Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)

Leominster was a parliamentary constituency represented until 1707 in the House of Commons of England, then until 1801 in that of Great Britain, and finally until 2010, when it disappeared in boundary changes, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Leominster
Former county constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Leominster in Herefordshire for the 2005 general election
Location of Herefordshire within England
County	Herefordshire
1885–2010
Seats	One
Created from	Herefordshire and Leominster
Replaced by	North Herefordshire
1295–1885
Seats	1295–1868: Two 1868–1885: One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency
Replaced by	Leominster

From 1295 to 1885, Leominster was a parliamentary borough which until 1868 elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election. Under the Reform Act 1867 its representation was reduced to one Member, elected by the first past the post system. The parliamentary borough was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and the name was transferred to a new county constituency.

History

Abolition

Following the review by the Boundary Commission for England of parliamentary representation in Herefordshire, no longer connected for such reasons with Worcestershire, two parliamentary constituencies have been allocated to the county. Most of the Leominster seat has been replaced by the North Herefordshire seat, while the remainder of the county is covered by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat.^[1]

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Leominster, and the Sessional Divisions of Bredwardine, Bromyard, Kingston, Leominster, Weobley, and Wigmore.

1918–1950: The Municipal Borough of Leominster, the Urban Districts of Bromyard and Kington, the Rural Districts of Bredwardine, Bromyard, Kington, Leominster, Weobley, and Wigmore, and parts of the Rural Districts of Hereford and Ledbury.

1950–1974: The Municipal Borough of Leominster, the Urban Districts of Bromyard, Kington, and Ledbury, the Rural Districts of Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster, and Weobley and Wigmore, and part of the Rural District of Hereford.

1974–1983: The Municipal Borough of Leominster, the Urban District of Kington, the Rural Districts of Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster, and Weobley and Wigmore, and part of the Rural District of Hereford.

1983–1997: The District of Leominster, the District of Malvern Hills wards of Baldwin, Bringsty, Broadheath, Bromyard, Butterley, Cradley, Frome, Frome Vale, Hallow, Hegdon, Hope End, Laugherne Hill, Leadon Vale, Ledbury, Leigh and Bransford, Marcle Ridge, Martley, Temeside, and Woodbury, and the District of South Herefordshire wards of Burghill, Burmarsh, Dinmore Hill, Hagley, Magna, Munstone, Swainshill, and Thinghill.

1997–2010: The District of Leominster, the District of Malvern Hills wards of Bringsty, Bromyard, Butterley, Cradley, Frome, Frome Vale, Hegdon, Hope End, Leadon Vale, Ledbury, and Marcle Ridge, the District of South Herefordshire wards of Backbury, Burghill, Burmarsh, Credenhill, Dinmore Hill, Hagley, Munstone, Swainshill, and Thinghill, and the District of Wyre Forest ward of Rock and Ribbesford.

In its final form, the constituency consisted of northern Herefordshire and a small part of north-west Worcestershire, the boundaries having been specified when the two were joined as the single county of Hereford and Worcester. In Herefordshire it included the towns of Bromyard, Kington and Ledbury as well as Leominster, while the largest settlement of Worcestershire it included was Tenbury Wells.

