Central Suffolk was a

county constituency In the United Kingdom (UK), each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one member to the House of Commons. Within the United Kingdom there are five bodies with members elected by electoral districts called " constituen ...

in the county of

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. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the

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of the

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History

The constituency was created for the

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, primarily from the abolished county constituency of

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, including the town of

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. It also included four wards from the north-western part of the

Borough of Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, after Peterborough and Norwich. It is ...

, transferred from the borough constituency thereof, and a small rural area to the west, equivalent to the former Rural District of Thedwastre, transferred from

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. It was in turn replaced by the

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constituency for the 1997 general election with a substantial area of the constituency, including Stowmarket, joining a reconfigured

constituency.

Boundaries

* The District of Mid Suffolk; and * The Borough of Ipswich wards of Broom Hill, Castle Hill, Whitehouse, and Whitton.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

Elections in the 1990s

Notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suffolk Central Parliamentary constituencies in Suffolk (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1983 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1997