North East Cambridgeshire
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North East Cambridgeshire is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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. It elects one Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
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 (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Clement Freud
Clement Freud
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, former Liberal MP for Isle of Ely
Isle of Ely (UK Parliament constituency)
Isle of Ely was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, centred on the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire...

 from 1973, represented the seat from its creation in 1983 until 1987, when he was defeated by the Conservative Malcolm Moss
Malcolm Moss
Malcolm Douglas Moss is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for North East Cambridgeshire from 1987 until his retirement at the 2010 general election.-Early life:...

.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cambridgeshire, the Boundary Commission for England made minor alterations to constituencies to deal with population changes. The electoral wards used to create the modified North East Cambridgeshire constituency are:
  • The entire district of Fenland
    Fenland
    Fenland is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in March, and covers the neighbouring market towns of Chatteris, Whittlesey, and Wisbech, often called the "capital of the fens"...

  • The East Cambridgeshire
    East Cambridgeshire
    East Cambridgeshire is a local government district in Cambridgeshire, England. Its council is based in Ely....

     wards of - Downham Villages, Littleport East, Littleport West, and Sutton.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember Party
Isle of Ely
Isle of Ely (UK Parliament constituency)
Isle of Ely was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, centred on the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire...

 prior to 1983
1983
United Kingdom general election, 1983
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Clement Freud
Clement Freud
Sir Clement Raphael Freud was an English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.-Early life:Freud was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud and Lucie née Brasch. He was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of artist Lucian Freud...

 
Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

1987
United Kingdom general election, 1987
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Malcolm Moss
Malcolm Moss
Malcolm Douglas Moss is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for North East Cambridgeshire from 1987 until his retirement at the 2010 general election.-Early life:...

 
Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

2010 Stephen Barclay
Stephen Barclay
Stephen Paul Barclay is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who has been the Member of Parliament for North East Cambridgeshire since May 2010.-Early life and education:...

 
Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...


Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

Elections in the 1990s

Elections in the 1980s

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