EXETER (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Exeter' is a borough 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.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election results

See also

Boundaries

The constituency covers the city of Exeter in Devon. It has a high student population centred around the University of Exeter but is otherwise fairly affluent and middle-class.

Members of Parliament

★ ? — 1734: Francis Drewe

★ ? — 1734: John Belfield

★ 1734 — 1735: John King

★ 1734 — 1741: Thomas Balle

★ 1735 — 1743: Sir Henry Northcote

★ 1741 — ?: Humphrey Sydenham

★ 1743 — 1747: Sir Richard Bampfylde

★ 1747 — ?: John Tuckfield
''(incomplete)''

★ ? — 1865: Richard Sommers Gard

★ ? — 1868: Edward Courtenay

★ 1865 — 1873: John Coleridge, Liberal

★ 1868 — 1874: Edgar Alfred Bowring

★ 1873 — 1880: Arthur Mills

★ 1874 — 1880: John George Johnson

★ 1880 — 1885: Edward Johnson

★ 1880 — 1899: Henry Northcote, Conservative

★ 1899 — 1906: Edgar Vincent, Conservative
''(incomplete)''

★ 1918 — 1929: Sir Robert Newman, Conservative

★ 1929 — 1931: Sir Robert Newman, Independent

★ 1931 — 1945: Authur C Reed, Conservative

★ 1945 — 1951: John Cyril Maude, Conservative

★ 1951 — 1966: Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams, Conservative

★ 1966 — 1970: Gwyneth Dunwoody, Labour

★ 1970 — 1997: Sir John Hannam, Conservative

★ 1997 — ''present'': Ben Bradshaw, Labour

Election results

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Devon