Hitchin and Harpenden (UK Parliament constituency)

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Hitchin and Harpenden

County constituency
Hitchin and Harpenden shown within Hertfordshire, and Hertfordshire shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	Peter Lilley
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Hertfordshire
EP constituency:	East of England

Hitchin and Harpenden 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.

Boundaries

As well as the towns of Hitchin and Harpenden themselves, the constituency also includes Wheathampstead and a number of villages.

History

The constituency was created prior to the 1997 General Election. Hitchin was previously part of Hertfordshire North and Harpenden came under the St Albans constituency. The village of Wheathampstead also in this constituency was previously part of Welwyn Hatfield.

Members of Parliament

• 1997 – present: Peter Lilley, Conservative

Election results

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|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan=2 style="width: 130px"|Party ! style="width: 170px"|Candidate ! style="width: 50px"|Votes ! style="width: 40px"|% ! style="width: 40px"|±% |-

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|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan=2 style="width: 130px"|Party ! style="width: 170px"|Candidate ! style="width: 50px"|Votes ! style="width: 40px"|% ! style="width: 40px"|±% |-

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|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! colspan=2 style="width: 130px"|Party ! style="width: 170px"|Candidate ! style="width: 50px"|Votes ! style="width: 40px"|% ! style="width: 40px"|±% |-

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Hertfordshire

Constituencies in the East of England
Conservative	Billericay | Braintree | Brentwood and Ongar | Broxbourne | Bury St Edmunds | Castle Point | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich | Epping Forest | Harwich | Hemel Hempstead | Hertford and Stortford | Hertsmere | Hitchin and Harpenden | Huntingdon | Maldon and East Chelmsford | Mid Bedfordshire | Mid Norfolk | North Essex | North East Bedfordshire | North East Cambridgeshire | North East Hertfordshire | North West Cambridgeshire | North West Norfolk | Peterborough | Rayleigh | Rochford and Southend East | Saffron Walden | Southend West | South Cambridgeshire | South East Cambridgeshire | South Norfolk | South Suffolk | South West Bedfordshire | South West Hertfordshire | South West Norfolk | St Albans | Suffolk Coastal | Welwyn Hatfield | West Chelmsford | West Suffolk
Labour	Basildon | Bedford | Great Yarmouth | Harlow | Ipswich | Luton North | Luton South | Norwich North | Norwich South | Stevenage | Thurrock | Watford | Waveney
Liberal Democrat	Cambridge | Colchester | North Norfolk
East of England European constituency: Conservative (3) | UKIP (2) | Labour (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)

 

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