| Rutland and Stamford | |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Year2: | 1918 |
| Abolished2: | 1983 |
| Type: | County |
| Elects Howmany: | One |
| Electorate: | 70,864 (2023)[1] |
| Region: | England |
| County: | Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Rutland |
| Towns: | Oakham, Stamford and Uppingham |
Rutland and Stamford is a county constituency comprising the area of Lincolnshire centred on the town of Stamford; the county of Rutland; and also parts of rural Leicestershire, making it a very unusual parliamentary constituency in that it spans three counties. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, using the first-past-the-post voting system.
The constituency was originally created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. It was succeeded by the Rutland and Melton and Stamford and Spalding constituencies.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2024 general election.[2]
1918–1950: The administrative county of Rutland, the Municipal Borough of Stamford, the Urban District of Bourne, the Rural Districts of Bourne and Uffington, and part of the Rural District of Grantham.
1950–1983: The administrative county of Rutland, the Municipal Borough of Stamford, the Urban District of Bourne, the Rural District of South Kesteven, and parts of the Rural Districts of East Kesteven and West Kesteven.
The re-established constituency is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It includes the following areas:
Rutland and Stamford prior to 1918
| Election | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | Claud Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby | Conservative | ||
| 1922 | Charles Harvey Dixon | Conservative | ||
| 1923 by-election | Neville Smith-Carington | Conservative | ||
| 1933 by-election | Lord Willoughby de Eresby | Conservative | ||
| 1950 | Sir Roger Conant | Conservative | ||
| 1959 | Kenneth Lewis | Conservative | ||
| 1983 | Constituency abolished. See Rutland & Melton and Stamford & Spalding | |||
In 1983 Rutland became part of the Rutland and Melton constituency along with Melton borough and part of Harborough District in Leicestershire.
Rutland & Melton and Grantham & Stamford prior to 2024
Reform UK removed Ginny Ball as its candidate in March 2024 after "exposure of a range of racist comments on her social media feed".[5]
General Election 1939–40Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;