Huntingdonshire | |
Parliament: | uk |
Year: | 1918 |
Abolished: | 1983 |
Type: | County |
Next: | Huntingdon SW Cambridgeshire Peterborough[1] |
Elects Howmany: | One |
Year2: | 1290 |
Abolished2: | 1885 |
Type2: | County |
Elects Howmany2: | 2 (1290 – 1654) 3 (1654 – 1659) 2 (1659 – 1885) |
Huntingdonshire was a Parliamentary constituency covering the county of Huntingdonshire in England. It was represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of England until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and then in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885.
It was reconstituted as a single-member seat in 1918 and abolished once again in 1983.
Huntingdonshire returned two Knights of the Shire from 1290 to 1885 (apart from 1654 to 1659, when it returned three); when elections were contested, the bloc vote system was used.
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, it was divided between the two single-seat county divisions of Huntingdon and Ramsey, with effect from the 1885 general election.
Under the Representation of the People Act 1918, Huntingdon and Ramsey were re-united and the constituency was reconstituted, returning a single Member of Parliament (MP). Subject to boundary changes for the 1983 general election, the constituency was succeeded by the re-established constituency of Huntingdon. Its MP at the time, John Major, continued to represent it.
In 1965 Huntingdonshire was merged into the new administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough and in the next redistribution of parliamentary seats, which took effect for the February 1974 general election, the constituency was defined as comprising:
Eaton Socon in Bedfordshire had been absorbed by the Urban District of St Neots and was transferred from the County Constituency of Mid Bedfordshire. There were other marginal adjustments due to changes in county borders.
As a result of the Local Government Act 1972, the two counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, and Huntingdon and Peterborough were merged to form the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, with effect from 1 April 1974. However, the next redistribution did not come into effect until the 1983 general election, when the majority of the constituency, including Huntingdon, Godmanchester, Ramsey and St Ives, formed the bulk of the re-established onstituency of Huntingdon. Areas to the south of the River Nene, including Fletton and the Ortons, which were now part of the expanded City of Peterborough, were transferred to Peterborough, and southernmost areas, including St Neots, were transferred to the new constituency of South West Cambridgeshire.
Parliament | First member | Second member | Third Member (1654 & 1656 only) |
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1302 | Sir John Swinford | ||
1305 | |||
1306 | |||
1318 | |||
1319 | |||
1377 | John Herlyngton[3] | ||
1384 | |||
1385 | Sir Nicholas Stukeley | Sir William Papworth | |
1386 | Sir William Moigne | Robert Lovetot[4] | |
1388 (Feb) | Robert Waryn | Richard Botiller | |
1388 (Sep) | John Herlyngton | ||
1390 (Jan) | Sir William Moigne | Sir Henry Green | |
1390 (Nov) | Robert Waryn | ||
1391 | Robert Lovetot | ||
1393 | Sir John Peckbridge | Sir Robert Stokes | |
1394 | John Herlyngton | John Waweton | |
1395 | |||
1397 (Jan) | John Stukeley | Sir Thomas Waweton | |
1397 (Sep) | John Knyvet | ||
1399 | John Herlyngton | Robert Beville | |
1401 | Robert Scott | Sir Thomas Waweton | |
1402 | |||
1404 (Jan) | Sir John Tiptoft | ||
1404 (Oct) | |||
1406 | John Botiller | ||
1407 | Roger Hunt | John Burton | |
1410 | |||
1411 | Nicholas Stukeley | Robert Scott | |
1413 (Feb) | |||
1413 (May) | Roger Hunt | Thomas Beville | |
1414 (Apr) | John Botiller | ||
1414 (Nov) | Nicholas Stukeley | Sir Thomas Waweton | |
1415 | Thomas Beville | ||
1416 (Mar) | Henry Waryn | ||
1416 (Oct) | Sir Nicholas Stukeley | ||
1417 | Roger Hunt | Thomas Beville | |
1419 | Robert Scott | ||
1420 | Sir Nicholas Stukeley | Sir Thomas Waweton | |
1421 (May) | Roger Hunt | ||
1421 (Dec) | Robert Stonham | Henry Hethe | |
1422 | Sir Thomas Waweton | ||
1422 | Roger Hunt | ||
1423 | |||
1425 | Robert Scott | ||
1426 | |||
1427 | |||
1429 | ?Robert Stonham | ||
1431 | |||
1432 | Robert Stonham | ||
1433 | |||
1439 | Robert Stonham | ||
1442 | |||
1445 | |||
1447 | |||
1449 | Thomas Tresham | ||
1449 (Nov) | Robert Stonham | ||
1450 | |||
1453 | |||
1472 | John Sapcote | ||
1510 | John Wynde | John Taylard[5] | |
1512 | |||
1515 | |||
1523 | |||
1529 | Nicholas Harvey | Lawrence Taylard | |
1536 | |||
1539 | Richard Cromwell alias Williams | Oliver Leder | |
1542 | (Sir) Richard Cromwell alias Williams | Robert ap Rice | |
1545 | |||
1547 | Sir John Baker | Robert ap Rice | |
1553 (Mar) | ? | Thomas Audley | |
1553 (Oct) | (Sir) Lawrence Taylard | Oliver Leder | |
1554 (Apr) | Sir Robert Tyrwhitt | Thomas Cotton | |
1554 (Nov) | William Lawrence | Henry Mannock | |
1555 | Thomas Maria Wingfield | William Mallory | |
1558 | Thomas Cotton | William Lawrence | |
1559 (Jan) | Sir Robert Tyrwhitt | Simon Throckmorton[6] | |
1562–1563 | Henry Cromwell alias Williams | Richard Dorrington | |
1571 | Sir Henry Darcy | ||
1572 (Apr) | Richard Dorrington, died and replaced 1576 by Sir Henry Darcy | ||
1584 (Nov) | Sir Robert Bevill | John Dorrington | |
1586 | Edward Wingfield | George Walton | |
1588 (Oct) | Oliver Cromwell | ||
1593 | |||
1597 (Oct) | Sir Gervase Clifton | ||
1601 (Oct) | |||
1604 | Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington | Sir Oliver Cromwell | |
1614 | |||
1621–1622 | Robert Bevill | Sir Robert Payne | |
1624 | Edward Montagu | Sir Oliver Cromwell | |
1625 | |||
1626 | Sir Robert Payne | ||
1628 | Sir Capel Bedel | ||
1629–1640 | No Parliaments convened | ||
Apr 1640 | Thomas Cotton | Sir Capel Bedel | |
Nov 1640 | Sir Sidney Montagu, disabled 1642 replaced by Edward Montagu October 1645 | ||
1653 | Edward Montagu | Stephen Pheasant | |
1654 | Henry Cromwell | ||
1656 | |||
1659 | Henry Cromwell | ||
1659 | Edward Montagu |
Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | |||
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August 1679 | |||||||
1685 | |||||||
1689 | |||||||
1690 | |||||||
1693 | |||||||
1695 | |||||||
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1699 | |||||||
1702 | |||||||
1705 | |||||||
1708 | |||||||
1710 | |||||||
1713 | Whig | Whig | |||||
1715 | |||||||
April 1722 | |||||||
October 1722 | |||||||
1727 | Whig | ||||||
1730 | |||||||
1734 | |||||||
1739 | |||||||
1741 | |||||||
1745 | |||||||
1747 | |||||||
1754 | |||||||
1761 | |||||||
1762 | |||||||
1765 | |||||||
1768 | Tory | ||||||
1792 | |||||||
1794 | |||||||
1796 | |||||||
1806 | |||||||
1807 | Tory | ||||||
1814 | |||||||
1818 | Tory[7] | ||||||
1820 | Whig | ||||||
1826 | Tory | ||||||
1830 | Tory | ||||||
1831 | Whig[8] | ||||||
1834 | Conservative | ||||||
1837 | Conservative | Conservative | |||||
1852 | Conservative | ||||||
1855 | |||||||
1857[9] | Whig[10] [11] | ||||||
1859 | |||||||
1874 | |||||||
1877 | |||||||
1880 | Conservative | Liberal | |||||
1885 | constituency abolished, Huntingdon and Ramsey from 1885 |
Year | Member | Party | ||
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Huntingdon and Ramsey prior to 1918 | ||||
1918 | Conservative | |||
1922 | ||||
1923 | Liberal | |||
1924 | Conservative | |||
1929 | Liberal | |||
1931 | National Liberal | |||
1945 | Liberal National | |||
1950 | National Liberal and Conservative | |||
1964 | Conservative and National Liberal | |||
1970 | Conservative | |||
1979 | ||||
1983 | constituency abolished, Huntingdon and parts of Peterborough and SW Cambs from 1983 |
Thornhill's death caused a by-election.
Montagu succeeded to the peerage, becoming 7th Duke of Manchester and causing a by-election.
Securing the same number of votes, both Fellowes and Heathcote were returned alongside Rust as Members of Parliament. However, after scrutiny, Rust and Fellowes lost one vote, while Heathcote lost two, causing Heathcote to be declared unduly elected on 31 July 1857.
Montagu's appointment as Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education required a by-election.
Pelly's death caused a by-election.
General Election 1939–40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
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