Swindon (UK Parliament constituency)
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Swindon was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Swindon in Wiltshire.
It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.
It was then replaced by two new constituencies: Swindon North and Swindon South.
[edit] Members of Parliament
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Sir Frederick William Young | Coalition Conservative | |
| 1922 | Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Christopher Addison | Labour | |
| 1931 | Sir Reginald Mitchell Banks | Conservative | |
| 1934 | Christopher Addison | Labour | |
| 1935 | Wavell Wakefield | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Thomas Reid | Labour | |
| 1955 | Francis Noel-Baker | Labour | |
| 1969 | Christopher Ward | Conservative | |
| 1970 | David Stoddart | Labour | |
| 1983 | Simon Christopher Coombs | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished: see Swindon North and Swindon South | ||
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
