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Cambridge is a parliamentary constituency created in 1295 represented in the House of Commons of the U.K. Parliament. It has been represented since May 2015 by Daniel Zeichner, a
To the doctors and ‘actual’ masters of arts at Cambridge, who comprised the university’s senate and its parliamentary electorate, the ‘Church interest’ naturally made a powerful appeal, and High Toryism flourished no less than at Oxford. Indeed, half as many fellows and scholars again were ejected from Cambridge at the Revolution as from the other university, and some non-jurors ...
Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency) Cambridge University; Former University constituency for the House of Commons: 1603–19501950
Cambridge became a royal borough under Henry I and returned Members to Parliament from at least 1295, but the town was not formally incorporated until 1605. The composition of the town assembly was not specified in the charter of incorporation, nor was the extent of the franchise. 7 Until 1625, when the corporation resolved that all freemen could vote, Cambridge had one of the most unusual ...
Till 1727 Cambridge University, like Oxford, returned Tories. At the only contested election, in 1720, a strong Whig candidate, Henry Finch, a fellow of his college, whose father, Lord Nottingham, carried much weight with the church party, was defeated. In 1727 the Government candidates were Edward Finch, another of Lord Nottingham’s sons ...
Focusing on constituency representation, we consider how variation in electoral systems may shape forms of political representation. An analysis of written parliamentary questions (PQs) is an important instrument to look at the role of parliamentarians even where, as in the European Parliament, political parties enforce discipline in roll-call ...
