Oswestry (UK Parliament constituency)

Oswestry (UK Parliament constituency)
Oswestry
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)1983 (1983)
Number of members one
Replaced by North Shropshire
Created from North Shropshire

Oswestry is a United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983, when it was renamed North Shropshire. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post method of election.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

  • Constituency created (1885)
Election Member Party
1885 Stanley Leighton Conservative
1901 by-election Hon. George Ralph Ormsby-Gore Conservative
1904 by-election Allan Heywood Bright Liberal
1906 William Clive Bridgeman Conservative
1929 Maj. Bertie Edward Parker Leighton Conservative
1945 Oliver Poole Conservative
1950 David Ormsby-Gore Conservative
1961 by-election John Biffen Conservative
  • Constituency abolished (1983)

Election results

References

See also



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