Weston-super-Mare (UK Parliament constituency)
Weston-super-Mare | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset | |
![]() Location of Somerset within England | |
County | Somerset |
Electorate | 70,722 (2023)[1] |
Major settlements | Weston-super-Mare |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1918 |
Member of Parliament | Dan Aldridge (Labour) |
Seats | One |
Created from | part North Somerset, part Wells |
Weston-super-Mare is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Dan Aldridge from the Labour Party since 2024. Before then it was held since 2005 by John Penrose, a Conservative.[n 2]
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be subject to moderate boundary changes which will involve the loss of rural areas in the east which will move into the new constituency of Wells and Mendip Hills to be first contested at the 2024 general election.[2]
History
[edit]The seat was created under the Representation of the People Act 1918. Its forerunner was the North Somerset division created in 1885.
The by-election of 1934 was triggered by the acceptance of the appointment of Lord Erskine to the position of Governor of Madras Presidency, that of 1958 by the death of Ian Orr-Ewing and that of 1969 by the death of David Webster.
- Political history
The seat has alternated in representation between 1992 and 2005: in the election of 1997 the fresh Conservative candidate, Margaret Daly failed to hold the seat which led to Weston Super Mare's first marginal majority since 1923, obtained by Brian Cotter, a Liberal Democrat. Between 1997 and 2010, all the majorities in the constituency were lower than 3,000 votes, remaining strongly marginal and seeing in 2005 Cotter lose the seat to John Penrose. Following the 2015 election however, the seat moved strongly towards the Conservatives, who increased their share of the vote in every subsequent election until 2019 election, when Penrose gained a majority of 17,121 over the second place Labour candidate. Penrose subsequently lost the seat to Labour's Dan Aldridge in 2024.
- Frontbenchers
- Jerry Wiggin was Minister for the Armed Services from 1981 to 1983.
- Brian Cotter was the Liberal Democrat Small Business Spokesman (1997–2005),
- John Penrose was appointed the Minister for Tourism and Heritage (2010–2012).
Boundaries
[edit]1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Clevedon, Portishead, and Weston-super-Mare, and the Rural Districts of Axbridge and Long Ashton.
1950–1983: The Borough of Weston-super-Mare, the Urban District of Clevedon, the Rural District of Axbridge, and in the Rural District of Long Ashton the parishes of Kenn, Kingston Seymour, and Yatton.
1983–1997: The District of Woodspring wards of Banwell, Blagdon, Churchill, Congresbury, Hutton, Locking, Weston-super-Mare Ashcombe, Weston-super-Mare East, Weston-super-Mare Ellenborough, Weston-super-Mare North, Weston-super-Mare South, Weston-super-Mare Uphill, Weston-super-Mare West, Winscombe, Wrington, and Yatton.
1997–2010: The District of North Somerset wards of Banwell, Blagdon, Churchill, Congresbury, Hutton, Locking, Weston-super-Mare Ashcombe, Weston-super-Mare East, Weston-super-Mare Ellenborough, Weston-super-Mare North, Weston-super-Mare South, Weston-super-Mare Uphill, Weston-super-Mare West, and Winscombe.
2010–2024: The District of North Somerset wards of Banwell and Winscombe, Blagdon and Churchill, Congresbury, Hutton and Locking, Kewstoke, Weston-super-Mare Central, Weston-super-Mare Clarence and Uphill, Weston-super-Mare East, Weston-super-Mare Milton and Old Worle, Weston-super-Mare North Worle, Weston-super-Mare South, Weston-super-Mare South Worle, and Weston-super-Mare West.
The constituency covers the southern half of North Somerset Unitary Authority, including its only town, Weston-super-Mare on the Bristol Channel.
2024–present:
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/AvonConstituencies2023.svg/256px-AvonConstituencies2023.svg.png)
The composition of the constituency from the 2024 United Kingdom general election will be reduced in order to bring the electorate within the permitted range by transferring the Banwell & Winscombe, Blagdon & Churchill, and Congresbury & Puxton wards to the new constituency of Wells and Mendip Hills.[3]
History of boundaries
[edit]- Changes for 1950
Under the first periodic review the Weston constituency lost the Urban District of Portishead, and most of the Rural District of Long Ashton (excepting the parishes of Kenn, Kingston Seymour, and Yatton) to North Somerset constituency.
- Changes for 1983
Under the third periodic review the Weston constituency lost Clevedon to Woodspring constituency, and the parishes now within the Sedgemoor district (under the Local Government Act 1972) to Wells constituency.
- Changes for 1997
Under the fourth periodic review the Weston constituency lost Yatton and Wrington to Woodspring constituency.
- Changes for 2010
Parliament accepted the Boundary Commission's Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies by making slight changes to this constituency for the 2010 general election, namely the loss of only 181 electors in Butcombe (in the ward of Wrington, no longer in the seat at all) to North Somerset.
Constituency profile
[edit]The town grew as a relatively late-Victorian affluent resort with many green spaces and gardens south of the headland, Sand Point which denotes the sandier beach of the town and of Burnham on Sea relative to northerly shores such as at Clevedon.
Work in tourism and visitor attractions is seasonal but other areas of the economy locally, such as customer services operations, freight, haulage and distribution, social, care, elderly and health services as well as retail, manufacturing and materials/foods processing provide employment. Workless claimants who were registered jobseekers were in November 2012 lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 3.5% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[4]
Members of Parliament
[edit]Elections
[edit]Elections in the 2020s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dan Aldridge | 16,310 | 38.5 | +10.4 | |
Conservative | John Penrose | 11,901 | 28.1 | –29.0 | |
Reform UK | Richard Pearse | 7,735 | 18.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Patrick Keating | 3,756 | 8.9 | –2.8 | |
Green | Thomas Daw | 2,688 | 6.3 | +3.3 | |
Majority | 4,409 | 10.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42,533 | 59.6 | –5.5 | ||
Registered electors | 71,396 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ![]() |
Elections in the 2010s
[edit]2019 notional result[8] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Conservative | 26,210 | 57.1 | |
Labour | 12,900 | 28.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | 5,382 | 11.7 | |
Green | 1,380 | 3.0 | |
Turnout | 45,872 | 64.9 | |
Electorate | 70,722 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Penrose | 31,983 | 57.5 | +4.4 | |
Labour | Tim Taylor | 14,862 | 26.7 | –6.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Patrick Keating | 6,935 | 12.5 | +3.3 | |
Green | Suneil Basu | 1,834 | 3.3 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 17,121 | 30.8 | +10.4 | ||
Turnout | 55,614 | 67.4 | –1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Penrose | 29,982 | 53.1 | +5.1 | |
Labour | Tim Taylor | 18,438 | 32.7 | +14.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mike Bell | 5,175 | 9.2 | –1.2 | |
UKIP | Helen Hims | 1,932 | 3.4 | –14.4 | |
Green | Suneil Basu | 888 | 1.6 | –3.3 | |
Majority | 11,544 | 20.4 | –9.3 | ||
Turnout | 56,415 | 68.7 | +2.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | –4.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Penrose | 25,203 | 48.0 | +3.7 | |
Labour | Tim Taylor | 9,594 | 18.3 | +7.4 | |
UKIP | Ernie Warrender | 9,366 | 17.8 | +15.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Munro | 5,486 | 10.4 | –28.8 | |
Green | Richard Lawson | 2,592 | 4.9 | New | |
English Democrat | Ronald Lavelle | 311 | 0.6 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 15,609 | 29.7 | +24.6 | ||
Turnout | 52,552 | 66.0 | –1.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Penrose | 23,356 | 44.3 | +4.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mike Bell | 20,665 | 39.2 | +3.1 | |
Labour | David Bradley | 5,772 | 10.9 | –7.8 | |
UKIP | Paul Spencer | 1,406 | 2.7 | +0.2 | |
BNP | Peryn Parsons | 1,098 | 2.1 | +0.5 | |
English Democrat | John Peverelle | 275 | 0.5 | New | |
Independent | Steve Satch | 144 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,691 | 5.1 | +0.9 | ||
Turnout | 52,716 | 67.2 | +1.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +0.4 |
Elections in the 2000s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Penrose | 19,804 | 40.3 | +1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Cotter | 17,725 | 36.1 | −3.4 | |
Labour | Damien Egan | 9,169 | 18.7 | −1.1 | |
UKIP | Paul Spencer | 1,207 | 2.5 | +1.1 | |
BNP | Clive Courtney | 778 | 1.6 | New | |
Independent | William Human | 225 | 0.5 | New | |
Demanding Honesty in Politics and Whitehall | Paul Hemingway-Arnold | 187 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 2,079 | 4.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,095 | 65.5 | +2.7 | ||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +2.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Brian Cotter | 18,424 | 39.5 | –0.6 | |
Conservative | John Penrose | 18,086 | 38.7 | +1.0 | |
Labour | Derek Kraft | 9,235 | 19.8 | +1.9 | |
UKIP | Bill Lukins | 650 | 1.4 | New | |
Independent | John Peverelle | 206 | 0.4 | New | |
Independent | Richard Sibley | 79 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 338 | 0.8 | –1.6 | ||
Turnout | 46,680 | 62.8 | –10.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | –0.8 |
Elections in the 1990s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Brian Cotter | 21,407 | 40.1 | +0.8 | |
Conservative | Margaret Daly | 20,133 | 37.7 | −10.0 | |
Labour | Derek Kraft | 9,557 | 17.9 | +6.9 | |
Referendum | Tom Sewell | 2,280 | 4.3 | New | |
Majority | 1,274 | 2.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 53,377 | 73.7 | −6.0 | ||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | -5.44 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jerry Wiggin | 30,022 | 47.7 | −1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Cotter | 24,680 | 39.3 | +3.7 | |
Labour | David Murray | 6,913 | 11.0 | −0.4 | |
Green | Richard Lawson | 1,262 | 2.0 | −1.6 | |
Majority | 5,342 | 8.4 | −5.4 | ||
Turnout | 62,877 | 79.7 | +4.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.7 |
Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jerry Wiggin | 28,547 | 49.4 | −4.2 | |
SDP | John Crockford-Hawley | 20,549 | 35.6 | +0.2 | |
Labour Co-op | Paul Loach | 6,584 | 11.4 | +0.3 | |
Green | Richard Lawson | 2,067 | 3.6 | New | |
Majority | 7,998 | 13.8 | −4.4 | ||
Turnout | 57,747 | 75.7 | +2.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jerry Wiggin | 27,948 | 53.6 | ||
SDP | Jonathan Marks | 18,457 | 35.4 | ||
Labour | Roger Berry | 5,781 | 11.1 | ||
Majority | 9,491 | 18.2 | |||
Turnout | 52,186 | 73.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jerry Wiggin | 40,618 | 56.9 | +8.1 | |
Liberal | Rowland Morgan | 16,305 | 22.9 | −5.7 | |
Labour Co-op | Alan Taylor | 14,420 | 20.2 | −1.9 | |
Majority | 24,313 | 34.0 | +13.8 | ||
Turnout | 71,343 | 77.5 | +2.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jerry Wiggin | 31,028 | 48.8 | −1.2 | |
Liberal | Roger Miller | 18,169 | 28.6 | −1.3 | |
Labour Co-op | Peter Owen | 14,057 | 22.1 | +2.1 | |
United Democratic | Eric Iszatt | 296 | 0.5 | New | |
Majority | 12,859 | 20.2 | +0.1 | ||
Turnout | 63,550 | 74.8 | −5.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jerry Wiggin | 33,838 | 50.0 | −7.9 | |
Liberal | Philip Golding | 20,237 | 29.9 | +12.6 | |
Labour Co-op | Roy Morris | 13,542 | 20.0 | −4.8 | |
Majority | 13,601 | 20.1 | −13.0 | ||
Turnout | 67,617 | 80.1 | +6.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jerry Wiggin | 33,816 | 57.9 | +5.8 | |
Labour | Sarah Palmer | 14,473 | 24.8 | −4.0 | |
Liberal | Edward Deal | 10,120 | 17.3 | −1.8 | |
Majority | 19,343 | 33.1 | +9.8 | ||
Turnout | 58,409 | 73.7 | −4.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jerry Wiggin | 29,211 | 65.7 | +13.6 | |
Liberal | Edward Deal | 8,739 | 19.7 | +0.6 | |
Labour | Nicholas Bosanquet | 6,504 | 14.6 | −14.2 | |
Majority | 20,472 | 46.0 | +22.7 | ||
Turnout | 44,454 | 60.8 | −17.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Webster | 27,733 | 52.1 | −1.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Melvyn Butcher | 15,340 | 28.8 | +4.9 | |
Liberal | Ian McDonald | 10,173 | 19.1 | −3.9 | |
Majority | 12,393 | 23.3 | −5.9 | ||
Turnout | 53,246 | 78.5 | −0.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Webster | 27,143 | 53.1 | −4.4 | |
Labour Co-op | Jessie Stephen | 12,248 | 23.9 | +1.2 | |
Liberal | Ian McDonald | 11,771 | 23.0 | +3.2 | |
Majority | 14,895 | 29.2 | −5.6 | ||
Turnout | 51,162 | 79.0 | −0.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1950s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Webster | 27,881 | 57.5 | −5.2 | |
Labour | Edward Hampton | 10,977 | 22.7 | −14.6 | |
Liberal | Edward Taylor | 9,609 | 19.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 16,904 | 34.8 | +9.4 | ||
Turnout | 48,467 | 79.7 | +5.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Webster | 21,271 | 49.3 | −13.4 | |
Labour | Edward Hampton | 11,295 | 26.2 | −11.1 | |
Liberal | Edward Taylor | 10,588 | 24.5 | New | |
Majority | 9,976 | 23.1 | −2.3 | ||
Turnout | 43,154 | 72.2 | −1.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 27,357 | 62.7 | −3.0 | |
Labour | Robert Andrews | 16,275 | 37.3 | +3.0 | |
Majority | 11,082 | 25.4 | −6.0 | ||
Turnout | 43,632 | 73.8 | −5.9 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 30,485 | 65.7 | +9.3 | |
Labour | Robert Andrews | 15,942 | 34.3 | +6.3 | |
Majority | 14,543 | 31.4 | −22.2 | ||
Turnout | 46,427 | 79.7 | −3.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 26,767 | 56.4 | ||
Labour | Michael Hill | 13,294 | 28.0 | ||
Liberal | Frederick Archie Kew | 7,394 | 15.6 | ||
Majority | 13,473 | 53.6 | |||
Turnout | 47,455 | 83.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 30,730 | 49.5 | −16.2 | |
Labour | Hugh Cardew | 20,542 | 33.1 | +15.4 | |
Liberal | Stanley Sanger | 10,804 | 17.4 | −1.3 | |
Majority | 10,188 | 16.4 | −30.6 | ||
Turnout | 62,076 | 73.7 | +7.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 27,735 | 65.7 | −20.0 | |
Liberal | Henry Scott-Stokes | 7,883 | 18.7 | N/A | |
Labour | George Elvin | 6,625 | 15.7 | +1.4 | |
Majority | 19,852 | 47.0 | −24.4 | ||
Turnout | 42,243 | 66.4 | −5.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ian Orr-Ewing | 21,203 | 61.5 | −24.2 | |
Liberal | Henry Scott-Stokes | 7,551 | 21.9 | New | |
Labour | Albert Edward Millett | 5,715 | 16.6 | +2.3 | |
Majority | 13,652 | 39.6 | −31.8 | ||
Turnout | 34,469 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Erskine | 35,255 | 85.7 | +33.5 | |
Labour | Bernard Craig | 5,905 | 14.3 | +3.4 | |
Majority | 29,350 | 71.4 | +55.2 | ||
Turnout | 41,160 | 71.8 | −8.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | John Erskine | 21,898 | 51.1 | −4.7 | |
Liberal | William Morse | 16,219 | 37.8 | −2.2 | |
Labour | Constance Elizabeth Borrett | 4,766 | 11.1 | +6.9 | |
Majority | 5,679 | 13.3 | −2.5 | ||
Turnout | 42,883 | 77.8 | −2.1 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | -0.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | John Erskine | 17,987 | 55.8 | +7.3 | |
Liberal | Frank Murrell | 12,895 | 40.0 | −11.5 | |
Labour | Raphael Neft | 1,343 | 4.2 | New | |
Majority | 5,092 | 15.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,225 | 81.7 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Frank Murrell | 15,223 | 51.5 | +6.6 | |
Unionist | John Erskine | 14,318 | 48.5 | −6.6 | |
Majority | 905 | 3.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 29,541 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +6.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | John Erskine | 15,552 | 55.1 | −10.4 | |
Liberal | Frank Murrell | 12,674 | 44.9 | +10.4 | |
Majority | 2,878 | 10.2 | −20.8 | ||
Turnout | 28,226 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
C | Unionist | Gilbert Wills | 13,494 | 65.5 | |
Liberal | Edmund Thruston | 7,104 | 34.5 | ||
Majority | 6,390 | 31.0 | |||
Turnout | 20,598 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government. |
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ^ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- ^ Heir to the Earl of Mar, however predeceased his father. This title has a subsidiary title gained by one of the clan's forebears, remaining as a courtesy title, Lord Erskine, which attaches to its current holder's eldest son.
References
[edit]- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – South West". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "South West | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 7 South West region.
- ^ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ^ "Weston-super-Mare 1918–". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated, Notice of Poll and Situation of Polling Stations" (PDF). North Somerset Council. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "Weston-super-Mare - General election results 2024". BBC News.
- ^ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated" (PDF).
- ^ Robinson, Sarah. "General Election 2017: Who is standing in the Weston-super-Mare constituency?". Weston Mercury.
- ^ "Weston-Super-Mare". BBC. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Weston-Super-Mare". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
- ^ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- ^ "Stephen, Miss Jessie 8SUF/B/157". The National Archives. 1 July 1977. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
Sources
[edit]- The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
- F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- Michael Kinnear, The British Voter (London: BH Batsford, Ltd, 1968)
- Henry Pelling, Social Geography of British Elections 1885–1910 (London: Macmillan, 1967)
- Frederic A Youngs, jr, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol I (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979)
External links
[edit]- Weston-Super-Mare UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Weston-super-Mare UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK