Sudbury and Woodbridge (UK Parliament constituency) explained

Sudbury and Woodbridge
Parliament:	uk
Year:	1950
Abolished:	1983
Type:	County
Elects Howmany:	One
Next:	Suffolk Coastal and South Suffolk^[1]
Region:	England
Towns:	Sudbury and Woodbridge

Sudbury and Woodbridge was a county constituency centred on the towns of Sudbury and Woodbridge in Suffolk. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1948 for the 1950 general election, replacing the majority of both of the abolished county divisions of Sudbury and Woodbridge. It included the towns of Sudbury and Hadleigh, previously in the Sudbury constituency, and Woodbridge and Felixstowe, previously in the Woodbridge constituency.

It was abolished for the 1983 general election, and split between the new county constituencies of Suffolk Coastal (Woodbridge and Felixstowe) and South Suffolk (Sudbury and Hadleigh).

Boundaries

• The Borough of Sudbury;
• The Urban Districts of Felixstowe, Hadleigh, and Woodbridge;
• The Rural Districts of Cosford, Melford, and Samford; and
• Part of the Rural District of Deben.^[2]

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party	Notes
	1950	John Hare	Conservative	Raised to the peerage November 1963
	1963 by-election	Keith Stainton	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1970s

Notes and References

1. Web site: 'Sudbury and Woodbridge', Feb 1974 – May 1983. ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. 24 March 2016. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160403202850/http://electionweb.co.uk/Bp/P74556.htm. 3 April 2016.
2. Web site: Representation of the People Act, 1948. www.legislation.gov.uk. en. 2019-03-22.