South West Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
South West Cambridgeshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Cambridgeshire |
1983–1997 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | South Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon |
Created from | Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridge |
South West Cambridgeshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. Created in 1983 upon the abolition of the Cambridgeshire constituency, it was abolished in 1997 and succeeded by the constituencies of South Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon.
Boundaries
The District of South Cambridgeshire wards of Arrington, Barrington and Shepreth, Barton, Bassingbourn, Bourn, Comberton, Duxford, Foxton, Gamlingay, Great Shelford, Hardwick, Harston, Haslingfield, Ickleton, Little Shelford, Melbourn, Meldreth, Orwell, Papworth, Sawston, Stapleford, The Mordens, and Whittlesford, the District of Huntingdon wards of Buckden, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Eynesbury, Gransden, Paxton, Priory Park, Staughton, and The Offords, and the City of Cambridge wards of Queen Edith's and Trumpington.
The constituency combined territory from three pre-1974 local authorities, which had been included in the expanded non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire from 1974. It was the south west part of the old Cambridgeshire (with a small part of Cambridge) and the south of Huntingdonshire.
52.6% of the constituency came from the old administrative county and parliamentary constituency of Cambridgeshire. 29.7% originated from the former administrative county and county constituency of Huntingdonshire. The remaining 17.7% of the area had been part of the old borough constituency of Cambridge.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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part of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Cambridge prior to 1983 | |||
1983 | Sir Anthony Grant | Conservative | |
1997 | constituency abolished, part of S Cambs and Huntingdon from 1997 |
Elections
General Election 1992: South West Cambridgeshire[2][3] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir Anthony Grant | 38,902 | 56.8 | −0.9 | |
Liberal Democrat | Ms. Sue M. Sutton | 19,263 | 28.2 | −0.8 | |
Labour | Kevin A. Price | 9,378 | 13.7 | +0.4 | |
Green | Ms. Linda J. Whitebread | 699 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Natural Law | Francis C. Chalmers | 225 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 19,637 | 28.6 | −0.1 | ||
Turnout | 68,467 | 81.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1987: South West Cambridgeshire[2][4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir Anthony Grant | 36,622 | 57.7 | +1.5 | |
Liberal | D.C. Nicholls | 18,371 | 29.0 | −3.2 | |
Labour | J. Billing | 8,434 | 13.3 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 18,251 | 28.7 | |||
Turnout | 63,427 | 77.7 | +1.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.4 | |||
General Election 1983: South West Cambridgeshire[2][5] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Sir Anthony Grant | 32,521 | 56.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | D C Nicholls | 18,654 | 32.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Joe Gluza | 6,703 | 11.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,867 | 24.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 57,878 | 75.9 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
See also
- Parliamentary representation from Cambridgeshire
- List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
Notes and references
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)
- 1 2 3 British Parliamentary Election results 1983-97: English Counties
- ↑ UK General Election results April 1992
- ↑ UK General Election results June 1987
- ↑ UK General Election results June 1983
Sources
- Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
- British Parliamentary Constituencies: A Statistical Compendium, by Ivor Crewe and Anthony Fox (Faber and Faber 1984)