Huntingdon | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
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County | Cambridgeshire |
Electorate | 75,590 (2023) [1] |
Major settlements | Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Ben Obese-Jecty (Conservative) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Huntingdonshire and Peterborough [2] |
1885–1918 | |
Seats | One |
Type of constituency | County constituency |
Created from | Huntingdonshire |
Replaced by | Huntingdonshire |
c1290–1885 | |
Seats | c1290–1868: Two 1868–1885: One |
Type of constituency | Borough constituency |
Huntingdon is a constituency [n 1] west of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire and including its namesake town of Huntingdon. It has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Ben Obese-Jecty of the Conservative Party. [n 2]
Before 2024, Huntingdon was considered a safe Conservative seat and was the seat of John Major, the Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997.
First established around the time of the Model Parliament in 1295, Huntingdon was the seat of Oliver Cromwell in 1628–1629 and 1640–1642.
The constituency of Huntingdon has existed in three separate forms: as a parliamentary borough from 1295, represented in the House of Commons of England until 1707, then in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and then in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885; as a division of a parliamentary county from 1885 to 1918; and as a county constituency from 1983 until the present day.
Representatives for the seat, the standard two burgesses per parliamentary borough, were summoned to form the first fully assembled parliament, the Model Parliament in 1295 and at all parliaments assembled from then until 1868, in which year the constituency was reduced to a single-member borough in accordance with the Reform Act 1867. In the mid-17th century, this was Oliver Cromwell's constituency.
Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the parliamentary borough was abolished altogether and the two-member parliamentary county of Huntingdonshire was replaced by the two-single member seats formally known as the Northern or Ramsey Division and the Southern or Huntingdon Division. It was abolished under the Representation of the People Act 1918 when it was re-combined with Ramsey and Huntingdonshire was re-established as a single member constituency.
As a result of the Local Government Act 1972, the two counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, and Huntingdon and Peterborough were merged to form the non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire, with effect from 1 April 1974. However, the next redistribution did not come into effect until the 1983 general election, when the Huntingdonshire constituency was abolished once again, with the majority comprising the re-established county constituency of Huntingdon which also included rural areas to the west of Peterborough.
There were significant boundary changes at the 1997 general election, when the neighbouring seat of North West Cambridgeshire was created from areas previously in the seats of Huntingdon and Peterborough.
The former Conservative Prime Minister (1990–1997) John Major represented the seat from its re-creation in 1983 until his retirement in 2001. His majority in 1992 (36,230) was the largest majority for any member of parliament post-1832 until 2017, in which George Howarth won a 42,214 vote majority in Knowsley.
The constituency consists of the towns of Huntingdon, St Ives, Godmanchester and a number of smaller settlements in Western Cambridgeshire.
The new county division incorporated the towns of Huntingdon, Godmanchester, and St Neots.
Following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the constituency is composed of the following electoral wards:
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Election | Member [13] | Party | |
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1868 | Thomas Baring | Conservative | |
1873 by-election | Sir John Burgess Karslake | Conservative | |
1876 by-election | Edward Montagu | Conservative | |
1884 by-election | Sir Robert Peel | Conservative | |
1885 | Thomas Coote | Liberal | |
1886 | Arthur Smith-Barry | Conservative | |
1900 | George Montagu | Conservative | |
1906 | Samuel Whitbread | Liberal | |
1910 (Jan) | John Cator | Conservative | |
1918 | constituency abolished, Huntingdonshire from 1918 | ||
Election | Member [13] | Party | |
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1983 | Rt Hon John Major | Conservative | |
2001 | Jonathan Djanogly | Conservative | |
2024 | Ben Obese-Jecty | Conservative | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Ben Obese-Jecty | 18,257 | 35.1 | −24.1 | |
Labour | Alex Bulat | 16,758 | 32.2 | +11.4 | |
Reform UK | Sarah Smith | 8,039 | 15.4 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Argent | 4,821 | 9.3 | −4.7 | |
Green | Georgie Hunt | 3,042 | 5.8 | +2.3 | |
Independent | Chan Raj Abraham | 1,123 | 2.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,499 | 2.9 | −35.5 | ||
Turnout | 52,234 | 66.1 | −8.4 | ||
Registered electors | 79,074 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −17.8 |
2019 notional result [17] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 33,352 | 59.2 | |
Labour | 11,707 | 20.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | 7,899 | 14.0 | |
Green | 1,952 | 3.5 | |
Others | 1,407 | 2.5 | |
