Английская Википедия:Hitchin (UK Parliament constituency)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox UK constituency Hitchin was a parliamentary constituency in Hertfordshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.

Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the next general election.

Boundaries and boundary changes

1885–1918

• The Sessional Divisions of Aldbury (except the parishes of Great Hadham and Little Hadham), Buntingford, Hitchin, Odsey, Stevenage, and Welwyn; and
• The parish of Braughing.

The constituency was established by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (which followed on from the Third Reform Act) as one of four Divisions of the abolished three-member Parliamentary County of Hertfordshire, and was formally named as the Northern or Hitchin Division of Hertfordshire. It included the towns/villages of Hitchin, Stevenage, Welwyn, Baldock and Royston.

1918–1945

• The Urban Districts of Baldock, Hitchin, Royston, and Stevenage;
• The Rural Districts of Ashwell, Buntingford, Hitchin, and Welwyn; and
• The Rural District of Hertford parishes of Aston, Bennington, Datchworth, Sacombe, Walkern, and Watton-at-Stone.

Minor changes only to reflect local authority boundaries.

1945–1950

• The Urban Districts of Baldock, Hitchin, Letchworth, Royston, and Stevenage;
• The Rural Districts of Hitchin, and Welwyn; and
• Parts of the Rural Districts of Braughing and Hertford.

The constituency had included a part of the Urban District of Welwyn Garden City, which had been formed as a separate local authority in 1927, and this was now transferred to St Albans.  Other nominal changes as a result of the reorganisation of local authorities.

1950–1955

• The Urban Districts of Baldock, Hitchin, Letchworth, Royston, and Stevenage;
• The Rural District of Hitchin:
• The Rural District of Braughing parishes of Anstey, Ardeley, Aspenden, Broadfield, Buckland, Buntingford, Cottered, Hormead, Meesden, Throcking, Westmilll, and Wyddiall; and
• The Rural District of Hertford parishes of Aston, Bennington, Datchworth, Sacombe, Walkern, and Watton-at-Stone.

The Rural District of Welwyn was transferred to St Albans.

1955–1974

• The Urban Districts of Baldock, Hitchin, Letchworth, Royston, and Stevenage; and
• The Rural District of Hitchin.

The part of the Rural District of Braughing was transferred to the new constituency of East Hertfordshire, and the part of the Rural District of Hertford was transferred to Hertford.

1974–1983

• The Urban Districts of Baldock, Hitchin, Letchworth, and Royston; and
• The Rural District of Hitchin.

The Urban District of Stevenage formed the majority of the new County Constituency of Hertford and Stevenage.

The constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election and was replaced by the new constituency of North Hertfordshire, with the exception of a small part in the south-east which was included in the new constituency of Stevenage (Codicote and Knebworth).

Proposed

Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the composition of the re-established constituency, will be (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

• The District of Central Bedfordshire wards of Arlesey; Shefford; and Stotfold and Langford - transferred partly from North East Bedfordshire and partly from Mid Bedfordshire.
• The District of North Hertfordshire wards of: Cadwell; Chesfield; Hitchin Bearton; Hitchin Highbury; Hitchin Oughton; Hitchin Priory; Hitchin Walsworth; Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo; and Kimpton - transferred from the, to be abolished, constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1885	Baron Robert Dimsdale a	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1892	George Hudson	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1906	Julius Bertram	Liberal
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	Jan 1910	Alfred Hillier	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1911 by-election	Lord Robert Cecil b	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1918		Coalition Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1922		Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1923	Guy Kindersley	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1931	Viscount Knebworth	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1933 by-election	Sir Arnold Wilson	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1941 by-election	Seymour Berry	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1945	Philip Asterley Jones	Labour
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1950	Nigel Fisher	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1955	Martin Maddan	Conservative
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	1964	Shirley Williams	Labour
style="background-color: Шаблон:Party color" |	Feb 1974	Ian Stewart	Conservative
1983		constituency abolished

Notes:-

• ^a Dimsdale was a Baron of the Russian Empire.
• ^b Cecil associated himself with the non-coalition wing of the Conservative Party, at some point in the 1918-1922 Parliament.

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

* Served as MP for Hitchin and Harpenden in the 2019–2024 Parliament

** Served as MP for Mid Bedfordshire in the 2019–2024 Parliament

Elections in the 1910s

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Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

• Unionist: Robert Cecil
• Liberal:

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Robert Cecil

Elections in the 1930s

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Arnold Wilson

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939–40: Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

• Conservative: Arnold Wilson
• Labour: George Lindgren

References

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