Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)

Leominster was a parliamentary constituency represented until 1707 in the House of Commons of England, then until 1801 in that of Great Britain, and finally until 2010, when it disappeared in boundary changes, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Leominster
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Leominster in Herefordshire for the 2005 general election
Location of Herefordshire within England
CountyHerefordshire
1885–2010
Number of membersOne
Replaced byNorth Herefordshire
Created fromHerefordshire and Leominster
1295–1885
Number of members1295–1868: Two
1868–1885: One
Type of constituencyBorough constituency
Replaced byLeominster

From 1295 to 1885, Leominster was a parliamentary borough which until 1868 elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election. Under the Reform Act 1867 its representation was reduced to one Member, elected by the first past the post system. The parliamentary borough was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and the name was transferred to a new county constituency.

History

Abolition

Following the review by the Boundary Commission for England of parliamentary representation in Herefordshire, no longer connected for such reasons with Worcestershire, two parliamentary constituencies have been allocated to the county. Most of the Leominster seat has been replaced by the North Herefordshire seat, while the remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat.[1]

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Leominster, and the Sessional Divisions of Bredwardine, Bromyard, Kingston, Leominster, Weobley, and Wigmore.

1918–1950: The Municipal Borough of Leominster, the Urban Districts of Bromyard and Kington, the Rural Districts of Bredwardine, Bromyard, Kington, Leominster, Weobley, and Wigmore, and parts of the Rural Districts of Hereford and Ledbury.

1950–1974: The Municipal Borough of Leominster, the Urban Districts of Bromyard, Kington, and Ledbury, the Rural Districts of Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster, and Weobley and Wigmore, and part of the Rural District of Hereford.

1974–1983: The Municipal Borough of Leominster, the Urban District of Kington, the Rural Districts of Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster, and Weobley and Wigmore, and part of the Rural District of Hereford.

1983–1997: The District of Leominster, the District of Malvern Hills wards of Baldwin, Bringsty, Broadheath, Bromyard, Butterley, Cradley, Frome, Frome Vale, Hallow, Hegdon, Hope End, Laugherne Hill, Leadon Vale, Ledbury, Leigh and Bransford, Marcle Ridge, Martley, Temeside, and Woodbury, and the District of South Herefordshire wards of Burghill, Burmarsh, Dinmore Hill, Hagley, Magna, Munstone, Swainshill, and Thinghill.

1997–2010: The District of Leominster, the District of Malvern Hills wards of Bringsty, Bromyard, Butterley, Cradley, Frome, Frome Vale, Hegdon, Hope End, Leadon Vale, Ledbury, and Marcle Ridge, the District of South Herefordshire wards of Backbury, Burghill, Burmarsh, Credenhill, Dinmore Hill, Hagley, Munstone, Swainshill, and Thinghill, and the District of Wyre Forest ward of Rock and Ribbesford.

In its final form, the constituency consisted of northern Herefordshire and a small part of north-west Worcestershire, the boundaries having been specified when the two were joined as the single county of Hereford and Worcester. In Herefordshire it included the towns of Bromyard, Kington and Ledbury as well as Leominster, while the largest settlement of Worcestershire it included was Tenbury Wells.

Members of Parliament

Leominster parliamentary borough

To 1660
ParliamentFirst memberSecond member
1386Robert CalderbrookWalter Aston [2]
1388 (Feb)Robert CalderbrookJohn Montgomery [2]
1388 (Sep)John AstonWalter Aston [2]
1390 (Jan)Hugh AstonPeter Cook [2]
1390 (Nov)
1391Peter CookJohn Bradford [2]
1393Roger LoutwardinJohn Hood [2]
1394
1395Thomas BarberThomas Reynold [2]
1397 (Jan)Thomas ReynoldWilliam Colle [2]
1397 (Sep)William TavernerJohn Romayn [2]
1399John HoodThomas White [2]
1401
1402William TavernerJohn Bond [2]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406William TavernerWilliam Tiler [2]
1407William TavernerWilliam Tiler [2]
1410Edmund MorrisWalter Borgate [2]
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)John SalisburyJohn Romayn [2]
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)William ColleJohn Salisbury [2]
1415
1416 (Mar)John SalisburyReynold Smith [2]
1416 (Oct)
1417John SalisburyJohn Braas [2]
1419Thomas HoodReynold Smith [2]
1420Thomas HoodWilliam Raves [2]
1421 (May)William StokesJohn Hood [2]
1421 (Dec)Thomas HoodWilliam Raves [2]
1510-1523No names known[3]
1529John BellJohn Hillesley [3]
1536?
1539?
1542?
1545?
1547William CrowcheRichard Cupper [3]
1553 (Mar)?
1553 (Oct)William StreteJohn Polle [3]
1554 (Apr)Lewis JonesJohn Evans [3]
1554 (Nov)Nicholas DepdenThomas Wykes [3]
1555James WarnecombeThomas Kerry [3]
1558Alban BirchRichard Hakluyt [3]
1559Thomas HakluytThomas Coningsby I[4]
1562/3Thomas DalloweJohn Morgan [4]
1571Edward CroftNicholas Depden [4]
1572Nicholas DepdenFabian Phillips [4]
1584Thomas WigmoreEdward Croft [4]
1586Edward CroftThomas Wigmore [4]
1588Thomas ShoterHumphrey Wall [4]
1593Sir Francis VereRichard Coningsby [4]
1597Thomas CromptonJohn Creswell [4]
1601Thomas ConingsbyJohn Warnecombe [4]
1604Thomas ConingsbyJohn Powle
1614Sir Humphrey BaskervilleThomas Coningsby
1621-1622Francis SmallmanWilliam Beecher
1624James TomkinsSir William Beecher
1625James TomkinsEdward Littleton
1626James TomkinsEdward Littleton
1628James TomkinsEdward Littleton, sat for Caernarvon
and replaced by Thomas Lyttleton
1629–1640No Parliaments summoned
1640 (Apr)William SmallmanWalter Kyrle
1640 (Nov)Sampson Eure
disabled 22 January 1644		Walter Kyrle
1645Walter Kyrle
excluded in 1648		John Birch
excluded in 1648
1653Leominster not represented in Barebones Parliament
1654John Birch(One member only)
1656John Birch(One member only)
1659John BirchEdward Freeman

Members 1660-1868 (two)
Election1st Member[5]1st Party2nd Member[5]2nd Party
1660 Colonel John Birch Edward Pytts
1661 Ranald Grahme Humphrey Cornewall
Feb 1679 James Pytts John Dutton Colt
Sep 1679 Thomas Coningsby,
Lord Coningsby from 1691
1685 Robert Cornewall
1689 John Dutton Colt
1698 Edward Harley
Jan 1701 John Dutton Colt
Apr 1701 Edward Harley
1710 Edward Bangham
1713 Henry Gorges
1715 The Lord Coningsby
1717 George Caswall (expelled)
1721 William Bateman
1722 Sir Archer Croft Sir George Caswall
1727 The Viscount Bateman
1734 Robert Harley
1741 John Caswall Capel Hanbury
1742 Robert Harley
1747 Sir Robert de Cornwall James Peachey
1754 Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams Richard Gorges
1759 Chase Price
1761 Jenison Shafto
1767 Edward Willes
Feb 1768 John Carnac
Mar 1768 The Viscount Bateman Tory[6]
1774 Thomas Hill Tory[6]
1776 Frederick Cornewall Tory[6]
1780 Richard Payne Knight Whig[6]
1784 John Hunter Tory[6] Penn Assheton Curzon Tory[6]
1790 John Sawyer Tory[6]
1791 Richard Beckford Whig[6]
1796 George Augustus Pollen Tory[6]
1797 William Taylor Whig[6]
1802 John Lubbock Whig[6] Charles Kinnaird Whig[6]
Jan 1806 William Lamb Whig[6]
Nov 1806 Tory[6] Henry Bonham Tory[6]
1812 John Lubbock Tory[6] John Harcourt Whig[6]
1818 Sir William Cuningham-Fairlie Tory[6]
1819 John Harcourt Whig[6]
1820 The Lord Hotham Tory[6] Sir William Cuningham-Fairlie Tory[6]
1826 Thomas Bish Whig
1827 Rowland Stephenson Tory[6]
Feb 1830 John Ward Whig[6]
Aug 1830 William Marshall Whig[6]
May 1831 William Bertram Evans Whig[6] Thomas Brayen Whig[6]
Dec 1831 The Lord Hotham Tory[6]
1832 Thomas Bish Whig[6]
1834 Conservative[6]
1837 Charles Greenaway Whig[6][7][8]
1841 James Wigram Conservative[6]
1842 by-election George Arkwright Conservative[6]
1845 by-election Sir Henry Barkly Conservative
1849 by-election Frederick Peel Conservative
1852 John George Phillimore Whig[9][10]
1856 by-election Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy Conservative
1857 John Willoughby Conservative
1858 by-election Charles Bateman-Hanbury Conservative
1865 Arthur Walsh Conservative
1866 by-election Richard Arkwright Conservative
1868 by-election Arthur Stanhope Conservative
1868 representation reduced from two Members to one

Members 1868–1885 (one)
ElectionMember[5]Party
1868 Richard Arkwright Conservative
1876 by-election Thomas Blake Liberal
1880 James Rankin Conservative
1885 Parliamentary borough abolished, name transferred to county constituency

Leominster county constituency

Members 1885–2010
YearMember[5]Party
1885 Thomas Duckham Liberal
1886 Sir James Rankin Conservative
1906 Edmund Lamb Liberal
1910 Sir James Rankin Conservative
1912 H. FitzHerbert Wright Unionist
1918 Charles Ward-Jackson Unionist
1922 Ernest Shepperson Unionist
1945 Archer Baldwin Conservative
1959 Clive Bossom Conservative
1974 Peter Temple-Morris Conservative
1997 Independent Conservative
1998 Labour
2001 Bill Wiggin Conservative
2010 Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

Stephenson was declared bankrupt and unseated, causing a by-election.

By-election, 11 February 1830: Leominster[6][11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Whig John Ward Unopposed
Whig gain from Tory
General election 1830: Leominster[6][11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Tory Beaumont Hotham Unopposed
Whig William Marshall Unopposed
Registered electors c. 740
Tory hold
Whig hold
General election 1831: Leominster[6][11]
Party Candidate Votes %
Whig William Bertram Evans 563 41.5
Whig Thomas Brayen 433 31.9
Tory Beaumont Hotham 362 26.7
Majority 71 5.2
Turnout 702 94.9
Registered electors c. 740
Whig hold
Whig gain from Tory

Brayen resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 22 December 1831: Leominster[6][11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Tory Beaumont Hotham 346 51.5
Whig William Fraser 326 48.5
Majority 20 3.0
Turnout 672 c. 90.8
Registered electors c. 740
Tory gain from Whig Swing
General election 1832: Leominster[6][12]
Party Candidate Votes %
Whig Thomas Bish Unopposed
Tory Beaumont Hotham Unopposed
Registered electors 779
Whig hold
Tory gain from Whig
General election 1835: Leominster[6][12]
Party Candidate Votes %
Whig Thomas Bish Unopposed
Conservative Beaumont Hotham Unopposed
Registered electors 694
Whig hold
Conservative hold
General election 1837: Leominster[6][12]
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative Beaumont Hotham 395 38.5
Whig Charles Greenaway 364 35.5
Conservative James Wigram 266 26.0
Turnout 579 86.3
Registered electors 671
Majority 31 3.0
Conservative hold
Majority 98 9.6
Whig hold

Elections in the 1840s
General election 1841: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative James Wigram Unopposed
Whig Charles Greenaway Unopposed
Registered electors 619
Conservative hold
Whig hold

Wigram resigned after being appointed as a Vice-Chancellor, causing a by-election.

By-election, 8 February 1842: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative George Arkwright Unopposed
Conservative gain from Whig

Greenaway resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

By-election, 26 April 1845: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Henry Barkly Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1847: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative George Arkwright Unopposed
Conservative Henry Barkly Unopposed
Registered electors 631
Conservative hold
Conservative gain from Whig

Barkly resigned after being appointed Governor of British Guiana, causing a by-election.

