NUNEATON (UK PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCY)

'Nuneaton' 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

History

Members of Parliament

Election results

External links

See also

Boundaries

This constituency covers the town of Nuneaton in Warwickshire, covering most of the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth (excluding the town of Bedworth). It also contains much of the surrounding area, covering the northern part of the Rugby district. As well as Nuneaton, the constituency contains the villages of Ansty, Brinklow, Bulkington and Stretton-under-Fosse.

History

A seat with a strong industrial and mining tradition, Nuneaton was held by the Labour Party for nearly 50 years until they lost it to the Conservatives in their heavy defeat in the 1983 general election.
Labour regained the constituency at the 1992 election, with Bill Olner beating the incumbent Conservative Lewis Stevens, and have held it since then.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Jasper Johns	Liberal
	1886	John Stratford Dugdale	Conservative
	1892	Francis Newdigate, from 1902 Francis Newdigate-Newdegate	Conservative
	1906	William Johnson	Liberal
	''1909''		Labour
	1918	Sir Henry Maddocks	Coalition Conservative
	1923	Herbert Willison	Liberal
	1924	Hon. Arthur Hope	Conservative
	1929	Francis Smith	Labour
	1931	Edward North	Conservative
	1935	Reginald Fletcher	Labour
	1942	Frank Bowles	Labour
	1965	Frank Cousins	Labour
	1967	Les Huckfield	Labour
	1983	Lewis Stevens	Conservative
	1992	Bill Olner	Labour

Election results

External links

★ Nuneaton Conservatives

See also

★ List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire