St Albans (UK Parliament constituency)

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St Albans County constituency
St Albans shown within Hertfordshire, and Hertfordshire shown within England
Created:	1554, 1885
MP:	Anne Main
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Hertfordshire
EP constituency:	East of England

St Albans 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.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 History 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Boundaries

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The St Albans constituency lies is in the English county of Hertfordshire. It comprises the cathedral city of St Albans and some of the surrounding countryside, mainly to the south of the city.

The constituency elected a borough representative for over 300 years, until it was disenfranchised as a result of an electoral corruption in 1852. The constituency was re-established in 1885.

[edit] History

Prior to 1997 the St Albans parliamentary constituency included the town of Harpenden, and was historically held by the Conservative Party. Peter Lilley was a notable recent Conservative MP for the constituency. Following boundary changes in 1997, he moved to contest the newly created neighbouring constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election	Member		Party
1885		James Grimston	Conservative
1892		Vicary Gibbs	Conservative
1904		John Bamford Slack	Liberal
1906		Hildred Carlile	Conservative
1922		Francis Edward Fremantle	Conservative
1945		Cyril Dumpleton	Labour
1950		John Grimston	Conservative
1959		Victor Goodhew	Conservative
1983		Peter Lilley	Conservative
1997		Kerry Pollard	Labour
2005		Anne Main	Conservative

[edit] Election results

Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Pete Eggleston
	UK Independence	Richard Evans
	Conservative	Anne Main
	Labour	Roma Mills
	Liberal Democrat	Sandy Walkington

General Election 2005: St Albans
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anne Main	16,953	37.3	+2.1
	Labour	Kerry Pollard	15,592	34.3	−11.1
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Green	11,561	25.4	+7.5
	UK Independence	Richard Evans	707	1.6	+0.2
	St Albans Party	Janet Girsman	430	–	–
	Independent	Mark Reynolds	219	–	–
Majority			1,361	3.0	–
Turnout			45,462	70.0	+3.7
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	6.6

General Election 2001: St Albans
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kerry Pollard	19,889	45.4	+3.4
	Conservative	Charles Elphicke	15,423	35.2	+2.0
	Liberal Democrat	Nick Rijke	7,847	17.9	−3.1
	UK Independence	Chris Sherwin	602	1.4	–
Majority			4,466	10.2	+1.4
Turnout			43,761	66.3	−11.2
	Labour hold		Swing	0.7

General Election 1997: St Albans
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kerry Pollard	21,338	42.0
	Conservative	David Rutley	16,879	33.2
	Liberal Democrat	Anthony Rowlands	10,692	21.0
	Referendum Party	Jim Warrilow	1,619	3.2	–
	Rainbow Alliance	Sari Craigen	166	0.3	–
	Natural Law	Ian Docker	111	0.2	–
Majority			4,459	8.8
Turnout			50,805	77.5
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hertfordshire

[edit] References

1. ^ St Albans, UKPollingReport

[edit] External links

• 2005 voting statistics from the BBC
• 2001 and 1997 voting statistics from the BBC
• OBV
• Coverage from The Times

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)