Hereford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Hereford
Hereford
Former County constituency; for the House of Commons
	Boundary of Hereford in Herefordshire
	Location of Herefordshire within England
County	Herefordshire
Major settlements	Hereford
1918–2010
Seats	One
Replaced by	Hereford and South Herefordshire, North Herefordshire
1295–1918
Seats	1295–1885: Two; 1885–1918: One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency

Hereford (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–2010

Hereford was, until 2010, a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since 1918, it had elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system.

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Previously, Hereford had been a parliamentary borough which from 1295 to 1885 had elected two MPs, using the bloc vote system in contested elections. Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 the borough's representation had been reduced to one seat at the 1885 general election, and for the 1918 general election the borough was abolished and replaced with a county division which carried the same name but covered a wider geographical area.

History

Hereford sent two representatives to Parliament from the beginning of the reign of Edward I. Although a county town, the early elections were always held at a different location from those of the shire, the former taking place at the Guildhall, the latter in the castle.

In 1885, representation was reduced to one Member.

Journalist Robin Day stood as the Liberal candidate in the 1959 general election.

From 1931 until 1997, Hereford was held by the Conservative Party, before being taken by Paul Keetch of the Liberal Democrats at the 1997 general election. Keetch served as the Liberal Democrats' spokesman for defence from October 1999 until May 2005, and announced on 17 November 2006 that he would not be standing at the next election.

Following the review by the Boundary Commission for England of parliamentary representation in Herefordshire, taking effect at the 2010 general election, two parliamentary constituencies were allocated to the county. The Hereford seat was abolished and replaced by the Hereford and South Herefordshire seat, while the remainder of the county is covered by the North Herefordshire seat. ^[1]

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Parliament	First member	Second member
Jan. 1377	Richard Nash^[2]
1378	Thomas Whitefield^[2]
1379	Richard Nash^[2]
Jan.1380	Richard Nash^[2]
1381	Richard Nash^[2]
Oct. 1383	Richard Nash^[2]
1386	John Wych	Henry Catchpole I^[3]
1388 (Feb)	William Jonet	Thomas Chippenham I^[3]
1388 (Sep)	William Jonet	William Breinton^[3]
1390 (Jan)	John Wych	James Nash^[3]
1390 (Nov)	Henry Catchpole II	James Nash^[3]
1391	Thomas Buryton	John Prophet^[3]
1393	Thomas Buryton	John Wych^[3]
1394
1395	Hugh Wigan	William Speed^[3]
1397 (Jan)	Hugh Wigan	James Nash^[3]
1397 (Sep)	Hugh Wigan	Thomas Buryton^[3]
1399	James Nash	Thomas Buryton^[3]
1401	Hugh Wigan	Thomas Whitefield^[3]
1402	Thomas Chippenham I	John Troney^[3]
1404 (Jan)
1404 (Oct)
1406	Henry Chippenham	Hugh Wigan^[3]
1407	Hugh Wigan	Roger ...feld^[3] or Roger ...felde^{[note 1]}
1410
1411
1413 (Feb)
1413 (May)	Henry Chippenham	George Breinton^[3]
1414 (Apr)	John Wilton	Richard Strange^[3]
1414 (Nov)	Henry Chippenham	George Breinton^[3]
1415
1416 (Mar)	Henry Chippenham	George Breinton^[3]
1416 (Oct)
1417	John Wilton	John Orchard^[3]
1419	Richard Strange	John Abrahall^[3]
1420	Thomas Chippenham II	John Falk^[3]
1421 (May)	William Buryton	Richard Strange^[3]
1421 (Dec)	Henry Chippenham	Nicholas Chippenham^[3]
1426	Thomas Chippenham
1429	Thomas Chippenham	William Buryton^[5]
1431	Thomas Chippenham^[6]	William Buryton^[5]
1432	William Buryton^[5]
1437	William Buryton^[5]
1510
1512	Roland Brydges	Reginald Mynors^[7]
1515	Roland Brydges	Reginald Mynors^[7]
1523	?
1529	Richard Warnecombe	Thomas Havard^[7]
1536	?
1539	?
1542	Richard Warnecombe	Thomas Havard^[7]
1545	?
1547	Thomas Havard	William Berkeley, died and replaced Jan 1552 by John Warnecombe^[7]
1553 (Mar)	Hugh Welshe	?^[7]
1553 (Oct)	Sir John Price	Thomas Havard^[7]
1554 (Apr)	Thomas Havard	Thomas Bromwich^[7]
1554 (Nov)	William Smothye	Leonard Boldyng^[7]
1555	Hugh Gebons	Morgan Owgan^[7]
1558	Henry Dudeston	John Gibbs^[7]
1558–1559	John Kerry	Thomas Church^[8]
1562–1563	Thomas Webbe, died and replaced 1566 by John Hyde	Henry Green^[8]
1571	James Warnecombe	Thomas Church^[8]
1572 (Apr)	James Warnecombe	Gregory Price^[8]
1584	Gregory Price	James Boyle^[8]
1586 (Sep)	Gregory Price	Thomas Jones^[8]
1588	Gregory Price	Nicholas Garnons^[8]
1593	Gregory Price	Thomas Mallard^[8]
1597	Gregory Price	Anthony Pembridge^[8]
1601	Walter Hurdman	Thomas Jones^[8]
1604	Walter Hurdman	John Hoskins
1605	Anthony Pembrugge
1610	John Warden
1614	John Hoskins	John Warden
1621–1622	James Rodd	Richard Weaver
1624	Sir James Clerke	Richard Weaver
1625	Sir James Clerke	Richard Weaver
1626	Sir James Clerke	Richard Weaver
1628	The Viscount Scudamore	John Hoskins
1629–1640	No Parliaments summoned

Event		First member^[9]	First party		Second member^[9]	Second party
April 1640		Richard Weaver			Richard Seaborne
November 1640		Richard Weaver	Parliamentarian		Richard Seaborne	Royalist
1642		James Scudamore	Royalist
May 1643	Scudamore disabled from sitting – seat vacant
January 1644	Scudamore disabled from sitting – seat vacant			Seaborne disabled from sitting – seat vacant
1646		Bennet Hoskyns			Edmund Weaver^[10]
December 1648	Hoskyns excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant				Edmund Weaver^[10]
1653	Hereford was unrepresented in Barebone's Parliament
1654		Bennet Hoskyns		Hereford had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656		Colonel Wroth Rogers
January 1659		Nathan Rogers			Roger Bosworth
May 1659	Not represented in the restored Rump
April 1660		Herbert Westfaling			Roger Bosworth
November 1660		Herbert Westfaling			Sir Henry Lingen
April 1661		Sir Edward Hopton
September 1661		Herbert Westfaling
1662					Roger Vaughan
1673					The Viscount Scudamore
1679		Bridstock Harford			Paul Foley	Country Whig
1681		Herbert Aubrey			Paul Foley	Country Whig
1685		Herbert Aubrey			Thomas Geers
January 1689		Sir William Gregory			Paul Foley	Country Whig
June 1689		Henry Cornewall
1695		James Morgan
1698		Hon. James Brydges
1699					Samuel Pytts
1701					Thomas Foley
1715		The Viscount Scudamore
1717		Herbert Rudhale Westfaling
1722					William Mayo
1723					James Wallwyn
1727		Marquess of Carnarvon			Thomas Geers^[11]
1734		Thomas Foley			Sir John Morgan
1741		Edward Cope Hopton			Thomas Geers Winford
1747		Lieutenant General Henry Cornewall			Daniel Leighton
1754		Charles Fitzroy Scudamore			John Symons	Tory
1764		Charles Fitzroy Scudamore			John Scudamore	Whig^[12]
1768		(Sir) Richard Symons^[13]	Tory^[12]
April 1784		Earl of Surrey^[14]	Whig^[12]
July 1784		Robert Philipps	Whig^[12]
1785		James Walwyn	Whig^[12]
1796		James Walwyn	Whig^[12]		John Scudamore, junior	Whig^[12]
1800		Thomas Powell Symonds	Whig^[12]		John Scudamore, junior	Whig^[12]
1805					Richard Philip Scudamore	Whig^[12]
1818					Viscount Eastnor	Tory
1819		Richard Philip Scudamore	Whig^[12]
1826		Edward Clive	Whig^[12]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]
1832					Robert Biddulph	Whig^[12]
1837					Daniel Higford Davall Burr	Conservative^[12]
July 1841					Henry William Hobhouse	Whig^[12]^[17]^[18]
October 1841					Robert Pulsford	Whig^[12]^[19]^[20]
1845		Sir Robert Price, Bt	Whig^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]		Robert Pulsford	Whig^[12]^[19]^[20]
1847		Sir Robert Price, Bt	Whig^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]		Henry Morgan-Clifford	Whig^[26]^[27]^[28]
1857		George Clive	Whig^[29]^[30]			Whig^[26]^[27]^[28]
1859			Liberal			Liberal
1865					Richard Baggallay	Conservative
1868^[31]					John Wyllie	Liberal
1869		Edward Clive	Liberal		Chandos Wren-Hoskyns	Liberal
1871		George Arbuthnot	Conservative		Chandos Wren-Hoskyns	Liberal
1874		Evan Pateshall	Conservative		George Clive	Liberal
1878		George Arbuthnot	Conservative		George Clive	Liberal
1880		Joseph Pulley	Liberal		Robert Reid	Liberal
1885	Representation reduced to one member

