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The city of Bristol, England, is a unitary authority, represented by four MPs representing seats wholly within the city boundaries. The overall trend of both local and national representation became left of centre during the latter 20th century.
Bristol East returned a Conservative MP, as Jonathan Sayeed defeated Tony Benn, the outgoing MP for Bristol South East and the leader of a large faction on the left-wing of the Labour Party. In 1992 Labour's Jean Corston gained the seat from Sayeed, which has been retained by Labour candidates at each subsequent general election, the ...
Bristol Central is a parliamentary constituency located within the City of Bristol in South West England. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom .
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). It includes both MPs elected at the 2019 general election, held on 12 December 2019, and those subsequently elected in by-elections.
Bristol was a two-member constituency, used to elect members to the House of Commons in the Parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Britain (1707–1800), and the United Kingdom (from 1801). The constituency existed until Bristol was divided into single member constituencies in 1885.
Darren Jones was born on 13 November 1986 in Bristol, and grew up in Lawrence Weston.He attended Portway Community School in Shirehampton, a state comprehensive, and has spoken about his experiences of growing up in poverty.
Portrait Member Constituency Served from Served to Term length Cynog Dafis [1] [2] [note 1]: Ceredigion and Pembroke North: 9 April 1992: 8 April 1997: 4 years, 364 days
The seat has elected Labour MPs at every election since 1935, the only seat in the south of England outside Greater London with such a record. The closest result, giving a marginal majority, was the 1987 election where Dawn Primarolo won a majority of 2.7% of the vote — in that election the Social Democratic Party, a 'moderate' breakaway party from the Labour Party, [n 3] won 19.6% of the vote.