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New Forest (UK Parliament constituency)

Former parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom

Field	Value
name	New Forest
parliament	uk
image	[[File:NewForest1983Constituency.svg	150px	alt=Outline map]]
caption	New Forest in Hampshire, showing boundaries used from 1983–1997
year	1950
abolished	1997
year2	1885
abolished2	1918
type	County
elects_howmany	One
towns	Ringwood, Brockenhurst, Lyndhurst, Fordingbridge
elects_howmany2	One
previous	New Forest and Christchurch
next	New Forest West, New Forest East
next2	New Forest and Christchurch
previous2	South Hampshire
region	England
county	Hampshire

New Forest was a county constituency in south-west Hampshire which elected one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was first created under the Redistribution of Seats Act for the 1885 general election, and was abolished for the 1918 general election, when it was partially replaced by the New Forest and Christchurch constituency.

The seat was re-established for the 1950 general election and those thereafter, was significantly cut in size on the creation of the seat of Romsey in 1983 and was abolished for the 1997 general election, when the New Forest East and New Forest West seats were created using its remaining components.

In the British TV series House of Cards, this was the constituency represented by the main character, Francis Urquhart.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Borough of Romsey, the Sessional Divisions of Lymington and Ringwood, part of the Sessional Division of Romsey, and the civil parishes of Chilworth and North Shoreham.

1950–1955: The Borough of Lymington, and the Rural Districts of New Forest, and Ringwood and Fordingbridge.

1955–1974: The Borough of Lymington, the Rural District of Ringwood and Fordingbridge, and part of the Rural District of New Forest.

1974–1983: The Rural Districts of New Forest, and Ringwood and Fordingbridge.

1983–1997: The District of New Forest wards of Barton, Bashley, Becton, Boldre, Bransgore and Sopley, Brockenhurst, Copythorne South, Downlands, Fordingbridge, Forest North, Forest North West, Forest South, Forest West, Hordle, Lymington Town, Lyndhurst, Milford, Milton, Pennington, Ringwood North, Ringwood South, and Sway.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1885–1918

Election	n	1	date=March 2012}}
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1885	Francis Compton
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1892	John Douglas-Scott-Montagu
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1905 by-election	Henry Francis Compton
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1906	Robert Hobart
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		Jan 1910	Walter Frank Perkins
	1918	constituency abolished: see New Forest and Christchurch

MPs 1950–1997

Event	Member	Party	Notes
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1950	Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre	Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1968 by-election	Patrick McNair-Wilson	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished; see New Forest East & New Forest West

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 9,353

Elections in the 1890s

|reg. electors = 10,126

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 10,818

|reg. electors = 11,030

Elections in the 1910s

|reg. electors = 12,118

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

References

{{cite legislation UK. (1973)
{{Rayment-hc. n. 1. (March 2012)
(28 November 1885). "Polling in The Boroughs". [[London Evening Standard]].
British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 by Craig
"Election Data 1983". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1987". [[Electoral Calculus]].
"Election Data 1992". [[Electoral Calculus]].
(9 April 1992). "Politics Resources". Politics Resources.

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