History
The present Nottingham East constituency was created in 1974, and first elected Jack Dunnett who had been Labour MP for the abolished Nottingham Central seat. Michael Knowles won it for the Conservative Party in 1983, when some of the seat was transferred to the new Nottingham South constituency in boundary changes. Knowles held the seat with a reduced majority in 1987, but John Heppell gained it for Labour in 1992, and held the seat until he retired in 2010. It is presently held by Labour's Chris Leslie. Although Leslie is a newcomer to this seat, he is no stranger to the House of Commons, as he previously represented the West Yorkshire constituency of Shipley from 1997 to 2005, and served as a junior minister in the Tony Blair Government.
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