South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Shropshire
South Shropshire
County constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundaries since 2024
	Boundary of South Shropshire in West Midlands region
County	Shropshire
Major settlements	Bridgnorth, Ludlow
Current constituency
Created	2024
Member of Parliament	Stuart Anderson (Conservative)
Seats	One
Created from	Ludlow; Shrewsbury and Atcham (minor part);
1832–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	Bishop's Castle and Shropshire
Replaced by	Ludlow and Wellington

South Shropshire is a county constituency in Shropshire. It was first created in 1832 and was represented by two Knights of the Shire.

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The constituency was abolished, along with North Shropshire, under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, with effect from the 1885 general election. The county was then split into four single-member constituencies: Ludlow, Newport, Oswestry and Wellington.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2024 general election, formed from the current constituency of Ludlow with only minor boundary changes.^[1] It has been represented since 2024 by Stuart Anderson of the Conservative Party.

	First member	First party	Second member	Second party
1832	The Earl of Darlington	Tory^[4]	Hon. Robert Clive	Tory^[4]
1834	The Earl of Darlington	Conservative^[4]		Conservative^[4]
1842 by-election	Viscount Newport	Conservative^[4]		Conservative^[4]
1854 by-election			Hon. Robert Windsor-Clive	Conservative
1859 by-election			Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bt	Conservative
April 1865 by-election	Hon. Sir Percy Egerton Herbert	Conservative	Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bt	Conservative
July 1865			Jasper More	Liberal
1868			Edward Corbett	Conservative
1876 by-election	John Edmund Severne	Conservative	Edward Corbett	Conservative
1877 by-election	John Edmund Severne	Conservative	Sir Baldwyn Leighton, Bt	Conservative
1885	Constituency abolished

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stuart Anderson	17,628	34.1	−31.3
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew Green	16,004	31.0	+15.6
	Reform UK	Charles Shackerley-Bennett	9,171	17.8	N/A
	Labour	Simon Thomson	6,939	13.4	−2.4
	Green	Hilary Wendt	1,911	3.7	+0.2
Majority			1,624	3.1	N/A
Turnout			51,653	67.6	N/A
Registered electors			76,723
	Conservative win (new seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Baldwyn Leighton	2,491	29.3	*N/A*
	Conservative	John Edmund Severne	2,216	26.1	*N/A*
	Liberal	Jasper More	2,149	25.3	New
	Liberal	John William Handley Davenport^[8]	1,634	19.2	New
Majority			67	0.8	N/A
Turnout			4,245 (est)	74.6 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			5,690
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Baldwyn Leighton	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Edmund Severne	Unopposed
	Conservative hold

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