Eye (UK Parliament constituency)

[2] The error was confirmed by archivists in the 1950s, but borough status was not discontinued until 1974 after government reorganization when Eye became a parish but retained a Town Council, a Mayor and the insignia.

By the mid eighteenth century it tended to be seen a pocket borough of Earl Cornwallis who could nominate the two MPs.

This in turn was abolished for the 1983 general election when western areas, comprising the majority, became part of the new county constituency of Central Suffolk, with eastern areas forming part of the new county constituency of Suffolk Coastal.

Extended southwards to gain Aldeburgh and mainly rural areas from the northern part of the abolished Woodbridge Division of East Suffolk.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;