Members of Parliament
The current Member of Parliament is Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He won the seat after the outgoing LibDem MP Richard Allan stood down at the 2005 general election. After Sir Menzies Campbell's resignation in October 2007 as leader of the Liberal Democrats, Clegg contested the resulting leadership election, and was elected leader on 18 December 2007.
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley | Conservative | |
| 1916 by-election | H. A. L. Fisher | Liberal | |
| 1918 | Douglas Vickers | Conservative | |
| 1922 | Frederick Sykes | Conservative | |
| 1928 by-election | Louis William Smith | Conservative | |
| 1939 by-election | Roland Jennings | Conservative | |
| 1959 | John Osborn | Conservative | |
| 1987 | Irvine Patnick | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Richard Allan | Liberal Democrat | |
| 2005 | Nick Clegg | Liberal Democrat | |
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“The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)