of Staffordshire within England.
County Staffordshire
Electorate 69,832 (December 2010)[1]
Major settlements Stafford
Current constituency
Created 1983 (1983)
Member of Parliament Jeremy Lefroy (Conservative)
Number of members One
1918 (1918)–1950 (1950)
Number of members One
Type of constituency County constituency
1295 (1295)–1918 (1918)
Number of members 1290–1885: Two
1885–1918: One
Type of constituency Borough constituency
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency West Midlands

Stafford 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. The sitting MP is the Conservative Jeremy Lefroy.

The current constituency was created for the 1983 general election. Previous constituencies of the same name existed between 1295 and 1950.

Contents

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency includes the southerly part of the borough of Stafford, including the town of Stafford itself, plus the Penkridge area of South Staffordshire district.

[edit] Political complexion

Since 1900 the Conservative party has gained the seat on two occasions. There have also been two Labour gains:

  • In their landslide victory in 1945, but the Conservatives regained the seat at the next election, in 1950.
  • Boundary changes in 1997 resulting from the creation of the new Stone constituency made Stafford somewhat more marginal than previously. Sitting Stafford MP Bill Cash followed some of his electors into the Stone constituency, which he won, and Labour gained the constituency in their landslide victory in 1997. The defeated Conservative candidate in 1997 was David Cameron, who in the next election was elected as the MP for the safe seat of Witney, and became the Conservative Party leader in 2005, and Prime Minister in 2010.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Stafford parliamentary borough

[edit] MPs 1295–1640

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Parliament First member Second member
1295 William Reynor John Beyton
1386 Geoffrey Starling Robert Waleys[3]
1388 (Feb) Geoffrey Starling Robert Waleys [3]
1388 (Sep) John Arnold[disambiguation needed ] Robert Waleys [3]
1390 (Jan) Geoffrey Starling Robert Hethe [3]
1390 (Nov)
1391 Geoffrey Starling Robert Andrew[disambiguation needed ] [3]
1393  ?Geoffrey Starling  ?Robert Andrew[disambiguation needed ] [3]
1394 John Arnold[disambiguation needed ] Henry Wall [3]
1395 Geoffrey Starling William Master [3]
1397 (Jan) John Arnold John Bernard [3]
1397 (Sep) William Debenham John Bernard [3]
1399 John Arnold John Lewe [3]
1401
1402 Richard Church John Starling [3]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406 Robert Lucas John Starling [3]
1407 John Felbrigg John Bernard [3]
1410 John Rous James Andrew [3]
1411 John Bernard John Starling [3]
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May) James Andrew John Starling [3]
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov) William Debenham John Rous [3]
1415
1416 (Mar)
1416 (Oct)
1510-1523 No names known [4]
1529 Thomas Stanford, died
and replaced by 1553 by Sampson Erdeswick		 John Bickley [4]
1536  ?
1539  ?
1542 Walter Blount William Stamford [4]
1545 Sir Henry Stafford William Stamford [4]
1547 Sir Henry Stafford Richard Forsett [4]
1553 (Mar) Edward Colbarne Francis Smith [4]
1553 (Oct) Sir Henry Stafford  ?Sir Anthony Browne/Simon Lowe alias Fyfield [4]
1554 (Apr) John Giffard Humphrey Swynnerton [4]
1554 (Nov) James Fowler Matthew Cradock [4]
1555 Sir Henry Stafford Thomas Harcourt [4]
1558 Edward Stafford James Fowler [4]
1559 (Jan) Edward Stafford William Bowyer [5]
1562/3 William Twyneho Henry Goodere [5]
1571 Walter Stafford William Knollys [5]
1572 (Apr) Richard Broughton Thomas Purslow [5]
1584 (Nov) John Stafford Francis Cradock [5]
1586 John Stafford Francis Cradock [5]
1588 (Oct) Francis Cradock Henry Bourchier [5]
1593 Henry Bourchier Francis Cradock [5]
1597 (Oct) Sir Edward Stafford Henry Bourchier [5]
1601 (Oct) Sir Edward Stafford William Essex [5]
1603-1611 Hugh Beeston
replaced 1609 by Arthur Ingram[6]		 George Craddock [6]
1614 Sir Walter Devereux [7] Thomas Gibbs[7]
1621 Matthew Cradock [6] Richard Dyott [6]
1624 Matthew Cradock Richard Dyott
1625 Matthew Cradock Sir Robert Sutton (
replaced 1625 by Sir John Offley
1626 Sir John Offley Bulstrode Whitlock
1628 Matthew Cradock William Wingfield
1629–1640 No Parliaments convened