	Member	Party
1885	Joseph Pulley	Liberal
1886	Sir Joseph Bailey	Conservative
1892	William Grenfell	Liberal
1893	Charles Cooke	Conservative
1900	John Arkwright	Conservative
1912	William Hewins	Unionist
1918	Charles Pulley	Unionist
1921	Samuel Roberts	Unionist
1929	Frank Owen	Liberal
1931	James Thomas	Conservative
1956	David Gibson-Watt	Conservative
1974	Colin Shepherd	Conservative
1997	Paul Keetch	Liberal Democrat
2010	constituency abolished

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Edward Clive	Unopposed
	Tory	John Somers-Cocks	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 1,110
	Whig hold
	Tory hold

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Edward Clive	Unopposed
	Tory	John Somers-Cocks	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 1,110
	Whig hold
	Tory hold

Hereford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Hereford (UK Parliament constituency)

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MPs 1885–2010

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Elections in the 1930s

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Elections in the 1950s

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Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 2000s

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Hereford
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Hereford in Herefordshire
Location of Herefordshire within England
County	Herefordshire
Major settlements	Hereford
1918–2010
Seats	One
Replaced by	Hereford and South Herefordshire, North Herefordshire
1295–1918
Seats	1295–1885: Two 1885–1918: One
Type of constituency	Borough constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Edward Clive	392	38.5
	Whig	Robert Biddulph	380	37.4
	Tory	Richard Blakemore	245	24.1
Majority			135	13.3
Turnout			610	66.3
Registered electors			920
	Whig hold
	Whig gain from Tory

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Clive	457	34.7	−3.8
	Whig	Robert Biddulph	435	33.0	−4.4
	Conservative	Richard Blakemore	426	32.3	+8.2
Majority			9	0.7	−12.6
Turnout			813	91.2	+24.9
Registered electors			891
	Whig hold		Swing	−4.0
	Whig hold		Swing	−4.3

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Clive	444	34.3	−0.4
	Conservative	Daniel Higford Davall Burr	430	33.2	+0.9
	Whig	Robert Biddulph	420	32.5	−0.5
Turnout			816	89.8	−1.4
Registered electors			909
Majority			14	1.1	+0.4
	Whig hold		Swing	−0.4
Majority			10	0.7	N/A
	Conservative gain from Whig		Swing	+0.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Edward Clive	531	39.7	+5.4
	Whig	Henry William Hobhouse	500	37.3	+4.8
	Conservative	Daniel Higford Davall Burr	308	23.0	−10.2
Majority			192	14.3	+13.2
Turnout			787	81.9	−7.9
Registered electors			961
	Whig hold		Swing	+5.3
	Whig gain from Conservative		Swing	+5.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Robert Pulsford	442	59.8	17.2
	Conservative	Edward Griffiths	297	40.2	17.2
Majority			145	19.6	5.3
Turnout			739	76.9	5.0
Registered electors			961
	Whig hold		Swing	17.2

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	Robert Price	Unopposed
	Whig	Henry Morgan-Clifford	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,061
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Robert Price	458	38.1	*N/A*
	Whig	Henry Morgan-Clifford	452	37.6	*N/A*
	Conservative	Augustus William Henry Meyrick^[34]	292	24.3	New
Majority			160	13.3	N/A
Turnout			747 (est)	73.7 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			1,013
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	George Clive	399	63.4	12.3
	Conservative	William Kevill Davies^[35]^[36]	230	36.6	12.3
Majority			169	26.8	13.5
Turnout			629	75.6	1.9
Registered electors			832
	Whig hold		Swing	12.3

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	George Clive	Unopposed
	Liberal	Henry Morgan-Clifford	Unopposed
Registered electors			971
	Liberal hold
	Liberal hold

General election 1885: Hereford ^[39]^[40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Pulley	1,360	51.2	5.7
	Conservative	William Henry Barneby	1,296	48.8	5.7
Majority			64	2.4	2.1
Turnout			2,656	88.5	1.0 (est)
Registered electors			3,002
	Liberal hold		Swing	5.7

General election 1895: Hereford ^[39]^[41]^[40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Cooke	1,669	55.2	7.4
	Liberal	Robert Pearce Edgcumbe	1,356	44.8	7.4
Majority			313	10.4	N/A
Turnout			3,025	90.9	2.5
Registered electors			3,328
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	7.4

General election December 1910: Hereford ^[42]^[40]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Arkwright	2,200	60.6	0.4
	Liberal	Joseph Davies	1,430	39.4	0.4
Majority			770	21.2	0.8
Turnout			3,630	89.3	5.5
Registered electors			4,066
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.4

General election 1918: Hereford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Charles Pulley	11,680	75.8	15.2
	Labour	Sidney Box	3,730	24.2	New
Majority			7,950	51.6	30.4
Turnout			15,410	54.6	24.7
Registered electors			28,246
	Unionist hold		Swing
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Baggallay	510	34.2	*New*
	Liberal	George Clive	499	33.4	*N/A*
	Liberal	Henry Morgan-Clifford	483	32.4	N/A
Majority			11	0.8	N/A
Turnout			1,001 (est)	82.4 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			1,215
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	N/A
	Liberal hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	George Clive	1,055	26.9	6.5
	Liberal	John Wyllie	1,015	25.9	6.5
	Conservative	Richard Baggallay	983	25.0	7.9
	Conservative	George Arbuthnot	872	22.2	5.1
Majority			32	0.9	N/A
Turnout			1,963 (est)	82.5 (est)	0.1
Registered electors			2,380
	Liberal hold		Swing	5.8
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	7.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Clive	1,064	28.0	1.1
	Liberal	Chandos Wren-Hoskyns	1,033	27.2	1.3
	Conservative	Richard Baggallay	871	23.0	2.0
	Conservative	George Arbuthnot	826	21.8	0.4
Majority			144	3.8	2.9
Turnout			1,897 (est)	79.7 (est)	2.8
Registered electors			2,380
	Liberal hold		Swing	1.6
	Liberal hold		Swing	0.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Arbuthnot	946	58.3	11.1
	Liberal	Arthur Hayter^[38]	678	41.7	11.1
Majority			268	16.6	N/A
Turnout			1,624	70.7	11.8
Registered electors			2,298
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	11.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Evan Pateshall	978	26.4	1.4
	Liberal	George Clive	921	24.9	2.0
	Conservative	George Arbuthnot	903	24.4	2.2
	Liberal	Joseph Pulley	902	24.4	1.5
Turnout			1,852 (est)	79.1 (est)	3.4
Registered electors			2,340
Majority			76	2.0	N/A
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	1.5
Majority			18	0.5	0.4
	Liberal hold		Swing	2.1

