Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

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Abingdon County constituency
Created:	1885
Abolished:	1983
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Abingdon Borough constituency
Created:	1558
Abolished:	1885
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

Abingdon was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (and its predecessor institutions for England and Great Britain) until 1983.

The area was enfranchised by Queen Mary I of England as a borough constituency, and held its first Parliamentary election in 1558. It was one of the few English constituencies in the unreformed House of Commons to elect only one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

In 1885 the borough constituency was abolished and the Abingdon county division of Berkshire was established, located in the northern part of the historic county.

In 1983, following changes in administrative boundaries which had placed the town of Abingdon in the county of Oxfordshire, the constituency was altered to Oxford West and Abingdon.

[edit] Members of Parliament 1660-1983

	Member	Party
1660	Sir George Stonhouse, 3rd Bt.
1675	Sir John Stonhouse, 2nd Bt.
January 1689	Thomas Medlycott
May 1689	John Southby
January 1690	Sir John Stonhouse, 2nd Bt.
February 1690	Sir Simon Harcourt	Tory
1705	Grey Nevill
1708	Sir Simon Harcourt	Tory
1709	William Hucks
October 1710	Sir Simon Harcourt	Tory
December 1710	James Jennings
1713	Hon. Simon Harcourt
1715	James Jennings
1722	Robert Hucks
1741	John Wright
1747	John Morton	Tory
1770	Nathaniel Bayly	Whig
1774	John Mayor	Tory
1782	Henry Howorth
1783	Edward Loveden Loveden	Whig
1796	Sir Thomas Metcalfe	Tory
1807	George Knapp	Whig
1809	Henry Bowyer
1811	Sir George Bowyer, 6th Bt.	Whig
1818	John Maberly	Whig
1832	Thomas Duffield	Conservative
1844	Sir Frederick Thesiger	Conservative
July 1852	James Caulfeild	Liberal
December 1852	Lord Norreys	Liberal
1854	Joseph Haythorne Reed	Liberal
1857	John Thomas Norris	Liberal
1865	Hon. Charles Hugh Lindsay	Conservative
1874	John Creemer Clarke	Liberal
1885	Philip Wroughton	Conservative
1895	Archie Kirkman Loyd	Conservative
1906	Edward Anthony Strauss	Liberal
1910	Harold Greenwood Henderson	Conservative
1916	Archie Kirkman Loyd	Conservative
1918	John Tyson Wigan	Coalition Conservative
1921	Arthur Thomas Loyd	Coalition Conservative (Conservative 1922)
1923	Edward Albert Lessing	Liberal
1924	Sir Ralph George Campbell Glyn, 1st Bt.	Conservative
1953	Airey Neave	Conservative
1979	Thomas Yates Benyon	Conservative

Constituency abolished (1983)
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

[edit] Elections

Sources 1754-1784: Namier and Brooke; (parties) Stooks Smith. Positive swing is from Whig to Tory.

General Election 15 April 1754: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	John Morton	133	57.08	N/A
	Non Partisan	Henry Thrale	100	42.92	N/A
Majority			33	14.16	N/A
Turnout			233	N/A	N/A
	Tory hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 25 March 1761: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	John Morton	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory hold		Swing	N/A

Seat vacated on appointment of Morton as Chief Justice of Chester

By-Election 15 December 1762: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	John Morton	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 17 March 1768: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	John Morton	126	50.40	N/A
	Whig	Nathaniel Bayly	124	49.60	N/A
Majority			2	0.80	N/A
Turnout			250	N/A	N/A
	Tory hold		Swing	N/A

On petition Nathaniel Bayly seated in place of John Morton, 8 February 1770

General Election 7 October 1774: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	John Mayor	146	55.73	+5.33
	Whig	Thomas Wooldridge	116	44.27	-5.33
Majority			30	11.45	+10.65
Turnout			262	N/A	N/A
	Tory hold		Swing	+5.33

Tory hold from previous general election; Tory gain from Whig, from change on petition.
Election declared void, 6 March 1775

By-Election 11 March 1775: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	John Mayor	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Tory hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 6 September 1780: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Tory	John Mayor	137	71.35	+15.62
	Whig	Thomas Wooldridge	55	28.65	-15.62
Majority			82	42.71	+31.26
Turnout			192	N/A	N/A
	Tory hold		Swing	+15.62

Change is calculated from the previous general election.
Resignation of Mayor.

By-Election 21 December 1782: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Non Partisan	Henry Howorth	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Non Partisan gain from Tory		Swing	N/A

Resignation of Howorth

By-Election 19 May 1783: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Loveden Loveden	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Whig gain from Non Partisan		Swing	N/A

General Election 20 March 1784: Abingdon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Loveden Loveden	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A

[edit] References

Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1972)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1974)
British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1977)
The House of Commons 1754-1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)
The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), second edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)

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Abingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

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