[edit] MPs 1640–1885

Election First member[8] First party Second member[8] Second party
April 1640 Ralph Sneyd Richard Weston
November 1640 Ralph Sneyd Royalist Richard Weston Royalist
October 1642 Weston disabled from sitting - seat vacant
May 1643 Sneyd disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 John Swinfen Edward Leigh
December 1648 Swinfen and Leigh excluded in Pride's Purge - both seats vacant
1653 Stafford was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 John Bradshaw Stafford had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Martin Noel
January 1659 William Jessop
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 John Swinfen Sir Charles Wolseley
1661 Robert Milward William Chetwynd
1674 Walter Chetwynd
February 1679 Sir Thomas Armstrong
August 1679 Sir Thomas Wilbraham
1681 Edwin Skrymsher
1685 Walter Chetwynd Rowland Okeover
1689 Philip Foley John Chetwynd
1690 Jonathan Cope
1694 Thomas Foley
1695 Philip Foley
January 1701 John Chetwynd
November 1701 John Pershall
July 1702 John Chetwynd
December 1702 Walter Chetwynd [9]
1711 Henry Vernon
1712 1st Viscount Chetwynd
1715 William Chetwynd
1722 Thomas Foley John Dolphin
1724 by-election Francis Elde [10]
1725 [10] 1st Viscount Chetwynd
1727 Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale
1734 Hon. William Chetwynd
3rd Viscount Chetwynd
from 1767		 Thomas Foley
1738 by-election 2nd Viscount Chetwynd
1747 John Robins
1754 William Richard Chetwynd
1765 by-election John Crewe Whig
1768 Richard Whitworth
1770 by-election William Neville Hart
1774 Hugo Meynell
1780 Hon. Edward Monckton Tory Richard Brinsley Sheridan Whig
1806 Richard Mansel-Philipps Tory
1812 Ralph Benson Thomas Wilson
1818 Benjamin Benyon Whig Samuel Homfray
1820 Sir George Chetwynd Whig
June 1826 Richard Ironmonger Ralph Benson
December 1826 by-election Thomas Beaumont Whig
1830 John Campbell Whig Thomas Gisborne Whig
1832 William Fawkener Chetwynd Whig Rees Howell Gronow Whig
January 1835 Sir Francis Goodricke Conservative
May 1835 Writ suspended - seat left vacant[11]
1837 by-election Robert Farrand Conservative
1841 Hon. Swynfen Carnegie Conservative Edward Manningham-Buller Whig
1847 David Urquhart Conservative Thomas Sidney Conservative
1852 John Ayshford Wise Whig Arthur Otway Whig
1857 Viscount Ingestre Conservative
1859 Liberal Thomas Salt Conservative
1860 by-election Thomas Sidney Liberal
1865 Michael Bass Liberal Walter Meller Conservative
1868 [12] Henry Davis Pochin Liberal
1869 by-election Thomas Salt Conservative Hon. Reginald Talbot Conservative
1874 Alexander Macdonald Liberal-Labour
1880 Charles McLaren Liberal
1881 by-election Thomas Salt Conservative
1885 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] MPs 1885–1918

Election Member[8] Party
1885 Charles McLaren Liberal
1886 Thomas Salt Conservative
1892 Charles Shaw Liberal
1910 Sir Walter Essex Liberal
1918 Parliamentary borough abolished. Name transferred to a county division

[edit] Stafford division of Staffordshire

[edit] MPs 1918–1950

Election Member[8] Party
1918 Hon. William Ormsby-Gore Coalition Conservative
1922 Conservative
1938 by-election Peter Thorneycroft Conservative
1945 Stephen Swingler Labour
1950 Constituency abolished: see Stafford & Stone

[edit] Stafford county constituency

[edit] MPs since 1983

Election Member[8] Party
1983 Sir Hugh Fraser Conservative
1984 by-election Bill Cash Conservative
1997 David Kidney Labour
2010 Jeremy Lefroy Conservative

