Central Suffolk was a county constituency in the county of

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

History

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, primarily from the abolished county constituency of

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, including the town of Stowmarket. It also included four wards from the north-western part of the Borough of Ipswich, transferred from the Borough Constituency thereof, and a small rural area to the west, equivalent to the former Rural District of Thedwastre, transferred from

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. It was in turn replaced by the

Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Central Suffolk and North Ipswich is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Dan Poulter, a Conservative. History The county constituency was formed for the 1997 general election, largely from east ...

constituency for the 1997 general election with a substantial area of the constituency, including Stowmarket, joining a reconfigured

constituency.

Boundaries

The District of Mid Suffolk, and the Borough of Ipswich wards of Broom Hill, Castle Hill, Whitehouse, and Whitton.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suffolk Central Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1983 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1997