By-election, 6 February 1849: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Frederick Peel Unopposed
Conservative hold

Elections in the 1850s
General election 1852: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative George Arkwright 260 39.6 N/A
Whig John George Phillimore 206 31.4 N/A
Conservative John Willoughby 190 29.0 N/A
Turnout 328 (est) 59.5 (est) N/A
Registered electors 551
Majority 54 8.2 N/A
Conservative hold Swing N/A
Majority 16 2.4 N/A
Whig gain from Conservative Swing N/A

Arkwright's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 19 February 1856: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Gathorne Hardy 179 63.9 −4.7
Whig James Campbell[13][14] 101 36.1 +4.7
Majority 78 27.9 +19.7
Turnout 280 72.4 +12.9
Registered electors 387
Conservative hold Swing −4.7
General election 1857: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Gathorne Hardy Unopposed
Conservative John Willoughby Unopposed
Registered electors 370
Conservative hold
Conservative gain from Whig

Willoughby resigned after being appointed as a Member of the Council of India, causing a by-election.

By-election, 22 October 1858: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Charles Bateman-Hanbury Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election 1859: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Gathorne Hardy Unopposed
Conservative Charles Bateman-Hanbury Unopposed
Registered electors 392
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Elections in the 1860s
General election 1865: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Arthur Walsh 214 38.3 N/A
Conservative Gathorne Hardy 208 37.2 N/A
Liberal William Mathewson Hindmarch[15] 137 24.5 N/A
Majority 71 12.7 N/A
Turnout 348 94.8 N/A
Registered electors 367
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Hardy was also elected MP for Oxford University and opted to sit there, causing a by-election.

By-election, 26 February 1866: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Richard Arkwright Unopposed
Conservative hold

Walsh resigned in order to contest a by-election in Radnorshire, causing a by-election.

By-election, 27 April 1868: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Arthur Stanhope Unopposed
Conservative hold

Seat reduced to one member

General election 1868: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Richard Arkwright 432 71.3 −4.2
Liberal Thomas Spinks[16] 174 28.7 +4.2
Majority 258 42.6 +29.9
Turnout 606 68.7 −26.1
Registered electors 882
Conservative hold Swing −4.2

Elections in the 1870s
General election 1874: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Richard Arkwright Unopposed
Registered electors 905
Conservative hold

Arkwright resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 16 Feb 1876: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Thomas Blake 434 55.4 N/A
Conservative Charles Bateman-Hanbury-Kincaid-Lennox 349 44.6 N/A
Majority 85 10.9 N/A
Turnout 783 84.5 N/A
Registered electors 927
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing N/A

Elections in the 1880s
General election 1880: Leominster [12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative James Rankin 457 56.3 N/A
Liberal Thomas Blake 355 43.7 N/A
Majority 102 12.6 N/A
Turnout 812 90.2 N/A
Registered electors 900
Conservative hold Swing N/A
General election 1885: Leominster [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Thomas Duckham 3,871 50.8 +7.1
Conservative James Rankin 3,750 49.2 −7.1
Majority 121 1.6 N/A
Turnout 7,621 81.8 −8.4
Registered electors 9,314
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +7.1
James Rankin
General election 1886: Leominster [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative James Rankin 4,287 64.2 +15.0
Liberal Edward Scudamore Lucas 2,394 35.8 −15.0
Majority 1,893 28.4 N/A
Turnout 6,681 71.7 −10.1
Registered electors 9,314
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +15.0

Elections in the 1890s
General election 1892: Leominster [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative James Rankin 4,318 59.7 −4.5
Liberal James Tertius Southall 2,918 40.3 +4.5
Majority 1,400 19.4 −9.0
Turnout 7,236 74.0 +2.3
Registered electors 9,778
Conservative hold Swing −4.5
General election 1895: Leominster [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative James Rankin Unopposed
Conservative hold