Turnout | 56,317 | 74.5 | |
Electorate | 75,590 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 32,386 | 54.8 | −0.3 | |
Labour | Samuel Sweek | 13,003 | 22.0 | −8.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mark Argent | 9,432 | 15.9 | +7.4 | |
Green | Daniel Laycock | 2,233 | 3.8 | +2.0 | |
Independent | Paul Bullen | 1,789 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Independent | Tom Varghese | 304 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 19,383 | 32.8 | +8.6 | ||
Turnout | 59,147 | 69.9 | −0.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +4.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 32,915 | 55.1 | +2.1 | |
Labour | Nik Johnson | 18,440 | 30.9 | +12.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rod Cantrill | 5,090 | 8.5 | +0.7 | |
UKIP | Paul Bullen | 2,180 | 3.7 | −13.2 | |
Green | Thomas MacLennan | 1,095 | 1.8 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 14,475 | 24.2 | −10.5 | ||
Turnout | 59,720 | 70.8 | +2.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 29,652 | 53.0 | +4.1 | |
Labour | Nik Johnson [21] | 10,248 | 18.3 | +7.3 | |
UKIP | Paul Bullen [21] | 9,473 | 16.9 | +10.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rod Cantrill [22] | 4,375 | 7.8 | −21.1 | |
Green | Thomas MacLennan [23] | 2,178 | 3.9 | +2.7 | |
Majority | 19,404 | 34.7 | +15.8 | ||
Turnout | 55,926 | 67.9 | +3.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 26,516 | 48.9 | −1.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Martin Land | 15,697 | 28.9 | +2.3 | |
Labour | Anthea Cox | 5,982 | 11.0 | −7.4 | |
UKIP | Ian Curtis | 3,258 | 6.0 | +1.8 | |
Independent | Jonathan Salt [25] | 1,432 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Green | John Clare | 652 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Monster Raving Loony | Lord Toby Jug [26] | 548 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Animal Protection | Carrie Holliman | 181 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,819 | 19.9 | −4.2 | ||
Turnout | 54,266 | 64.9 | +2.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 26,646 | 50.8 | +0.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Julian Huppert | 13,799 | 26.3 | +2.4 | |
Labour | Stephen Sartain | 9,821 | 18.7 | −4.1 | |
UKIP | Derek Norman | 2,152 | 4.1 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 12,847 | 24.5 | −1.5 | ||
Turnout | 52,418 | 62.5 | +1.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Djanogly | 24,507 | 49.9 | −5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael Pope | 11,715 | 23.9 | +9.2 | |
Labour | Takki Sulaiman | 11,211 | 22.8 | −0.7 | |
UKIP | Derek Norman | 1,656 | 3.4 | +2.8 | |
Majority | 12,792 | 26.0 | −5.8 | ||
Turnout | 49,089 | 61.1 | −13.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −7.3 |
The constituency underwent boundary changes prior to the 1997 election and the changes are not based on the 1992 result.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 31,501 | 55.3 | −9.9 | |
Labour | Jason Reece | 13,361 | 23.5 | +6.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Owen | 8,390 | 14.7 | −6.4 | |
Referendum | David Bellamy | 3,114 | 5.5 | N/A | |
UKIP | Charles Coyne | 331 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Christian Democrat | Veronica Hufford | 177 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Duncan Robertson | 89 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 18,140 | 31.8 | −6.8 | ||
Turnout | 56,963 | 74.9 | −4.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −8.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 48,662 | 66.2 | +2.6 | |
Labour | Hugh Seckleman | 12,432 | 16.9 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Duff | 9,386 | 12.8 | −8.3 | |
Liberal | Paul Wiggin | 1,045 | 1.4 | N/A | |
Green | Deborah Birkhead | 846 | 1.2 | −0.2 | |
Monster Raving Loony | Screaming Lord Sutch | 728 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Conservative Thatcherite | Michael Flanagan | 231 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Gremloids | Lord Buckethead | 107 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Forward to Mars Party | Charles S. Cockell | 91 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Natural Law | David Shepherd | 26 | 0.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 36,230 | 49.3 | +6.8 | ||
Turnout | 73,554 | 79.2 | +5.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Major | 40,530 | 63.6 | +1.2 | |
SDP | Anthony Nicholson | 13,486 | 21.1 | −4.2 | |
Labour | David Brown | 8,883 | 13.9 | +2.4 | |
Green | William Lavin | 874 | 1.4 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 27,044 | 42.5 | +5.4 | ||
Turnout | 63,773 | 74.0 | +2.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Major | 34,254 | 62.4 | ||
Liberal | Sheila Gatiss | 13,906 | 25.3 | ||
Labour | Mark Slater | 6,317 | 11.5 | ||
Ecology | Timothy Eiloart | 444 | 0.8 | ||
Majority | 20,348 | 37.1 | |||
Turnout | 54,921 | 71.6 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Cator | 2,287 | 51.7 | −2.3 | |
Liberal | Oliver Brett | 2,139 | 48.3 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 148 | 3.4 | −4.6 | ||
Turnout | 4,426 | 85.5 | −2.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Cator | 2,466 | 54.0 | +9.4 | |
Liberal | Oliver Brett | 2,099 | 46.0 | −9.4 | |
Majority | 367 | 8.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,565 | 88.2 | +5.1 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +9.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Samuel Whitbread | 2,426 | 55.4 | +8.9 | |
Conservative | John Cator | 1,957 | 44.6 | −8.9 | |
Majority | 469 | 10.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,383 | 83.1 | +7.3 | ||
Registered electors | 5,272 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +8.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Montagu | 2,118 | 53.5 | −0.4 | |
Liberal | Charles Adeane | 1,838 | 46.5 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 280 | 7.0 | −0.8 | ||
Turnout | 3,956 | 75.8 | −6.8 | ||
Registered electors | 5,222 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −0.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Smith-Barry | 2,419 | 53.9 | +3.7 | |
Liberal | John Jackson Wilks | 2,068 | 46.1 | −3.7 | |
Majority | 351 | 7.8 | +7.4 | ||
Turnout | 4,487 | 82.6 | +0.8 | ||
Registered electors | 5,435 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Smith-Barry | 2,251 | 50.2 | −1.6 | |
Liberal | Samuel Whitbread | 2,229 | 49.8 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 22 | 0.4 | −3.2 | ||
Turnout | 4,480 | 81.8 | +3.2 | ||
Registered electors | 5,479 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Arthur Smith-Barry | 2,302 | 51.8 | +3.4 | |
Liberal | Thomas Coote | 2,141 | 48.2 | −3.4 | |
Majority | 161 | 3.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,443 | 78.6 | −2.1 | ||
Registered electors | 5,655 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +3.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Thomas Coote | 2,354 | 51.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Oliver George Powlett Montagu | 2,208 | 48.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 146 | 3.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,562 | 80.7 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 5,655 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Peel | 455 | 50.5 | N/A | |
Liberal | Charles Veasey [30] | 446 | 49.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 9 | 1.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 901 | 24.6 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 3,658 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Montagu | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 1,052 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Edward Montagu | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Burgess Karslake | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Burgess Karslake | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 1,049 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Burgess Karslake | 499 | 59.4 | N/A | |
Liberal | Arthur Arnold | 341 | 40.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 158 | 18.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 840 | 83.3 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 1,008 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Thomas Baring | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 976 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Seat reduced to one member
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Thomas Baring | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 383 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Baring | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 378 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Baring | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 382 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Baring | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 390 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Baring | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 373 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Thomas Baring | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Pollock | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Pollock | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 416 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Pollock | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 356 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Frederick Pollock | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Peel | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 380 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Tory | Jonathan Peel | 177 | 31.1 | −15.2 | |
Tory | Frederick Pollock | 171 | 30.0 | −16.3 | |
Whig | James Duberley | 128 | 22.5 | +19.1 | |
Whig | Edward Harvey Maltby [31] | 94 | 16.5 | +12.4 | |
Majority | 43 | 7.5 | −34.7 | ||
Turnout | 287 | 87.8 | c. +46.7 | ||
Registered electors | 327 | ||||
Tory hold | Swing | −15.5 | |||
Tory hold | Swing | −16.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tory | Jonathan Peel | 68 | 46.3 | ||
Tory | Frederick Pollock | 68 | 46.3 | ||
Whig | Samuel Wells | 6 | 4.1 | ||
Whig | James Duberley | 5 | 3.4 | ||
Majority | 62 | 42.2 | |||
Turnout | 74 | c. 41.1 | |||
Registered electors | c. 180 | ||||
Tory hold | |||||
Tory hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tory | John Calvert (died 1844) | Unopposed | |||
Tory | James Stuart | Unopposed | |||
Whig | Samuel Wells | ||||
Whig | Henry Sweeting | ||||
Registered electors | c. 180 | ||||
Tory hold | |||||
Tory hold |
Wells and Sweeting were put forward as candidates, and received "a show of hands of ten to one" against Calvert and Stuart, who had received seven and five respectively. However, the mayor declared Stuart and Calvert as having the majority of legal votes and the seat was not put to a poll. [32]