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Chippenham will be a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like all such constituencies, it will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The original borough constituency was enfranchised in 1295. It sent two burgesses to Parliament until 1868 and one thereafter until the borough constituency was abolished in 1885. There was a county division constituency named after the town of Chippenham from 1885 to 1983, when the name of that constituency was changed to North Wiltshire.

Following the 2003–2005 review into parliamentary representation in Wiltshire, the Boundary Commission created a new constituency, reviving the name of Chippenham as a seat. It is formed from parts of the existing

• Devizes (UK Parliament constituency),
• North Wiltshire (UK Parliament constituency), and
• Westbury (UK Parliament constituency) constituencies.

Meanwhile, the name of the latter seat changes to South West Wiltshire. After a review process, the new seat was approved in 2005.

Contents 1 Boundaries 1.1 1295 to 1983 1.2 Modern Constituency 2 Members of Parliament 2.1 1295-1640 2.2 1640-1868 2.3 1868-1983 3 Election results 3.1 Elections in the 1940s 3.2 Elections in the 1960s 3.3 Future elections 4 See also 5 References

1295-1832: The parliamentary borough of Chippenham in the unreformed Parliament consisted of only part of the parish of Chippenham in Wiltshire. (However, as Chippenham was a burgage borough, in which the right to vote was confined to the resident occupiers of specific properties, the boundary had no practical function.) The borough had a population of 1,620 in 1831, and 283 houses.

1832-1885: The Boundary Act which accompanied the Great Reform Act extended the boundaries of the parliamentary borough, to include the whole of Chippenham parish, the adjoining parishes of Hardenhuish and Langley Burrell, and the extra-parochial district of Pewisham. This more than trebled the borough's population, to 5,270 by the 1831 figures, and 883 houses.

1885-1918: During this period, Wiltshire was split into five county divisions and one borough, of which The North-Western (or Chippenham) Division of Wiltshire was one; it was often colloquially referred to simply as either Chippenham or as North-West Wiltshire. It was bordered by the Cricklade division to the east, Westbury to the south and Devizes to the south-east. (Over the county boundary were the Thornbury division of Gloucestershire to the west, the Cirencester division of Gloucestershire to the north and the Frome division of Somerset to the south-west.)

The Chippenham division included the towns of Calne and Malmesbury as well as Chippenham, both of which had also been parliamentary boroughs in their own right before 1885. By the outbreak of World War One, the population of the constituency was about 45,000.

1918-1950: In 1918 Wiltshire was split into five divisions, but there was no borough constituency in the county. The Wiltshire, Chippenham division was expanded, taking in the towns of Cricklade and Wootton Bassett, also former parliamentary boroughs, and the surrounding rural areas: in full, it was composed of the then Municipal Boroughs of Calne, Chippenham, and Malmesbury and the Rural Districts of Calne, Chippenham, Malmesbury, part of Cricklade and Wootton Bassett, and Tetbury Rural District (excluding the part in the administrative county of Gloucestershire).

1950-1983: In the redistribution, which took effect at the United Kingdom general election, 1950, Wiltshire was divided into one borough and four county constituencies. Chippenham County Constituency consisted of the same Municipal Boroughs as in 1918 and the Rural Districts of Calne and Chippenham, Cricklade and Wootton Bassett and Malmesbury.

The northern portion of the present Westbury constituency combines with ...

... a southern portion of the present North Wiltshire constituency, and ...

... a small western portion of the present Devizes constituency.

A map of Wiltshire shows the expected boundaries of the Chippenham seat, numbered 1

The electoral wards which form the new Chippenham seat are taken from the districts of North Wiltshire and West Wiltshire.

• From North Wiltshire: Cepen Park, Chippenham Allington, Chippenham Audley, Chippenham Avon, Chippenham Hill Rise, Chippenham London Road, Chippenham Monkton Park, Chippenham Park, Chippenham Pewsham, Chippenham Redland, Chippenham Westcroft/Queens, Corsham, Lacock with Neston and Gastard, and Pickwick
• From West Wiltshire: the wards of Atworth and Whitley, Bradford-on-Avon North, Bradford-on-Avon South, Holt, Manor Vale, Melksham North, Melksham Spa, Melksham Without, Melksham Woodrow, and Paxcroft

• 1553: Henry Goldney
• 1614: William Maynard
• 1621-1622: Sir Edward Hungerford

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1640		Sir Edward Hungerford [1]	Parliamentarian		?
November 1640					Sir Edward Bayntun	Parliamentarian
1648		William Eyre
1653	Chippenham was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament and the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
January 1659		Sir Edward Hungerford			James Stedman
May 1659	Chippenham was unrepresented in the restored Rump
April 1660		Edward Hungerford			Edward Poole
April 1661					Henry Bayntun
July 1661		Sir Hugh Speke
August 1661		Sir Edward Hungerford
1673					Francis Gwyn
February 1679					Sir John Talbot
August 1679					Samuel Ashe
1681					Sir George Speke
March 1685		Henry Bayntun			Sharington Talbot
August 1685					Richard Kent
1689					Nicholas Bayntun
February 1690		Richard Kent			Alexander Popham
December 1690		Sir Basil Firebrace
1692		Thomas Tollemache
1694		Richard Long
1695		Walter White
1698					Edward Montagu
1701					Lord Mordaunt
1702		James Montagu
May 1705		Walter White			Sir James Long
November 1705		Lord Mordaunt
1708		James Montagu
1710		Joseph Ashe [2]
1711		Francis Popham
1713		(Sir) John Eyles [3]			John Norris
1715					Giles Earle
1722					Edward Rolt
1723					Thomas Boucher
1727		Rogers Holland			Gabriel Roberts
1734					Richard Long
1737		(Sir) Edward Bayntun-Rolt [4]
1741					Sir Edmond Thomas
1754					(Sir) Samuel Fludyer [5]
1768					Sir Thomas Fludyer
1769					Henry Dawkins
1774					Samuel Marsh
1780		Henry Dawkins			Giles Hudson
1783					George Fludyer
1784		James Dawkins
1802					Charles Brooke [6]
1803					John Maitland
1806		Charles Brooke
1807		James Dawkins
1812		Charles Brooke			Robert Peel
1817					John Maitland
1818		William Miles	Tory		Marquess of Blandford
1820		William Alexander Madocks			John Rock Grossett
1826		Ebenezer Fuller Maitland			Frederick Gye
1830		Joseph Neeld	Tory		Philip Pusey
1831					Henry George Boldero	Tory
1832			Conservative		William Henry Fox Talbot	Whig
1835					Henry George Boldero	Conservative
1856		Robert Parry Nisbet	Conservative
1859		Richard Penruddocke Long	Conservative		William John Lysley	Liberal
1865		Sir John Neeld	Conservative		Gabriel Goldney	Conservative
1868	Representation reduced to one member

Year		Member	Party
	1868	(Sir) Gabriel Goldney [7]	Conservative
1885		borough constituency abolished - county division created
	1885	Bannister Fletcher	Liberal
	1886	Lord Henry Bruce, later The 5th Marquess of Ailesbury	Conservative
	1892	Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Bt, later The 1st Baron Islington	Conservative
	1904		Liberal
	1910	George Terrell	Conservative
	1918		Coalition Conservative
	1922	Alfred James Bonwick	Liberal
	1924	Victor Alexander Cazalet	Conservative
	1943	Rt Hon. Sir David McAdam Eccles, later The 1st Viscount Eccles	Conservative
	1962	Daniel Edmund Awdry	Conservative
	1979	Richard Francis Needham [8]	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished - see North Wiltshire

Notes

1. ^ Died October 1648
2. ^ On petition, Ashe was found not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Popham, was declared elected in his place
3. ^ Succeeded to baronetcy, May 1716
4. ^ Created a baronet, July 1762
5. ^ Knighted, September 1755; created a baronet, November 1759
6. ^ Brooke was initially declared elected in 1802, but on petition he was found not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Maitland, was declared elected in his place
7. ^ Created a baronet, May 1880
8. ^ Needham is an Irish peer as The 6th Earl of Kilmorey, but does not use the title.

Chippenham by-election, 24th August 1943
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Eccles	8,310	50.6	−2.7
	Independent Liberal	Donald Johnson	8,115	49.4	N/A
Majority			195	1.2	−17.6
Turnout			16,425	41.4	−36.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chippenham by-election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Daniel Awdry	13,439	36.8	−15.3
	Liberal	C. Laton	11,851	32.5	+15.6
	Labour	R. W. Portus	10,633	29.1	−1.9
	Independent	K. Jerrome	260	0.71
	Independent	J. Naylor	237	0.65
	Independent	M. Smith	88	0.24
Majority			1,588	4.3	−16.8
Turnout			36,508
	Conservative hold		Swing	−15.5

This new constituency of Chippenham will be fought for the first time at the UK General Election of 2009 or 2010. The seat has a notional Liberal Democrat majority of 1,260.

Next United Kingdom general election: Chippenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Duncan Hames
	Conservative	Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
	Labour	Nick Thomas-Symonds

• Constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire
• Chippenham by-election, 1943
• Chippenham by-election, 1962
• Chippenham

• Boundaries of Parliamentary Constituencies 1885-1972, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Reference Publications 1972)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1977)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press 1974)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Macmillan Press, revised edition 1977)
• British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (Parliamentary Research Services 1983)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume I 1832-1885, edited by M. Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume II 1886-1918, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1978)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume III 1919-1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1979)
• Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Volume IV 1945-1979, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1981)
• Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
• Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
• J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
• Frederic A Youngs, jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979)
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.

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