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Arbuthnot	1,110	51.0	0.2
	Liberal	Joseph Pulley	1,066	49.0	0.3
Majority			44	2.0	0.0
Turnout			2,176	82.7	3.6
Registered electors			2,631
	Conservative hold		Swing	0.2

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph Pulley	1,505	30.3	5.9
	Liberal	Robert Reid	1,321	26.6	1.7
	Conservative	George Arbuthnot	1,099	22.1	2.3
	Conservative	Frederick Dixon-Hartland	1,041	21.0	5.4
Majority			222	4.5	4.0
Turnout			2,483 (est)	87.5 (est)	8.4
Registered electors			2,837
	Liberal hold		Swing	4.9
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	2.8

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph Bailey	1,401	55.2	6.4
	Liberal	Joseph Pulley	1,136	44.8	6.4
Majority			265	10.4	N/A
Turnout			2,537	84.5	4.0
Registered electors			3,002
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	6.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Grenfell	1,507	52.2	7.4
	Conservative	Joseph Bailey	1,380	47.8	7.4
Majority			127	4.4	N/A
Turnout			2,887	88.4	3.9
Registered electors			3,267
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	7.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Cooke	1,504	50.7	2.9
	Liberal	Joseph Pulley	1,460	49.3	2.9
Majority			44	1.4	N/A
Turnout			2,964	86.8	1.6
Registered electors			3,415
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	2.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Arkwright	1,934	53.3	*N/A*
	Liberal	Edward Lucas-Scudamore	1,692	46.7	New
Majority			242	6.6	N/A
Turnout			3,626	94.1	N/A
Registered electors			3,852
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Arkwright	2,320	60.2	6.9
	Liberal	Evan Lewis Thomas	1,533	39.8	6.9
Majority			787	20.4	13.8
Turnout			3,853	94.8	0.7
Registered electors			4,066
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Unionist	William Hewins	Unopposed
	Liberal Unionist hold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
C	Unionist	Samuel Roberts	9,670	56.6	19.2
	Liberal	Ernest Wilfred Langford	7,411	43.4	New
Majority			2,259	13.2	38.4
Turnout			17,081	62.5	7.9
Registered electors			27,316
	Unionist hold		Swing	19.2
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Samuel Roberts	13,138	76.2	0.4
	Labour	James Jonas Dodd	4,094	23.8	0.4
Majority			9,044	52.4	0.8
Turnout			17,232	62.0	7.4
Registered electors			27,774
	Unionist hold		Swing	0.4

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Samuel Roberts	11,448	55.3	20.9
	Liberal	J. Howard Whitehouse	8,280	40.0	New
	Labour	Sidney Box	981	4.7	19.1
Majority			3,168	15.3	37.1
Turnout			20,709	72.6	10.6
Registered electors			28,538
	Unionist hold		Swing	0.9

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Samuel Roberts	13,210	60.6	5.3
	Liberal	J. Howard Whitehouse	8,604	39.4	0.6
Majority			4,606	21.2	5.9
Turnout			21,814	75.0	2.4
Registered electors			29,083
	Unionist hold		Swing	3.0

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Owen	14,208	48.7	9.3
	Unionist	Frederic Carnegie Romilly	13,087	44.8	15.8
	Labour	Henry Cooper	1,901	6.5	New
Majority			1,121	3.9	N/A
Turnout			29,196	78.9	3.9
Registered electors			36,984
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	12.6

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Thomas	19,418	60.90
	Liberal	Frank Owen	12,465	39.10
Majority			6,953	21.80	N/A
Turnout			31,883	83.85
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	James Thomas	18,234	61.84
	Liberal	Walter Dingley	8,853	30.03
	Labour	George Clarke	2,397	8.13	New
Majority			9,381	31.81
Turnout			29,484	74.67
	Conservative hold		Swing