Huntingdon County constituency
Huntingdon shown within Cambridgeshire, and Cambridgeshire shown within England
Created:	1885, 1983
MP:	Jonathan Djanogly
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Cambridgeshire
EP constituency:	East of England

Huntingdon is a 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.

In the 17th century, this was Oliver Cromwell's parliamentary area.

It was abolished in 1918 to re-create Huntingdonshire; that constituency was renamed, after slight boundary changes, to form the current constituency of Huntingdon.

The former Conservative Prime Minister John Major represented the seat from its re-creation in 1983 until his retirement in 2001.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 Boundary review 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 Before 1660 2.2 1660-1868 2.3 1868-1918 2.4 From 1983 3 Elections 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency consists of the towns of St Neots, Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester and a number of smaller settlements in the south-west part of Cambridgeshire (East Anglia), neighbouring Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire. There were minor boundary changes at the 1983 General Election.

[edit] Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cambridgeshire, the Boundary Commission for England has made minor alterations to the existing constituencies to deal with population changes. The electoral wards used to create the modified Huntingdon constituency to be fought at the 2010 general election are:

• Alconbury and The Stukeleys, Brampton, Buckden, Fenstanton, Godmanchester, Gransden and The Offords, Huntingdon East, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, Kimbolton and Staughton, Little Paxton, St Ives East, St Ives South, St Ives West, St Neots Eaton Ford, St Neots Eaton Socon, St Neots Eynesbury, St Neots Priory Park, and The Hemingfords all from the Huntingdonshire district.

[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] Before 1660

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1628 Oliver Cromwell

[edit] 1660-1868

Two members

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1660		John Bernard			Nicholas Pedley
1661		Sir John Cotton, 3rd Bt			Lionel Walden
Apr 1679		Sidney Wortley-Montagu			Sir Nicholas Pedley
Aug 1679					Lionel Walden
1685		Oliver Montagu
1689		John Bigg			Sidney Wortley-Montagu
1690		Richard Montagu
1695					John Pocklington
1697		Francis Wortley-Montagu
1698					Edward Carteret
1701					The Earl of Orrery
1702		Anthony Hammond
1705		Edward Wortley-Montagu			Sir John Cotton, 4th Bt
1706					John Pedley
1708					Francis Page
1713		Sidney Wortley-Montagu			Viscount Hinchingbrooke
1722		Edward Wortley-Montagu			Roger Handasyde
1734		Edward Montagu
May 1741					Hon. Wills Hill
Dec 1741					Albert Nesbitt
1747					Kelland Courtenay
1748					John Montagu
1754					Robert Jones
1768		Henry Seymour
Feb 1774		William Augustus Montagu
Oct 1774					George Wombwell
1776		The Baron Mulgrave
1780					Hugh Palliser
1784		Sir Walter Rawlinson			Lancelot Brown
1787					John Willett Payne
Jun 1790		Hon. John George Montagu
Dec 1790		Henry Speed
1796		William Henry Fellowes			John Calvert
1807		William Meeke Farmer
1809		Samuel Farmer
1818		William Augustus Montagu
1820		The Earl of Ancram	Tory
1824		James Stuart
1831		Jonathan Peel			Sir Frederick Pollock	Tory
1844					Thomas Baring	-

Reduced to one member in 1868

[edit] 1868-1918

One member

Year		Member	Party
	1868	Thomas Baring
	1873	Sir John Burgess Karslake	Conservative
	1876	Viscount Hinchingbrooke	Conservative
	1884	Sir Robert Peel	Conservative
	1885	Thomas Coote
	1886	Arthur Smith-Barry	Conservative
	1900	George Montagu	Conservative
	1906	Samuel Howard Whitbread	Liberal
	1910	John Cator	Conservative

• Constituency abolished (1918)

[edit] From 1983

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1983	Rt Hon John Major	Conservative	Cabinet minister 1987-90; Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister 1990-97
	2001	Jonathan Djanogly	Conservative

[edit] Elections

Confirmed candidates for the General Election 2010[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anthea Cox
	Conservative	Jonathan Djanogly
	UKIP	Jennifer O'Dell
	Monster Raving Loony	Lord Toby Jug[2]

General Election 2005: Huntingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Djanogly	26,646	50.8	+0.9
	Liberal Democrat	Julian Huppert	13,799	26.3	+2.4
	Labour	Stephen Sartain	9,821	18.7	-4.1
	UKIP	Derek Norman	2,152	4.1	+0.7
Majority			12,847	24.5	-1.5
Turnout			52,418	62.5	+1.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	-0.8

General Election 2001: Huntingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Djanogly	24,507	49.9	-5.4
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Pope	11,715	23.9	+9.1
	Labour	Takki Sulaiman	11,211	22.8	-0.6
	UKIP	Derek Norman	1,656	3.4	+2.8
Majority			12,792	26.0	-5.8
Turnout			49,089	61.1	-13.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	-7.3

General Election 1997: Huntingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Major	31,501	55.3	-9.9
	Labour	Jason Reece	13,361	23.5	+6.6
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Owen	8,390	14.7	-6.4
	Referendum Party	David Bellamy	3,114	5.5	N/A
	UKIP	C. Coyne	331	0.6	N/A
	Christian Democrat	V. Hufford	177	0.3	N/A
	Independent (politician)	D. Robertson	89	0.2	N/A
Majority			18,140	31.80	-6.8
Turnout			56,963	74.9	-4.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	-6.8

General Election 1992: Huntingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Major	48,662	66.2	+
	Labour	Hugh Seckleman	12,432	16.9
	Liberal Democrat	Matthew Owen	9,386	12.8
	Liberal	Paul Wiggin	1,045	1.4
	Green	Deborah Birkhead	846	1.2
	Monster Raving Loony	Screaming Lord Sutch	728	1.0
	Conservative Thatcheroid	M. Flanagan	231	0.3
	Gremloids	Lord Buckethead	107	0.1
	Forward to Mars Party	Charles S. Cockell	91	0.1
	Natural Law	D. Shepherd	26	0.0
Majority			36,230	49.30	+
Turnout				79.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Cambridgeshire
• North West Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

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