The Totnes constituency covers the eastern part of the South Hams district, including the towns of Totnes, Dartmouth, Kingsbridge and Salcombe, as well … The current constituency was formed for the 1997 general election, from parts of the former South Hams constituency.This had largely replaced the previous Totnes constituency, which had existed in a wide form since 1885, but in a much narrower form from the Model Parliament.. An original parliamentary borough of Totnes or Totness had been created in 1295. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected; Totnes Bridge is the nearest bridge to the sea and is a road bridge built in 1826–28 by Charles Fowler.Totnes has attracted a sizeable "alternative" community, and the town is known as a place where one can live a "In March 2007 Totnes was the first town in Britain to introduce its own local alternative currency, the Emphasising the town's continuing history of boatbuilding, between 1998 and 2001 No writ was issued to replace him and, in 1868, the seat was disenfranchised and absorbed into The previous by-election was declared void on petition, causing a by-election. Mangnall defeated incumbent Dr Sarah Wollaston who had originally been elected as a Conservative but defected to the Liberal Democrats earlier that year. It would not be difficult to refute Justice Thirning’s opinion, delivered in 1388, that Totnes was ‘de plus auncien de tout dengleterre’, but undoubtedly there was a settlement there in the ninth century, if not before.Totnes had been one of the Saxon fortified ‘burghs’, and the town was chosen in the tenth century to house a royal mint and in the 11th a castle.
During the 2016 EU Referendum, Totnes is estimated to have narrowly voted to Leave, by 53.9% vs. 46.1% Remain. Today, the town is a thriving centre for music, art, theatre and natural health. Totnes lost its borough status in local government reorganisation in 1974. Totnes' borough charter was granted by King John, probably around 1206; at any rate, the 800th anniversary of the charter was celebrated in 2006.
It has a sizeable alternative and "Here I stand and here I rest. For much of the sixteenth century it was accounted the second wealthiest community in the county, its merchants trading with western France and the Iberian peninsula in particular.1 These patterns of activity continued into the early Stuart period, but economically Totnes was starting to lose ground to its local rivals. Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1997 onwardsAs with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Both Baldwin and Blount received equal votes at the 1839 by-election and were declared elected.
On petition, Pender was unseated on 22 March 1866. In 1523, 30 of its inhabitants were assessed for subsidy on property totalling nearly £3,000 in value, whereas the much larger Plymouth had less than half as … An ‘ancient little town, situated ... upon the side of a hill’, Totnes ranked second in wealth to Exeter in the Devon of the period. The Totnes constituency covers the eastern part of the Between 1983 and 1997 the constituency was replaced by the Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. Although the town of Totnes itself is a Remain stronghold, the rural areas of the constituency voted in favour of Brexit. And this town shall be called Totnes.The stone is far above the highest tides and the tradition is not likely to be of great antiquity, being first mentioned in Despite this legendary history, the first authenticated history of Totnes is in AD 907, when it was fortified by King By the 12th century, Totnes was already an important market town, due to its position on one of the main roads of the South West, in conjunction with its easy access to its By 1523, according to a tax assessment, Totnes was the second richest town in Devon, and the sixteenth richest in England, ahead of In August 2009, Totnes became the first constituency to select the In 2009, Totnes Rural was the only county division in Totnes has a mayor who is elected by the sixteen town councillors each year.The town is built on a hill rising from the west bank of the Today there are two road bridges, a railway bridge and a footbridge over the river in the town. However, this was declared void on 8 April 1840 and a by-election was calledBaker, J.H., Biography of Sir Lewis Pollard, published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1439-1509, eds. Wedgwood, J.C., & Holt A.D.British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig, F.W.S.‘CAIRNS, John Arthur Robert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 Totnes was served by Totnes electoral borough from 1295 until the reform act of 1867, but was restored by the 1884 Franchise Act. The ceremonial county of Devon, ... Totnes CC Proposed name 2010 constituencies ... and which was contested using the constituency boundaries in place since 2010. The constituency of Totnes was abolished a second time in 1983, and formed part of the South Hams constituency until 1997, when it was restored as the Tot…