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Wells County constituency

Wells shown within Somerset, and Somerset shown within England
Created:	1295, 1885
MP:	David Heathcoat-Amory
Party:	Conservative
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Somerset
EP constituency:	South West England

Wells is a county constituency centred on the city of Wells in Somerset. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by the first past the post voting system.

The original two member borough constituency was created in 1295, and abolished by the Reform Act 1867 with effect from the 1868 general election.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also
5 References

Boundaries

The electoral wards which make up Wells constituency come from Mendip, and Sedgemoor districts.

From Mendip; Ashwick, Chilcompton and Stratton, Chewton Mendip and Ston Easton, Croscombe and Pilton, the Glastonbury divisions of St. Benedict's, St. Edmund's, St. John's, and St. Mary's; Moor, Rodney and Westbury, St. Cuthbert Out North, Shepton East, Shepton West, Street North, Street South, Street West, Wells Central, Wells St. Cuthbert's, Wells St. Thomas', and Wookey and St. Cuthbert Out West.
From Sedgemoor; Axbridge, Axe Vale, Berrow, Brent North, Burnham North, Burnham South, Cheddar and Shipham, Highbridge, Knoll, and Wedmore and Mark.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1660-1832

Election
1660	Thomas White	Henry Bull
1661	Lord Richard Butler	Sir Maurice Berkeley
1671	John Hall	Sir Maurice Berkeley
1679	Edward Berkeley	William Coward
1680	John Hall	William Coward
1685	Thomas Wyndham	Edward Berkeley
Jan 1690	William Coward
Feb 1690	Hopton Wyndham
1695	William Coward
1701	William Coward	Henry Seymour Portman
1705	Maurice Berkeley	Henry Seymour Portman
1708	Edward Colston	William Coward
1710	Edward Colston	Maurice Berkeley
1713	Sir Thomas Wroth
1715	Thomas Strangways Horner
May 1716	William Coward	William Piers
Jun 1716	Thomas Strangways Horner
1717	John Dodd
1719	Thomas Edwards
1722		Francis Gwyn
1727		Edward Prideaux Gwyn
1729		William Piers
1734		George Hamilton
1735	William Piers	George Speke
1741	Francis Gwyn	George Speke
1747	Francis Gwyn	George Hamilton
1754	Edward Digby, Baron Digby	Charles Tudway
1757	Robert Digby	Charles Tudway
1761	Henry Digby, Baron Digby	Clement Tudway
1765	Robert Child
1782	John Curtis
1784	William Thomas Beckford
1790	Henry Berkeley Portman
1796	Charles William Taylor
1815	Charles William Taylor	John Paine Tudway
1830	John Edwards-Vaughan	John Lee Lee

MPs 1832-1868

Election	1st Member		1st Party		2nd Party
1832		Norman Lamont		John Lee Lee
1834		Nicholas William Ridley Colborne		John Lee Lee
1837		Richard Blakemore		William Goodenough Hayter	Whig
1852		Robert Charles Tudway
1855		Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe	Conservative
1865		Hedworth Hylton Jolliffe	Conservative	Arthur Divett Hayter
1868	borough constituency abolished

MPs 1885-present

	Member	Party
1885	Sir Richard Horner Paget, Bt.
1895	Hylton Jolliffe	Conservative
1899	Robert Edmund Dickinson	Conservative
1906	Thomas Ball Silcock	Liberal
Jan 1910	George John Sandys	Conservative
1918	Harry Greer	Coalition Conservative
1922	Robert Bruford	Conservative
1923	Arthur Hobhouse	Liberal
1924	Sir Robert Arthur Sandars, Bt.	Conservative
1929	Anthony John Muirhead	Conservative
1939	Lt. Col. Dennis Coleridge Boles	Conservative
1951	Lynch Maydon	Conservative
1970	Robert Boscawen	Conservative
1983	David Heathcoat-Amory	Conservative

Election results

Prospective Parliamentary candidates for the next UK general election: ^[1] Wells
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Richard Boyce^[2]
	Green	Chris Briton
	Conservative	David Heathcoat-Amory
	Labour	Andy Merryfield
	Liberal Democrat	Tessa Munt
Majority
Turnout

General Election 2005: Wells
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Heathcoat-Amory	23,071	43.6	−0.2
	Liberal Democrat	Tessa Munt	20,031	37.8	−0.5
	Labour	Dan Whittle	8,288	15.6	+0.2
	UKIP	Steve Reed	1,575	3.0	+0.8
Majority			3,040	5.7
Turnout			52,965	68.0	−1.2
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.1

General Election 2001: Wells
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Heathcoat-Amory	22,462	43.8	+4.4
	Liberal Democrat	Graham Oakes	19,666	38.3	-0.1
	Labour	Andy Merryfield	7,915	15.4	-2.7
	UKIP	Steve Reed	1,104	2.2	N/A
	Wessex Regionalist	Colin Bex	167	0.3	N/A
Majority			2,796	5.5
Turnout			51,314	69.2	-8.7
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Constituencies in South West England

Conservative	Bournemouth East • Bournemouth West • Bridgwater • Christchurch • Cotswold • Devizes • East Devon • Forest of Dean • North Dorset • North Wiltshire • Poole • Salisbury • South West Devon • Tewkesbury • Tiverton and Honiton • Torridge and West Devon • Totnes • Wells • West Dorset • Westbury • Weston-super-Mare • Woodspring

Liberal Democrat	Bath • Bristol West • Cheltenham • Falmouth and Camborne • Mid Dorset and North Poole • North Cornwall • North Devon • Northavon • Somerton and Frome • South East Cornwall • St Ives • Taunton • Teignbridge • Torbay • Truro and St Austell • Yeovil

Labour	Bristol East • Bristol North West • Bristol South • Exeter • Gloucester • Kingswood • North Swindon • Plymouth Devonport • Plymouth Sutton • South Dorset • South Swindon • Stroud • Wansdyke

South West England European constituency: Conservative (3) · UKIP (2) · Liberal Democrats (1)

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