Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)

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Swindon Borough constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1997
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Swindon was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Swindon in Wiltshire.

It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.

It was then replaced by two new constituencies: Swindon North and Swindon South.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Election results 4 References

[edit] Boundaries

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[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Sir Frederick William Young	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks	Conservative
	1929	Christopher Addison	Labour
	1931	Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks	Conservative
	1934	Christopher Addison	Labour
	1935	Wavell Wakefield	Conservative
	1945	Thomas Reid	Labour
	1955	Francis Noel-Baker	Labour
	1969	Christopher Ward	Conservative
	1970	David Stoddart	Labour
	1983	Simon Christopher Coombs	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished: see Swindon North and Swindon South

[edit] Election results

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[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page