Huntingdon (constituency)
Huntingdon is a constituency for the House of Commons in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire . The constituency was created in 1983 and covers much of Huntingdon , St Neots , St Ives and Godmanchester . He sends a representative to parliament.
history
The constituency existed once before 1918. From the 1290s to 1868 he sent two representatives to parliament as a borough constituency . From 1868 to 1885 only one. In 1885 the constituency was reorganized as a county constituency and existed until 1918. Huntingdon was always supported by members of the Tories and the Conservative Party . Members of the Liberal Party represented the constituency only for a short time from 1885 to 1886 and from 1906 to 1910 .
In the 1983 general election , after the constituency was re-formed, John Major , who later became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1992 and 1997, won the seat in the House of Commons. After this resigned from parliament in 2001, Jonathan Djanogly was elected as the new representative in the 2001 general election.
The constituency had an unemployment rate of 2.3% in April 2013 . This value was thus lower than the national average of 3.8%.
Previous representatives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Rogers, Lisa Evans: Unemployment: the key UK data and benefit claimants for every constituency. November 17, 2010, accessed November 26, 2019 .