Wells (UK Parliament constituency)

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Wells
County constituency

Wells shown within Somerset, and Somerset shown within England
Created: 1295, 1885
MP: David Heathcoat-Amory
Party: Conservative
Type: House of Commons
County: Somerset
EP constituency: South West England

Wells is a county constituency centred on the city of Wells in Somerset. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system.

The original two member borough constituency was created in 1295, and abolished by the Reform Act 1867 with effect from the 1868 general election.

Contents


Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1660 Thomas White Henry Bull
1661 Lord Richard Butler Sir Maurice Berkeley
1671 John Hall
1679 Edward Berkeley William Coward
1680 John Hall
1685 Thomas Wyndham Edward Berkeley
Jan 1690 William Coward
Feb 1690 Hopton Wyndham
1695 William Coward
1701 Henry Seymour Portman
1705 Maurice Berkeley
1708 Edward Colston William Coward
1710 Maurice Berkeley
1713 Sir Thomas Wroth
1715 Thomas Strangways Horner
May 1716 William Coward William Piers
Jun 1716 Thomas Strangways Horner
1717 John Dodd
1719 Thomas Edwards
1722 Francis Gwyn
1727 Edward Prideaux Gwyn
1729 William Piers
1734 George Hamilton
1735 William Piers George Speke
1741 Francis Gwyn
1747 George Hamilton
1754 Edward Digby, Baron Digby Charles Tudway
1757 Robert Digby
1761 Henry Digby, Baron Digby Clement Tudway
1765 Robert Child
1782 John Curtis
1784 William Thomas Beckford
1790 Henry Berkeley Portman
1796 Charles William Taylor
1815 John Paine Tudway
1830 John Edwards-Vaughan John Lee Lee

Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party
1832 Norman Lamont John Lee Lee
1834 Nicholas William Ridley Colborne
1837 Richard Blakemore William Goodenough Hayter Whig
1852 Robert Charles Tudway
1855 Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe Conservative
1865 Arthur Divett Hayter
1868 borough constituency abolished

Election Member Party
1885 Sir Richard Horner Paget, Bt.
1895 Hylton Jolliffe Conservative
1899 Robert Edmund Dickinson
1906 Thomas Ball Silcock Liberal
Jan 1910 George John Sandys
1918 Harry Greer Coalition Conservative
1922 Robert Bruford Conservative
1923 Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse Liberal
1924 Sir Robert Arthur Sandars, Bt. Conservative
1929 Anthony John Muirhead Conservative
1939 Lt. Col. Dennis Coleridge Boles Conservative
1951 Lynch Maydon Conservative
1970 Robert Boscawen Conservative
1983 David Heathcoat-Amory Conservative

General Election 2005: Wells
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Heathcoat-Amory 23,071 43.6 −0.2
Liberal Democrat Tessa Munt 20,031 37.8 −0.5
Labour Dan Whittle 8,288 15.6 +0.2
UK Independence Steve Reed 1,575 3.0 +0.8
Majority 3,040 5.7
Turnout 52,965 68.0 −1.2
Conservative hold Swing +0.1
General Election 2001: Wells
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Heathcoat-Amory 22,462 43.8 +4.4
Liberal Democrat Graham Oakes 19,666 38.3 -0.1
Labour Andy Merryfield 7,915 15.4 -2.7
UK Independence Steve Reed 1,104 2.2 N/A
Wessex Regionalist Colin Bex 167 0.3 N/A
Majority 2,796 5.5
Turnout 51,314 69.2 -8.7
Conservative hold Swing

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Constituencies in South West England
Conservative
Liberal Democrat
Labour
South West England European constituency

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