Central Suffolk (UK Parliament constituency)
| Central Suffolk | |
|---|---|
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
| County | Suffolk |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Number of members | One |
| Replaced by | Central Suffolk & North Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds |
| Created from | Eye, Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds[1] |
Central Suffolk was a county constituency in the county of Suffolk. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, replacing the former Eye constituency. It was in turn replaced by the Central Suffolk and North Ipswich constituency for the 1997 general election with a substantial area of the constituency joining a modified Bury St Edmunds constituency.
Boundaries
The District of Mid Suffolk (the wards of Badwell Ash, Barham, Barking, Bramford, Claydon, Creeting, Debenham, Elmswell, Eye, Fressingfield, Gislingham, Haughley and Wetherden, Helmingham, Hoxne, Mendlesham, Needham Market, Norton, Onehouse, Palgrave, Rattlesden, Rickinghall, Ringshall, Stonham, Stowmarket Central, Stowmarket North, Stowmarket South, Stowupland, Stradbroke, Thurston, Walsham-le-Willows, Wetheringsett, Weybread, Woolpit, and Worlingworth), and the Borough of Ipswich wards of Broom Hill, Castle Hill, Whitehouse, and Whitton.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member[2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Michael Lord | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Central Suffolk and North Ipswich and Bury St Edmunds | ||
Elections
Elections in the 1980s
| General Election 1983: Suffolk Central | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Michael Nicholson Lord | 30,096 | 53.47 | N/A | |
| Liberal | N.D.J. Baldwin | 15,365 | 27.3 | N/A | |
| Labour | Mrs. D.M. Sierakowski | 10,828 | 19.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 14,731 | 26.2 | N/A | ||
| Turnout | 56,289 | 74.4 | N/A | ||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| General Election 1987: Suffolk Central | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Michael Nicholson Lord | 32,422 | 53.7 | +0.2 | |
| Liberal | Thomas Edward Dale | 16,132 | 26.7 | −0.6 | |
| Labour | Mark Stanley Walker | 11,817 | 19.6 | +0.4 | |
| Majority | 16,290 | 27.0 | |||
| Turnout | 60,371 | 76.2 | +1.8 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +0.4 | |||
Elections in the 1990s
| General Election 1992: Suffolk Central[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Michael Nicholson Lord | 32,917 | 49.6 | −4.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Ms. Lesley A. Henniker-Major | 16,886 | 25.4 | −1.3 | |
| Labour | John W. Harris | 15,615 | 23.5 | +3.9 | |
| Green | John E. Matthissen | 800 | 1.2 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Ms. Julie C. Wilmot | 190 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 16,031 | 24.1 | −2.8 | ||
| Turnout | 66,408 | 80.3 | +4.0 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −1.4 | |||
Notes and references
- ↑ "'Suffolk Central', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 6)
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 Dec 2010.