Tamworth (UK Parliament constituency)

Tamworth is a parliamentary constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

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 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.

History

The present Tamworth Constituency replaced the old South East Staffordshire constituency for the 1997 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1997

The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...

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A previous Tamworth constituency existed from 1563 until it was abolished for the 1945 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1945

The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to...

. It elected two MPs until the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

-Seats summary:-See also:*List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1885*Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885–1918*Representation of the People Act 1884*Redistribution of Seats Act 1885-References:...

, when its representation was reduced to one MP by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

Redistribution of Seats Act 1885

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons, introducing the concept of equally populated constituencies, in an attempt to equalise representation across...

. The most prominent MP for this seat was the Conservative Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel.

MPs before 1660

Parliament	First member	Second member
1275-1559	No representation or records
1563-1567	Michael Harecourte	Robert Harecourte
1571	Edward Lewkenor	John Bullock
1572-1583	Lancelot Bostock	John Nuttall
1584-1585	John Breton	Clement Fisher
1586-1587	Walter Bagot	John Ferrers
1588-1589	Sir Edward Devereux, 1st Baronet	Robert Wright
1593	John Ferrers	Thomas Smythe
1597-1598	William Temple William Temple (logician) Sir William Temple was an English Ramist logician and fourth Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.-Early life:He was educated at Eton College, and passed with a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, in 1573. In 1576 he was elected a fellow of King's, and graduated B.A. in 1577-8 and M.A. in...	George Hyde
1601	George Egeock	Robert Burdett
1603	Sir Percival Willoughby Percival Willoughby Sir Percival Willoughby was a prominent land owner, businessman involved during his lifetime variously in mining, iron smelting, glass making and as an investor in the Newfoundland Company. He married Bridget Willoughby, evidently his third cousin, the daughter of Sir Francis Willoughby builder...   replaced in by-election in 1604 by Sir Thomas Beaumont	John Ferrers
1614	Sir Thomas Roe	Sir Percival Willoughby Percival Willoughby Sir Percival Willoughby was a prominent land owner, businessman involved during his lifetime variously in mining, iron smelting, glass making and as an investor in the Newfoundland Company. He married Bridget Willoughby, evidently his third cousin, the daughter of Sir Francis Willoughby builder...
1621-1622	Sir Thomas Puckering Thomas Puckering Sir Thomas Puckering was an English politician.Thomas was the son of Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, who died in May 1596. After 5 years in the household of Prince Henry, who was tutored by Thomas' brother-in-law, Adam Newton, in September 1610 he travelled to Paris, meeting the...	John Ferrour
1624-1625	John Woodford	John Wightwick
1625	Sir Thomas Puckering Thomas Puckering Sir Thomas Puckering was an English politician.Thomas was the son of Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, who died in May 1596. After 5 years in the household of Prince Henry, who was tutored by Thomas' brother-in-law, Adam Newton, in September 1610 he travelled to Paris, meeting the...	Sir Richard Skeffington
1626	Sir Thomas Puckering Thomas Puckering Sir Thomas Puckering was an English politician.Thomas was the son of Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, who died in May 1596. After 5 years in the household of Prince Henry, who was tutored by Thomas' brother-in-law, Adam Newton, in September 1610 he travelled to Paris, meeting the...	Sir Walter Devereux Walter Devereux (died 1641) Sir Walter Devereux was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641.Devereux was the son of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and his wife Frances Walsingham, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham and widow of Sir Philip Sidney. He matriculated from...
1628-1629	Sir Thomas Puckering Thomas Puckering Sir Thomas Puckering was an English politician.Thomas was the son of Sir John Puckering, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, who died in May 1596. After 5 years in the household of Prince Henry, who was tutored by Thomas' brother-in-law, Adam Newton, in September 1610 he travelled to Paris, meeting the...	Sir Walter Devereux Walter Devereux (died 1641) Sir Walter Devereux was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641.Devereux was the son of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and his wife Frances Walsingham, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham and widow of Sir Philip Sidney. He matriculated from...
1629-1640	No Parliaments summoned
1640 (Apr)	Sir Simon Archer Sir Simon Archer Sir Simon Archer was an English antiquary and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.Archer was the eldest son of Andrew Archer of Umberslade Hall, near Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire. Like his father, he expanded the family estate...	George Abbot
1640 (Nov)	Ferdinando Stanhope Ferdinando Stanhope Ferdinando Stanhope was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1643. He died fighting for the Royalist army during the English Civil War.-Biography:...  (Royalist), killed 1643	Henry Wilmot Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester Lieutenant-General Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester , known as The Lord Wilmot between 1643 and 1644 and as The Viscount Wilmot between 1644 and 1652, was an English Cavalier who fought for the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.-Early life:Wilmot's family was descended from...  (Royalist), expelled 1641.
1645	George Abbot (Parliamentarian)	Sir Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth was a prominent Puritan leader in the Parliament of England. He was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth, and first entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He later sat for the Cornish borough of Tregony in 1572, and for the town of Northampton in the parliaments of 1586–7, 1589,...  (Parliamentarian)
1648	George Abbot (Parliamentarian)	Sir Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth Peter Wentworth was a prominent Puritan leader in the Parliament of England. He was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth, and first entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He later sat for the Cornish borough of Tregony in 1572, and for the town of Northampton in the parliaments of 1586–7, 1589,...  (Parliamentarian)
1653	Tamworth not represented in Barebones Parliament
1654	Tamworth not represented in 1st Protectorate Parliament
1656	Tamworth not represented in 2nd Protectorate Parliament
1659	Maj. Gen. Tobias Bridge Tobias Bridge Sir Tobias Bridge was fought for Parliament in the English Civil War, served the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell during the Interregnum and after the restoration he served King Charles II.Pape...	Edward Keeling Edward Keeling Sir Edward Herbert Keeling was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament from 1935 to 1954....

