Sedgefield (UK Parliament constituency) Sedgefield (UK Parliament constituency) Sedgefield is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Phil Wilson, of the Labour Party. Sedgefield has been continuously represented by Labour MPs since 1935. From 1983-2007, the constituency was represented by Tony Blair, who became Leader of the Labour Party in 1994, and Prime Minister in 1997. Blair resigned as Prime Minister, Leader of the Labour Party, and as the MP for Sedgefield in 2007, triggering a by-election which was retained for the Labour Party by Phil Wilson. Upon its abolition for the February 1974 general election, the constituency
Woodford (UK Parliament constituency) Woodford (UK Parliament constituency) Woodford was a parliamentary constituency in Essex which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1945 until it was renamed for the 1964 general election. The constituency's only Member of Parliament for its entire existence was Sir Winston Churchill of the Conservative Party; from 1924 he had represented the Epping constituency from which Woodford was created. He represented the Woodford seat during his second tenure as Prime Minister, and continued to hold it until he retired aged 89 at the 1964 general election; it was