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Tiverton and Honiton
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{{UK constituency infobox|
|Name = Tiverton and Honiton
|Map1 = TivertonHoniton
|Map2 = Devon
|Type = County
|Year =
1997
|Entity = Devon
|County = Devon
|EP = South East England
|MP =
Angela Browning
|Party =
Conservative Party (UK) Conservative
}}
'''Tiverton and Honiton''' is a
constituency represented in the
House of Commons of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one
Member of Parliament Member of Parliament (MP) by the
first past the post system of election.
Boundaries
The constituency is located in east
Devon, covering the towns of
Tiverton and
Honiton and the surrounding areas. It covers much of the district of
Mid Devon.
History
The present constituency of Tiverton and Honiton is the result of the merger of the formerly separate constituences '''Honiton''' and '''Tiverton''', the former having existed from
1640 and the latter from
1615. Both elected two members of parliament until the 1884 Reform Bill reduced the number for both to one.
Members of Parliament
{| class="wikitable"
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{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|colspan=3|'''Members of Parliament for Honiton'''
|-
!Year!!First member!!Second member
|-
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1660||Sir John Yonge||Samuel Serle
|-
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1661||Sir Courtenay Pole||Peter Prideaux
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1679||Sir Walter Yonge||rowspan=2|Sir Thomas Putt
|-
|
1685||rowspan=2|Edmond Walrond
|-
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1689||Richard Courtenay
|-
|
1690||rowspan=2|Sir William Drake||Sir Walter Yonge
|-
|
1711||James Sheppard
|-
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1715||Sir William Courtenay||rowspan=7|Sir William Yonge
|-
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1716||Sir William Pole
|-
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1727||James Sheppard
|-
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1731||Sir William Pole
|-
|
1734.html">William Courtenay, 1st Viscount Courtenay
William Courtenay
|-
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1741||Henry Reginald Courtenay
|-
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1747||John Heath (later John Duke)
|-
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1754||rowspan=2|Henry Reginald Courtenay||Sir George Yonge
|-
|
1761||rowspan=2|John Duke
|-
|
1763||rowspan=7|Sir George Yonge
|-
|
1768||Brass Crosby
|-
|
1774||Laurence Cox
|-
|
1780||Alexander Macleod
|-
|
1781||Jacob Wilkinson
|-
|
1784||Sir George Collier
|-
|
1790||George Templer
|-
|
1796||George Chambers||rowspan=2|George Shum
|-
|
1802||rowspan=2|Sir John Honywood
|-
|
1805||rowspan=4|Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw
|-
|
1806 (April)||Richard Bateman-Robson
|-
|
1806 (October).html">Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Cochrane
|-
|
1807||Sir Charles Hamilton
|-
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1812||Richard Howard-Vyse||George Abercrombie Robinson
|-
|
1818||Peregrine Francis Cust||Samuel Crawley
|-
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1826||rowspan=2|Josiah John Guest||Henry Baines Lott
|-
|
1830||rowspan=2|Sir George Warrender
|-
|
1831||Henry Baines Lott
|-
|
1832.html">George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey
Viscount Villiers||James Ruddell-Todd
|-
|
1835||rowspan=3|Hugh Duncan Baillie||Arthur Chichester
|-
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1837||James Stewart
|-
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1841||Forster McGeachy
|-
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1847||rowspan=3|Joseph Locke||Sir James Hogg
|-
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1857||Archibald Stuart-Wortley
|-
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1859||rowspan=4|
Alexander Baillie-Cochrane
|-
|
1860||George Moffatt
|-
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1865||Frederick Goldsmid
|-
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1866||Julian Goldsmid
|-
|
1868||colspan=2|'''Constituency abolished, but re-established in 1885'''
|-
|
1885||Sir John Kennaway||'''Reduced to one member'''
|-
|
1910||colspan=2|Sir Arthur Morrison-Bell
|-
|
1931||colspan=2|Sir Cedric Drew
|-
|
1955||colspan=2|Robert Mathew
|-
|
1967.html">Peter Emery
Sir Peter Emery
|-
|
1997||colspan=2|'''Constituency merged with Tiverton'''
|}
| width="50%"|
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|colspan=3|'''Members of Parliament for Tiverton'''
|-
!Year!!First member!!Second member
|-
|
1660 (April)||Robert Shapcote||rowspan=3|Thomas Bampfield
|-
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1660 (July)||Roger Colman
|-
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1660 (November)||Henry Newte
|-
|
1661||rowspan=2|Thomas Carew||Sir Thomas Stucley
|-
|
1664||rowspan=2|Sir Henry Ford
|-
|
1673||Samuel Foote
|-
|
1685||Sir Hugh Acland||rowspan=2|William Colman
|-
|
1689||rowspan=2|Samuel Foote
|-
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1690||rowspan=5|Thomas Bere
|-
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1691||Sir Anthony Keck
|-
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1695.html">Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Lord Spencer
|-
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1702||Robert Burridge
|-
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1708||Richard Mervin
|-
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1710||rowspan=2|Sir Edward Northey||John Worth
|-
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1715||rowspan=2|Thomas Bere
|-
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1722||rowspan=5|Arthur Arscott
|-
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1726||George Deane
|-
