Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)

UK constituency infobox alt2
Name = Leominster
Map1 = Leominster
Map2 = Herefordshire
Type = County
Year = 1295
Entity = Herefordshire
Entitylink = Herefordshire and part of Worcestershire
County = Herefordshire, Worcestershire
EP = West Midlands
MP =Bill Wiggin
Party = Conservative

Leominster is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Boundaries

The constituency consists of northern Herefordshire and a small part of north-west Worcestershire, having been defined when the two were joined in Hereford and Worcester. Tenbury Wells is the largest settlement in Worcestershire; in Herefordshire it includes the towns of Bromyard, Leominster, Kington and Ledbury.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Herefordshire, no longer connected for such reasons with Worcestershire, the Boundary Commission for England has created two parliamentary constituencies for the county.

Leominster is to be radically altered to become North Herefordshire.

The other seat in the county is Hereford and South Herefordshire

Members of Parliament

*1625 Edward Littleton Christopher W. Brooks, ‘Littleton, Edward, Baron Littleton (1589–1645)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 ]

MPs 1660-1868

*"1868: representation reduced from two MPs to one"

MPs since 1868

References

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Election results

Election box begin
title=General Election 2005: LeominsterElection box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Bill Wiggin
votes = 25,407
percentage = 52.1
change = +3.1Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Caroline Williams
votes = 12,220
percentage = 25.0
change = -1.7Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Paul Bell
votes = 7,424
percentage = 15.2
change = -1.6Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Felicity Norman
votes = 2,191
percentage = 4.5
change = +0.9Election box candidate with party link
party = United Kingdom Independence Party
candidate = Peter Venables
votes = 1,551
percentage = 3.2
change = -0.2Election box majority
votes = 13,187
percentage = 27.0
change = +4.8Election box turnout
votes = 48,793
percentage = 77.3
change = +7.9Election box hold with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
swing = +2.4

Election box begin
title=General Election 2001: LeominsterElection box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Bill Wiggin
votes = 22,879
percentage = 49.0
change = +3.7Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
candidate = Celia Downie
votes = 12,512
percentage = 26.8
change = -1.0Election box candidate with party link
party = Labour Party (UK)
candidate = Stephen Hart
votes = 7,872
percentage = 16.8
change = -0.6Election box candidate with party link
party = Green Party of England and Wales
candidate = Pippa Bennett
votes = 1,690
percentage = 3.6
change = +1.5Election box candidate with party link
party = United Kingdom Independence Party
candidate = Christopher Kingsley
votes = 1,590
percentage = 3.4
change = +2.2Election box candidate with party link
party = Independent (politician)
candidate = John Haycock
votes = 186
percentage = 0.4
change = "N/A"Election box majority
votes = 10,367
percentage = 22.2
change = Election box turnout
votes = 46,729
percentage = 69.4
change = -7.2Election box gain with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
loser = Labour Party (UK)
swing =

Election box begin
title=General Election January 1910: LeominsterElection box candidate with party link
party = Conservative Party (UK)
candidate = Sir James Rankin
votes = 4,822
percentage = 54.7
change = Election box candidate with party link
party = Liberal Party (UK)
candidate = Edmund George Lamb
votes = 3,991
percentage = 45.3
change = Election box majority
votes = 831
percentage = 9.4
change = Election box turnout
votes =
percentage =
change = Election box gain with party link
winner = Conservative Party (UK)
loser = Liberal Party (UK)
swing =

ee also

*List of Parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

References

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