South Shropshire | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
1832–1885 | |
Seats | two |
Created from | Bishop's Castle and Shropshire |
Replaced by | Ludlow and Wellington |
South Shropshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1885. It was represented by two Knights of the Shire.
The constituency was abolished, along with North Shropshire, under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, with effect from the 1885 general election. The county was then split into single-member constituencies: Ludlow, Newport, Oswestry and Wellington.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the next general election, formed from the current constituency of Ludlow with only minor boundary changes. [1]
1832–1885: The Hundreds of Brimstey, Chirbury, Condover, Ford, Munslow, Overs, Purslow (including Clun) and Stoddesdon, and the Franchise of Wenlock. [2]
The re-established constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It will comprise the existing constituency of Ludlow (to be abolished), with the addition of the Burnell and Severn Valley wards from Shrewsbury and Atcham (to be re-established as Shrewsbury).
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1832 | The Earl of Darlington | Tory [4] | Hon. Robert Clive | Tory [4] | ||
1834 | Conservative [4] | Conservative [4] | ||||
1842 by-election | Viscount Newport | Conservative [4] | ||||
1854 by-election | Hon. Robert Windsor-Clive | Conservative | ||||
1859 by-election | Sir Baldwin Leighton, Bt | Conservative | ||||
April 1865 by-election | Hon. Sir Percy Egerton Herbert | Conservative | ||||
July 1865 | Jasper More | Liberal | ||||
1868 | Edward Corbett | Conservative | ||||
1876 by-election | John Edmund Severne | Conservative | ||||
1877 by-election | Sir Baldwyn Leighton, Bt | Conservative | ||||
1885 | Constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform UK | Pete Addis [5] | ||||
Conservative | Stuart Anderson [6] | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Green | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Baldwyn Leighton | 2,491 | 29.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | John Edmund Severne | 2,216 | 26.1 | N/A | |
Liberal | Jasper More | 2,149 | 25.3 | New | |
Liberal | John William Handley Davenport [8] | 1,634 | 19.2 | New | |
Majority | 67 | 0.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,245 (est) | 74.6 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 5,690 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Baldwyn Leighton | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Edmund Severne | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Corbett resigned, triggering a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edward Corbett | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Percy Egerton Herbert | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 5,710 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Herbert's death triggered a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Percy Egerton Herbert | 2,703 | 36.6 | +2.4 | |
Conservative | Edward Corbett | 2,514 | 34.1 | +5.6 | |
Liberal | Jasper More | 2,161 | 29.3 | −8.0 | |
Majority | 353 | 4.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,770 (est) | 81.6 (est) | +1.3 | ||
Registered electors | 5,847 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +3.2 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +4.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Percy Egerton Herbert | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Jasper More | 1,819 | 37.3 | New | |
Conservative | Percy Egerton Herbert | 1,669 | 34.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Baldwin Leighton | 1,388 | 28.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 431 | 8.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,348 (est) | 80.3 (est) | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 4,170 | ||||
Liberal gain from Conservative | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Herbert was appointed Treasurer of the Household, triggering a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Percy Egerton Herbert | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Baldwin Leighton | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Bridgeman succeeded to the peerage, becoming 3rd Earl of Bradford, triggering a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Orlando Bridgeman | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Robert Windsor-Clive | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,380 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Windsor-Clive's death triggered a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Orlando Bridgeman | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Orlando Bridgeman | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Robert Windsor-Clive | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,183 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Bridgeman was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, triggering a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Windsor Clive | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Orlando Bridgeman | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Robert Clive | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,571 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Clive's death triggered a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Orlando Bridgeman | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Orlando Bridgeman | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Robert Clive | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,678 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Bridgeman was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, triggering a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Orlando Bridgeman | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Henry Vane | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Robert Clive | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,831 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Vane succeeded to the peerage, becoming 2nd Duke of Cleveland, triggering a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Conservative | Henry Vane | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Robert Clive | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 3,240 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Conservative | Henry Vane | Unopposed | |||
Conservative | Robert Clive | Unopposed | |||
Registered electors | 2,852 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Tory | Henry Vane | 642 | 52.0 | ||
Tory | Robert Clive | 573 | 46.4 | ||
Tory | Thomas Whitmore | 20 | 1.6 | ||
Majority | 553 | 44.8 | |||
Turnout | 661 | 23.7 | |||
Registered electors | 2,791 | ||||
Tory win (new seat) | |||||
Tory win (new seat) |
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