Bury St Edmunds (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bury St Edmunds is a county constituency located in Suffolk and centred on the town of Bury St Edmunds. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has elected Conservative MPs for over a century, although Labour came close to gaining the seat in 1997.
The parliamentary borough of Bury St Edmunds was created in 1614, returning two MPs to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain until 1800, and from 1800 to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Its representation was reduced to one seat under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and the borough was abolished for the 1918 Kingdom general election, when it was replaced by the county division of the same name.
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