Hereford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hereford
County constituency

Hereford shown within Herefordshire, and Herefordshire shown within England
Created: 1295
MP: Paul Keetch
Party: Liberal Democrat
Type: House of Commons
County: Herefordshire
EP constituency: West Midlands

Hereford is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom comprising the City of Hereford and most of South Herefordshire, including Ross-on-Wye but excluding Ledbury and Much Marcle both of which are in the Leominster constituency.

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[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Hereford and Worcester, the Boundary Commission for England has created two seats within the boundaries of Herefordshire. The successor seat to the existing Hereford constituency will be Hereford and South Herefordshire

[edit] History

The current Member of Parliament (MP) is Paul Keetch, Liberal Democrat. He was the Liberal Democrats' spokesman for defence from October 1999 until the May 2005 General Election. He announced on November 17th, 2006, that he will not be standing at the next election. Before Keetch's election in 1997, the constituency had been held by the Conservatives since 1931.

Robin Day stood as the Liberal candidate in the 1959 General Election.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] 1295-1640

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[edit] 1640-1885

Year First member First party Second member Second party
November 1640 Richard Weaver Parliamentarian Richard Seaborne Royalist
1642 James Scudamore Royalist
May 1643 Scudamore disabled from sitting - seat vacant
January 1644 Seaborne disabled from sitting - seat vacant
1646 Bennet Hoskyns Edmund Weaver [1]
December 1648 Hoskyns excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant
1653 Hereford was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654 Bennet Hoskyns Hereford had only one seat in the First and
Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656 Colonel Wroth Rogers
January 1659 Nathan Rogers Roger Bosworth
May 1659 Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660 Herbert Westfaling Roger Bosworth
November 1660 Sir Henry Lingen
April 1661 Sir Edward Hopton
September 1661 Herbert Westfaling
1662 Roger Vaughan
1673 The Viscount Scudamore
1679 Bridstock Harford Paul Foley Country Whig
1681 Herbert Aubrey
1685 Thomas Geers
January 1689 Sir William Gregory Paul Foley Country Whig
June 1689 Henry Cornewall
1695 James Morgan
1698 Hon. James Brydges
1699 Samuel Pytts
1701 Thomas Foley
1715 The Viscount Scudamore
1717 Herbert Rudhale Westfaling
1722 William Mayo
1723 James Wallwyn
1727 Marquess of Carnarvon Thomas Geers [2]
1734 Thomas Foley Sir John Morgan
1741 Edward Cope Hopton Thomas Geers Winford
1747 Lieutenant General Henry Cornewall Daniel Leighton
1754 Charles Fitzroy Scudamore John Symons Tory
1764 John Scudamore
1768 (Sir) Richard Symons [3]
April 1784 Earl of Surrey [4] Whig
July 1784 Robert Philipps
1785 James Walwyn
1796 John Scudamore, junior
1800 Thomas Powell Symonds
1805 Richard Philip Scudamore
1818 Viscount Eastnor
1819 Richard Philip Scudamore
1826 Edward Bolton Clive Whig
1832 Robert Biddulph Whig
1837 Daniel Higford Davall Burr Conservative
July 1841 Henry William Hobhouse Whig
October 1841 Robert Pulsford Whig
1845 Sir Robert Price Whig
1847 Henry Morgan-Clifford Whig
1857 George Clive Whig
1859 Liberal Liberal
1865 Richard Baggallay Conservative
1868 [5] John William Shaw Wylie Liberal
1869 Edward Henry Clive Liberal Chandos Wren-Hoskyns Liberal
1871 George Arbuthnot Conservative
1874 Evan Pateshall Conservative George Clive Liberal
1878 George Arbuthnot Conservative
1880 Joseph Pulley Liberal Robert Threshie Reid Liberal
1885 Representation reduced to one member

[edit] 1885-present

Year Member Party
1885 Joseph Pulley Liberal
1886 Sir Joseph Russell Bailey Conservative
1892 William Grenfell Liberal
1893 Charles Wallwyn Radcliffe Cooke Conservative
1900 John Stanhope Arkwright Conservative
1912 Professor William Hewins Liberal Unionist
1918 Charles Thornton Pulley Coalition Conservative
1921 Samuel Roberts Coalition Conservative
1922 Conservative
1929 Frank Owen Liberal
1931 James Thomas Conservative
1956 David Gibson-Watt Conservative
1974 Colin Shepherd Conservative
1997 Paul Keetch Liberal Democrat

Notes

  1. ^ It is not known for certain whether Weaver sat after Pride's Purge: a "Mr Weaver" was re-admitted and Edmund Weaver appears in one list of members of the Rump, but he is not listed in the House of Commons Journals, and Brunton & Pennington suggest he has probably been confused with John Weaver, MP for Stamford (who was certainly a member)
  2. ^ Later adopted the surname Winford
  3. ^ Created a baronet, May 1774
  4. ^ Surrey was also elected for Carlisle, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Hereford
  5. ^ On petition, the election of 1868 was declared void and a by-election was held

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: Hereford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrat Paul Keetch 20285 43.3 +2.4
Conservative Virginia Taylor 19323 41.2 +2.5
Labour Tom Calver 4800 10.2 -4.9
Green Brian Lunt 1052 2.2 -0.5
UK Independence Christpher Kingsley 1030 2.2 -0.5
Independent Peter Morton 404 0.9 N/A
Majority 962 2.1 -0.1
Turnout 46894 65.3 +0.1
Liberal Democrat hold Swing −0.1
General Election 2001: Hereford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrat Paul Keetch 18,244 40.9 -7.1
Conservative Virginia Taylor 17,276 38.7 +3.4
Labour David Hallam 6,739 15.1 +2.6
UK Independence Clive Easton 1,184 2.7 N/A
Green David Gillett 1,181 2.6 N/A
Majority 968 2.2 -10.4
Turnout 44,624 65.2 -10.0
Liberal Democrat hold Swing
General Election 1997: Hereford
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrat Paul Keetch 25198 47.9
Conservative Colin Shepherd 18550 35.3
Labour Chris Chappell 6596 12.6
Referendum Party Clive Easton 2209 4.2
Majority 6648 12.6
Turnout 52553 75.2
Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative Swing

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  • Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
  • 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) [2]
  • The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
  • F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
  • Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988) [3]
  • J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
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