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| 1295|| Willielmus fil' (filius) Pauli ||Adam Russel
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| 1298|| Adam fil' Radulfi||Adam de Biri
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| 1300/1|| Willielmus fil' Paulini
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| 1304/5|| Robertus fil' Willelmi de Preston||Hernricus fil' Willelmi del Tounhende
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| 1306/7|| Robertus fil' Rogeri||Ricardus Banastre
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| 1307|| Henricus del Krykestyle||Ricardus Banastre
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| 1326/7|| Laurencius Travers||Willelmus de Graistok
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| 1327 (Nov)|| John Stakky|| Henry Banastre
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| 1328/9 (Feb)|| Willielmus fil' Paulini||Nicholaus de Preston
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| 1330 (Nov)|| William fitz Paul|| Henry de Haydock
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| 1331 (Sep)|| Johannes fil' Galfridi||Willielmus fil' Johannis
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| 1331–1529|| colspan = "2"| ''No returns''
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| 1529|| Cristoferus Heydock||Jacobus Walton <ref name = HoP1> {{cite web | url= http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/preston| title= History of Parliament|accessdate= 2011-09-25}} </ref>
| 1529|| ]||] <ref name = HoP1> {{cite web | url= http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/constituencies/preston| title= History of Parliament|accessdate= 2011-09-25}} </ref>
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| 1536–1545|| colspan = "2"|''No returns''
| 1536–1545|| colspan = "2"|''No returns''
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| 1545|| ]|| John Bourne <ref name = HoP1/>
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| 1547|| George Frevil||John Hales <ref name = HoP1/>
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| 1552/3 (Mar)|| Anthony Browne||Thomas Fletewood <ref name = HoP1/>
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| 1553 (Oct)|| William Gerard||Anthony Browne <ref name = HoP1/>
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| 1554 (Apr)|| Thomas Ruthall, Willielmus Berners <ref name = HoP1/>
| 1554 (Apr)|| ], ] <ref name = HoP1/>
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| 1554 (Nov)|| Richard Shyrburne||John Sylyard <ref name = HoP1/>
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| 1555|| John Arundell||John Herle <ref name = HoP1/>
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| 1557/8|| Ricardus Sherbourne||Robertus Southwell <ref name = HoP1/>
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| 1559 (Jan)|| Rober Aalford|| Francis Goldsmith, ''sat for Helston,<br> repl, by'' ]<ref name = HoP2> {{cite web | url= http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/preston| title= History of Parliament|accessdate= 2011-09-25}} </ref>
| 1559 (Jan)|| ]|| ], ''sat for Helston,<br> repl, by'' ]<ref name = HoP2> {{cite web | url= http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/preston| title= History of Parliament|accessdate= 2011-09-25}} </ref>
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| 1562/3|| Gilbert Moreton|| James Hodgkinson <ref name = HoP2/>
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| 1571|| ]|| Reginald Williams <ref name = HoP2/>
| 1571|| ]|| ] <ref name = HoP2/>
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| 1572|| James Hodgkinson|| ] <ref name = HoP2/>
| 1572|| ]|| ] <ref name = HoP2/>
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| 1584 (Nov)|| ] || Thomas Cromwell <ref name = HoP2/>
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| 1586|| ]|| Sir ] <ref name = HoP2/>
| 1586|| ]|| Sir ] <ref name = HoP2/>
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| 1588 (Oct)|| Sir ]|| Michael Doughty <ref name = HoP2/>
| 1588 (Oct)|| Sir ]|| ] <ref name = HoP2/>
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| 1593|| James Dalton|| Thomas Bulbeck <ref name = HoP2/>
From the 1950 to the 1983 general elections, Preston was divided into the constituencies of Preston North and Preston South. In time for the 1983 general election, the boundaries on which the current seat is drawn were confirmed. The northern, Fulwood area, was divided between Fylde and Ribble Valley.
In the late 19th Century, the boundaries of the 2-member Preston constituency were described as comprising.
