Lichfield is a 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.

Boundaries

The constituency includes the northern part of the Lichfield local government district, including the city of Lichfield itself, plus the south-western portion of East Staffordshire district around Yoxall and Abbots Bromley.

Anciently, it was a borough constituency for the city.

Members of Parliament

MPs pre-1660

• 1604 Thomas Crewe
• 1621 Richard Weston
• 1640-1640 Richard Dyott of Freeford, a royalist (short parliament)
• 1640-1641 Sir Walter Devereux, a parliamentarian the natural son of the Earl of Essex (Short and Long parliament) died 1641
• 1640-1649 Michael Noble, puritan town clerk (Long parliament)
• 1641-1642 Sir Richard Cave, a royalist chosen by Prince Rupert and removed by resolution of the House of Commons
• 1642- Michael Biddulph of Elmhurst, a supporter of parliament (father of Michael Biddulph MP 1660-1661)
• 1654-1660 Thomas Minors. Presbyterian mercer
• 1659-1660 Daniel Watson of Burton upon Trent

MPs 1660-1868

Year	First member	Second member
1660 Apr	Michael Biddulph (MP)	Daniel Watson
1660 May	Thomas Minors
1661	John Lane	Sir Theophilus Biddulph, Bt
1667	Richard Dyott (1619-1677)
1678	Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Bt
1679 Feb		Sir Michael Biddulph, Bt
1679 Aug	Daniel Finch, later 2nd Earl of Nottingham
1685	Thomas Orme	Richard Leveson
1689	Robert Burdett	Sir Michael Biddulph, Bt
1690		Richard Dyott (1667-1719)
1695		Sir Michael Biddulph, Bt
1698	Richard Dyott (1667-1719)
1701 Jan		William Walmisley
1701		Sir Michael Biddulph, Bt
1705		Sir Henry Gough
1708	John Cotes	Sir Michael Biddulph, Bt
1710		Richard Dyott (1667-1719)
1715	Walter Chetwynd	Samuel Hill (1691-1758)
1718 Apr	William Sneyd
1718 Dec	Walter Chetwynd
1722	Richard Plumer
1731		George Venables-Vernon, later Baron Vernon
1734	Sir Rowland Hill (1705-83)
1741	Sir Lister Holte, Bt
1747	Richard Leveson-Gower	Thomas Anson
1753 Nov	Sir Thomas Gresley, 5th Bt
1754 Jan	Henry Vernon
1754 Apr	Granville Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham, later Marquess of Stafford
1755	Henry Vernon
1761	John Levett
1762	Hugo Meynell
1768	Thomas Gilbert
1770		George Adams then Anson
1789		Thomas Anson,later Viscount Anson
1795	Lord Granville Leveson-Gower,later Earl Granville
1799	Sir John Wrottesley, Bt, created Baron Wrottesley 1838
1806 Feb		Sir George Anson
1806 Aug	George Granville Venables Vernon
1831	Sir Edward Dolman Scott, Bt
1837	Lord Alfred Henry Paget
1841		Granville George Leveson-Gower, Baron Leveson, later Earl Granville
1846		Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn,later Baron Mostyn
1847		Thomas George Anson,Viscount Anson, later 2nd Earl of Lichfield
1854		Henry Manners Cavendish, 3rd Baron Waterpark
1856		Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder,Viscount Sandon, later Earl of Harrowby
1859		Augustus Henry Archibald Anson
1865	Richard Dyott (1808-1891)

MPs 1868-1950

one MP

Election		Member	Party
	1868	Richard Dyott (1808-1891) continuing
	1880	Theophilus John Levett
	1885	Sir John Swinburne	Liberal
	1892	Leonard Darwin	Liberal Unionist
	1895	Henry Charles Fulford	Liberal
	1896	Sir Courtenay Warner, Bt	Liberal
	1918		Coalition Liberal
	1922		National Liberal
	1923	Frank Hodges	Labour
	1924	Roderick Roy Wilson	Conservative
	1929	James Alexander Lovat-Fraser	Labour
	1931		National Labour
	1938	Cecil Charles Poole	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

MPs 1997-present

The Conservative MP Michael Fabricant has represented this constituency since it was re-established in 1997. He was first elected for Mid Staffordshire, the constituency which formerly contained the city of Lichfield (in addition to Rugeley and Stone), in 1992.

Election results

See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire