Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)

Template:UK constituency infobox Tamworth is a parliamentary 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.

Boundaries

History

The present Tamworth Constituency replaced the old South East Staffordshire constituency for the 1997 general election.

A previous Tamworth constituency existed from 1563 until it was abolished for the 1945 general election. It elected two MPs until the 1885 general election, when its representation was reduced to one MP by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. The most prominent MP for this seat was the Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel.

Members of Parliament

MPs before 1660

1588-1589: Sir Edward Devereux, 1st Baronet
1640 (Short Parliament): Sir Simon Archer^[1]
1640 (Short Parliament): Ferdinando Stanhope^[2]
1640-1641: Henry Wilmot, then expelled.^[3]

MPs 1660-1885

Year			First member	First party	Second member
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1660	Richard Newdigate		Thomas Fox
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="4"\|	1661	Amos Walrond		John Swinfen
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1669	John Ferrers
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1670	John Boyle, Lord Clifford
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"\|	Feb 1679	Sir Thomas Thynne, Bt
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Aug 1679			Sir Andrew Hacket
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1681			John Swinfen
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="5" \|	1685	Richard Howe		Sir Henry Gough
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Jan 1689	Henry Sidney
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	May 1689	Henry Boyle
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1690	Michael Biddulph
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="5" \|	1695	Thomas Guy
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1698			John Chetwynd
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1699			Sir Henry Gough
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1701			Henry Thynne
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"\|	1702			Joseph Girdler
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1708	Richard Swinfen
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"\|	1710	Samuel Bracebridge
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1715			William Inge
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="3"\|	1722			Francis Willoughby
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1723	Richard Swinfen
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Jan 1727	Hon. George Compton
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Aug 1727	William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin		Hon. Thomas Willoughby
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="4"\|	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1734	Lord John Philip Sackville		Hon. George Compton
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1735	Charles Cotes
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1741	John Floyer
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1742	Charles Cotes
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="4"\|	style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1747	Hon. Thomas Villiers		Sir Henry Harpur
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1748	Sir Robert Burdett
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1756	Viscount Villiers
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="4"\|	1765	Edward Thurlow
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Mar 1768		William de Grey
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Nov 1768		Charles Vernon
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"\|	1774		Thomas de Grey
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"\|	1778	Anthony Chamier	Thomas de Grey
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="4"\|	Sep 1780	Anthony Chamier	John Courtenay
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Nov 1780	John Calvert
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1784	John Calvert II
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="5"\|	1790	Sir Robert Peel
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1796		Thomas Carter
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1802		William Loftus
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1812		Lord Charles Townshend
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"\|	1818		William Yates Peel
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"\|	1820	Lord Charles Townshend	William Yates Peel
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="5"\|	1830	Lord Charles Townshend	Sir Robert Peel
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1835	William Yates Peel
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1837	Edward Henry A'Court
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	Jul 1847	William Yates Peel
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"\|	Dec 1847	John Townshend
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="7"\|	1850	John Townshend	Sir Robert Peel
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1856	John Villiers Stuart Townshend
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1863	John Peel
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1868	Sir Henry Bulwer
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1871	John Peel
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1872	Robert William Hanbury
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" rowspan="2"\|	1878	Hamar Alfred Bass
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1880	Hamar Alfred Bass	Jabez Spencer Balfour

1885-1945

Tamworth was reduced to having one member in 1885.

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" \|	1885	Philip Albert Muntz
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1909	Sir Francis Newdegate	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Coalition Conservative/meta/color" \|	1917	Henry Wilson-Fox	Coalition Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1922	Sir Percy Wilson Newson, Bt	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1923	Edward Iliffe	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1929	Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Bt	Conservative
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1935	Sir John Mellor, Bt	Conservative

The seat was abolished in 1945.

MPs 1997-present

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	1997	Brian Jenkins	Labour
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" \|	2010	Christopher Pincher	Conservative

Election results

General Election 2010: Tamworth^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Pincher	21,238	45.8	+8.7
	Labour	Brian Jenkins	15,148	32.7	−10.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jenny Pinkett ^[5]	7,516	16.2	+2.1
	UKIP	Steven Fowler	2,253	4.9	+2.1
	Christian Party	Charlene Detheridge	235	0.5	N/A
Majority			6,090	13.1	+7.2
Turnout			46,390	63.8	+2.8
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+9.5

General Election 2005: Tamworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Jenkins	18,801	43.0	−6.0
	Conservative	Christopher Pincher	16,232	37.1	−0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Phillip Bennion	6,175	14.1	+2.4
	Veritas	Patrick Eston	1,320	3.0	N/A
	UKIP	Tom Simpson	1,212	2.8	+1.1
Majority			2,569	5.9	−6.5
Turnout			43,740	61.0	+3.2
	Labour hold		Swing	−2.8

General Election 2001: Tamworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Jenkins	19,722	49.0	−2.8
	Conservative	Luise Gunter	15,124	37.6	+0.8
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Pinkett	4,721	11.7	+3.7
	UKIP	Paul Sootheran	683	1.7	+1.0
Majority			4,598	11.4	−3.6
Turnout			40,250	57.8	−16.3
	Labour hold		Swing	−1.8

General Election 1997: Tamworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Jenkins	25,808	51.8	N/A
	Conservative	Lady Lightbown	18,312	36.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Jennifer Pinkett	4,025	8.1	N/A
	Referendum	D. Livesey	1,163	2.3	N/A
	UKIP	C. A. Lamb	369	0.7	N/A
	Liberal	C. Twelvetrees	177	0.4	N/A
Majority			7,496	15.0	N/A
Turnout			49,854	74.2	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

^ Richard Cust, ‘Archer, Sir Simon (1581–1662)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004) [1], accessed 8 Nov 2008
^ Collin's Peerage of England by Sir Egerton Brydges, K.J.: in nine volumes: VOL. III 1812: Earl of Chesterfield p. 423
^ Oswald Barron, 'The Wild Wilmots', The Ancestor XI (1904), 5.
^ BBC 2010 General Election Site
^ http://www.libdems.org.uk/people_detail.aspx?name=Jenny_Pinkett&pPK=554b7447-5145-4c3f-8b28-80dfd4272077

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