North Bedfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)
North Bedfordshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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County | Bedfordshire |
Major settlements | Bedford |
1983–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Bedford, Bedfordshire North East |
Created from | Bedford |
North Bedfordshire was a county constituency in Bedfordshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.
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History
This safe Conservative seat was held for its entire existence by Trevor Skeet who had been the MP for Bedford since 1970.
Boundaries
The Borough of North Bedfordshire wards of Brickhill, Bromham, Carlton, Castle, Cauldwell, Clapham, De Parys, Felmersham, Goldington, Harpur, Harrold, Kingsbrook, Newnham, Oakley, Putnoe, Queens Park, Renhold, Riseley, Roxton, and Sharnbrook.
The territory the seat covered was virtually the same as the county constituency of Bedford which it replaced. This included the town of Bedford itself. In 1997, the constituency was abolished, being dispersed on a roughly seven to three ratio between the new constituencies of Bedford and Bedfordshire North East, with 17 electors being transferred to Huntingdon.[1]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[2] | Party | |
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1983 | Trevor Skeet | Conservative | |
1997 | constituency abolished |
Elections
Election in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Trevor Skeet | 29,970 | 50.7 | -1.9 | |
Labour | Patrick Hall | 18,302 | 31.0 | +7.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Michael Smithson | 10,014 | 16.9 | -6.6 | |
Green | Ms. Louise Smith | 643 | 1.1 | +1.1 | |
Natural Law | Bernard H. Bence | 178 | 0.3 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 11,668 | 19.7 | -9.3 | ||
Turnout | 59,107 | 80.1 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -4.8 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Trevor Skeet | 29,845 | 52.58 | ||
Liberal | JV Lennon | 13,340 | 23.50 | ||
Labour | CB Henderson | 13,140 | 23.15 | ||
OOBPC | CD Slee | 435 | 0.77 | ||
Majority | 16,505 | 29.08 | |||
Turnout | 77.19 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sir Trevor Skeet | 27,969 | 52.03 | ||
Liberal | BK Gibbons | 14,120 | 26.27 | ||
Labour | P Healy | 11,323 | 21.06 | ||
Independent | NJ Hughes | 344 | 0.64 | ||
Majority | 13,849 | 25.76 | |||
Turnout | 75.19 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ "Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies", BBC/ITN/PA News/Sky, 1995, p. 191.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
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- EngvarB from October 2013
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- Parliamentary constituencies in Bedfordshire (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1997
- Politics of Bedford (borough)