Boothferry was a constituency in Humberside which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1983 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election.
History This was a safe Conservative seat for the fourteen years of its existence.
Boundaries The Borough of Boothferry, the Borough of East Yorkshire wards of Battleburn, Garrowby, Market Weighton, Pocklington, Stamford Bridge, Vale, Wilberfoss, Wold, and Woodland, and the East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley wards of Cherry Holme, Skidby and Rowley, South Cave, and Walkington.
Named after the Humberside district of Boothferry, this constituency included areas which before local government reorganisation in 1974 had been in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Goole), the East Riding of Yorkshire (Howden) and Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey (Epworth and the Isle of Axholme). Apart from Goole itself, the constituency was largely rural.
As Humberside was awarded an extra seat in the boundary review implemented in 1997, the constituency was split into four, Brigg and Goole, East Yorkshire, Haltemprice and Howden and Beverley and Holderness being the destinations of the constituents in descending order.C. Rallings & M. Thrasher, The Media Guide to the New Parliamentary Constituencies, pp.12,196 (Plymouth: LGC Elections Centre, 1995)
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberParty1983 Paul Bryan Conservative 1987 David Davis Conservative 1997constituency abolished: see Brigg and Goole, East Yorkshire, Haltemprice and Howden & Beverley and Holderness
Elections Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1990s
See also List of parliamentary constituencies in Humberside
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