Members of Parliament

Leominster parliamentary borough

To 1660

Parliament	First member	Second member
1386	Robert Caldebrook	Walter Aston[2]
1388 (Feb)		John Montgomery[2]
1388 (Sep)	John Aston	Walter Aston[2]
1390 (Jan)	Hugh Aston	Peter Cook[2]
1390 (Nov)
1391	Peter Cook	John Bradford[2]
1393	Roger Loutwardin	John Hood[2]
1394
1395	Thomas Barber	Thomas Reynold[2]
1397 (Jan)	Thomas Reynold	William Colle[2]
1397 (Sep)	William Taverner	John Romayn[2]
1399	John Hood	Thomas White[2]
1401
1402	William Taverner	John Bond[2]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	William Taverner	William Tiler[2]
1407
1410	Edmund Morris	Walter Borgate[2]
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	John Salisbury	John Romayn[2]
1414 (Apr)
1414 (Nov)	William Colle	John Salisbury[2]
1415
1416 (Mar)	John Salisbury	Reynold Smith[2]
1416 (Oct)
1417	John Salisbury	John Braas[2]
1419	Thomas Hood	Reynold Smith[2]
1420		William Raves[2]
1421 (May)	William Stokes	John Hood[2]
1421 (Dec)	Thomas Hood	William Raves[2]
1510-1523	No names known[3]
1529	John Bell	John Hillesley [3]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	?
1545	?
1547	William Crowche	Richard Cupper [3]
1553 (Mar)	?
1553 (Oct)	William Strete	John Polle [3]
1554 (Apr)	Lewis Jones	John Evans [3]
1554 (Nov)	Nicholas Depden	Thomas Wykes [3]
1555	James Warnecombe	Thomas Kerry [3]
1558	Alban Birch	Richard Hakluyt [3]
1559	Thomas Hakluyt	Thomas Coningsby I[4]
1562–3	Thomas Dallowe	John Morgan[4]
1571	Edward Croft	Nicholas Depden [4]
1572	Nicholas Depden	Fabian Phillips[4]
1584	Thomas Wigmore	Edward Croft[4]
1586	Edward Croft	Thomas Wigmore[4]
1588	Thomas Shoter	Humphrey Wall[4]
1593	Sir Francis Vere	Richard Coningsby[4]
1597	Thomas Crompton	John Creswell[4]
1601	Thomas Coningsby	John Warnecombe[4]
1604		John Powle
1614	Sir Humphrey Baskerville	Thomas Coningsby
1621-1622	Francis Smallman	William Beecher
1624	James Tomkins	Sir William Beecher
1625		Edward Littleton
1626
1628		Edward Littleton, sat for Caernarvon and replaced by Thomas Lyttleton
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned
1640 (Apr)	William Smallman	Walter Kyrle
1640 (Nov)	Sampson Eure disabled 22 January 1644
1645	Walter Kyrle excluded in 1648	John Birch excluded in 1648
1653	Leominster not represented in Barebones Parliament
1654	John Birch	(One member only)
1656		(One member only)
1659		Edward Freeman

Members 1660-1868 (two)

Election	First member[5]		First party	Second member[5]		Second party
1660		Colonel John Birch			Edward Pytts
1661		Ranald Grahme			Humphrey Cornewall
Feb 1679		James Pytts			John Dutton Colt
Sep 1679		Thomas Coningsby, Lord Coningsby from 1691
1685					Robert Cornewall
1689					John Dutton Colt
1698					Edward Harley
Jan 1701					John Dutton Colt
Apr 1701					Edward Harley
1710		Edward Bangham
1713		Henry Gorges
1715		The Lord Coningsby
1717		George Caswall (expelled)
1721		William Bateman
1722		Sir Archer Croft			Sir George Caswall
1727		The Viscount Bateman
1734		Robert Harley
1741		John Caswall			Capel Hanbury
1742		Robert Harley
1747		Sir Robert de Cornwall			James Peachey
1754		Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams			Richard Gorges
1759		Chase Price
1761					Jenison Shafto
1767		Edward Willes
Feb 1768		John Carnac
Mar 1768					The Viscount Bateman	Tory[6]
1774		Thomas Hill	Tory[6]
1776		Frederick Cornewall
1780		Richard Payne Knight	Whig[6]
1784		John Hunter	Tory[6]		Penn Assheton Curzon
1790					John Sawyer
1791					Richard Beckford	Whig[6]
1796					George Augustus Pollen	Tory[6]
1797		William Taylor	Whig[6]
1802		John Lubbock			Charles Kinnaird	Whig[6]
Jan 1806					William Lamb
Nov 1806			Tory[6]		Henry Bonham	Tory[6]
1812		John Lubbock			John Harcourt	Whig[6]
1818					Sir William Cuningham-Fairlie	Tory[6]
1819					John Harcourt	Whig[6]
1820		The Lord Hotham			Sir William Cuningham-Fairlie	Tory[6]
1826					Thomas Bish	Whig
1827					Rowland Stephenson	Tory[6]
Feb 1830					John Ward	Whig[6]
Aug 1830					William Marshall
May 1831		William Bertram Evans	Whig[6]		Thomas Brayen
Dec 1831					The Lord Hotham	Tory[6]
1832		Thomas Bish
1834						Conservative[6]
1837		Charles Greenaway	Whig[6][7][8]
1841					James Wigram
1842 by-election					George Arkwright
1845 by-election		Sir Henry Barkly	Conservative
1849 by-election		Frederick Peel
1852		John George Phillimore	Whig[9][10]
1856 by-election					Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy
1857		John Willoughby	Conservative
1858 by-election		Charles Bateman-Hanbury
1865		Arthur Walsh
1866 by-election					Richard Arkwright
1868 by-election		Arthur Stanhope
1868	representation reduced from two Members to one

