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Oswestry (UK Parliament constituency)

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1983

Summary

Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1885–1983

Field	Value
name	Oswestry
type	County
parliament	uk
image	[[File:1918-1949_Oswestry.png	250px	]]
caption	Oswestry in Shropshire, 1918–1950
year	1885
abolished	1983
elects_howmany	one
previous	North Shropshire
next	North Shropshire

|}} Oswestry was a United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1983, when it was renamed North Shropshire. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post method of election.

Boundaries

1885–1918: The Borough of Oswestry, the Sessional Divisions of Chirbury, Condover, Ford, Oswestry, and Pimhill (except Myddle), and the parish of Fitz.

1918–1949: The Borough of Oswestry, the Urban Districts of Ellesmere, Market Drayton, Wem, and Whitchurch, and the Rural Districts of Drayton, Ellesmere, Oswestry, Wem, and Whitchurch.

1950–1966: The Borough of Oswestry, the Urban Districts of Ellesmere, Market Drayton, Wem, and Whitchurch, and the Rural Districts of Drayton, Ellesmere, Oswestry, and Wem.

1966–1967: The Borough of Oswestry, the Urban Districts of Ellesmere, Wem, and Whitchurch, and the Rural Districts of Ellesmere, Market Drayton, Oswestry, and Wem.

1967–1974: The Rural Districts of Market Drayton, North Shropshire and Oswestry.

1974–1983: The District of North Shropshire and the Borough of Oswestry.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1885	Stanley Leighton
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1901 by-election	George Ormsby-Gore
Liberal Party (UK)}}"		1904	Allan Heywood Bright
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1906	William Bridgeman
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1929	Bertie Leighton
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1945	Oliver Poole
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1950	David Ormsby-Gore
Conservative Party (UK)}}"		1961	John Biffen
	1983	Constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 10,083

Elections in the 1890s

|reg. electors = 9,958

Elections in the 1900s

|reg. electors = 9,998 |reg. electors = 10,075 |reg. electors = 10,490

Elections in the 1910s

|reg. electors = 10,151 |reg. electors = 10,151 General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Unionist: William Bridgeman
Liberal:

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939–40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

Conservative: Bertie Leighton
Liberal:

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

References

The Liberal Year Book, 1907
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1886
(1974). "British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918". Macmillan Press.
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig

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