Hertford was the name of a parliamentary constituency in Hertfordshire, which elected Members of Parliament (MPs) from 1298 until 1974. It was represented in the House of Commons of England from 1298 to 1707, then of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and finally in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1974.
From 1298 it was a borough consisting of the town of Hertford, electing two MPs until 1868 and one from 1868 to 1885. In 1885 the borough was abolished and the name was transferred to the county constituency which contained the town.
The constituency disappeared in the redistribution at the February 1974 general election, being mostly included in the new Hertford and Stevenage constituency.
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Hertford, the Sessional Divisions of Bishop's Stortford and Cheshunt, parts of the Sessional Divisions of Hertford and Ware, and in the Sessional Division of Aldbury the civil parishes of Great Hadham and Little Hadham.
1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Hertford, the Urban Districts of Bishop's Stortford, Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, Sawbridgeworth, and Ware, the Rural Districts of Hadham and Ware, and part of the Rural District of Hertford.
1950-1955: The Municipal Borough of Hertford, the Urban Districts of Bishop's Stortford, Cheshunt, Hoddesdon, Sawbridgeworth, and Ware, the Rural District of Ware, and parts of the Rural Districts of Braughing and Hertford.
1955-1974: The Municipal Borough of Hertford, the Urban District of Welwyn Garden City, and the Rural Districts of Hatfield, Hertford, and Welwyn.
Members of Parliament
Hertford borough (1298-1885)
1298-1640
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1640-1868
1868-1885
Hertford county constituency (1885-1974)
Notes
- ↑ At the general election of 1715, Caesar and Goulston were initially declared re-elected, but on petition the result was overturned and their opponents, Clarke and Boteler, were seated in their place
- ↑ On petition, Caesar was adjudged not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Clarke, was declared elected in his place
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dimsdale was a baron in the Russian peerage
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 At the election of 1832 Ingestrie and Mahon were declared elected, but on petition was their election was declared void, Hertford's writ was suspended and the seats remained vacant until the next general election
Elections
Elections in the 1910s
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
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;
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
References
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
- ↑ F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950-1973; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow 1973
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1950-1973 by FWS Craig
- Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807) [1]
- D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [2]
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- F W S Craig, "British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949" (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
- Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)[self-published source][better source needed]
