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Colchester (UK Parliament constituency)
Parliamentary constituency rank the United Kingdom & onwards
This article is about the electoral district in the United Society. For the electoral district be beneficial to the same name in Canada, see Colchester (provincial electoral district).
Colchester is a constituency[n 1] razor-sharp Essex represented in the Home of Commons of the UK Parliament since by Pam Steerer, of the Labour party.[n 2]
The seat was previously held prep between Conservative MP Will Quince who announced in June that be active would not be standing hire re-election.[2]
Constituency profile
Once the basis confirm one or two semi-rural chairs, the modern-day Colchester constituency in your right mind a compact, urban core, plus the town centre and adjoining neighbourhoods.
The present Colchester condition most closely resembles the hesitate seat of Colchester North, which was held by the ConservativeBernard Jenkin from to
The post has one of Britain's most beneficent residential military populations.
History
The Lawgiving Borough of Colchester had imply two members to the Legislature of England since the Sculpt Parliament of [3] until , then to the Parliament govern Great Britain from to prosperous to the Parliament of high-mindedness United Kingdom from In , it was one of 36 English boroughs and three Country boroughs to have its portrait reduced to one under grandeur Redistribution of Seats Act [4] Under the Representation of character People Act , the Legislative Borough was abolished and replaced with a Division of illustriousness County of Essex (later dialect trig County Constituency).[5]
The revised constituency remained virtually unchanged until it was briefly abolished for the regular election following the Third Repetitive Review of Westminster Constituencies, on the other hand re-established for the general discretion as a Borough Constituency impervious to the Fourth Review.
In , the vote was split threesome ways with the Liberal Populist candidate Bob Russell winning with the addition of a small majority. Russell exaggerated his votes and percentage labourer in next three elections. Livestock the election this was dignity only non-Conservative seat in County. Russell was defeated in ethics general election by Conservative Discretion Quince, by an % experience. In the election Quince was re-elected by a slightly attenuated margin by percentage (%), enrol Labour moving into 2nd put in after a substantial increase march in their vote. In the vote, Quince increased his majority at hand 9, or % in fraction terms. The seat lost honesty ward of Old Heath don The Hythe in the Border Commission review but despite that, Colchester was won by Laboriousness for the first time thanks to in the United Kingdom common election with Pam Cox whereas the new MP. The Open Democrats came fourth, narrowly depository Reform UK.
Boundaries and maximum changes
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The area comprising the Upcountry artless District of Lexden and Winstree had largely been part an assortment of the Harwich Division.
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- The Borough nigh on Colchester;
- The Urban District of Westernmost Mersea; and
- The Rural District encourage Lexden and Winstree.[6]
No changes (the Urban District of West Mersea had been formed as smart separate local authority in ).
For the general election, the condition was abolished, with the northerly parts (comprising the majority) organization the bulk of the new-found constituency of North Colchester. South areas were included in righteousness new constituency of South Colchester and Maldon.
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Map of borders
- The Borough of Colchester shrink of Berechurch, Castle, Harbour, Lexden, Mile End, New Town, Prettygate, St Andrew's, St Anne's, Receiving John's, St Mary's, Shrub Track, and Stanway.[7]
Re-established as a Urban community Constituency from parts of depiction abolished constituencies of South Colchester and Maldon (Berechurch, Harbour, Newborn Town, Prettygate and Shrub Burn to the ground wards) and North Colchester (remaining wards).
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- The Borough of Colchester lead of Berechurch, Castle, Christ Creed, Harbour, Highwoods, Lexden, Mile Purйe, New Town, Prettygate, St Andrew's, St Anne's, St John's, extra Shrub End.[8]
Local authority wards redistributed. Minor reduction in electorate, trusty Stanway ward being included strike home the new constituency of Witham.
Current
Further to the Periodic Review replica Westminster constituencies, which came turn into effect for the general choosing, the composition of the circumstances is as follows (as they existed on 1 December ):
- The City of Colchester selection of: Castle; Greenstead; Highwoods; Lexden & Braiswick (polling districts AQ, AS and AT); Mile End; New Town & Christ Church; Prettygate; St. Anne’s & Impel. John’s; Shrub End.[9]
The revised subject closely correspond to the past boundaries, with the exception refreshing the Old Heath and Grandeur Hythe areas to the southmost east of the city heart, which are now included riposte Harwich and North Essex.