...he old Borough of Preston, the township of Fishwick, so much of the Municipal Borough as is not included in the Parliamentary Borough, the Local Government District of Fulwood, and so much of the parishes of Lea, Ashton, Ingol, and Cotham {sic}, and Penwortham, as will be added to the Municipal Borough of Preston on June 1st, 1889
For the 2010 general election, the electoral wards used to create the constituency of Preston were:
At the launch of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies Preston constituency had an electorate of just over 61,000, significantly below the electoral quota . As part of that review, which commenced in 2011, the Boundary Commission for England has recommended expanding the Preston constituency so that is almost coterminous with the council area.
The proposed expanded constituency would incorporate almost the whole of the city area, excluding the civil parish of Lea and Cottam, the electoral ward of Fishwick, and the civil parishes of Woodplumpton, Broughton, Barton, Goosnargh, Whittingham, Haighton and Grimsargh.
The borough and presently city of Preston has been represented by Labour MPs since 1983. Representatives have sat in Parliament for Preston for nearly 800 years, the first recorded names being Willielmus fil’ Pauli and Adam Russel. Prior to being reformed as "Preston" in 1983, the former Preston North and Preston South seats were amongst the most marginal in the country - in 1979, Conservative Robert Atkins won Preston North by 29 votes.
With the suburban,middle class former Fulwood Urban District area within Ribble Valley (and from 2010 Wyre and Preston North), the southern portion has awarded MPs with much healthier and secure majorities. Almost all of Preston's representatives up to the creation of two constituencies in 1949, and since its recreation as a single constituency in 1983, have been Labour candidates.
Between 1918 and 1949, the two-seat constituency of Preston was formed by the County Borough of Preston and the Urban District of Fulwood. For the 1950 election, the division of Preston North and Preston South occurred, which continued until 1983.
In 1997, Audrey Wise secured a majority of over 18,000. The collapse of the Conservative vote - 10 percentage points down from 1992 - was firmly with the pattern of the Tory fortunes in that year.
Less than a year later, the 2001 general election returned Mark Hendrick with a much healthier 12,200 majority, up against South Ribble councillor Graham O'Hare for the Conservatives and local Liberal Democrat leader Bill Chadwick. In real terms, all three main parties lost support from 1997 - Labour down by over 8,000 votes, Conservatives reduced by over 2,200 and LibDems 2,300 lower. One notable candidate in 2001 was David Braid, also a candidate in a number of other seats that year, who had been the "Battle for Britain" candidate in the previous year's by-election.
The 2005 general election election was notable for the changes in share of the vote of the minor parties. The first ever Respect candidate, local councillor Michael Lavalette, firmly saved his deposit with nearly 7% of the vote. The Liberal Democrats, who had chosen former Conservative County Councillor William Parkinson, had their best result since 1997. Fiona Bryce, for the Conservatives, remained in second place and saw her share of the vote remain stable despite the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) polling over 1,000 votes. These results meant that Mark Hendrick secured another term as MP, but his vote number was 3,000 less than 2001 and 12,000 less than Audrey Wise in 1997.
Labour continued its representation of Preston at the United Kingdom general election, 2010 although Mark Hendrick secured less than 50% of the votes cast, the first time this has occurred at a Preston election since 1983. For the first time since their formation the Liberal Democrats finished in second place, with the Conservatives in third.
Chicheley was also elected for Cambridge, which he chose to represent, and never sat for Preston
On petition, Leicester and Standish were adjudged not to have been duly elected and their opponents, Burgoyne and Hoghton, were declared to have been duly elected in their place
Major-General from 1772, Lieutenant-General from 1777
Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament (London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807)
D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808)
The Constitutional Year Book for 1913 (London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1913)
F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949 (Glasgow: Political Reference Publications, 1969)
Maija Jansson (ed.), Proceedings in Parliament, 1614 (House of Commons) (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988)
J E Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949)
J Holladay Philbin, Parliamentary Representation 1832 - England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847 (2nd edition, edited by FWS Craig - Chichester: Parliamentary Reference Publications, 1973)
Boundary of Preston in Lancashire
Location of Lancashire within England