Members 1868–1885 (one)

Election		Member[5]	Party
	1868	Richard Arkwright	Conservative
	1876 by-election	Thomas Blake	Liberal
	1880	James Rankin	Conservative
	1885	Parliamentary borough abolished, name transferred to county constituency

Leominster county constituency

Members 1885–2010

Year		Member[5]	Party
	1885	Thomas Duckham	Liberal
	1886	Sir James Rankin	Conservative
	1906	Edmund Lamb	Liberal
	1910	Sir James Rankin	Conservative
	1912	H. FitzHerbert Wright	Unionist
	1918	Charles Ward-Jackson
	1922	Ernest Shepperson
	1945	Archer Baldwin	Conservative
	1959	Clive Bossom
	1974	Peter Temple-Morris
	1997		Independent Conservative
	1998		Labour
	2001	Bill Wiggin	Conservative
	2010	Constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

Stephenson was declared bankrupt and unseated, causing a by-election.

By-election, 11 February 1830: Leominster^[6][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	John Ward	Unopposed
	Whig gain from Tory

General election 1830: Leominster^[6][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Tory	Beaumont Hotham	Unopposed
	Whig	William Marshall	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 740
	Tory hold
	Whig hold

General election 1831: Leominster^[6][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	William Bertram Evans	563	41.5
	Whig	Thomas Brayen	433	31.9
	Tory	Beaumont Hotham	362	26.7
Majority			71	5.2
Turnout			702	94.9
Registered electors			c. 740
	Whig hold
	Whig gain from Tory

Brayen resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 22 December 1831: Leominster^[6][11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	Beaumont Hotham	346	51.5
	Whig	William Fraser	326	48.5
Majority			20	3.0	N/A
Turnout			672	c. 90.8
Registered electors			c. 740
	Tory gain from Whig		Swing

General election 1832: Leominster^[6][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Thomas Bish	Unopposed
	Tory	Beaumont Hotham	Unopposed
Registered electors			779
	Whig hold
	Tory gain from Whig

General election 1835: Leominster^[6][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Thomas Bish	Unopposed
	Conservative	Beaumont Hotham	Unopposed
Registered electors			694
	Whig hold
	Conservative hold

General election 1837: Leominster^[6][12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Beaumont Hotham	395	38.5
	Whig	Charles Greenaway	364	35.5
	Conservative	James Wigram	266	26.0
Turnout			579	86.3
Registered electors			671
Majority			31	3.0
	Conservative hold
Majority			98	9.5
	Whig hold

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1841: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Wigram	Unopposed
	Whig	Charles Greenaway	Unopposed
Registered electors			619
	Conservative hold
	Whig hold

Wigram resigned after being appointed as a Vice-Chancellor, causing a by-election.