Elections in the 1900s
General election 1900: Leominster [17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative James Rankin Unopposed
Conservative hold
General election January 1906: Leominster[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Edmund Lamb 3,892 50.2 N/A
Conservative James Rankin 3,864 49.8 N/A
Majority 28 0.4 N/A
Turnout 7,756 83.1 N/A
Registered electors 9,328
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing N/A

Elections in the 1910s
General election January 1910: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative James Rankin 4,822 54.7 +4.9
Liberal Edmund Lamb 3,991 45.3 −4.9
Majority 831 9.4 N/A
Turnout 8,813 91.0 +7.9
Registered electors 9,689
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +4.9
General election December 1910: Leominster[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative James Rankin 4,600 57.3 +2.6
Liberal Wyatt Wyatt-Paine 3,431 42.7 −2.6
Majority 1,169 14.6 +5.2
Turnout 8,031 82.9 −8.1
Registered electors 9,689
Conservative hold Swing +2.6
By-election, 1912: Leominster[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Henry Wright Unopposed
Unionist hold
General election 1918: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
C Unionist Charles Ward-Jackson 8,308 50.5 −6.8
Liberal Edmund Lamb 5,291 32.1 −10.6
National Farmers Union Ernest Wilfred Langford 2,870 17.4 N/A
Majority 3,017 18.4 +3.8
Turnout 16,469 62.9 −20.0
Registered electors 26,184
Unionist hold Swing +1.9
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.
  • Some records describe Lamb as an Independent Radical.
  • Langford was also a Liberal.

Elections in the 1920s
General election 1922: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Ernest Shepperson 10,978 53.1 +2.6
Liberal Geoffrey Mander 9,698 46.9 +14.8
Majority 1,280 6.2 −12.2
Turnout 20,676 79.0 +16.1
Registered electors 26,182
Unionist hold Swing −6.1
General election 1923: Leominster [19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Ernest Shepperson 11,582 57.3 +4.2
Liberal James Dockett 8,614 42.7 −4.2
Majority 2,968 14.6 +8.4
Turnout 20,196 75.8 −3.2
Registered electors 26,658
Unionist hold Swing +4.2
General election 1924: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Ernest Shepperson 12,470 64.4 +7.1
Liberal George Adolphus Edinger 6,897 35.6 −7.1
Majority 5,573 28.8 +14.2
Turnout 19,367 71.6 −4.2
Registered electors 27,033
Unionist hold Swing +7.1
General election 1929: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Ernest Shepperson 13,237 52.5 −11.9
Liberal George Adolphus Edinger 11,990 47.5 +11.9
Majority 1,247 5.0 −23.8
Turnout 25,227 76.3 +4.7
Registered electors 33,046
Unionist hold Swing −11.9

Elections in the 1930s
General election 1931: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Ernest Shepperson 16,916 63.3 +10.8
Liberal George Adolphus Edinger 9,803 36.7 −10.8
Majority 7,113 26.6
Turnout 26,719 79.9
Conservative hold Swing 10.8
General election 1935: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Ernest Shepperson 14,180 53.2 −10.1
Liberal Albert Ernest Farr 12,465 46.8 +10.1
Majority 1,715 6.4
Turnout 26,645 78.2
Conservative hold Swing −10.1

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;

General election 1945: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Archer Baldwin 14,224 51.1 −2.1
Liberal Albert Ernest Farr 13,586 48.9 +2.1
Majority 638 2.3
Turnout 74.4
Conservative hold Swing −2.1

