St Albans (UK Parliament constituency)

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St Albans
County constituency

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. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents

1 Boundaries
2 History
3 Members of Parliament
4 Election results
5 See also
6 External links

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.

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.

History

Prior to 1997 the St Albans parliamentary constituency included the town of Harpenden, and 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 contest the newly created neighbouring constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden.

Members of Parliament

1945 – 1950: Cyril Dumpleton, Labour
1950 – 1959: John Grimston, Conservative
1959 – 1983: Victor Goodhew, Conservative
1983 – 1997: Peter Lilley, Conservative
1997 – 2005: Kerry Pollard, Labour
2005 – "present": Anne Main, Conservative

Election results

External links

[2005 voting statistics] from the BBC
[2001 and 1997 voting statistics] from the BBC
[OBV]
[Coverage from] The Times

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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