Worle’s MPs from 1900 to present

From 1900 until 1918 our village of Worle was part of Wells Constituency and therefore probably scarcely represented at all. 

Date elected                      Member & party                                          1899                       Robert Edmund Dickinson           
                                          Conservative

    1906                       Thomas Ball Silcock                         
                                          Liberal

  1910                       George John Sandys                      
                                     Conservative

In 1918, following the end of the Great War
 [it only become WW1 when we had WW2] the constituency
boundaries were revised and the Weston-super-Mare
constituency was formed.  The new area included Worle,
and it has remained so to the present, 2022.

Election                        Member & party  
                     

1918                       Sir Gilbert Wills                 
                      Conservative

1922                       Lord Erskine                      
                             Conservative

                 1923                       Frank Murrell                                    
                        Liberal

                 1924                       Lord Erskine                                      
                            Conservative

               1934                    Ian Orr-Ewing                                      
                           Conservative

1958                   David Webster                     
                          Conservative

                  1969                 Jerry Wiggin                                            
                          Conservative

                  1997                  Brian Cotter                                            
                         Liberal Democrat

                 2001                 John Penrose                                         
                         Conservative

John Penrose was re-elected for our constituency in 2005, 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019

General Election called for 4th July 2024, with John Penrose standing  for our Constituency again.  He did not win.  The Labour candidate, Dan Aldridge is now our MP.