Stone (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Stone County constituency |
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| Stone shown within Staffordshire, and Staffordshire shown within England | |
| Created: | 1918, 1997 |
| MP: | Bill Cash |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Staffordshire |
| EP constituency: | West Midlands |
Stone 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.
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[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
- Sir Joseph Lamb, Conservative (1922-1945)
- Hugh Fraser, Conservative (1945-1950)
- Constituency abolished, 1950
- Constituency re-created, 1997
- Bill Cash, Conservative (1997-present)
[edit] Election results
| General Election 2005: Stone | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Bill Cash | 22,733 | 48.3 | -0.8 | |
| Labour | Mark Davis | 13,644 | 29.0 | -6.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Stevens | 9,111 | 19.4 | +4.3 | |
| UK Independence | Mike Nattrass | 1,548 | 3.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,089 | 19.3 | +6.0 | ||
| Turnout | 47,036 | 66.9 | +0.6 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +3.0 | |||
| General Election 2001: Stone | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Bill Cash | 22,395 | 49.1 | +2.2 | |
| Labour | John Palfreyman | 16,359 | 35.8 | -3.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Brendan McKeown | 6,888 | 15.1 | +3.0 | |
| Majority | 6,036 | 13.3 | |||
| Turnout | 45,642 | 66.3 | -12.0 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Stone | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Bill Cash | 24,859 | 46.8 | N/A | |
| Labour | John Wakefield | 21,041 | 39.6 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Barry Stamp | 6,392 | 12.0 | N/A | |
| Liberal | A. Winfield | 545 | 1.0 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | D. Grice | 237 | 0.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,818 | N/A | |||
| Turnout | 77.8 | N/A | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | N/A | |||
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- (2003) Iain Dale: The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935. Politico's (reprint). ISBN 1-84275-033-X.
- (1945) The Times House of Commons 1945.