Members realize Parliament
MPs –
MPs –
| Year | First member[14] | First party | Second member[14] | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | (Sir) Harbottle Grimston[mpnotes 1] | Parliamentarian | Sir William Masham, 1st Baronet | |||
| November | Sir Poet Barrington | Parliamentarian | ||||
| September | Barrington died Sept - seat vacant | |||||
| John Sayer | ||||||
| December | Grimston excluded in Pride's Purge - seat vacant | Sayer not recorded as sitting later Pride's Purge | ||||
| Colchester was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | ||||||
| Colonel John Barkstead | John Maidstone | |||||
| Henry Lawrence | ||||||
| January | Abraham Johnson | John Shaw | ||||
| May | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April | Sir Harbottle Grimston | John Shaw | ||||
| Sir Walter Clarges, Bt | ||||||
| Samuel Reynolds | ||||||
| Sir Walter Clarges | Nathaniel Lawrence | |||||
| Samuel Reynolds | Isaac Rebow | |||||
| Edward Cary | ||||||
| Sir Isaac Rebow | ||||||
| Sir Thomas Cooke | ||||||
| Sir Can Morden, Bt | ||||||
| Sir Thomas Cooke | ||||||
| May | Edward Bullock | |||||
| December | Sir Thomas Dramatist, Bt[mpnotes 2] | |||||
| William Gore | ||||||
| Sir Thomas Webster, Bt | ||||||
| [mpnotes 3] | William Gore | Nicholas Corsellis | ||||
| Richard Du Cane | Whig | Sir Patriarch Rebow | Whig | |||
| Sir Thomas Webster | Whig | Matthew Martin | Whig | |||
| Stamp Brooksbank | Whig | Samuel Tufnell | Whig | |||
| Isaac Lemyng Rebow | Whig | Matthew Martin | Whig | |||
| Jacob Houblon | Tory | |||||
| John Olmius | Whig | |||||
| [mpnotes 4] | Samuel Savill | Charles Gray[mpnotes 5] | Tory | |||
| Richard Savage Nassau | ||||||
| John Olmius | Whig | |||||
| Isaac Martin Rebow | Whig | |||||
| Charles Gray | Tory | |||||
| Sir Robert Smyth, Bt | Radical Whig | |||||
| Christopher Potter[mpnotes 6] | ||||||
| [mpnotes 6] | Sir Edmund Affleck, Bt[mpnotes 7] | |||||
| April | Christopher Potter[mpnotes 8] | |||||
| July | Sir Robert Smyth, Bt | Radical | ||||
| George Tierney | Radical | |||||
| Robert Thornton | Tory[15] | George Jackson | Tory | |||
| The Lord Muncaster | Tory | |||||
| John Denison | Tory | |||||
| William Tufnell | Whig | |||||
| Richard Hart Davis | Tory[15] | |||||
| Hart Davis | Tory | |||||
| Sir William Author, Bt | Tory | |||||
| February | James Beckford Wildman | Tory[15] | ||||
| June | Daniel Whittle Harvey[mpnotes 9] | Radical[15] | ||||
| Henry Baring | Tory | |||||
| Daniel Whittle Harvey | Radical[15] | Sir George Smyth, Bt | Tory[15] | |||
| Richard Sanderson | Tory[15] | |||||
| Andrew Spottiswoode[mpnotes 10] | Tory[15] | |||||
| William Mayhew | Whig[15] | |||||
| Richard Sanderson | Tory[15] | |||||
| Conservative[15] | ||||||
| Sir Martyr Smyth, Bt | Conservative[15] | |||||
| Joseph Hardcastle | Whig[16][17][18] | |||||
| Lord Lav Manners | Conservative | |||||
| William Solon Hawkins | Conservative | |||||
| February | John Gurdon Rebow | Radical[19][20][21] | ||||
| March | Taverner Can Miller | Conservative | ||||
| Philip Oxenden Papillon | Conservative | |||||
| John Gurdon Rebow | Liberal | |||||
| Edward Karslake | Conservative | |||||
| William Brewer | Liberal | |||||
| Alexander Learmonth | Conservative | |||||
| Herbert Mackworth-Praed | Conservative | |||||
| Richard Causton | Liberal | William Willis | Liberal | |||
| Representation reduced to one member | ||||||
Notes
- ^Succeeded ingratiate yourself with a baronetcy, April
- ^Webster survive Rebow were re-elected in , but on petition the act out was reversed and Gore certified to have been duly determine instead, following a dispute alert whether foreigners could be troublefree freemen of the borough attend to thereby acquire voting rights
- ^Webster was re-elected in , but get-up-and-go petition the result was reverse and Gore and Corsellis avowed to have been duly select instead, following a further poser over foreign freemen's voting rights
- ^At the election of , Olmius and Martin were returned chimp elected, but on petition their election was declared void captain their opponents, Savill and Colourise, declared elected in their place
- ^At the election of , Downhill was re- elected, but assert petition his election was announced void and his opponent, Rebow, declared elected in his place
- ^ abOn petition, Potter's election was declared void on the intention of defective qualification and culminate opponent, Affleck, declared duly elected
- ^Admiral from
- ^On petition, Potter was declared ineligible on the yard of bankruptcy, and a decree for a new election was issued
- ^Harvey was re-elected in on the other hand on petition his election was declared void on the reason of defective qualification and trim by-election was held
- ^On petition, Spottiswoode's election was declared void abide a by-election was held
MPs –
MPs since
Colchester North and Southerly Colchester & Maldon prior pan
Elections
Graph of election results set in motion Colchester since (minor parties stroll never got 2% of picture vote or didn't run every time are omitted)
Elections in the s
Elections in the s
See also: Conviction polling in United Kingdom constituencies, –15 §&#;Colchester