East Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)
East Hertfordshire | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1955–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Broxbourne, Hertford & Stortford and Stevenage[1] |
East Hertfordshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Hertfordshire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Boundaries
1955-1974: The Urban Districts of Bishop's Stortford, Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, Sawbridgeworth, and Ware, and the Rural Districts of Braughing and Ware.
1974-1983: The Urban Districts of Bishop's Stortford, Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, and Sawbridgeworth, and the Rural Districts of Braughing and Ware.
History
The constituency was created for the 1955 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election.
On its abolition, most of the seat (including Bishop's Stortford and Sawbridgeworth) was amalgamated with the Hertford and Ware half of Hertford and Stevenage to form the new Hertford and Stortford constituency, while Cheshunt and Hoddesdon were carved off to create the heart of the new Broxbourne constituency.
The writer and TV playwright Dennis Potter was the Labour Party candidate in the constituency at the 1964 general election, but finished second behind the Conservative incumbent. His experience inspired Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton.
Member of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1955 | Sir Derek Walker-Smith | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished: see Hertford and Stortford & Broxbourne |
Elections
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Derek Colclough Walker-Smith | 26,936 | 56.88 | ||
Labour | William Samuel Hilton | 20,418 | 43.12 | ||
Majority | 6,518 | 13.76 | |||
Turnout | 79.11 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Derek Colclough Walker-Smith | 28,201 | 51.39 | ||
Labour | Sydney James Bidwell | 18,020 | 32.84 | ||
Liberal | Kenneth John Whitehead Spargo | 8,656 | 15.77 | ||
Majority | 10,181 | 18.55 | |||
Turnout | 82.01 | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Derek Colclough Walker-Smith | 29,749 | 48.20 | ||
Labour | Dennis Christopher George Potter | 21,887 | 35.46 | ||
Liberal | Eric W Morgan | 10,088 | 16.34 | ||
Majority | 7,862 | 12.74 | |||
Turnout | 81.02 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Derek Colclough Walker-Smith | 29,618 | 46.62 | ||
Labour | Brian CS Murphy | 24,412 | 38.43 | ||
Liberal | Eric W Morgan | 9,501 | 14.95 | ||
Majority | 5,206 | 8.19 | |||
Turnout | 80.09 | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Derek Colclough Walker-Smith | 37,668 | 54.74 | ||
Labour | Michael Stuart Thomas | 23,601 | 34.30 | ||
Liberal | David Walsh | 7,538 | 10.96 | ||
Majority | 14,067 | 20.44 | |||
Turnout | 73.51 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Derek Colclough Walker-Smith | 32,032 | 44.96 | ||
Labour | MM Keir | 20,674 | 29.02 | ||
Liberal | PC Clark | 18,546 | 26.03 | ||
Majority | 11,358 | 15.94 | |||
Turnout | 80.98 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Derek Colclough Walker-Smith | 29,334 | 44.59 | ||
Labour | MM Keir | 20,999 | 31.92 | ||
Liberal | PC Clark | 15,446 | 23.48 | ||
Majority | 8,335 | 12.67 | |||
Turnout | 74.04 | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Derek Colclough Walker-Smith | 41,599 | 55.50 | ||
Labour | IJ Evans | 20,139 | 26.87 | ||
Liberal | Lesley Julia Abdela | 11,393 | 15.20 | ||
National Front | J Smith | 1,819 | 2.43 | ||
Majority | 21,460 | 28.63 | |||
Turnout | 77.81 | ||||
References
- ↑ "'Hertfordshire East', Feb 1974 - May 1983". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- Robert Waller, The Almanac of British Politics (1st edition, London: Croom Helm, 1983)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)