Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

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Huntingdon County constituency
Huntingdon shown within Cambridgeshire, and Cambridgeshire shown within England
Created:	1885, 1983
MP:	Jonathan Djanogly
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Cambridgeshire
EP constituency:	East of England

Huntingdon 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. In the 17th century, this was Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary area. It was abolished in 1918 to re-create Huntingdonshire; that constituency was renamed, after slight boundary changes, to form the current constituency of Huntingdon. The seat was formerly held by ex-Prime Minister John Major.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency consists of the towns of St Neots, Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester and a number of smaller settlements in the south-west part of Cambridgeshire (East Anglia), neighbouring Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire. There were minor boundary changes at the 1983 General Election.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cambridgeshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor alterations to the existing constituencies to deal with population changes. The electoral wards used to create the modified Huntingdon constituency to be fought at the Next United Kingdom general election are:

• Alconbury and The Stukeleys, Brampton, Buckden, Fenstanton, Godmanchester, Gransden and The Offords, Huntingdon East, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, Kimbolton and Staughton, Little Paxton, St Ives East, St Ives South, St Ives West, St Neots Eaton Ford, St Neots Eaton Socon, St Neots Eynesbury, St Neots Priory Park, and The Hemingfords all from the Huntingdonshire district.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Year		Member	Party
	1628	Oliver Cromwell
	1701	The Earl of Orrery
	1885	Thomas Coote
	1886	Arthur Smith-Barry	Conservative
	1900	George Montagu	Conservative
	1906	Samuel Howard Whitbread
	1910	John Cator

• Constituency abolished (1918)
• Constituency reconstituted (1983)

Year		Member	Party
	1983	John Major	Conservative
	2001	Jonathan Djanogly	Conservative

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: Huntingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Djanogly	26,646	50.8	+0.9
	Liberal Democrat	Julian Huppert	13,799	26.3	+2.4
	Labour	Stephen Sartain	9,821	18.7	-4.1
	UK Independence	Derek Norman	2,152	4.1	+0.7
Majority			12,847	24.5	-1.5
Turnout			52,418	62.5	+1.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.8

General Election 2001: Huntingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Djanogly	24,507	49.9	-5.4
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Pope	11,715	23.9	+9.1
	Labour	Takki Sulaiman	11,211	22.8	-0.6
	UK Independence	Derek Norman	1,656	3.4	+2.8
Majority			12,792	26.0	-5.8
Turnout			49,089	61.1	-13.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	-7.3

General Election 1997: Huntingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Major	31,501	55.3	-9.9
	Labour	Jason Reece	13,361	23.5	+6.6
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Owen	8,390	14.7	-6.4
	Referendum Party	David Bellamy	3,114	5.5	N/A
	UK Independence	C. Coyne	331	0.6	N/A
	Christian Democrat	V. Hufford	177	0.3	N/A
	Independent (politician)	D. Robertson	89	0.2	N/A
Majority			18,140	31.80	-6.8
Turnout			56,963	74.9	-4.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	-6.8

General Election 1992: Huntingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Major	48,662	66.2	+
	Labour	Hugh Seckleman	12,432	16.9
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Owen	9,386	12.8
	Liberal	Paul Wiggin	1,045	1.4
	Green	Deborah Birkhead	846	1.2
	Monster Raving Loony	Screaming Lord Sutch	728	1.0
	Conservative Thatcheroid	M. Flanagan	231	0.3
	Gremloids	Lord Buckethead	107	0.1
	Forward to Mars Party	Charles S. Cockell	91	0.1
	Natural Law	D. Shepherd	26	0.0
Majority			36,230	49.30	+
Turnout				79.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire
• North West Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Finchley	Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1990 – 1997	Succeeded by Sedgefield

Constituencies in the East of England
Conservative	Billericay | Braintree | Brentwood and Ongar | Broxbourne | Bury St Edmunds | Castle Point | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Epping Forest | Harwich | Hemel Hempstead | Hertford and Stortford | Hertsmere | Hitchin and Harpenden | Huntingdon | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Norfolk | North Essex | North East Bedfordshire | North East Cambridgeshire | North East Hertfordshire | North West Cambridgeshire | North West Norfolk | Peterborough | Rayleigh | Rochford and Southend East | Saffron Walden | Southend West | South Cambridgeshire | South East Cambridgeshire | South Norfolk | South Suffolk | South West Bedfordshire | South West Hertfordshire | South West Norfolk | St Albans | Suffolk Coastal | Welwyn Hatfield | West Chelmsford | West Suffolk
Labour	Basildon | Bedford | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Ipswich | Luton North | Luton South | Norwich North | Norwich South | Stevenage | Thurrock | Watford | Waveney
Liberal Democrat	Cambridge | Colchester | North Norfolk
East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)