CHRISTCHURCH (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Christchurch' is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Centred on the town of Christchurch in Dorset, it elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
It has generally been a strongly Conservative seat, with the exception of a 1993 by-election when it was won by the Liberal Democrats.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

List of MPs: parliamentary borough, 1561 — 1832 (2 seats)

List of MPs: parliamentary borough, 1832 — 1918 (1 seat)

List of MPs: county division, 1983 — ''present''

Election results

See also

References

Boundaries

The current (2007) boundary includes Verwood and Three Legged Cross, West Moors, St Leonards and St Ives, Ferndown and West Parley, as well as the Borough of Christchurch.
The Boundary Commission for England's Fifth Report, laid before Parliament on 26 February,2007, proposes that Verwood and Three Legged Cross be transferred to the North Dorset constituency, and that Longham and Stapehill be transferred from North Dorset into the Christchurch constituency.

Members of Parliament

List of MPs: parliamentary borough, 1561 — 1832 (2 seats)

★ 1710 — 1727: Peter Mews

★ 1740 — ....: Charles Armand Powlett

★ 1761 — 1780: James Harris

★ 1774 — 1780: Lord Hyde

List of MPs: parliamentary borough, 1832 — 1918 (1 seat)

Year		Member	Party
	1832	Sir George William Tapps-Gervis, Bt	Conservative
	1837	Rt Hon. Sir George Henry Rose	Conservative
	1844	Hon. Edward Alfred John Harris	Conservative
	1837	John Edward Walcott	Conservative
	1868	Edmund Haviland Burke	Liberal
	1874	Sir Henry Drummond Wolff	Conservative
	1880	Horace Davey, later ''The Baron Davey''	Liberal
	1885	Charles Edward Baring Young	Conservative
	1892	Abel Henry Smith	Conservative
	1900	Kenneth Robert Balfour	Conservative
	1906	Arthur Acland Allen	Liberal
	1910	Henry Page Croft, later ''The 1st Baron Croft''	Conservative
	1917		National
1918		''constituency abolished - see the Bournemouth, and New Forest and Christchurch constituencies''

List of MPs: county division, 1983 — ''present''

Year		Member	Party
	1983	Robert James Adley	Conservative
	1993	Diana Margaret Maddock, later ''The Baroness Maddock''	Liberal Democrat
	1997	Christopher Robert Chope	Conservative

Election results

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset

References

★ ''Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)

★ ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)

★ ''British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918'', compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)

★ ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885'', edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)

★ ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume II 1886-1918'', edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1978)

★ ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume III 1919-1945'', edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1979)