By-election, 8 February 1842: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Arkwright	Unopposed
	Conservative gain from Whig

Greenaway resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

By-election, 26 April 1845: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Henry Barkly	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1847: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Arkwright	Unopposed
	Conservative	Henry Barkly	Unopposed
Registered electors			631
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Whig

Barkly resigned after being appointed Governor of British Guiana, causing a by-election.

By-election, 6 February 1849: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frederick Peel	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1852: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Arkwright	260	39.6	N/A
	Whig	John George Phillimore	206	31.4	New
	Conservative	John Willoughby	190	29.0	N/A
Turnout			328 (est)	59.5 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			551
Majority			54	8.2	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			16	2.4	N/A
	Whig gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

Arkwright's death caused a by-election.

By-election, 19 February 1856: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gathorne Hardy	179	63.9	−4.7
	Whig	James Campbell[13][14]	101	36.1	+4.7
Majority			78	27.8	+19.6
Turnout			280	72.4	+12.9
Registered electors			387
	Conservative hold		Swing	−4.7

General election 1857: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gathorne Hardy	Unopposed
	Conservative	John Willoughby	Unopposed
Registered electors			370
	Conservative hold
	Conservative gain from Whig

Willoughby resigned after being appointed as a Member of the Council of India, causing a by-election.

By-election, 22 October 1858: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Bateman-Hanbury	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election 1859: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gathorne Hardy	Unopposed
	Conservative	Charles Bateman-Hanbury	Unopposed
Registered electors			392
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1865: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Walsh	214	38.3	N/A
	Conservative	Gathorne Hardy	208	37.2	N/A
	Liberal	William Mathewson Hindmarch[15]	137	24.5	New
Majority			71	12.7	N/A
Turnout			348	94.8	N/A
Registered electors			367
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Hardy was also elected MP for Oxford University and opted to sit there, causing a by-election.

By-election, 26 February 1866: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Arkwright	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Walsh resigned in order to contest a by-election in Radnorshire, causing a by-election.

By-election, 27 April 1868: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Stanhope	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Seat reduced to one member

General election 1868: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Arkwright	432	71.3	−4.2
	Liberal	Thomas Spinks[16]	174	28.7	+4.2
Majority			258	42.6	+29.9
Turnout			606	68.7	−26.1
Registered electors			882
	Conservative hold		Swing	−4.2

Elections in the 1870s

General election 1874: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Arkwright	Unopposed
Registered electors			905
	Conservative hold

Arkwright resigned, causing a by-election.

By-election, 16 Feb 1876: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Blake	434	55.4	New
	Conservative	Charles Bateman-Hanbury-Kincaid-Lennox	349	44.6	N/A
Majority			85	10.8	N/A
Turnout			783	84.5	N/A
Registered electors			927
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1880s

General election 1880: Leominster ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Rankin	457	56.3	N/A
	Liberal	Thomas Blake	355	43.7	N/A
Majority			102	12.6	N/A
Turnout			812	90.2	N/A
Registered electors			900
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1885: Leominster ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Duckham	3,871	50.8	+7.1
	Conservative	James Rankin	3,750	49.2	−7.1
Majority			121	1.6	N/A
Turnout			7,621	81.8	−8.4
Registered electors			9,314
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.1

James Rankin

General election 1886: Leominster ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Rankin	4,287	64.2	+15.0
	Liberal	Edward Scudamore Lucas	2,394	35.8	−15.0
Majority			1,893	28.4	N/A
Turnout			6,681	71.7	−10.1
Registered electors			9,314
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+15.0

Elections in the 1890s

General election 1892: Leominster ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Rankin	4,318	59.7	−4.5
	Liberal	James Tertius Southall	2,918	40.3	+4.5
Majority			1,400	19.4	−9.0
Turnout			7,236	74.0	+2.3
Registered electors			9,778
	Conservative hold		Swing	−4.5

General election 1895: Leominster ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Rankin	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Elections in the 1900s

General election 1900: Leominster ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Rankin	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

General election January 1906: Leominster^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edmund Lamb	3,892	50.2	New
	Conservative	James Rankin	3,864	49.8	N/A
Majority			28	0.4	N/A
Turnout			7,756	83.1	N/A
Registered electors			9,328
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	N/A

