The first version of the Poole constituency existed from 1455 until 1885. During this period its exact status was a parliamentary borough, sending two burgesses to Westminster per year, except during its last 17 years when its representation was reduced to one member.
During its abeyance most of Poole was in the East Dorset seat and since its recreation in 1950 its area has been reduced as the harbour town's population has increased.
Boundariesedit
Map of current boundaries
1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Poole.
1983–1997: The Borough of Poole wards of Broadstone, Canford Cliffs, Canford Heath, Creekmoor, Hamworthy, Harbour, Newtown, Oakdale, Parkstone, and Penn Hill.
1997–2010: The Borough of Poole wards of Bourne Valley, Canford Cliffs, Hamworthy, Harbour, Newtown, Oakdale, Parkstone, and Penn Hill.
2010–19: The Borough of Poole wards of Branksome West, Canford Cliffs, Creekmoor, Hamworthy East, Hamworthy West, Newtown, Oakdale, Parkstone, Penn Hill, and Poole Town.
Minor changes following re-organisation of local authorities and wards in Dorset.
Constituency profileedit
The borough is an economically very diverse borough. In the centre and north are a significant minority of Output Areas which in 2001 had high rankings in the Index of Multiple Deprivation, contributing in 2012 with the remainder to producing for Poole the highest unemployment of the constituencies in the county.[4][5] However, Canford Cliffs is epitomised by one sub-neighbourhood, Sandbanks with its multimillion-pound properties, the coastline area has been dubbed as "Britain's Palm Beach" by the national media.[6] Alongside oil extraction, insurance, care, retail and customer service industries choosing the town as their base tourism contributes to overall a higher income than the national average, however the divergence is not statistically significant and the size of homes varies extensively.[5][7]
Members of Parliamentedit
MPs 1455–1629edit
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)
^Having stood for UKIP in 2015 Dr David Young was in September 2019 adopted to be the Brexit Party candidate. Following that party's withdrawal of all its candidates in seats held by the Conservatives he decided to stand as an Independent.
Referencesedit
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^StreetCheck. "Wards in the Poole Constituency". StreetCheck. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
^"The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 7 South West region.
^Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
^ ab"Local statistics - Office for National Statistics". neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk.
^Morris, Steven. "£3m for modest bungalow needing TLC", The Guardian 2 November 2005.
^"2011 census interactive maps". Archived from the original on 29 January 2016.
^ abcdefghij"History of Parliament". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
^ abcdLeigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
^Browne Willis and Cobbett both list Cooper as Poole's MP. Cooper was also elected for Wiltshire, and seems to have been regarded as its Member, but there appears no record of another Member having been elected for Poole in his place
^Cobbett again lists Cooper (elected for Wiltshire) as Poole's MP together with Bond, but Browne Willis gives Fitzjames as the second member
^On petition, Stuart was declared not to have been duly elected and his opponent, Taylor, was declared elected in his place
^ abcdefghijklmnopqStooks Smith, Henry. (1973) [1844-1850]. Craig, F. W. S. (ed.). The Parliaments of England (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 89–90. ISBN 0-900178-13-2.
^Hall, Catherine; Draper, Nicholas; McClelland, Keith; Donington, Katie; Lang, Rachel (2014). "Appendix 4: MPs 1832–80 in the compensation records". Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 290. ISBN 978-1-107-04005-2. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^ abDod, Charles Roger (1843). "House of Commons". The Parliamentary Companion, Volume 11. London: Whitaker & Company. pp. 133, 222. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^ abcMosse, Richard Bartholomew (1838). "House of Commons". The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses, etc. pp. 148, 205–206. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^Gash, Norman (2013). Politics in the Age of Peel: A Study in the Technique of Parliamentary Representation, 1830–1850. Faber & Faber. p. 330. ISBN 9780571302901. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^ abcChurton, Edward (1838). The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838. pp. 46, 182, 185.
^"Ireland". John Bull. 22 March 1851. p. 11. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Ireland". London Daily News. 20 March 1851. p. 6. Retrieved 30 September 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ abFarrell, Stephen (2009). "PHILIPS, George Richard (1789–1883), of 12 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, Mdx". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
^Stooks Smith, Henry (1845). The Parliaments of England, from 1st George I., to the Present Time. Vol II: Oxfordshire to Wales Inclusive. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. p. 133.
^"Poole Constituency". Reform UK. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
^"Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidates". Mark Pack. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
^"Stand at the next general election". South West Green Party. 17 September 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
^"Apology for unknowing selection of former UKIP activist who lied about his CV as Green candidate in Poole". Green Party. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
^The Green Party distanced themselves from this former UKIP activist after it emerged that he had lied on his CV, including a claim of being elected as a front bench senator in the upper house of the Parliament of Malta, an institution that was abolished in 1933.[32]
^"Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
^"Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^"Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^"Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^"Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^"Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
^"Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^"Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
^ abcdefghijklmnopCraig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. pp. 244–245. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
^"Dorset Election". Dorset County Chronicle. 2 April 1857. pp. 13–14. Retrieved 30 June 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^Howe, Anthony; Morgan, Simon; Bannerman, Gordon, eds. (2010). The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume II ~ 1848-1853. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-19-921196-8. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
^"Salisbury and Winchester Journal". 28 September 1850. p. 4. Retrieved 30 June 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Poole, Saturday, July 31". Hampshire Advertiser. 31 July 1847. p. 5. Retrieved 27 November 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^Salmon, Philip; Spencer, Howard (2009). Fisher, D. R. (ed.). "ROSE, George Pitt (1797-1851), of Upper Kensington Grove, Mdx". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
^ abcFarrell, Stephen. "Poole". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
Sourcesedit
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Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 1.