Rutland and Stamford | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Lincolnshire and Rutland |
1918–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Rutland and Stamford |
Replaced by | Rutland & Melton Stamford & Spalding |
Rutland and Stamford was a county constituency comprising the area centred on the town of Stamford in Lincolnshire, and the county of Rutland. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, using the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. It was succeeded by the Rutland and Melton and Stamford and Spalding constituencies.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the next general election. [1]
1918–1950: The administrative county of Rutland, the Municipal Borough of Stamford, the Urban District of Bourne, the Rural Districts of Bourne and Uffington, and part of the Rural District of Grantham.
1950–1983: The administrative county of Rutland, the Municipal Borough of Stamford, the Urban District of Bourne, the Rural District of South Kesteven, and parts of the Rural Districts of East Kesteven and West Kesteven.
The re-established constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It will include the following areas:
In 1983 Rutland became part of the Rutland and Melton constituency along with Melton borough and part of Harborough District in Leicestershire.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Claud Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | 8,838 | 53.6 | |
Labour | Fleming Eccles | 7,639 | 46.4 | ||
Majority | 1,199 | 7.2 | |||
Turnout | 16,477 | 61.8 | |||
Registered electors | 26,647 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
Cindicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Charles Harvey Dixon | 10,278 | 46.8 | −6.8 | |
Labour | Fleming Eccles | 7,236 | 32.9 | −13.5 | |
National Farmers' Union | Edward Clark | 4,471 | 20.3 | New | |
Majority | 3,042 | 13.9 | +6.7 | ||
Turnout | 21,985 | 81.2 | +19.4 | ||
Registered electors | 27,074 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +3.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Neville Smith-Carington | 11,196 | 57.1 | +10.3 | |
Labour | Arthur Sells | 8,406 | 42.9 | +10.0 | |
Majority | 2,790 | 14.2 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 19,602 | 71.5 | −9.7 | ||
Registered electors | 27,409 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +0.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Neville Smith-Carington | 10,803 | 51.4 | +4.6 | |
Liberal | Frank Stapledon Hiley | 5,203 | 24.8 | New | |
Labour | Arthur Sells | 5,005 | 23.8 | −9.1 | |
Majority | 5,600 | 26.6 | +12.7 | ||
Turnout | 21,011 | 76.7 | −4.5 | ||
Registered electors | 27,409 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +6.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Neville Smith-Carington | 13,286 | 66.7 | +15.3 | |
Labour | H F Wheeler | 6,633 | 33.3 | +9.5 | |
Majority | 6,653 | 33.4 | +6.8 | ||
Turnout | 19,919 | 71.5 | −5.2 | ||
Registered electors | 27,869 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +2.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Neville Smith-Carington | 12,607 | 47.4 | −19.3 | |
Labour | Henry James Jones | 7,403 | 27.9 | −5.4 | |
Liberal | Harry Payne | 6,561 | 24.7 | New | |
Majority | 5,204 | 19.5 | −13.9 | ||
Turnout | 26,571 | 76.7 | +5.2 | ||
Registered electors | 34,647 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −7.0 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Neville Smith-Carington | 19,086 | 71.9 | +24.5 | |
Labour | F E Church | 7,446 | 28.1 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 11,640 | 43.8 | +24.3 | ||
Turnout | 26,532 | 75.3 | −1.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | 14,605 | 53.3 | −18.6 | |
Labour | Arnold William Gray | 12,818 | 46.7 | +18.6 | |
Majority | 1,787 | 6.6 | −37.2 | ||
Turnout | 27,423 | 77.2 | +1.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | 16,799 | 59.9 | −12.0 | |
Labour | Arnold William Gray | 11,238 | 40.1 | +12.0 | |
Majority | 5,561 | 19.8 | −24.0 | ||
Turnout | 28,037 | 78.4 | +3.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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 and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | 15,359 | 53.7 | −6.2 | |
Labour | Arnold William Gray | 13,223 | 46.3 | +6.2 | |
Majority | 2,136 | 7.4 | −12.4 | ||
Turnout | 28,582 | 72.9 | −5.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Roger Conant | 16,498 | 49.6 | −4.1 | |
Labour | Tom Bradley | 13,712 | 41.3 | −5.0 | |
Liberal | Cyril Valentine | 3,024 | 9.1 | New | |
Majority | 2,786 | 8.3 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 33,234 | 83.8 | +10.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Roger Conant | 17,850 | 54.1 | +4.5 | |
Labour | Tom Bradley | 15,127 | 45.9 | +4.6 | |
Majority | 2,723 | 8.2 | −0.1 | ||
Turnout | 32,977 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Roger Conant | 17,675 | 54.3 | +0.2 | |
Labour | Tom Bradley | 14,856 | 45.7 | −0.2 | |
Majority | 2,819 | 3.6 | −4.6 | ||
Turnout | 32,531 | 79.7 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Kenneth Lewis | 19,078 | 57.4 | +3.1 | |
Labour | Christopher S B Attlee | 14,137 | 42.6 | −3.1 | |
Majority | 4,941 | 14.8 | +11.2 | ||
Turnout | 33,215 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Kenneth Lewis | 18,720 | 55.5 | −1.9 | |
Labour Co-op | A Victor Butler | 14,990 | 44.5 | +1.9 | |
Majority | 3,730 | 11.0 | −3.8 | ||
Turnout | 33,710 | 79.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Kenneth Lewis | 17,991 | 53.4 | −2.1 | |
Labour Co-op | A Victor Butler | 15,704 | 46.6 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 2,287 | 6.8 | −4.2 | ||
Turnout | 33,695 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Emma Baker [8] | ||||
Reform UK | Chris Clowes [9] | ||||
Conservative | Alicia Kearns [10] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | James Moore [11] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Reform UK removed Ginny Ball as their candidate in March 2024 after "exposure of a range of racist comments on her social media feed". [12]
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