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Harrogate (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1950–1997

Summary

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1950–1997

Field	Value
name	Harrogate
parliament	uk
year	1950
abolished	1997
type	County
previous	Ripon
next	Harrogate and Knaresborough
towns	Harrogate and Knaresborough
region	England
county	North Yorkshire
elects_howmany	One

Harrogate ( ) was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. As with all constituencies, the constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The constituency was renamed Harrogate and Knaresborough in 1997.

Constituency profile

The seat covered an area with little unemployment, a relatively large retired population and large neighbourhoods of high house prices. Until former Chancellor Norman Lamont stood for the first time in the successor seat in the New Labour landslide general election in 1997, it had been part of a Conservative safe seat since 1910. However, Harrogate moved the way of other famous spa towns in England, such as Bath by returning a Liberal Democrat MP.

Boundaries

1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Harrogate, the Urban District of Knaresborough, and the Rural District of Nidderdale except the parishes of Hessay, Knapton, Moor Monkton, Nether Poppleton, Rufforth, and Upper Poppleton.

1983–1997: The Borough of Harrogate wards of Bilton, Claro, Duchy, East Central, Granby, Harlow, Knaresborough East, Knaresborough West, Marston Moor, Nether Poppleton, New Park, Ouseburn, Pannal, Spofforth, Starbeck, Upper Poppleton, Wedderburn, and West Central.

History

Before 1950 Harrogate had been part of the Ripon constituency. The constituency was created as 'Harrogate' and following boundary changes in 1997 the name was changed to Harrogate and Knaresborough.

Members of Parliament

Election	1	date=March 2012}}	Party
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	1950	Christopher York	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	1954 by-election	James Ramsden	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"	Feb 1974	Robert Banks	Conservative

Election results

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

References

[http://www.mouseprice.com/property-for-sale/harrogate+north+yorkshire Mouseprice.com heat map]
{{Rayment-hc. h. 1. (March 2012)
"Election Data 1983". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1987". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1992". [[Electoral Calculus]].

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