MPs 1660-1885

Year			First member	First party	Second member	Second party
		1660	Richard Newdigate		Thomas Fox
		1661	Amos Walrond		John Swinfen John Swinfen John Swinfen was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1645 and 1691. He supported the Parliamentary cause in a civil capacity in the English Civil War....
		1669	John Ferrers John Ferrers John Ferrers was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.Ferrers was the son of Sir Humphrey Ferrers of Tamworth Castle...
		1670	John Boyle, Lord Clifford
		Feb 1679	Sir Thomas Thynne, Bt
		Aug 1679			Sir Andrew Hacket
		1681			John Swinfen John Swinfen John Swinfen was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1645 and 1691. He supported the Parliamentary cause in a civil capacity in the English Civil War....
		1685	Richard Howe		Sir Henry Gough
		Jan 1689	Henry Sidney Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney Henry Sydney , 1st Earl of Romney was born in Paris, a son of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, of Penshurst Place in Kent, England, by Lady Dorothy Percy, a daughter of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland and sister of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland.Henry was a brother of...
		May 1689	Henry Boyle Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, PC , was an Anglo-Irish politician of the early eighteenth century.-Biography:...
		1690	Michael Biddulph
		1695	Thomas Guy Thomas Guy Thomas Guy was a British bookseller, speculator and de facto founder of Guy's Hospital, London-Early life:Thomas Guy was born a son of a lighterman, wharf owner and coal-dealer at Southwark. In 1668, after eight years as an apprentice of a bookseller, he began his own bookstore in Lombard Street...
		1698			John Chetwynd John Chetwynd John Chetwynd , of Rudge, Shropshire, was Member of Parliament for Stafford from 1689 to 1695, and again in 1701 and 1702. In the intervening period he sat for Tamworth in 1698–1700....
		1699			Sir Henry Gough
		1701			Henry Thynne Henry Thynne (1675–1708) Henry Thynne was an English gentleman and Tory Member of Parliament.Thynne was the eldest of the three sons of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth , of Longleat, a substantial landowner in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, by his marriage to Lady Frances Finch, a daughter of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl...
		1702			Joseph Girdler
		1708	Richard Swinfen
		1710	Samuel Bracebridge
		1715			William Inge
		1722			Francis Willoughby Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton was a baron in the Peerage of Great Britain.He was educated at Eton and at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating MA in 1712....
		1723	Richard Swinfen
		Jan 1727	Hon. George Compton George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton , known as the Honourable George Compton until 1754, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....
		Aug 1727	William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin William McWilliam O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin, KB, PC was an Irish peer and politician.-Background:O'Brien was the eldest son of William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin and his wife, Mary , sister of the 1st Earl of Jersey, and inherited his father's titles in 1719.-Political career:Inchiquin...		Hon. Thomas Willoughby Thomas Willoughby (MP) Thomas Willoughby , English politician, was the second son of Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton and Elizabeth Rothwell. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was MP for the university in 1720 and from 1721 to 1727; from 1727 to 1730 he was MP for Tamworth.He married Elizabeth Southby...
		1734	Lord John Philip Sackville		Hon. George Compton George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton George Compton, 6th Earl of Northampton , known as the Honourable George Compton until 1754, was a British peer and Member of Parliament....
		1735			Charles Cotes
		1741			John Floyer John Floyer (MP) John Floyer was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1846 and 1885....
		1742			Charles Cotes
		1747	Hon. Thomas Villiers Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon PC was a British politician and diplomat.-Family:Clarendon was the second son of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey and his wife Judith Herne, daughter of Frederick Herne....		Sir Henry Harpur
		1748			Sir Robert Burdett
		1756			Viscount Villiers
		1765			Edward Thurlow Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow PC, KC was a British lawyer and Tory politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain for fourteen years and under four Prime Ministers.- Early life:...
		Mar 1768	William de Grey William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham William de Grey, 1st Baron Walsingham KC was a British lawyer, judge and politician. He served as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas between 1771 and 1780....
		Nov 1768	Charles Vernon
		1774	Thomas de Grey Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham PC , was a British peer and politician. He served as Joint Postmaster General between 1787 and 1794 and was for many years Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords.-Background:...
		1778			Anthony Chamier
		Sep 1780	John Courtenay
		Nov 1780			John Calvert
		1784			John Calvert II
		1790			Sir Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet , was a British politician and industrialist and one of early textile manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution...
		1796	Thomas Carter
		1802	William Loftus
		1812	Lord Charles Townshend Lord Charles Townshend (1785-1853) Lord Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend , was a British politician.Townshend was the second son of George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, and his wife Charlotte...
		1818	William Yates Peel William Yates Peel William Yates Peel , was a British Tory politician.Peel was the second son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Ellen . He was the younger brother of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, and the elder brother of Jonathan Peel. He was educated at Harrow and St John's College,...
		1820			Lord Charles Townshend Lord Charles Townshend (1785-1853) Lord Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend , was a British politician.Townshend was the second son of George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, and his wife Charlotte...
		1830	Sir Robert Peel Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846...
		1835			William Yates Peel William Yates Peel William Yates Peel , was a British Tory politician.Peel was the second son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Ellen . He was the younger brother of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, and the elder brother of Jonathan Peel. He was educated at Harrow and St John's College,...
		1837			Edward Henry A'Court
		Jul 1847			William Yates Peel William Yates Peel William Yates Peel , was a British Tory politician.Peel was the second son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Ellen . He was the younger brother of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, and the elder brother of Jonathan Peel. He was educated at Harrow and St John's College,...
		Dec 1847			John Townshend John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend Rear Admiral John Townshend, 4th Marquess Townshend , known as John Townshend until 1855, was a British naval commander....
		1850	Sir Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet GCB, PC was a British Peelite and later Liberal politician. The eldest son of the prime minister Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, he was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1844...
		1856			John Villiers Stuart Townshend John Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend John Villiers Stuart Townshend, 5th Marquess Townshend , known as Viscount Raynham from 1855 to 1863, was a British peer and Liberal Member of Parliament....
		1863			John Peel
		1868			Sir Henry Bulwer Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer GCB, PC was a British Liberal politician, diplomat and writer.-Background and education:...
		1871			John Peel
		1872			Robert William Hanbury Robert William Hanbury Robert William Hanbury PC was a British Conservative politician. He served as President of the Board of Agriculture from 1900 to 1903.-Background and education:...
		1878			Hamar Alfred Bass Hamar Alfred Bass Hamar Alfred Bass was a British brewer, race horse breeder and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1898....
		1880	Jabez Spencer Balfour