Elections in the 1910s

General election January 1910: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Rankin	4,822	54.7	+4.9
	Liberal	Edmund Lamb	3,991	45.3	−4.9
Majority			831	9.4	N/A
Turnout			8,813	91.0	+7.9
Registered electors			9,689
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+4.9

General election December 1910: Leominster^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Rankin	4,600	57.3	+2.6
	Liberal	Wyatt Wyatt-Paine	3,431	42.7	−2.6
Majority			1,169	14.6	+5.2
Turnout			8,031	82.9	−8.1
Registered electors			9,689
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.6

By-election, 1912: Leominster^[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Henry Wright	Unopposed
	Unionist hold

General election 1918: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Charles Ward-Jackson	8,308	50.5	−6.8
	Liberal	Edmund Lamb	5,291	32.1	−10.6
	National Farmers Union	Ernest Wilfred Langford	2,870	17.4	New
Majority			3,017	18.4	+3.8
Turnout			16,469	62.9	−20.0
Registered electors			26,184
	Unionist hold		Swing	+1.9
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

• Some records describe Lamb as an Independent Radical.
• Langford was also a Liberal.

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Ernest Shepperson	10,978	53.1	+2.6
	Liberal	Geoffrey Mander	9,698	46.9	+14.8
Majority			1,280	6.2	−12.2
Turnout			20,676	79.0	+16.1
Registered electors			26,182
	Unionist hold		Swing	−6.1

General election 1923: Leominster ^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Ernest Shepperson	11,582	57.3	+4.2
	Liberal	James Dockett	8,614	42.7	−4.2
Majority			2,968	14.6	+8.4
Turnout			20,196	75.8	−3.2
Registered electors			26,658
	Unionist hold		Swing	+4.2

General election 1924: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Ernest Shepperson	12,470	64.4	+7.1
	Liberal	George Adolphus Edinger	6,897	35.6	−7.1
Majority			5,573	28.8	+14.2
Turnout			19,367	71.6	−4.2
Registered electors			27,033
	Unionist hold		Swing	+7.1

General election 1929: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Ernest Shepperson	13,237	52.5	−11.9
	Liberal	George Adolphus Edinger	11,990	47.5	+11.9
Majority			1,247	5.0	−23.8
Turnout			25,227	76.3	+4.7
Registered electors			33,046
	Unionist hold		Swing	−11.9

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ernest Shepperson	16,916	63.3	+10.8
	Liberal	George Adolphus Edinger	9,803	36.7	−10.8
Majority			7,113	26.6	+21.6
Turnout			26,719	79.9	+3.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	10.8

General election 1935: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ernest Shepperson	14,180	53.2	−10.1
	Liberal	Albert Edward Farr	12,465	46.8	+10.1
Majority			1,715	6.4	−20.2
Turnout			26,645	78.2	−1.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	−10.1

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939–40

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Ernest Shepperson
• Liberal: Albert Edward Farr

General election 1945: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Archer Baldwin	14,224	51.1	−2.1
	Liberal	Albert Edward Farr	13,586	48.9	+2.1
Majority			638	2.2	−4.2
Turnout			27,810	74.4	−3.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.1

