Wells (UK Parliament constituency)

Wells County constituency
Wells shown within Somerset, and Somerset shown within England
Created:	1295, 1885
MP:	David Heathcoat-Amory
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Somerset
EP constituency:	South West England

Wells is a county constituency centred on the city of Wells in Somerset. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system. The original two member borough constituency was created in 1295, and abolished by the Reform Act 1867 with effect from the 1868 general election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 MPs 1660-1832 2.2 MPs 1832-1868 2.3 MPs 1885-present 3 Election results 4 See also 5 References

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

MPs 1660-1832

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1660		Thomas White			Henry Bull
1661		Lord Richard Butler			Sir Maurice Berkeley
1671		John Hall
1679		Edward Berkeley			William Coward
1680		John Hall
1685		Thomas Wyndham			Edward Berkeley
Jan 1690		William Coward
Feb 1690		Hopton Wyndham
1695		William Coward
1701					Henry Seymour Portman
1705		Maurice Berkeley
1708		Edward Colston			William Coward
1710					Maurice Berkeley
1713		Sir Thomas Wroth
1715		Thomas Strangways Horner
May 1716		William Coward			William Piers
Jun 1716		Thomas Strangways Horner
1717		John Dodd
1719		Thomas Edwards
1722					Francis Gwyn
1727					Edward Prideaux Gwyn
1729					William Piers
1734					George Hamilton
1735		William Piers			George Speke
1741		Francis Gwyn
1747					George Hamilton
1754		Edward Digby, Baron Digby			Charles Tudway
1757		Robert Digby
1761		Henry Digby, Baron Digby			Clement Tudway
1765		Robert Child
1782		John Curtis
1784		William Thomas Beckford
1790		Henry Berkeley Portman
1796		Charles William Taylor
1815					John Paine Tudway
1830		John Edwards-Vaughan			John Lee Lee

MPs 1832-1868

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832		Norman Lamont			John Lee Lee
1834		Nicholas William Ridley Colborne
1837		Richard Blakemore			William Goodenough Hayter	Whig
1852		Robert Charles Tudway
1855		Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe	Conservative
1865					Arthur Divett Hayter
1868	borough constituency abolished

MPs 1885-present

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Sir Richard Horner Paget, Bt.
	1895	Hylton Jolliffe	Conservative
	1899	Robert Edmund Dickinson
	1906	Thomas Ball Silcock	Liberal
	Jan 1910	George John Sandys	Conservative
	1918	Harry Greer	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Robert Bruford	Conservative
	1923	Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse	Liberal
	1924	Sir Robert Arthur Sandars, Bt.	Conservative
	1929	Anthony John Muirhead	Conservative
	1939	Lt. Col. Dennis Coleridge Boles	Conservative
	1951	Lynch Maydon	Conservative
	1970	Robert Boscawen	Conservative
	1983	David Heathcoat-Amory	Conservative

Election results

General Election 2005: Wells
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Heathcoat-Amory	23,071	43.6	−0.2
	Liberal Democrat	Tessa Munt	20,031	37.8	−0.5
	Labour	Dan Whittle	8,288	15.6	+0.2
	UK Independence	Steve Reed	1,575	3.0	+0.8
Majority			3,040	5.7
Turnout			52,965	68.0	−1.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.1

General Election 2001: Wells
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Heathcoat-Amory	22,462	43.8	+4.4
	Liberal Democrat	Graham Oakes	19,666	38.3	-0.1
	Labour	Andy Merryfield	7,915	15.4	-2.7
	UK Independence	Steve Reed	1,104	2.2	N/A
	Wessex Regionalist	Colin Bex	167	0.3	N/A
Majority			2,796	5.5
Turnout			51,314	69.2	-8.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset

References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

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