MONTGOMERYSHIRE (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Montgomeryshire' is a 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.
The Montgomeryshire Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.

Contents

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Elections

See also

Boundaries

The seat is based on the traditional county of Montgomeryshire, in the principal area of Powys. One of the UK's most rural and isolated constituencies, it has also been one of the small handful of seats that the Lib Dems (formerly the Liberal Party) can call safe. Apart from a lone Conservative victory in the 1979 general election, Montgomeryshire has elected Liberal or Liberal-affiliated candidates for centuries.

Members of Parliament

Duration of term as MP	Name of MP	Party of MP
1624	George Herbert
1799 - 1834	Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
1834 - 1850
1863 - 1877	Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy
1880 - 1894	Stuart Rendel
1894 - 1906	Arthur Humphreys-Owen
1906 - 1929	David Davies
1929 - 1931	Clement Davies
1931 - 1939
1939 - 1942
1942 - 1962
1962 - 1979	Emlyn Hooson
1979 - 1983	Delwyn Williams
1983 - 1988	Alex Carlile
1988 - 1997
1997 -	Lembit Öpik

Elections

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Powys