Newcastle-under-Lyme is a constituency[n 1] in northern Staffordshire created in 1354 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Adam Jogee of the Labour Party.[n 2]
Boundaries
Historic
1885–1918: The existing parliamentary borough, so much of the municipal borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme as was not already included in the parliamentary borough, the local government district of Tunstall, and so much of the parish of Wolstanton as lay south of a line drawn along the centre of the road leading west from Chatterley railway station to the boundary of Audley parish.[2]
1918–1950: The Municipal Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Urban Districts of Audley and Wolstanton United.
1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Rural District of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
1983–2010: The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme wards of Audley and Bignall End, Bradwell, Chesterton, Clayton, Cross Heath, Halmerend, Holditch, Keele, May Bank, Porthill, Seabridge, Silverdale, Thistleberry, Town, Westlands and Wolstanton.
2010–2024: The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme wards of Audley and Bignall End; Bradwell; Chesterton; Clayton; Cross Heath; Halmerend; Holditch; Keele; Knutton and Silverdale; May Bank; Porthill; Seabridge; Silverdale and Parksite; Thistleberry; Town; Westlands; and Wolstanton.[3]
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for the 2010 general election. The contents were changed to reflect the revised ward structure in the Borough, but the parliamentary boundaries were unchanged.
Current
Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies (in effect since 2024 general election), the constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
- The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme wards of: Audley; Bradwell; Clayton; Crackley & Red Street; Cross Heath; Holditch & Chesterton; Keele; Knutton; Madeley & Betley; May Bank; Silverdale; Thistleberry; Town; Westbury Park & Northwood; Westlands; Wolstanton.[4]
Minor boundary change including the addition of the village of Madeley from the (abolished constituency of Stone, in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range.
The constituency includes most of the Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, primarily comprising Newcastle-under-Lyme town and including the villages of Audley, Keele and Madeley.
History
From its creation in 1354, Newcastle-under-Lyme returned two MPs to the House of Commons. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the constituency's representation was cut to one member.
Prominent frontbenchers or members
Before the 20th century the constituency was often influenced and represented by members of the Leveson, Leveson-Gower[n 3] and related Egerton family who owned in this constituency the Trentham estate[n 4] - their most important MP was the Viscount Trentham who obtained a Dukedom (1st Duke of Sutherland).
Josiah Wedgwood of the pottery family was repeatedly elected to the seat from 1906. In 1919, he shifted his allegiance from the Liberal Party (the Lloyd George Coalition Liberals allying with the Conservatives) to the Labour Party; he was among many Liberals and their supporters deserting the party in or around 1918 due to the steering of David Lloyd George to the right and inviting Conservatives into government with him. He was ennobled to join the Lords in 1942, as 1st Baron Wedgwood, and campaigned in the United States for that country to join World War II and for Indian Independence.
Summary of results
Since Wedgwood joined the Independent Labour Party in 1919, the seat elected the Labour candidate at each election for the next hundred years, a total of 29 elections in succession. Labour came close to losing the seat in 1969, 1986, 2015 and 2017, and eventually lost the seat in 2019; the first time a member of the Conservative Party had represented the seat since it had been a dual-member borough before the 1885 general election which followed the Reform Act 1884 and the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.
The 2015 result was the 9th-smallest majority of Labour's 232 seats by percentage of majority.[5] Its 2017 general election result was the fifth-closest result overall and the second closest to being taken by the Conservatives, a winning margin of 30 votes (behind Dudley North, where the result was a Labour majority of 22 votes).[6]
In 2019, it was finally won by the Conservatives for the first time since it became a single-member seat, by over 7,000 votes. It was one of the twelve Staffordshire seats (100%) won (held or gained) by Conservative candidates. However, Labour regained the seat at the 2024 election with a majority of just over 5,000.
Results of candidates of other parties
In 2015 one of four other parties' candidates standing, UKIP's Wood, won more than 5% of the vote in 2015 therefore keeping his deposit, the party which campaigned consistently for the public vote for leaving the European Union in 2016. In 2017 the three largest British parties fielded candidates only — Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates in order of votes won.
Turnout since 1945
Turnout has ranged from 87.6% in 1950 to 58.4% in 2024.
2017 election issues
In the 2017 election, 1,500 eligible voters were turned away while 2 ineligible voters were able to vote.[7] An independent report by Andrew Scallan found a "complex picture of administrative mistakes around registration and postal voting processes", and because of the small margin of victory (30 votes) concluded that "it is impossible to have absolute confidence that the result... reflects the will of the electorate."[8]
2024 election
On 31 May Aaron Bell announced that he would not be standing again for Newcastle-under-Lyme at the 2024 General Election. He announced the news on Facebook with an open letter in which he said 'It is with a heavy heart that I have decided not to contest the forthcoming general election for personal and family reasons'.[9]
Members of Parliament
MPs 1353–1509
Where the name of the member has not yet been ascertained or is not recorded in a surviving document, the entry unknown is entered in the table.
- Before 1354 No records[10]
- 1354 John Lagowe and Richard de Lavendene
- 1355 John de Blorton and Richard de Podmore
- 1358 Richard de Podmore and William de Homersley
- 1360 William Gent and Richard de Colclough
- 1361 William Gent and Richard de Podmore
- 1362 Richard de Podmore and Thomas de Wodhull
- 1363 Richard de Lavendene and John de Lylsull
- 1365 Thomas de Wodhull and Richard de Podmore
- 1366 Richard de Podmore and Thomas de Wodhull
- 1369 Richard de Lavendene, Roger Letys
- 1371 Roger Letys and Richard Lavendene
- 1372 Edmund Toly and Thomas Colclough
- 1373 Thomas de Wodhull and Roger del Castell
- 1377 Richard Buntable and Thomas Thicknesse
- 1377 Thomas de Podmore and Henry de Erdeleye
- 1378 Thomas de Podmore and William Thickness
- 1379 No records
- 1380 John Kene and William Thickness
- 1381-1382 Thomas Podmore and Thomas Hap
- 1382 Thomas Thicknesse and John Thykenesse
- 1382 William Thickness and Henry de Kele
- 1383 Thomas Thicknesse and William de Brompton
- 1383 Thomas Thicknesse and Thomas de Podmore
- 1384 William Thickness and Ralf de la Hogh
- 1384 John Colclough and William Colclough
- 1385 William Colclough and Ralf de la Hogh
- 1386 William Colclough and Ralf Hogh
- 1388 William Thickness and John Kene
- 1388 William Thickness and Thomas de Thikenes
- 1390 John Colclough and William Colclough
- 1391 Thomas Thicknesse and Ralf de la Hogh
- 1393 Ralf Hogh, John Cook
- 1394 No records
- 1395 William Colclough and Ralf Hogh
- 1397 William Colclough and Thomas Thicknesse
- 1397-1398 No records
- 1399 Thomas Podmore and Thomas Thicknesse
- 1402 John Joce and Thomas Joce
- 1406 Richard Fyton and William Lee II
- 1407 Hugh Colclough and John Tatenhale
- 1410 ? possibly John Delves was an MP representing the county or a borough
- 1411 Thomas Thicknesse and William Bowyer
- 1413 (1) ? possibly Newport, or Robert Bapthorpe was an MP representing the county or a borough
- 1413 (2) William de Lee and Hugh Wyldeblood
- 1416 William Skytteby, Thomas Chamberleyn
- 1419 John Biddulph (Bedulf), John Miners
- 1420 Hugo de Stanford and John Hardhed
- 1421 John Biddulph (Bydulf) and Thomas Baron
- 1421 Hugh Stanford and Thomas Lee
- 1422 John Myners and Hugh Stanford
- 1423-1424 Hugh Stanford and William Sandbache
- 1425 John Wood and William Hextall
- 1426 Robert Wodehous and Henry Lilie
- 1427-1428 John Wood and Thomas Lee
- 1429-1430 William Egerton and William Hextall
- 1431 John Wood and Roger Legh
- 1432 James Leveson and John Wood
- 1433 John Wood and Thomas Podmore
- 1435 Richard Bruyn and William Hextall
- 1437 Thomas Preston and Nicholas Repynghale
- 1442 John Nedham and William Cumberford of Cumberford
- 1447 John Nedham and John Cudworth
- 1449 John Nedham and Thomas Everdon
- 1449-1450 Ralf Wolseley and Thomas Mayne
- 1450-1451 Thomas Colclogh and Richard Mosley
- 1453-1434 Thomas Colcloghe and John Spenser
- 1455-1456 John Spenser and Richard Mosley
- 1467-1468 James Norys and Robert Hille
- 1472-1475 William Paston and John Wood
- 1477-1478 William Yonge and Reynold Bray
- 1491-1492 Richard Harpur and Richard Blunt
- 1495-1496 ? Sir Reynold Bray
- 1497 County or a borough - ?Richard Wrottesley, ?Humphrey Peshale,?Thomas Welles
- 1504 unknown
Burgesses in the English Parliament 1510-1707
As there were sometimes significant gaps between Parliaments held in this period, the dates of first assembly and dissolution are given.
The Roman numerals after some names are those used in The House of Commons 1509-1558 and The House of Commons 1558-1603 to distinguish a member from another politician of the same name.
