Members of Parliament
Over the course of the constituency's history there have been eleven different Members of Parliament. Of those, all but three have been Conservatives. The total period served by either a Liberal or Liberal Democrat MP is 17 years, Conservative MPs have served for the remaining 103 years.
An incumbent MP has been defeated just four times, in the elections of 1906, 1923, 1924, and 2005.
The longest serving MP was Howard Clifton Brown who was MP for two periods, the first lasting one year and the second lasting twenty one years, making a total of twenty two years as an MP.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | William George Mount | Conservative | |
| 1900 | William Arthur Mount | Conservative | |
| 1906 | Frederick Coleridge Mackarness | Liberal | |
| 1910 | William Arthur Mount | Conservative | |
| 1922 | Howard Clifton Brown | Conservative | |
| 1923 | Innes Harold Stranger | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Howard Clifton Brown | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Anthony Hurd | Conservative | |
| 1964 | John Astor | Conservative | |
| February 1974 | Michael McNair-Wilson | Conservative | |
| 1992 | Judith Chaplin | Conservative | |
| 1993 by-election | David Rendel | Liberal Democrat | |
| 2005 | Richard Benyon | Conservative | |
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