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1950: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Archer Baldwin	18,036	55.86
	Labour	Edmund JM Jones	8,402	26.02	New
	Liberal	George Morgan-Harris	5,850	18.12
Majority			9,634	29.84
Turnout			32,288	80.85
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1951: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Archer Baldwin	19,952	66.75
	Labour	Edmund JM Jones	9,939	33.25
Majority			10,013	33.50
Turnout			29,891	74.16
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1955: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Archer Baldwin	18,487	65.49
	Labour	Alfred Evans	9,740	34.51
Majority			8,747	30.98
Turnout			28,227	70.40
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1959: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clive Bossom	16,642	55.43
	Liberal	Grenville Jones	6,905	23.00	New
	Labour	Frederick W Bowerman	6,475	21.57
Majority			9,737	32.43
Turnout			30,022	76.38
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1964: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clive Bossom	15,238	50.91
	Liberal	Edward Paul Cadbury	8,941	29.87
	Labour	Kenneth A Gulleford	5,750	19.21
Majority			6,297	21.04
Turnout			29,929	77.13
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1966: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clive Bossom	15,045	51.47
	Liberal	Edward Paul Cadbury	7,647	26.16
	Labour	K Roy Simmons	6,536	22.36
Majority			7,398	25.31
Turnout			29,228	75.17
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1970: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clive Bossom	17,630	57.97
	Liberal	Roger Pincham	6,462	21.25
	Labour	Martyn Sloman	6,321	20.78
Majority			11,168	36.72
Turnout			30,413	72.84
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election February 1974: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Temple-Morris	16,221	46.35
	Liberal	Roger Pincham	14,602	41.73
	Labour	Clive Lindley	4,172	11.92
Majority			1,619	4.62
Turnout			34,995	80.07
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election October 1974: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Temple-Morris	15,741	46.07
	Liberal	Roger Pincham	15,162	44.38
	Labour	S Allen	3,264	9.55
Majority			579	1.69
Turnout			34,167	77.56
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1979: Leominster

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Temple-Morris	21,126	53.50
	Liberal	Roger Pincham	16,261	41.18
	Labour	PJ Dobbs	2,099	5.32
Majority			4,865	12.32
Turnout			39,486	81.90
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Leominster^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Temple-Morris	29,276	56.99
	Liberal	Roger Pincham	19,490	37.94
	Labour	Donald Wilcox	1,932	3.76
	Ecology	Felicity Norman	668	1.30	New
Majority			9,786	19.05
Turnout			51,366	77.49
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1987: Leominster^[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Temple-Morris	31,396	57.86
	Liberal	Stephen Morris	17,321	31.92
	Labour	Arthur Chappell	4,444	8.19
	Green	Felicity Norman	1,102	2.00
Majority			14,075	25.94
Turnout			54,263	77.54
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Leominster^[22][23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Temple-Morris	32,783	56.6	−1.1
	Liberal Democrats	DC Short	16,103	27.8	−4.1
	Labour	Chris Chappell	6,874	11.9	+3.7
	Green	Felicity Norman	1,503	2.6	+0.6
	Anti-Federalist League	EP Carlisle	640	1.1	New
Majority			16,680	28.8	+2.9
Turnout			57,903	81.7	+3.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.4

General election 1997: Leominster^[24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Temple-Morris	22,888	45.3
	Liberal Democrats	Terry James	14,053	27.8
	Labour	Richard Westwood	8,831	17.5
	Referendum	Anthony Parkin	2,815	5.6	New
	Green	Felicity Norman	1,086	2.1
	UKIP	Richard Chamings	588	1.2	New
	BNP	John Haycock	292	0.6	New
Majority			8,835	17.5
Turnout			50,553	76.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2001: Leominster^[25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Wiggin	22,879	49.0	+3.7
	Liberal Democrats	Celia Downie	12,512	26.8	−1.0
	Labour	Stephen Hart	7,872	16.8	−0.7
	Green	Pippa Bennett	1,690	3.6	+1.5
	UKIP	Christopher Kingsley	1,590	3.4	+2.2
	Independent	John Haycock	186	0.4	New
Majority			10,367	22.2	+4.7
Turnout			46,729	69.4	−7.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.4

General election 2005: Leominster^[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bill Wiggin	25,407	52.1	+3.1
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline Williams	12,220	25.0	−1.8
	Labour	Paul Bell	7,424	15.2	−1.6
	Green	Felicity Norman	2,191	4.5	+0.9
	UKIP	Peter Whyte-Venables	1,551	3.2	−0.2
Majority			13,187	27.1	+4.9
Turnout			48,793	77.3	+7.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.4

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

References

Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

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External links

• Leominster UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK

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