MPs 1660–1885
Election |
First member[11] |
First party |
Second member[11] |
Second party
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1660
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John Bowyer
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Samuel Terrick
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1661
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Sir Caesar Colclough
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Edward Mainwaring
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1675
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William Leveson-Gower
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1679
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Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
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1685
|
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Edward Mainwaring
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William Sneyd
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1689
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Sir William Leveson-Gower
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John Lawton
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1690
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Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
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1692
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Sir John Leveson-Gower, later 1st Lord Gower
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1695
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John Lawton
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1698
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Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
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1699
|
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Rowland Cotton
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Tory
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1702
|
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John Crewe Offley
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1705[n 11]
|
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Sir Thomas Bellot, Bt
|
Tory
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1706
|
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Crewe Offley
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|
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John Lawton
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1708
|
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Sir Thomas Bellot, 3rd Baronet
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Tory
|
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Rowland Cotton
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Tory
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1709
|
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Crewe Offley
|
Whig
|
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John Lawton
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1710
|
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William Burslem
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|
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Rowland Cotton
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Tory
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Jan 1715
|
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Henry Vernon
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1715
|
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Sir Brian Broughton
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Crewe Offley
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Whig
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1722
|
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Thomas Leveson-Gower
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1724 by-election
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Sir Walter Bagot
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1727
|
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Baptist Leveson-Gower
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John Ward
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1734
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John Lawton II
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1740 by-election
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Randle Wilbraham
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1747
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Viscount Parker
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1754
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John Waldegrave
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1761
|
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Henry Vernon II
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1762 by-election
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Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt
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1763 by-election
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Thomas Gilbert
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Mar 1768
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John Wrottesley, later 8th Bt
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Alexander Forrester
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May 1768 by-election
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Sir George Hay
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1774
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George Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton
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1779 by-election
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George Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham
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1780
|
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Sir Archibald Macdonald
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1784
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Richard Vernon
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1790
|
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John Leveson-Gower
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1792 by-election
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William Egerton
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1793 by-election
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Sir Francis Ford
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1796
|
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Edward Bootle-Wilbraham
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1802
|
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Sir Robert Lawley
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1806
|
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James Macdonald
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1812
|
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Earl Gower
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Whig[12]
|
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Sir John Boughey, Bt |
Whig[12]
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1815 by-election
|
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Sir John Chetwode
|
Tory[12]
|
1818
|
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William Shepherd Kinnersley |
Tory[12]
|
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Robert Wilmot-Horton
|
Whig[12]
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1823 by-election
|
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Evelyn Denison
|
Whig
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1826
|
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Richardson Borradaile
|
Tory[12]
|
1830
|
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William Henry Miller
|
Whig[12]
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1831
|
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Edmund Peel
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Tory[12]
|
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Tory[12]
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1832
|
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Sir Henry Willoughby
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Tory[12]
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1834
|
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Conservative[12]
|
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Conservative[12]
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1835
|
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Edmund Peel
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Conservative[12]
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1837
|
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Spencer Horsey de Horsey
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Conservative[12]
|
1841
|
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Edmund Buckley
|
Conservative[12]
|
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John Quincey Harris
|
Whig[12][13][14]
|
1842 by-election
|
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John Campbell Colquhoun
|
Conservative[12]
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1847
|
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Samuel Christy
|
Peelite[15][16]
|
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William Jackson
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Whig
|
1859
|
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William Murray
|
Conservative
|
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Liberal
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1865
|
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William Shepherd Allen
|
Liberal
|
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Sir Edmund Buckley, Bt
|
Conservative
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1878 by-election
|
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Samuel Rathbone Edge
|
Liberal
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1880
|
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Charles Donaldson-Hudson
|
Conservative
|
1885
|
representation reduced to one member by the Redistribution of Seats Act
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MPs since 1885
Elections
Elections in the 2020s
Elections in the 2010s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1930s
Elections in the 1920s
Election results 1868-1918
Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
Buckley resigned, causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
* Wedgwood was issued with a Coalition Coupon but did not accept it. He was also adopted by the local Liberal association, but considered himself an independent candidate.
Election results 1832-1868
Elections in the 1830s
Elections in the 1840s
Harris' election was declared void on petition on 11 May 1842, due to bribery by his agent, causing a by-election.[40]
Harris' election was again declared void on 23 July 1842, due to bribery by his agents, and Colquhoun was declared elected in his place.[41]
Christy resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds due to holding a government contract,[43] causing a by-election in which he stood.
Elections in the 1850s
Elections in the 1860s
Pre-1832 election results
Elections in the 1830s
See also
Notes
References
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