Rugby (UK Parliament constituency)

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Rugby
County constituency
Image:Constituency.svg
Rugby shown within Warwickshire, and Warwickshire shown within England
Created: for 2009 or 2010 election
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Type: House of Commons
County: Warwickshire
EP constituency: West Midlands

Rugby is a former parliamentary constituency in Warwickshire, England, which will be recreated for the next general election (due no later than 2010).

Like the old constituency, the reconstituted Rugby will elect one Member of Parliament to the UK House of Commons using the first past the post system.

Rugby was represented in the UK House of Commons as a "stand-alone" constituency from 1885 to 1983. It is currently paired in a seat with Kenilworth, which will be paired with Southam in the Kenilworth and Southam constituency.

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[edit] Boundaries

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Warwickshire, the Boundary Commission for England has re-created a Rugby constituency. The electoral wards used in the seat are:

  • Admirals, Avon and Swift, Benn, Bilton, Brownsover North, Brownsover South, Caldecott, Earl Craven and Wolston, Eastlands, Fosse, Hillmorton, Lawford and King’s Newnham, New Bilton, Newbold, Overslade, Paddox and Wolvey.

The electoral ward of Bulkington, from Nuneaton and Bedworth district is also used in the creation of this seat.

[edit] Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andy King
UK Independence Barry Milford
Conservative Mark Pawsey
Liberal Democrat Jerry Roodhouse

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1885 Henry Peyton Cobb
1895 Richard Greville Verney, later Baron Willoughby de Broke Conservative
1900 Corrie Brighton Grant
Jan 1910 John Lawrence Baird Conservative
1922 Euan Wallace Conservative
1923 Ernest Brown Liberal
1924 David Margesson Conservative
1942 William Brown independent, then Labour
1950 James Johnson Labour
1959 Alfred Wise Conservative
1966 William Price Labour
1979 Jim Pawsey Conservative
1983 constituency abolished

[edit] See also

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Constituencies in the West Midlands
Labour
Birmingham Edgbaston • Birmingham, Erdington • Birmingham Hall Green • Birmingham Hodge Hill • Birmingham Northfield • Birmingham Perry Barr • Birmingham Selly Oak • Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath • Burton • Cannock Chase • Coventry North East • Coventry North West • Coventry South • Dudley North • Dudley South • Halesowen and Rowley Regis • Newcastle-under-Lyme • North Warwickshire • Nuneaton • Redditch • Stafford • Staffordshire Moorlands • Stoke-on-Trent Central • Stoke-on-Trent North • Stoke-on-Trent South • Stourbridge • Tamworth • Telford • Walsall North • Walsall South • Warley • Warwick and Leamington • West Bromwich East • West Bromwich West • Wolverhampton North East • Wolverhampton South East • Wolverhampton South West • Worcester
Conservative
Liberal Democrat
Health Concern
Independent
West Midlands European constituency: Conservative (3) • Labour (2) • UKIP (1) • Liberal Democrats (1)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rugby, UKPollingReport
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