Peterborough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Its current form is the direct, unbroken successor of a smaller constituency that was created in the mid-16th century as such used for the legislatures of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom (UK). Today's version of the seat elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election since 1885, before which its earlier form had two-member representation using the similar bloc vote system and both forms had a broadening but restricted franchise until 1918.
The serving Member is Labour's Fiona Onasanya. Peterborough is one of two won (held or gained) by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of seven covering its county. Onasanya's 2017 win was one of 30 net gains of the Labour Party.
Boundaries
The City of Peterborough formed a parliamentary borough returning two Members in 1541. The rest of the Soke of Peterborough was part of the Northamptonshire parliamentary county; the area south of the River Nene was in the historic county of Huntingdonshire and Thorney was considered part of Cambridgeshire. Until 1832 when the whole of the parish of Saint John the Baptist was encompassed, the boundary, as far as is known, excluded the villages of Longthorpe, Dogsthorpe and Newark with Eastfield. The Great Reform Act did not affect the borough, while the rural portion of the Soke was included in the Northern division of Northamptonshire. New Fletton was transferred from Huntingdonshire in 1868 and in 1918 the parliamentary borough was abolished and replaced with a new division of the parliamentary county of Northampton with the Soke of Peterborough,[2]
including the whole of the Soke and neighbouring parts of the administrative county of Northamptonshire, extending down to and beyond Thrapston and Corby. This became a county constituency under the 1948 revisions, when the boundaries of the constituency were adjusted to correspond to those of the Soke and they remained much the same until 1970.[3] Peterborough became a borough constituency in 1974.
Period | Incorporating |
1918–1950 | The administrative county of the Soke of Peterborough (the Municipal Borough of Peterborough and the Rural Districts of Barnack and Peterborough), the Urban District of Oundle, the Rural Districts of Easton-on-the-Hill and Gretton and parts of the Rural Districts of Oundle and Thrapston |
1950–1974 | The Municipal Borough of Peterborough, the Urban District of Oundle, the Rural Districts of Barnack and Peterborough and part of the Rural Districts of Oundle and Thrapston |
1974–1983 | The Municipal Borough of Peterborough and the Rural Districts of Barnack, Peterborough and Thorney |
1983–1997 | The City of Peterborough wards of Bretton, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Fletton, North, Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville, Park, Paston, Ravensthorpe, Stanground, Walton and West |
1997–2010 | The City of Peterborough wards of Bretton, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, North, Park, Paston, Ravensthorpe, Walton, Werrington and West |
2010–2016 | The City of Peterborough wards of Bretton North, Bretton South, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye and Thorney, Newborough, North, Park, Paston, Ravensthorpe, Walton, Werrington North, Werrington South and West |
2016–date | The City of Peterborough wards of Bretton, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye Thorney and Newborough, Gunthorpe, North, Park, Paston and Walton, Ravensthorpe, Werrington and West |
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cambridgeshire in 2005, the Boundary Commission for England made minor alterations to the existing constituencies to deal with population changes. The electoral wards used to create the modified Peterborough constituency fought at the 2010 general election and the 2015 general election were: Bretton North, Bretton South, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye and Thorney, Newborough, North, Park, Paston, Ravensthorpe, Walton, Werrington North, Werrington South, and West.[4] These changes increased the electorate from 64,893 to 70,640. On the enumeration date of 17 February 2000, the electoral quota for England was 69,934 voters per constituency.[5]
Following another review of parliamentary representation in Cambridgeshire in 2016, the Boundary Commission for England again made minor alterations to the existing constituencies to deal with population changes. The electoral wards used to create the modified Peterborough constituency for the 2017 general election are: Bretton, Central, Dogsthorpe, East, Eye Thorney and Newborough, Gunthorpe, North, Park, Paston and Walton, Ravensthorpe, Werrington and West.[4] These changes increased the electorate from 70,640 to (unknown figure at this time – being researched).
The Peterborough wards of Barnack, Fletton and Stanground, Fletton and Woodston, Glinton and Castor, Hampton Vale, Hargate and Hempsted, Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville, Stanground South and Wittering form part of the North West Cambridgeshire constituency created in 1997 from parts of Peterborough and Huntingdon constituencies. The serving member for North West Cambridgeshire is the Conservative, Shailesh Vara MP, who succeeded Sir Brian Mawhinney, former Secretary of State for Transport and Chairman of the Conservative Party, in 2005. Mawhinney, who had previously served as Member of Parliament for Peterborough from 1979, was created Baron Mawhinney, of Peterborough in the county of Cambridgeshire in 2005. Eye and Thorney was previously included in the North East Cambridgeshire (prior to 1983 Isle of Ely) constituency.
