Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Peterborough 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.

Boundaries

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cambridgeshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor alterations to the existing constituencies to deal with population changes. The electoral wards used to create the modified Peterborough constituency to be fought at the Next United Kingdom general election are:

• Bretton North, Bretton South, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye and Thorney, Newborough, North, Park, Paston, Ravensthorpe, Walton, Werrington North, Werrington South, and West.

Members of Parliament

• 1660-1671 Humphrey Orme
• 1660 Charles Fane, Baron le Despencer (later 3rd Earl of Westmorland)
• 1666 Edward Palmer
• 1667-1679 William Fitzwilliam, Baron Fitzwilliam (later 1st Earl Fitzwilliam)
• 1671 Sir Vere Fane (later 4th Earl of Westmorland)
• 1679-1685 Francis St. John
• 1679-1685 Charles Orme
• 1681 William Fitzwilliam, Baron Fitzwilliam (later 1st Earl Fitzwilliam)
• 1685-1689 Charles Fitzwilliam
• 1689-1698 Gilbert Dolben
• 1689 Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet of Humby
• 1698-1710 Sidney Wortley-Montagu
• 1698 Francis St. John
• 1701 Sir Gilbert Dolben
• 1710-1729 John Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton (later 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam)
• 1710 Charles Parker
• 1722-1727 Sidney Wortley-Montagu
• 1727 Sir Edward O'Brien
• 1728 Sidney Wortley-Montagu
• 1728-1734 Joseph Banks
• 1729 Charles Gounter-Nicoll
• 1734-1741 Armstead Parker
• 1734-1761 Edward Wortley-Montagu
• 1741 William Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton (later 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam)
• 1742-1747 Armstead Parker
• 1747-1768 Sir Matthew Lamb
• 1761 Armstead Parker
• 1768-1780 Matthew Wyldbore
• 1768 Henry Belasyse, Viscount Belasyse (later 2nd Earl Fauconberg)
• 1774-1796 Richard Benyon
• 1780 James Farrel Phipps
• 1786-1802 Lionel Damer
• 1796-1809 French Laurence
• 1802-1819 William Elliot
• 1809 Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock (later 7th Duke of Bedford), Whig
• 1812 George Ponsonby
• 1816-1819 William Lamb (later 2nd Viscount Melbourne)
• 1819-1830 Sir James Scarlett (later 1st Baron Abinger)
• 1819-1847 Sir Robert Heron
• 1830 Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton (later 5th Earl Fitzwilliam)
• 1830 John Nicholas Fazakerley
• 1841-1859 George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam
• 1847-1852 William George Cavendish (later 2nd Baron Chesham), Liberal
• 1852 Richard Watson
• 1852 George Hampden Whalley
• 1853-1868 Thomson Hankey
• 1859-1878 George Hammond Whalley
• 1868 William Wells
• 1878 William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton, Independent Liberal
• 1880 George Hampden Whalley
• 1883-1885 Sydney Charles Buxton (later 1st Earl Buxton), Liberal
• 1885 William John Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton
• 1889 Alpheus Cleophas Morton
• 1895 Sir Robert Purvis
• 1906 Sir Granville George Greenwood
• 1918 Sir Henry Leonard Campbell Brassey (later 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe), Conservative
• 1929-1931 James Francis Horrabin, Labour
• 1931-1943 David George Brownlow Cecil, Baron Burghley (later 6th Marquess of Exeter), Conservative
• 1943-1945 John Michael Henry Hely-Hutchinson, Viscount Suirdale (later 7th Earl of Donoughmore), Conservative
• 1945-1950 Stanley Tiffany, Labour Co-operative
• 1950-1974 Sir Harmar Nicholls (later Lord Harmar-Nicholls), Conservative
• 1974-1979 Michael John Ward, Labour
• 1979-1997 Dr. Sir Brian Stanley Mawhinney (later Lord Mawhinney), Conservative
• 1997-2005 Helen Rosemary Brinton (later Clark), Labour
• 2005-date Stewart James Jackson, Conservative

Election results

General Election 2005: Peterborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stewart Jackson	17,354	42.1	+4.1
	Labour	Helen Clark	14,624	35.5	-9.6
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Sandford	6,876	16.7	+2.2
	UKIP	Mary Herdman	1,242	3.0	+0.6
	National Front	Terry Blackham	931	2.3	+2.3
	Motorcycle News Party	Marc Potter	167	0.4
Majority			2,730	6.6
Turnout			41,194
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+7.0

General Election 2001: Peterborough

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Brinton	17,975	45.1	-5.2
	Conservative	Stewart Jackson	15,121	38.0	+2.8
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Sandford	5,761	14.5	+3.8
	UKIP	Julian Fairweather	955	2.4	+1.7
Majority			2,854	7.1
Turnout			39,812	61.4	-11.4
	Labour hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire