County Staffordshire Electorate 75,302 (December 2010) | Population 102,731 (2011 census) Created 1885 | |
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Major settlements Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter Member of parliament Andrew Griffiths (Conservative) | ||
Burton is a county 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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Boundaries
This constituency covers most of the East Staffordshire district. The main town is Burton upon Trent, while it also includes Uttoxeter, Tutbury and Rocester. The remaining small part of East Staffordshire, the area around Abbots Bromley and Yoxall, and, from the 2010 general election (following a review by the Boundary Commission for England), the Needwood ward (containing the village of Barton-under-Needwood), is in the Lichfield constituency.
History
The constituency was formed in 1885. Burton-upon-Trent is a centre of the brewing industry and from the seat's creation in 1885 until 1945, the MPs were members of brewery-owning families. From 1950 until 1997, the seat was held by the Conservative Party. However, like many traditionally Conservative seats, it fell to the Labour Party during their landslide victory at the 1997 general election. Labour's Janet Dean held the seat until 2010 when the Tories retook the seat.
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914/15:
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 July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;