Franchise
The Guildhall, Cathedral Square (1669–1671), site of the former Market Place.
In the unreformed House of Commons to be either a candidate or an elector for a county seat, a man had to own (not rent) freehold property valued for the land tax at two pounds a year (women could neither vote nor stand for election). This was known as the 40/- freehold. The franchise for borough seats varied enormously. Originally in Peterborough the dean and chapter had claimed the franchise and held that only residents of Minster Precincts were burgesses. By the interregnum, the city was one of 37 boroughs in which suffrage was restricted to those paying scot and lot, a form of municipal taxation. In 1800 there were 2,000 registered voters in Northamptonshire and 400 in Peterborough. By 1835 this was 576, or about one per cent of the population.[6] Bribery was general until the introduction of the secret ballot under the Ballot Act 1872. Votes were cast by spoken declaration, in public, at the hustings, erected on the Market Place (now Cathedral Square).[7]
In 1832 the Great Reform Act enfranchised those who owned or leased land worth £10 or more and the Second Reform Act extended this to all householders paying £10 or more in rent per annum, effectively enfranchising the skilled working class, so by 1868 the percentage of voters in Peterborough had risen to about 20% of the population.[8] The Third Reform Act extended the provisions of the previous act to the counties and the Fourth Reform Act widened suffrage further by abolishing practically all property qualifications for men and by enfranchising women over 30 who met minimum property qualifications. This system, known as universal manhood suffrage, was first used in the 1918 general election. However, full electoral equality wouldn't occur until the Fifth Reform Act ten years later.
According to the 2001 census, the population count of Peterborough constituency is 95,103 persons, comprising 46,131 males and 48,972 females. 67.56% of those aged 16–74 are economically active, including 5.92% umemployed; a further 12.26% are retired and 3.08% students. Of a total 39,760 households, 63.80% are owner occupied, fewer than the regional (72.71%) and national (68.72%) averages.[9] Turnout at the 2005 general election was 41,194 or 61.0% of those eligible to vote, below the regional (63.6%) and national (61.3%) figures.
Members of Parliament
The Town Hall, Upper Bridge Street (1930–1933), formerly Narrow Street.
Peterborough sent two members to parliament for the first time in 1547. Before the civil war, many were relatives of the clergy; then for two hundred years after the restoration there was always a Fitzwilliam, or a Fitzwilliam nominee, sitting as member for Peterborough, making it a Whig stronghold.[10] Representation was reduced to one member under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885.[11]
One of the earliest incumbents, Sir Walter Mildmay, member for Peterborough from 1553 to 1554, subsequently became Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1559 to 1589. Later, in the nineteenth century, William Elliot, Whig member from 1802 until his death in 1819, was Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1806 and 1807; the Hon. William Lamb (later the 2nd Viscount Melbourne), Whig member from 1816 to 1819, became Home Secretary in 1830 then Prime Minister from 1834 to 1841; and Sir James Scarlett (later the 1st Baron Abinger), Whig member from 1819 to 1830, was, from 1827, Attorney General for England and Wales.[12]
From the formal merger of the breakaway Liberal Unionists with the Conservatives in 1912 and the absorption of rural North Northamptonshire in 1918, Peterborough has been predominantly Conservative; however, it has elected Labour MPs several times from 1929 onwards.
Lord Burghley, as he then was, succeeded the socialist writer and illustrator, Frank Horrabin, who was born in the city and elected under the leadership of Ramsay MacDonald in 1929.[13] David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, winner of 400m hurdles at the 1928 Summer Olympics, member of the International Olympic Committee for 48 years and chairman of the organising committee of the 1948 Summer Olympics, was the Conservative member from 1931 to 1943.
In 1966, in one of the closest polls in UK history, Sir Harmar Nicholls held the seat by three votes after seven recounts. Nicholls was the Conservative member from 1950 to 1974, when he lost in the October election of that year to Labour's Michael Ward, having held on by just 22 votes after four recounts in the election eight months earlier.[14] The growth in the New Town from 1967 may in part account for Labour's victory here in 1974. In 1979, however, Ward lost the seat to the Conservative Brian Mawhinney, who would represent Peterborough for the entire duration of the incoming Conservative government and was a Cabinet Minister and Conservative Party Chairman during the second Major government (1992–97).
The seat was made more competitive in the 1997 boundary review by the formation of the North West Cambridgeshire seat, which incorporated the rural land outside Peterborough and several Conservative-inclined wards from the city. Since its formation, North West Cambridgeshire has been one of the safest Conservative seats in the country, whilst Peterborough was ranked 93rd in the Conservatives's one hundred most vulnerable seats (the ones which the other parties must take if there is to be a change of government) and 73rd on Labour's target list; these factors led Mawhinney to stand in North West Cambridgeshire instead.
Helen Clark (née Brinton) won the seat for Labour in 1997. She was defeated at the 2005 general election, following which it was widely reported that Clark was planning to defect to the Conservative Party,[15] an announcement which was not popular locally.[16] However, by early June it emerged that while she had left the Labour Party, she had not in fact joined the Conservatives and did not intend to.[17]
Clark's successor as MP, Stewart Jackson, was re-elected in 2010 with an increased majority, which then fell in 2015. The 2017 result marks the first time since 1929 that Peterborough has voted Labour in an election where the Conservatives won the national popular vote, and the first time it has ever elected a Labour MP in a year in which Labour did not form the government. Furthermore, Peterborough became one of five constituencies, the others being Croydon Central, Enfield Southgate, Leeds North West and Reading East, which elected Labour MPs in 2017 having not done so since 2001.
Parliamentary Borough 1547–1918
MPs 1542–1660
Election | Senior Member | Junior Member |
1542 | Sir Thomas Moyle[18] | |
1547 | Sir Wymond Carew, died and replaced in 1552 by John Campanett[19] | Richard Pallady[20] |
March 1553 | ? | ? |
Oct. 1553 | Sir Walter Mildmay[21] | Sir William FitzWilliam[22] |
April 1554 | John Gamlin (Gamblin, Gamlyn)[23] | Giles Isham |
Nov. 1554 | William Liveley[24] | Gilbert Bull |
1555 | Maurice Tyrell | John Mountsteven |
1558 | Giles Isham | Thomas Hussey |
1559 | Sir William FitzWilliam | Robert Wingfield, Jr. |
1562 | John FitzWilliam |
1571 | William Fitzwilliam[25] | Henry Cheke, sat for Bedford and replaced by Brian Ansley |
1572 | Robert Wingfield, Jr., died and replaced in 1581 by Sir William FitzWilliam | Hugh FitzWilliam died and replaced 1576 by Humphrey Mildmay |
1584 | William Fitzwilliam[25] | James Scambler |
1586 | Thomas Hacke |
1589 | Sir Thomas Reede | Thomas Howland |
1593 | William Hacke |
1597 | John Wingfield | Alexander Neville |
1601 | Nicholas Tufton | Goddard Pemberton |
1603 | Sir Richard Cecil of Wakerley | Edward Wymarke |
1614 | Sir William Walter | Roger Manwood |
1621 | Mildmay Fane[26] | Walter Fitzwilliam |
1624 | Sir Francis Fane[27] | Laurence Whitaker |
1625 | Sir Christopher Hatton |
1626 | Mildmay Fane, Lord Burghersh |
1628 |
The Short Parliament (April–May 1640) |
April 1640 | David Cecil | William FitzWilliam, 2nd Baron FitzWilliam |
The Long Parliament (1640–1648), the Rump Parliament (1648–1653) and the Barebone's Parliament (1653) |
Nov. 1640 | William FitzWilliam, 2nd Baron FitzWilliam | Sir Robert Napier, 2nd Baronet |
The First Protectorate Parliament (1654–1655); one member only |
1654 | Col. Alexander Blake[28] |
The Second (1656–1658) and Third (1659) Protectorate Parliaments |
1656 | Col. Alexander Blake | Francis St John |
MPs 1660–1883
The Tories (or Abhorrers) and Whigs (or Petitioners) originated in the Court and Country parties that emerged in the aftermath of the civil war, although it is more accurate to describe them as loose tendencies, both of which might be regarded as conservative in modern terms.[29] Modern party politics did not really begin to coalesce in Great Britain until at least 1784.
Election |
First Member[30] |
1st Party |
Second Member[30] | 2nd Party |
The Rump Parliament recalled (1659) and the Long Parliament restored (1660) |
1660 |
|
Sir Humphrey Orme[31] |
Court |
|
Charles Fane, Lord le Despencer |
Country |
1666 |
|
Edward Palmer[32] |
Whig |
1667 |
|
William FitzWilliam, 3rd Baron FitzWilliam[33] |
Whig |
1671 |
|
Sir Vere Fane |
Whig |
Feb. 1679 |
|
Francis St John |
Whig |
Aug. 1679 |
|
Charles Orme |
Whig |
1681 |
|
William FitzWilliam, 3rd Baron FitzWilliam |
Whig |
1685 |
|
Charles FitzWilliam |
Whig |
|
Charles Orme |
Whig |
Jan 1689 |
|
Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet[34] |
Whig |
Dec 1689 |
|
Sir William Brownlow, 4th Baronet |
Whig |
1698 |
|
Hon. Sidney Wortley-Montagu |
Whig |
|
Francis St John |
Whig |
1701 |
|
Sir Gilbert Dolben, 1st Baronet |
Whig |
1710 |
|
John FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton |
Whig |
|
Charles Parker |
Tory |
1722 |
|
Hon. Sidney Wortley-Montagu |
Whig |
1727 |
|
Sir Edward O'Bryan, 2nd Baronet[35] |
Tory |
1727 |
|
Hon. Sidney Wortley-Montagu |
Whig |
1728 by-election |
|
Joseph Banks |
Whig |
1729 by-election |
|
Charles Gounter-Nicoll |
Whig |
Jan. 1734 by-election |
|
Armstead Parker |
Tory |
April 1734 |
|
Sir Edward Wortley Montagu |
Whig |
1741 |
|
William FitzWilliam, 3rd Earl FitzWilliam |
Whig |
1742 by-election |
|
Armstead Parker |
Tory |
1747 |
|
Sir Matthew Lamb, 1st Baronet[36] |
Whig |
1761 |
|
Armstead Parker |
Tory |
March 1768 |
|
Matthew Wyldbore |
Whig |
Nov. 1768 by-election |
|
Henry Belasyse, Viscount Belasyse |
Whig |
1774 by-election |
|
Richard Benyon |
Whig[37] |
1780 |
|
James Farrel Phipps |
Whig[37] |
1786 by-election |
|
Hon. Lionel Damer |
Whig[37] |
1796 |
|
Dr. French Laurence[38] |
Whig[37] |
1802 |
|
William Elliot |
Whig[37] |
1809 by-election |
|
Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock |
Whig[37] |
1812 |
|
George Ponsonby[39] |
Whig[37] |
1816 by-election |
|
Hon. William Lamb[40] |
Whig[37] |
Feb. 1819 by-election |
|
Sir James Scarlett[41] |
Whig[37] |
Nov. 1819 by-election |
|
Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet[42] |
Whig[43][37] |
Aug. 1830 |
|
Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton[44] |
Whig[37] |
Nov. 1830 by-election |
|
John Nicholas Fazakerley |
Whig[37] |
1841 |
|
Hon. George Wentworth-FitzWilliam |
Whig[45][43][37] |
1847 |
|
Hon. William Cavendish |
Whig[45] |
1852 |
|
Hon. Richard Watson |
Whig[37][46] |
1852 by-election |
|
George Hammond Whalley[47] |
Radical[48][49][50][51] |
1853 by-election |
|
Thomson Hankey[52] |
Whig |
1859 |
|
Liberal |
|
George Hammond Whalley |
Liberal |
1868 |
|
William Wells[53] |
Liberal |
1874 |
|
Thomson Hankey |
Liberal |
1878 by-election |
|
Hon. John Wentworth-FitzWilliam |
Independent Liberal |
1880 |
|
Hampden Whalley[54] |
Liberal |
1883 by-election |
|
Sir Sydney Buxton[55] |
Liberal |
1885 |
representation reduced to one member |
MPs 1885–1918
In 1832 the Tory Party evolved into the Conservative Party and in 1859 the Whig Party evolved, with Radicals and Peelites, into the Liberal Party. In opposition to Irish home rule, the Liberal Unionists ceded from the Liberals in 1886, aligning themselves with the Conservatives. The Labour Party was later founded, as the Labour Representation Committee, in 1900.
Borough Constituency
Peterborough was redefined as a borough constituency with effect from the February 1974 general election.[62] Successors of the historic parliamentary boroughs, the spending limits for election campaigns are slightly lower than in county constituencies.
Election results
Elections in the 1940s
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 from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected:
Elections in the 1880s
- Caused by Wentworth-Fitzwilliam's death.
- Caused by Whalley's resignation.
Elections in the 1870s
- Caused by Whalley's death. Raper was a 'Permissive Bill' candidate.[82]
Elections in the 1860s
- Green, a Radical liberal,[86] withdrew before polling.[87]
Elections in the 1850s
- Caused by the 1852 by-election being declared void on petition due to bribery and treating.[90] Although Whalley secured the most votes, his election was declared void owing to disqualification due to the earlier bribery and treating, and Hankey was declared elected.[91]
- Caused by Watson's death.
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- 1 2 Fraser, Hugh (1918). The Representation of the People Act 1918, with Explanatory notes. London: Sweet and Maxwell. pp. 515–516.
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- ↑ Both terms were originally pejorative, deriving respectively from tóraidhe, one of the dispossessed Irish who became outlaws and whiggamor, a Scots Gaelic word for a cattle or horse drover
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