1885-1945

Tamworth was reduced to having one member in 1885.

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Philip Albert Muntz Sir Philip Muntz, 1st Baronet Sir Philip Albert Muntz, 1st Baronet was an English businessman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1884 to 1906. He changed his allegiance from the Liberal Party to the Conservatives....	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...
	1909	Sir Francis Newdegate Francis Newdegate Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate GCMG was Governor of Tasmania from 1917 to 1920, and Governor of Western Australia from 1920 to 1924....	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...
	1917	Henry Wilson-Fox	Coalition Conservative
	1922	Sir Percy Wilson Newson, Bt	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...
	1923	Edward Iliffe Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe Edward Mauger Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe , was a British newspaper magnate, public servant and Conservative Member of Parliament.Iliffe was the son of William Isaac Iliffe, a publisher and Justice of the Peace, of Allesley near Coventry...	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...
	1929	Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Bt	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...
	1935	Sir John Mellor, Bt	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...

The seat was abolished in 1945.

MPs 1997-present

Election		Member	Party
	1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 The United Kingdom general election, 1997 was held on 1 May 1997, more than five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party ended its 18 years in opposition under the leadership of Tony Blair, and won the general...	Brian Jenkins Brian Jenkins (politician) Brian David Jenkins is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1997 until 2010, and has lived in the constituency for over 50 years...	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
	2010	Christopher Pincher Christopher Pincher Christopher John Pincher MP is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament for Tamworth, winning the seat from Labour at the 2010 general election.-Before Parliament:...	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