South West Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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| South West Cambridgeshire County constituency |
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| Created: | 1983 |
| Abolished: | 1997 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
South West Cambridgeshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the abolition of the Cambridgeshire constituency in 1983 and was abolished in 1997.
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[edit] Boundaries
The constituency combined territory from three pre-1974 local authorities, which had been includeded 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.
The constituency included the following local government wards.
- From the City of Cambridge: Queen Edith's and Trumpington.
- From the District of Huntingdon: Buckden, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon, Eynesbury, Gransden, Paxton, Priory Park, Staughton and The Offords.
- From the District of South Cambridgeshire: 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.
[edit] Members of Parliament
- Constituency created (1983)
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1983 | Sir John Anthony Grant | Conservative | |
- Constituency abolished (1997)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
[edit] Elections
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- 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)
