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| Mid Bedfordshire County constituency |
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| Mid Bedfordshire shown within Bedfordshire, and Bedfordshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1918 |
| MP: | Nadine Dorries |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Bedfordshire |
| EP constituency: | East of England |
Mid Bedfordshire is a county 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.
It has elected Conservative MPs since 1931. It was represented for 14 years by former Attorney General, Sir Nicholas Lyell, who transferred to the newly created seat of North East Bedfordshire in 1997, leaving Jonathan Sayeed, a former MP in Bristol in the 1980s, to hold the seat for the Tories. Sayeed was forced to retire at the general election eight years later due to the state of his health, following a row over allegations he had profited from private tours of Parliament and a resulting deselection attempt by the constituency party. Nadine Dorries has represented the seat since.
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Boundaries
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Bedfordshire and Luton, the Boundary Commission for England have made only minor changes to the existing constituencies.[1]
The Mid Bedfordshire seat was fought at the UK general election in 2005 and has been formed from electoral wards under the Borough of Bedford and Central Bedfordshire.
- From Bedford Borough Council:- Turvey, Wilshamstead and Wootton
- From Central Bedfordshire Council:- Ampthill, Aspley Guise, Barton-le-Clay, Clifton and Meppershall, Cranfield, Flitton, Greenfield and Pulloxhill, Flitwick East, Flitwick West, Harlington, Houghton, Haynes, Southill and Old Warden, Marston, Maulden and Clophill, Shefford, Campton and Gravenhurst, Shillington, Streatley, Stondon and Henlow Camp, Silsoe, Toddington, Westoning and Tingrith and Woburn
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1918 | Maximilian Gowran Townley | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Frederick Caesar Linfield | Liberal | |
| 1924 | William Ward Warner | Unionist | |
| 1929 | Milner Gray | Liberal | |
| 1931 | Alan Lennox-Boyd | Conservative | |
| 1960 by-election | Sir Stephen Hastings | Conservative | |
| 1983 | significant boundary change | ||
| 1983 | Sir Nicholas Lyell | Conservative | |
| 1997 | significant boundary change | ||
| 1997 | Jonathan Sayeed | Conservative | |
| 2005 | Nadine Dorries | Conservative | |
Election results
| General Election 2005: Mid Bedfordshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Nadine Dorries | 23,345 | 46.3 | −1.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Mark Chapman | 11,990 | 23.8 | +4.1 | |
| Labour | Martin Lindsay | 11,351 | 22.5 | −7.6 | |
| UKIP | Richard Joselyn | 1,372 | 2.7 | 0.0 | |
| Green | Ben Foley | 1,292 | 2.6 | N/A | |
| Veritas | Howard Martin | 769 | 1.5 | N/A | |
| Independent Candidate | Saqhib Ali[1] | 301 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 11,355 | 22.5 | |||
| Turnout | 50,420 | 68.3 | +2.4 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −2.6 | |||
| General Election 2001: Mid Bedfordshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Sayeed | 22,109 | 47.4 | +1.4 | |
| Labour | James Valentine | 14,043 | 30.1 | -2.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Graham Mabbutt | 9,205 | 19.7 | +2.9 | |
| UKIP | Chris Laurence | 1,281 | 2.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 8,066 | 17.3 | |||
| Turnout | 46,638 | 65.9 | -13.1 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | 1.9 | |||
| General Election 1997: Mid Bedfordshire | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Sayeed | 24,176 | 46.0 | -16.4 | |
| Labour | Neil Mallett | 17,086 | 32.5 | +12.7 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Tim J. Hill | 8,823 | 16.8 | +1.0 | |
| Referendum Party | Mrs. Shirley C. Marler | 2,257 | 4.3 | ||
| Natural Law | Marek J. Lorys | 174 | 0.3 | ||
| Turnout | 52,534 | 78.9 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -14.6%[2] | |||
Sources[3]
See also
References
- ^ Who we are
- ^ The swing was calculated by the BBC compared with a notional 1992 result. BBC Election '97
- ^ election.demon.co.uk 1997 General Election Results
BBC Vote 2001 Results
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