Central Suffolk was a
county constituency
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in the county of
Suffolk. It returned one
Member of Parliament
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(MP) to the
House of Commons
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of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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.
History
The constituency was created for the
1983 general election, primarily from the abolished county constituency of
Eye, including the town of
Stowmarket
Stowmarket ( ) is a market town in Suffolk, England,OS Explorer map 211: Bury St.Edmunds and Stowmarket
Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton A2 edition. Publishing Date:2008. on the busy A14 trunk road between Bury St Edm ...
. 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
Bury St Edmunds.
It was in turn replaced by the
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich constituency for the
1997 general election with a substantial area of the constituency, including Stowmarket, joining a reconfigured
Bury St Edmunds 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
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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