Exeter (UK Parliament constituency)

Exeter is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It is currently represented by Ben Bradshaw a Labour MP, with Hannah Foster being the Conservative candidate.

Boundaries

The constituency covers the city of Exeter in Devon. It has a high student population centred around the University of Exeter but is otherwise fairly affluent and middle-class.

Members of Parliament

Pre 1660

1660-1885

Two members

Year		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1660		John Maynard			Thomas Bampfield
1661		Sir James Smyth			Robert Walker
1673					Thomas Walker
1679		William Glyde			Malachi Pyne
1681		Sir Thomas Carew			Thomas Walker
1685		James Walker			Edward Seymour	Tory
Jan 1689		Henry Pollexfen
Jun 1689		Christopher Bale
1695		Edward Seyward			Sir Joseph Tily
1698		Sir Edward Seymour	Tory		Sir Bartholomew Shower
1702					John Snell	Tory
Apr 1708		John Harris
May 1708					Nicholas Wood
1710		Sir Coplestone Bampfylde			John Snell	Tory
1713		John Rolle			Francis Drewe
1715		John Bampfylde
1722		John Rolle
1727		Samuel Molyneux
1728		John Belfield
1734		John King			Thomas Balle
1735		Sir Henry Northcote
1741					Humphrey Sydenham
1743		Sir Richard Bampfylde, Bt
1747		John Tuckfield
1754					John Rolle Walter
1767		William Spicer
1768		John Buller
1774		Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde
1776					John Baring
1790		James Buller
1796		Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde
1802					James Buller
1812		William Courtenay
1818					Robert William Newman
Feb 1826		Samuel Trehawke Kekewich
Jun 1826					Lewis William Buck
1830		James Wentworth Buller
1832					Edward Divett
1835		Sir William Webb Follett
1845		Sir John Thomas Buller Duckworth, Bt
1845		Richard Sommers Gard
1864					Viscount Courtenay
1865		John Coleridge	Liberal
1868					Edgar Alfred Bowring
1873		Arthur Mills
1880					Edward Johnson

1885 on

One member

Year	Member		Party
1880		Henry Northcote	Conservative
1899		Sir Edgar Vincent	Conservative
1906		Sir George Kekewich
January 1910		Henry Duke	Conservative
December 1910		Harold St Maur
1911		Henry Duke	Conservative
1918		Sir Robert Newman	Conservative
1929			Independent
1931		Arthur Conrad Reed	Conservative
1945		John Cyril Maude	Conservative
1951		Sir Rolf Dudley-Williams, Bt	Conservative
1966		Gwyneth Dunwoody	Labour
1970		Sir John Hannam	Conservative
1997		Ben Bradshaw	Labour

Election results

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Devon

References