Coordinates: 51°44′24″N 0°20′13″W / 51.740°N 0.337°W
| St Albans County constituency |
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| St Albans shown within Hertfordshire, and Hertfordshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1554, 1885 |
| MP: | Anne Main |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Hertfordshire |
| EP constituency: | East of England |
St Albans is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Established in 1885, it is a county constituency in Hertfordshire, and elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election; between 1554 and 1852 there was a parliamentary borough of the same name, consisting only of the city of St Albans, which elected two MPs.
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Boundaries
The St Albans constituency lies is in the English county of Hertfordshire. It comprises the cathedral city of St Albans and some of the surrounding countryside, mainly to the south of the city.
When the constituency was created in 1885, it also included the areas of Barnet, Borehamwood, Elstree, Welwyn, Welwyn Garden City, Wheathampstead, and Harpenden, all of which were transferred to other constituencies at subsequent boundary redistributions.
History
The constituency elected a borough representative for over 300 years, until it was disenfranchised as a result of an electoral corruption in 1852. The constituency was re-established in 1885.
The constituency was historically held by the Conservative Party. Peter Lilley was a notable recent Conservative MP for the constituency. Following boundary changes in 1997, he moved to the newly created constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden.
Members of Parliament
1553-1640
- 1553-1554: John Maynard
- 1584-1598: Henry Maynard
- 1604-1611: Sir Thomas Parry
- 1604-1611: Sir Henry Holmes
- 1621-1622: Sir Thomas Richardson
- 1621-1622: Henry Meautys
- 1625-1626: Sir Charles Morrison
- 1628-1629: Sir John Jennings
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1640-1852
| Year | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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| April 1640 | ? | Sir John Jennings | Parliamentarian | |||
| November 1640 | Edward Wingate | Parliamentarian | ||||
| 1642 | Richard Jennings | Parliamentarian | ||||
| December 1648 | Wingate and Jennings excluded in Pride's Purge - both seats vacant | |||||
| 1653 | St Albans was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament | |||||
| 1654 | Alban Cox | St Albans had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |
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| 1656 | ||||||
| January 1659 | Richard Jennings | |||||
| May 1659 | Not represented in the restored Rump | |||||
| April 1660 | William Foxwist | Richard Jennings | ||||
| 1661 | Thomas Arris | |||||
| 1668 | Samuel Grimston | |||||
| February 1679 | Sir Thomas Pope Blount | John Gape | ||||
| August 1679 | Samuel Grimston | |||||
| 1685 | Captain George Churchill [1] | Thomas Docwra | ||||
| 1689 | Sir Samuel Grimston | |||||
| January 1701 | Joshua Lomax | |||||
| March 1701 | John Gape | |||||
| 1705 | Admiral Henry Killigrew | |||||
| 1708 | John Gape | Joshua Lomax | ||||
| 1710 | William Grimston [2] | |||||
| 1713 | William Hale [3] | |||||
| 1714 | John Gape | |||||
| 1715 | William Hale | |||||
| 1717 | Joshua Lomax | |||||
| 1722 | William Gore | William Clayton | ||||
| 1727 | The Viscount Grimston | Caleb Lomax | ||||
| 1730 | Thomas Gape | |||||
| 1733 | John Merrill | |||||
| 1734 | Sir Thomas Aston | Thomas Ashby | ||||
| 1741 | James West | |||||
| 1743 | Hans Stanley | |||||
| 1747 | Sir Peter Thompson | |||||
| 1754 | Hon. James Grimston [4] | |||||
| 1761 | Viscount Nuneham | |||||
| 1768 | (Sir) Richard Sutton [5] | John Radcliffe | ||||
| 1780 | William Charles Sloper | |||||
| 1783 | The Viscount Grimston | |||||
| 1784 | Hon. William Grimston | |||||
| 1790 | Hon. Richard Bingham [6] | Tory | John Calvert | |||
| 1796 | Thomas Skip Dyot Bucknall | Tory | ||||
| 1800 | William Stephen Poyntz | Whig | ||||
| 1802 | Hon. James Grimston | Tory | ||||
| 1807 | Joseph Thompson Halsey | Whig | ||||
| 1809 | Daniel Giles | Whig | ||||
| 1812 | Christopher Smith | Tory | ||||
| February 1818 | William Tierney Robarts | Whig | ||||
| June 1818 | Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill | Tory | ||||
| 1820 | Christopher Smith | Tory | ||||
| 1821 | Sir Henry Wright-Wilson | Tory | ||||
| 1826 | John Easthope | Whig | ||||
| 1830 | Viscount Grimston | Tory | Charles Tennant | Whig | ||
| 1831 | Sir Francis Vincent | Whig | Richard Godson | Whig | ||
| 1832 | Henry George Ward | Whig | ||||
| 1835 | Hon. Edward Harbottle Grimston | Conservative | ||||
| 1837 | George Alfred Muskett | Whig | ||||
| February 1841 | The Earl of Listowel | Whig | ||||
| June 1841 | George Repton | Conservative | ||||
| 1846 | Benjamin Bond Cabbell | Conservative | ||||
| 1847 | Alexander Raphael | Whig | ||||
| 1850 | Jacob Bell | Whig | ||||
| 1852 | Constituency disfranchised for corruption | |||||
1885-present day
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Viscount Grimston | Conservative | |
| 1892 | Vicary Gibbs | Conservative | |
| 1904 | John Bamford Slack | Liberal | |
| 1906 | Hildred Carlile | Conservative | |
| 1919 | Francis Edward Fremantle | Conservative | |
| 1943[7] | John Grimston | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Cyril Dumpleton | Labour | |
| 1950 | John Grimston | Conservative | |
| 1959 | Victor Goodhew | Conservative | |
| 1983 | Peter Lilley | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Kerry Pollard | Labour | |
| 2005 | Anne Main | Conservative | |
Election results
| Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [8] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Green | Pete Eggleston | ||||
| UKIP | Richard Evans | ||||
| Conservative | Anne Main | ||||
| Labour | Roma Mills | ||||
| Liberal Democrat | Sandy Walkington | ||||
| General Election 2005: St Albans | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Anne Main | 16,953 | 37.3 | +2.1 | |
| Labour | Kerry Pollard | 15,592 | 34.3 | −11.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Michael Green | 11,561 | 25.4 | +7.5 | |
| UKIP | Richard Evans | 707 | 1.6 | +0.2 | |
| St Albans Party | Janet Girsman | 430 | – | – | |
| Independent | Mark Reynolds | 219 | – | – | |
| Majority | 1,361 | 3.0 | – | ||
| Turnout | 45,462 | 70.0 | +3.7 | ||
| Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | 6.6 | |||
| General Election 2001: St Albans | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Kerry Pollard | 19,889 | 45.4 | +3.4 | |
| Conservative | Charles Elphicke | 15,423 | 35.2 | +2.0 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Nick Rijke | 7,847 | 17.9 | −3.1 | |
| UKIP | Chris Sherwin | 602 | 1.4 | – | |
| Majority | 4,466 | 10.2 | +1.4 | ||
| Turnout | 43,761 | 66.3 | −11.2 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | 0.7 | |||
| General Election 1997: St Albans | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Kerry Pollard | 21,338 | 42.0 | ||
| Conservative | David Rutley | 16,879 | 33.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Anthony Rowlands | 10,692 | 21.0 | ||
| Referendum Party | Jim Warrilow | 1,619 | 3.2 | – | |
| Rainbow Alliance | Sari Craigen | 166 | 0.3 | – | |
| Natural Law | Ian Docker | 111 | 0.2 | – | |
| Majority | 4,459 | 8.8 | |||
| Turnout | 50,805 | 77.5 | |||
| Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
See also
Notes and references
- ^ Admiral from 1702
- ^ Created The Viscount Grimston (in the Peerage of Ireland), November 1719
- ^ On petition (in a dispute over the franchise), Hale was found not to have been duly elected
- ^ The 2nd Viscount Grimston (in the Peerage of Ireland) from October 1756
- ^ Created a baronet, 1772
- ^ Styled Lord Bingham from October 1795, when his father was raised to an Earldom
- ^ New M.P. For St. Albans, The Times, October 06, 1943
- ^ St Albans, UKPollingReport
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links
- 2005 voting statistics from the BBC
- 2001 and 1997 voting statistics from the BBC
- OBV
- Coverage from The Times
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