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Stowmarket (UK Parliament constituency)

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East Suffolk, Western Division of Suffolk

Stowmarket was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Stowmarket in Suffolk. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

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History

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Boundaries

The Municipal Borough of Bury St Edmunds, the Sessional Divisions of Blackbourn, Lackford, and Stowmarket, parts of the Sessional Divisions of Newmarket, Thedwestry, and Thingoe, and the part of the Municipal Borough of Thetford in the county of Suffolk.

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 the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

  • Unionist: Francis Benedict Hyam Goldsmith
  • Liberal: E. R. Hollond
  • References

    Stowmarket (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia


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