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1727||Sir William Yonge
|-
|
1728||James Nelthorpe
|-
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1734||rowspan=3|Sir Dudley Ryder
|-
|
1747 (July)||Sir William Yonge
|-
|
1747 (December).html">Henry Conyngham, 1st Earl Conyngham
Henry Conyngham
|-
|
1754||Sir William Yonge||rowspan=3|Henry Pelham
|-
|
1755||Thomas Ryder
|-
|
1756.html">Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby
Nathaniel Ryder
|-
|
1758.html">Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl of Beaulieu
Sir Edward Hussey-Montagu
|-
|
1762||Charles Gore
|-
|
1768||rowspan=3|Sir John Duntze
|-
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1776||John Wilmot
|-
|
1784.html">Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby
Dudley Ryder
|-
|
1795||rowspan=3|Richard Ryder
|-
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1803||William Fitzhugh
|-
|
1819.html">Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
Viscount Sandon
|-
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1830||rowspan=2|Granville Dudley Ryder
|-
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1831||Spencer Perceval
|-
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1832||rowspan=2|John Heathcoat||James Kennedy
|-
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1835.html">Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
The Viscount Palmerston
|-
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1859||George Denman
|-
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1865||rowspan=2|John Walrond
|-
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1866||rowspan=2|George Denman
|-
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1868||Sir John Heathcoat-Amery
|-
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1872||William Nathaniel Massey
|-
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1881.html">Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue
Viscount Ebrington
|-
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1885.html">William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran
Sir William Walrond||'''Reduced to one member'''
|-
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1906||colspan=2|William Lionel Charles Walrond
|-
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1915||colspan=2|Charles Carew
|-
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1922||colspan=2|Herbert Sparkes
|-
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1923||colspan=2|Sir Francis Dyke Acland
|-
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1924||colspan=2|Gilbert Troyte
|-
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1945.html">Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory
Derick Heathcoat-Amory
|-
|
1960||colspan=2|Robert Maxwell-Hyslop
|-
|
1992||colspan=2|
Angela Browning
|}
|}
Election results
{{Election box begin |
|title=
United Kingdom general election, 2005 General Election 2005: Tiverton and Honiton
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate =
Angela Browning
|votes = 27,838
|percentage = 47.9
|change = +0.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|candidate = David Nation
|votes = 16,787
|percentage = 28.9
|change = -6.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Fiona Bentley
|votes = 7,944
|percentage = 13.7
|change = +1.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = United Kingdom Independence Party
|candidate = Bob Edwards
|votes = 2,499
|percentage = 4.3
|change = +2.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK, 1989)
|candidate = Roy Collins
|votes = 1,701
|percentage = 2.9
|change = +1.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Green Party of England and Wales
|candidate = Colin Matthews
|votes = 1,399
|percentage = 2.4
|change = +0.6
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 11,051
|percentage = 19
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 58,168
|percentage = 69.8
|change = 0.6
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +3.8
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin |
|title=
United Kingdom general election, 2001 General Election 2001: Tiverton and Honiton
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate =
Angela Browning
|votes = 26,258
|percentage = 47.1
|change = +5.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|candidate = Jim Barnard
|votes = 19,974
|percentage = 35.8
|change = -2.7
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Isabel Owen
|votes = 6,647
|percentage = 11.9
|change = -0.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = United Kingdom Independence Party
|candidate = Alan Langmaid
|votes = 1,281
|percentage = 2.3
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Green Party of England and Wales
|candidate = Matthew Burgess
|votes = 1,030
|percentage = 1.8
|change = +1.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK, 1989)
|candidate = Jenny Roach
|votes = 594
|percentage = 1.1
|change = ''N/A''
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 6,284
|percentage = 11.3
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 55,784
|percentage = 69.2
|change = -8.5
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
See also
*
List of Parliamentary constituencies in Devon
References
* {{cite web | url=http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/tcommons2.htm|title=List of Parliamentary constituencies|work='T' constituencies|author=Leigh Rayment|accessdate=August 6|accessyear=2005 }}
* {{cite web | url=http://www.election.demon.co.uk/prereform.html|title=Constituencies in the unreformed House|work=Constituency enfranchisment dates|author=David Boothroyd|accessdate=August 6|accessyear=2005 }}
External link
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Midweek Herald Local newspaper covering the Honiton, Axminster and Seaton areas.
{{Constituencies in South West England}}
{{UK-constituency-stub}}
Category:Parliamentary constituencies in the South West
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