Mid Bedfordshire

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Mid Bedfordshire is a UK parliamentary constituency in the county of Bedfordshire, represented in the House of Commons.

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Label Occurrences
Mid Bedfordshire canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf UK parliamentary constituency
abolished 1983
boundaryReviewBody Boundary Commission for England
character commuter belt for London
largely rural
containsMotorwayOrMajorRoad M1 motorway corridor
containsRailLink Thameslink route
linked to: Thameslink
containsSettlement Arlesey
Barton-le-Clay
Marston Moretaine
containsTown Ampthill
Flitwick
Sandy
Shefford
Stotfold
Woburn
country United Kingdom
county Bedfordshire
created 1918
distanceFromLondon approximately 40–60 miles north of London
electoralSystem first-past-the-post
electorateSize approximately 80,000–90,000 electors
elects one Member of Parliament
hasByElection Mid Bedfordshire by-election 1960
Mid Bedfordshire by-election 2023
hasLocalAuthority Central Bedfordshire Council
hasMP Nadine Dorries
locatedIn Bedfordshire
England
parliament Parliament of the United Kingdom
linked to: British Parliament
partyOfCurrentOrRecentMP Conservative Party (UK)
predecessorConstituency North Bedfordshire
South West Bedfordshire
previousConstituency Bedford
Biggleswade
Luton
South Bedfordshire
recreated 1997
recreatedFrom North Bedfordshire (1997)
South West Bedfordshire (1997)
region East of England
representedIn House of Commons of the United Kingdom
successorConstituency North Bedfordshire (post-1983)
South West Bedfordshire (post-1983)
typicalPoliticalLeaning Conservative-leaning

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Flitwick parliamentaryConstituency Mid Bedfordshire
Ampthill parliamentaryConstituency Mid Bedfordshire
Aspley Guise parliamentaryConstituency Mid Bedfordshire