Elections in the 1950s
General election 1950: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Archer Baldwin 18,036 55.86
Labour Edmund JM Jones 8,402 26.02
Liberal George Morgan-Harris 5,850 18.12
Majority 9,634 29.84
Turnout 80.85
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1951: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Archer Baldwin 19,952 66.75
Labour Edmund JM Jones 9,939 33.25
Majority 10,013 33.50
Turnout 74.16
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1955: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Archer Baldwin 18,487 65.49
Labour Alfred Evans 9,740 34.51
Majority 8,747 30.99
Turnout 70.40
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1959: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Clive Bossom 16,642 55.43
Liberal Grenville Jones 6,905 23.00
Labour Frederick W Bowerman 6,475 21.57
Majority 9,737 32.43
Turnout 76.38
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1960s
General election 1964: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Clive Bossom 15,238 50.91
Liberal Edward Paul Cadbury 8,941 29.87
Labour Kenneth A Gulleford 5,750 19.21
Majority 6,297 21.04
Turnout 77.13
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1966: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Clive Bossom 15,045 51.47
Liberal Edward Paul Cadbury 7,647 26.16
Labour K Roy Simmons 6,536 22.36
Majority 7,398 25.31
Turnout 75.17
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1970s
General election 1970: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Clive Bossom 17,630 57.97
Liberal Roger Pincham 6,462 21.25
Labour Martyn George Morgan Sloman 6,321 20.78
Majority 11,168 36.72
Turnout 72.84
Conservative hold Swing
General election February 1974: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Peter Temple-Morris 16,221 46.35
Liberal Roger Pincham 14,602 41.73
Labour CD Lindley 4,172 11.92
Majority 1,619 4.63
Turnout 80.07
Conservative hold Swing
General election October 1974: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Peter Temple-Morris 15,741 46.07
Liberal Roger Pincham 15,162 44.38
Labour S Allen 3,264 9.55
Majority 579 1.69
Turnout 77.56
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1979: Leominster
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Peter Temple-Morris 21,126 53.50
Liberal Roger Pincham 16,261 41.18
Labour PJ Dobbs 2,099 5.32
Majority 4,865 12.32
Turnout 81.90
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1980s
General election 1983: Leominster[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Peter Temple-Morris 29,276 56.99
Liberal Roger Pincham 19,490 37.94
Labour D Wilcox 1,932 3.76
Ecology Felicity Norman 668 1.3
Majority 9,786 19.05
Turnout 77.49
Conservative hold Swing
General election 1987: Leominster[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Peter Temple-Morris 31,396 57.86
Liberal Stephen Morris 17,321 31.92
Labour Arthur Chappell 4,444 8.19
Green Felicity Norman 1,102 2.0
Majority 14,075 25.94
Turnout 77.54
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1990s
General election 1992: Leominster[22][23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Peter Temple-Morris 32,783 56.6 −1.2
Liberal Democrats DC Short 16,103 27.8 −4.1
Labour Chris Chappell 6,874 11.9 +3.7
Green Felicity Norman 1,503 2.6 +0.6
Anti-Federalist League EP Carlisle 640 1.1 +1.1
Majority 16,680 28.8 +2.9
Turnout 57,903 81.7 +3.7
Conservative hold Swing +1.4
General election 1997: Leominster[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Peter Temple-Morris 22,888 45.3
Liberal Democrats Terry James 14,053 27.8
Labour Richard Westwood 8,831 17.5
Referendum Anthony Parkin 2,815 5.6
Green Felicity Norman 1,086 2.1
UKIP Richard Chamings 588 1.2
BNP John Haycock 292 0.6
Majority 8,835 17.5
Turnout 50,553 76.6
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 2000s
General election 2001: Leominster[25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Bill Wiggin 22,879 49.0 +3.7
Liberal Democrats Celia Downie 12,512 26.8 −1.0
Labour Stephen Hart 7,872 16.8 −0.6
Green Pippa Bennett 1,690 3.6 +1.5
UKIP Christopher Kingsley 1,590 3.4 +2.2
Independent John Haycock 186 0.4 N/A
Majority 10,367 22.2 +4.7
Turnout 46,729 69.4 −7.2
Conservative hold Swing +2.4
General election 2005: Leominster[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Bill Wiggin 25,407 52.1 +3.1
Liberal Democrats Caroline Williams 12,220 25.0 −1.7
Labour Paul Bell 7,424 15.2 −1.6
Green Felicity Norman 2,191 4.5 +0.9
UKIP Peter Whyte-Venables 1,551 3.2 −0.2
Majority 13,187 27.0 +4.8
Turnout 48,793 77.3 +7.9
Conservative hold Swing +2.4

See also

References

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