GAINSBOROUGH (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

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'Gainsborough' is a county 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
Elections
See also
References

Boundaries


This constituency is centred on the town of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, and comprises the West Lindsey district, and the Wragby ward of the East Lindsey district.

Members of Parliament


ElectionMemberParty
1885 Joseph Bennett
1886 Henry Eyre
1892 Joseph Bennett
1895 Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge
1900 Seymour Fitzroy Ormsby-Gore
1906 Alexander Leslie Renton
Jan 1910 George Jackson Bentham
1918 John Elsdale Molson Coalition Conservative
1922 Conservative
1923 Sir Richard Winfrey Liberal
1924 Harry Crookshank Conservative
1956 Marcus Kimball Conservative
1983 Edward Leigh Conservative

Elections


See also



List of Parliamentary constituencies in Lincolnshire

★ The town of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

References



British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, , F. W. S., Craig, Parliamentary Research Services, 1983, ISBN 0-900178-06-X

Historical list of MPs: G

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