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.

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)

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Election results

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References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "O"

See also

• Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire#Historical constituencies
• List of former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies
• Unreformed House of Commons