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Encyclopedia > Yeovil (constituency)

Yeovil is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. ...

Contents
1 Boundaries
2 Member of Parliament
3 Election results
4 Politics and history of the constituency

Boundaries

The constituency covers the town of Yeovil in Somerset. Yeovil is a town in south Somerset, England, on the A30 and A37. ... This page is about the county of Somerset in the United Kingdom. ...

Member of Parliament

  • David Laws, Liberal Democrat (2001 - present)
  • Paddy Ashdown, Liberal Democrat (1983-2001)
    This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yeovil_%28constituency%29&action=edit).

David Laws (born 30 November 1965) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... Official Lib Dem Portrait Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon PC KBE (born 27 February 1941), invariably known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician, who was leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. ...

Election results

General Election 2005: Yeovil
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats David Laws 25,658 51.4 +7.2
Conservative Ian Jenkins 17,096 34.3 -1.7
Labour Colin Rolfe 5,256 10.5 -4.2
UKIP Graham Livings 1,903 3.8 +1.5
Majority 8,562 17.2
Turnout 49,913 64.3 0.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +4.5
General Election 2001: Yeovil
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats David Laws 21,266 44.2 -4.6
Conservative Marco Forgione 17,338 36.0 +8.4
Labour Joe Conway 7,077 14.7 -0.2
UKIP Neil Boxall 1,131 2.3 N/A
Green Alex Begg 786 1.6 +0.3
Liberal Party Anthony Prior 534 1.1 N/A
Majority 3,928 8.2
Turnout 48,132 64.2 -8.5
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... David Laws (born 30 November 1965) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or Democratic Socialist political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced you-kip) is a right-wing political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... David Laws (born 30 November 1965) is a politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or Democratic Socialist political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... The United Kingdom Independence Party (commonly known as UKIP, pronounced you-kip) is a right-wing political party that aims at British withdrawal from the European Union. ... The Green Party of England and Wales emerged as a distinct party in the 1990s. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...

Politics and history of the constituency

Until his retirement from the House of Commons in 2001. this seat was held by the Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown. The seat has remained Liberal Democrat since. In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... Official Lib Dem Portrait Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon PC KBE (born 27 February 1941), invariably known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician, who was leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Yeovil at AllExperts (733 words)
Yeovil is a town in south Somerset, England, on the A30 and A37.
It has a population of 41,871 (2001 census), and is the former constituency of one time leader of the UK Liberal Democrat Party, Paddy Ashdown.
The town is in the Yeovil parliamentary constituency.
Yeovil: Information from Answers.com (1044 words)
During the 1800's Yeovil was a centre of the glove making industry and by 1853 was connected to the rest of Britain via railway and soon after, in 1856, the town gained borough status and was given a mayor.
Yeovil's reputation as a centre of the aircraft and defence industries lived on into the 21st century despite attempts at diversification, and the creation of numerous industrial estates, the principal employer is the aviation group AgustaWestland.
Yeovil is the location for the School of Lifemanship in a series of novels by Stephen Potter: Gamesmanship (1947), Lifemanship (1950), One-Upmanship (1952), Supermanship (1958), Anti-Woo (1965) and The Complete Golf Gamesmanship (1968).
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