Harrogate (UK Parliament constituency)

Harrogate
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	West Riding of Yorkshire
Major settlements	Harrogate and Knaresborough
1950–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Harrogate and Knaresborough
Created from	Ripon

Harrogate (/ˈhærəɡᵻt, -ˌɡeɪt/) was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. As with all constituencies, the constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The constituency was renamed Harrogate and Knaresborough in 1997.

An area with little unemployment, a relatively large retired population and large neighbourhoods of high house prices which, until former Chancellor Norman Lamont stood for the first time in the successor seat in The New Labour landslide general election in 1997 was part of a Conservative safe seat since 1910, Harrogate moved the way of other famous spa towns in England such as Bath by returning the Liberal Democrat MP Phil Willis.

1950-1983: The Municipal Borough of Harrogate, the Urban District of Knaresborough, and part of the Rural District of Nidderdale.

1983-1997: The Borough of Harrogate wards of Bilton, Claro, Duchy, East Central, Granby, Harlow, Knaresborough East, Knaresborough West, Marston Moor, Nether Poppleton, New Park, Ouseburn, Pannal, Spofforth, Starbeck, Upper Poppleton, Wedderburn, and West Central.

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