[edit] Elections

[edit] Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Stafford[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jeremy Lefroy 22,047 43.9 +4.7
Labour David Kidney 16,587 33.0 −10.2
Liberal Democrat Barry Stamp 8,211 16.3 +2.0
UKIP Roy Goode 1,727 3.4 +0.1
BNP Roland Hynd 1,103 2.2 N/A
Green Mike Shone 564 1.1 N/A
Majority 5,460 10.9 +6.2
Turnout 50,239 71.2 +4.2
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +7.4

[edit] Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Stafford[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Kidney 19,889 43.7 -4.3
Conservative David Chambers 17,768 39.0 +2.4
Liberal Democrat Barry Stamp 6,390 14.0 +4.5
UKIP Frederick Goode 1,507 3.3 -1.9
Majority 2,121 4.7 -6.7
Turnout 45,554 64.7 -0.6
Labour hold Swing -3.3
General Election 2001: Stafford[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Kidney 21,285 48.0 +0.4
Conservative Philip Cochrane 16,253 36.6 -2.6
Liberal Democrat Jeanne Pinkerton 4,205 9.5 -1.1
UKIP Earl of Bradford 2,315 5.2 N/A
Rock 'n' Roll Loony Michael Hames 308 0.7 N/A
Majority 5,032 11.4
Turnout 44,366 65.3 -12.2
Labour hold Swing

[edit] Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Stafford[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Kidney 24,606 47.5 +12.6
Conservative David Cameron 20,292 39.2 −8.9
Liberal Democrat P.A. Hornby 5,480 10.6 −5.9
Referendum Party S.R. Culley 1,146 2.2 N/A
Monster Raving Loony Ashton May 248 0.5 N/A
Majority 4,314 8.3
Turnout 51,772 76.6
Labour gain from Conservative Swing +10.7
General Election 1992: Stafford[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Bill Cash 30,876 49.9 −1.5
Labour David Kidney 19,976 32.3 +11.1
Liberal Democrat JMG Calder 10,702 17.3 −10.2
Independent CA Peat 178 0.3 +0.3
Natural Law PDM Lines 176 0.3 +0.3
Majority 10,900 17.6 −6.2
Turnout 61,908 82.9 +3.5
Conservative hold Swing −6.3

[edit] Elections in the 1980s

Stafford by-election, 1984
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Bill Cash 18,713 40.4 -10.8
Social Democrat David Dunn 14,733 31.8 +7.1
Labour Michael Poulter 12,677 27.4 +3.7
Independent Christopher Teasdale 210 0.4 N/A
Majority 3,980 8.6 -17.9
Turnout 46,333 65.6 -10.9
Conservative hold Swing
Registered electors 70,635
  • Death of Sir Hugh Fraser 6 March 1984

[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. ^ "Tamworth Parliamentary Borough 1275-1832". The Staffordshire Encyclopaedia. http://www.the-staffordshire-encyclopaedia.co.uk/view.php?id=207. Retrieved 25 october 2010. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/constituencies/ipswich. Retrieved 2011-10-03. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/stafford. Retrieved 2011-10-03. 
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "History of Parliament". http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/stafford. Retrieved 2011-10-03. 
  6. ^ a b c d Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London|| Thomas Hansard, 1808) [1]
  7. ^ a b Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia|| American Philosophical Society, 1988)
  8. ^ a b c d e Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 4)
  9. ^ Chetwynd was initially declared re-elected in 1710, but on petition (in a dispute over the franchise), he was adjudged not have been duly elected and his opponent, Vernon, was seated in his place. (Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (1807), Volume 1, p 177)
  10. ^ a b Elde's opponent, Chetwynd, petitioned against the 1724 result. Elde was "unanimously expelled the House for having offered to compromise the petition against his return", and Chetwynd was seated in his place. (Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847, Volume 2 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1845), p 45)
  11. ^ After Goodricke resigned to contest another constituency in May 1835, the House of Commons refused to issue a writ for a new election until February 1837, when the motion to issue a writ was passed by a single vote. (F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, 2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989, p 283)
  12. ^ The 1868 election was declared void on petition and a new election was held - F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885. (F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, 2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989, p 283)
  13. ^ BBC 2010 General Election Site
  14. ^ BBC 2005 General Election Site
  15. ^ BBC 2001 General Election Site
  16. ^ BBC 1997 General Election Site
  17. ^ "UK General Election results April 1992". Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge92/i18.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-06. 

[edit] Sources

  • Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
  • Britain Votes/Europe Votes By-Election Supplement 1983-, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1985)
  • Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [2]
  • D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
  • Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [3]
  • Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847, Volume 2 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1845) [4]
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