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Template:UK constituency infobox Stafford is a 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 Jeremy Lefroy.

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.

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.

Members of Parliament

1295-1640

  • Constituency created (1295)

1640-1885

Year First member First party Second member Second party
April 1640 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | ? style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | ?
November 1640 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color" | Ralph Sneyd Royalist style="background-color: Template:Cavalier/meta/color" | Richard Weston Royalist
October 1642 Weston disabled from sitting - seat vacant
May 1643 Sneyd disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1645 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Swinfen style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Leigh
December 1648 Swinfen and Leigh excluded in Pride's Purge - both seats vacant
1653 Stafford was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Bradshaw Stafford had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Martin Noel
January 1659 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Jessop
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Swinfen style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Charles Wolseley
1661 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert Milward rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Chetwynd
1674 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Walter Chetwynd
February 1679 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Armstrong
August 1679 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Thomas Wilbraham
1681 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edwin Skrymsher
1685 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Walter Chetwynd style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Rowland Okeover
1689 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Philip Foley rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Chetwynd
1690 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Jonathan Cope
1694 rowspan="7" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Foley
1695 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Philip Foley
January 1701 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Chetwynd
November 1701 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Pershall
July 1702 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Chetwynd
December 1702 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Walter Chetwynd [8]
1711 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Vernon
1712 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1st Viscount Chetwynd
1715 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Chetwynd
1722 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Foley style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Dolphin
1724 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Elde [9]
1725 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 1st Viscount Chetwynd
1727 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Joseph Gascoigne Nightingale
1734 rowspan="6" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hon. William Chetwynd
3rd Viscount Chetwynd
from 1767 		style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Foley
1738 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | 2nd Viscount Chetwynd
1747 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Robins
1754 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Richard Chetwynd
1765 style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | John Crewe Whig
1768 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Whitworth
1770 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | William Neville Hart
1774 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Hugo Meynell
1780 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | Hon. Edward Monckton Tory style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | Richard Brinsley Sheridan Whig
1806 style="background-color: Template:Tory/meta/color" | Richard Mansel-Philipps Tory
1812 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Ralph Benson style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Wilson
1818 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | Benjamin Benyon Whig style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Samuel Homfray
1820 style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | Sir George Chetwynd Whig
June 1826 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard Ironmonger rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Ralph Benson
December 1826 style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | Thomas Beaumont Whig
1830 style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | John Campbell Whig style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | Thomas Gisborne Whig
1832 rowspan="4" style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | William Fawkener Chetwynd Whig style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | Rees Howell Gronow Whig
January 1835 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Sir Francis Goodricke Conservative
May 1835 Writ suspended - seat left vacant[10]
1837 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Robert Farrand Conservative
1841 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hon. Swynfen Carnegie Conservative style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | Edward Manningham-Buller Whig
1847 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | David Urquhart Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Sidney Conservative
1852 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | John Ayshford Wise Whig style="background-color: Template:British Whig Party/meta/color" | Arthur Otway Whig
1857 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Viscount Ingestre Conservative
1859 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Salt Conservative
1860 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Sidney Liberal
1865 style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Michael Bass Liberal rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Walter Meller Conservative
1868 [11] style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Henry Davis Pochin Liberal
1869 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Salt Conservative style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Hon. Reginald Talbot Conservative
1874 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Lib-Lab/meta/color" | Alexander Macdonald Liberal-Labour
1880 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Charles McLaren Liberal
1881 style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Thomas Salt Conservative
1885 Representation reduced to one member

1885-1950

Election Member Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1885 Charles McLaren Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1886 Thomas Salt Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1892 Sir Theodore Shaw Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1910 Sir Richard Essex Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" | 1918 Hon. William Ormsby-Gore Coalition Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1922 Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1938 Peter Thorneycroft Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1945 Stephen Swingler Labour
1950 Constituency abolished: see Stafford & Stone

1983-present

Election Member Party
1983 Constituency re-established
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1983 Sir Hugh Fraser Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1984 by-election Bill Cash Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | 1997 David Kidney Labour

Election results

Elections of the 2010s

General Election 2010: Stafford[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jeremy Lefroy 22,047 43.9 +4.7
Labour David Kidney 16,587 33.0 −10.2
Liberal Democrats Barry Stamp 8,211 16.3 +2.0
UKIP Roy Goode 1,727 3.4 +0.1
BNP Roland Hynd[13] 1,103 2.2 +2.2
Green Mike Shone 564 1.1 +1.1
Majority 5,460 10.9
Turnout 50,239 71.2 +4.2
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +7.4

Elections of 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 Democrats 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 Democrats 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

Elections of 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 Democrats P.A. Hornby 5,480 10.6 −5.9
Referendum 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

Elections of the 1980s

3 May 1984 by-election: Stafford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Bill Cash 18,713 40.4 −10.8
SDP 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

Notes and references

  1. ^ Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ^ a b c Leigh Rayment's historical list of MPs: Constituencies beginning with "S", part 4
  3. ^ J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
  4. ^ , Heywood Townshend, Historical Collections:: or, An exact Account of the Proceedings of the Four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth (1680) [1]
  5. ^ Heywood Townshend, Historical Collections:: or, An exact Account of the Proceedings of the Four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth (1680) [2]
  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) [3]
  7. ^ a b Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
  8. ^ 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)
  9. ^ Elde's opponent, Chetwynd, petitioned against the 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)
  10. ^ 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)
  11. ^ 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)
  12. ^ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/guide/seat-profiles/stafford
  13. ^ http://bnpelectionresults.blogspot.com/2010/03/2nd-time-today-that-news-media-report.html
  14. ^ BBC 2005 General Election Site
  15. ^ BBC 2001 General Election Site
  16. ^ BBC 1997 General Election Site

Bibliography

  • Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |origdate= (help)
  • Britain Votes/Europe Votes By-Election Supplement 1983-, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1985)
  • Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
  • Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [4]
  • 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) [5]
  • Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847, Volume 2 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1845) [6]

See also

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